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[Los Angeles, January 5. Image via INF]

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5124363&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Today an unhappy wife writes in to Cary...]]> Today an unhappy wife writes in to Cary Tennis's advice column on Salon, seeking counsel because her husband keeps yelling at her when they go skiing together. "My husband cannot understand why I won't go faster, and he gets upset when I ski slowly. He even thinks I ski slowly on purpose. But I cannot go fast, or at least not as fast as he does. I've tried. It's just not my thing," the woman writes. Well first off, lady, your husband sounds like kind of an asshole, but secondly, there's something innately icky about couples working out together. It's sort of like wearing matching sweaters: exercising in tandem seems way too Doublemint gum commercial for real life. [Salon]

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=360485&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Are You Teacher's Pet, Even At The Gym?]]> In today's Observer, former Gawkerette and Friend-of-Jezebel Doree Shafrir writes about the gym pets phenomenon. If you're a regular gym-goer, you know the type: They use the same bike during every spin class, wear coordinating spandex outfits, and suck up to the instructor like it's their goddamn job. Doree spoke to a 29-year-old Brooklyn architect who says she always takes yoga from the same teacher (and hangs with teach outside of class) because "It's a pleaser thing...I mean, I want her to like me...There's never a time anymore where people say, 'Good job. It's hard!' At work, nobody loves you. I seek the positive reinforcement." Dear Brooklyn Architect: When you say it like that, it sort of sounds like you're paying your yoga teacher to like you. You should probably be paying a shrink to work through those issues instead!

Not everyone interviewed, however, seemed to enjoy getting buddy-buddy with his or her instructor. One woman quit a yoga class because everyone there was too into the teacher. "He would come into the room and there would be a trail of greetings wafting around him," the student said. "After class I would want to ask him a question because I was returning to yoga after not practicing for a few years, and I would have to wait for 10 minutes while these women did small talk with him after class."

Sounds annoying. Personally, I like my gym classes like I like my sex: With minimal talking involved. I remember that, at a yoga class once, the instructor kept asking me why I wasn't smiling, and while I wanted to say "Because you've been making me hold this pose for a really long time and I'd rather punch you in the face," instead I smiled wanly and said nothing. I also wanted to punch all the other particpants in class who were ever-so-chipper and giggled incessantly at his smiling entreaties. Are you a hater like me, or do you like to get chatty with your athletic supporters?

Gym Pets [Observer]

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