I just left my fancy gym here in Hoboken. I have a new routine where I am circuit training and have to constantly move around the gym quickly to different machines. The faces and the bodies here in Hoboken just are not the same as my 90’s bodybuilding gym in Manhattan, which was aptly named “Pumping Iron Gym.” It was a no nonsense gym, its members ranged from black and latino men and women from Spanish and lower Harlem to Twyla Tharp , Gregory Hines, Bill Murray, Sigorney Weaver,John F. Kennedy, Jr., and many more famous people It is still there, up on East 91st Street, right across from the NYPD precinct. I have yet to find any character or characters in the predominantly white bread world where I now train.
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