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Robert is the author of the novels Cool Mint Blue and Melba Ridge, and the soon to be released The Adventures of Homosexual Man and Lesbian Lad; and the creator of the on-line comix Impure Thoughts found at his web site Inside R.A. Melos, as well as having been an on-line staff writer for QBliss where he had a monthly humor column, Maybe A Yip, Maybe A Yap. In his non-writing time, when he's not studying the metaphysical or creating a tarot deck, he sells real estate in Middlesex County New Jersey, hangs out with his dog Zeus, and spends time at the Pride Center of New Jersey in Highland Park, NJ.
contributor
member since 3.14.02
milltown, nj usa
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5.27.63
personal site: inside r. a. melos
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saunacide
health club etiquette and other stuff
12.23.09
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I workout at a local health club named for a large west coast city associated with glamorous and often shallow people. This is not to say that the people who frequent said health club are glamorous or, well, they aren't glamorous. Now I'm an average 46 year-old man, not some buff gym daddy or muscle geek, who is trying to maintain an average 46 year-old body. I'm not hopelessly chasing some elusive 25 year-old physique. Well I am, but that's for a column on dating 25 year-olds.
I don't spend hours at the gym. In fact, I spend roughly about one hour total about four times a week crunching my stomach, pumping my pecs, stretching my glutes, and about 15 minutes in the sauna taking in the heat and enjoying the amazing warmth before hitting the showers.
This isn't my first foray into the world of health clubs. In the 1980s I belonged to a local health and racquetball club, and faithfully showed up every evening to sort of lift weights, and mostly...
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