nag, nag, nag

nagging
she harps at me
blindly criticizing
about where i’m putting my hands
treadmill

[8:32 AM]
“Yes, yes. I hear you. God. If I wanted some nagging, I’d go home and let [Ayeka] yell at me properly, sheesh. See? Hands on. Happy? Good.”

I haven’t yet figured out why they make the various cardio machines flash and harp at you during workouts with really irritating messages. I mean, a simple ‘Please put your hands on the sensors’ would suffice in most cases. But no. They have to start flashing and beeping and making comments about how they can’t get your pulse unless you keep your hands in place, and they’re not exactly worded in a way that seems very conducive to getting a positive response. More a grudging, “Fine, I’ll put them back” kind of thing.

Okay, so I’m somewhat biased. I spend somewhere between half an hour and an hour a day on an elliptical cross-trainer to try to burn off calories. Maybe I just feel like they should be nicer since it’s really solely for my own edification that I know what my pulse-rate is, not that I usually stick to what it says I ought at my age.

Might also get me to be more enthusiastic if I didn’t think it was going to nag me…