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Cherries or Bananas?
The Everlasting Debate of Manhood
Side Glimpses in the Locker Room Are Revealing.
You swear to go to the gym as often as you possibly can. You keep with your promise and show up relentlessly, no matter how tired or fatigued you had been feeling the whole day. You know you gotta be there, man!
So after some intense training, whatever your cup of tea, weights, boxing, pilates, or swimming, you feel your heart pumping with newly found energy. Yes! I am reborn, you tell yourself, as if you were baptised once more in the name of health and manly prominence.
IIt's time for a good, detoxing shower. It’s time for some much-needed relief of those muscles, beaten up so hard just moments ago. The gym makes it easy. The locker room is just beside the showers. Sweaty and stinky, you get rid of your clothes and rush to enter the first untaken cabin and let the water massage your nervous system from head to toes. Familiar scene, right?
When I am just out of the shower, I personally prefer to avoid small talk. I have seen a lot over the years. The big guy with a beer belly, trying to camouflage what can’t be hidden. The fanatic, who quickly takes measurements on his smartwatch and instantly posts what he finds instagrammable about his performance. The affluent dude…
