The idea appealed to me particularly, because there is something wonderful about working out in work out clothes as opposed to wearing tops, bottoms, skirts, sweatshirts.
The kosher gym allows a work out to feel like a work out and not like a torturous run in the desert (where the person working out is the camel).
Well, today I was proven wrong.
I was working out in the gym, listening to music on my mp3 player. When one song ended and before the next began, I could hear people talking on the gym. I heard a lady singing. I was not sure if I heard correctly. I shut off my music to hear this. There were two women on the bicycles in the full chassidish garb: the shpitzl (kerchief with some wig in the front), the skirt suit, the seemed bulletproof stockings. The women were peddling and singing Tehillim. "Al Taazveni Elokay Yishi" They were screaming (Do not leave me, My G-d, My Salvation). I was not sure if they decided to fulfill their quota of psalms for the day while working out, whether they wanted to combine body and soul. When one of the ladies started shooting glares at me that almost burned me alive, I thought they came here to pray for my soul to have redemption despite the fact that I work out without the tights that I do not own.
