Co-rec

Being a common user of the correct, I was looking forward to analyzing the behavior of those involved in it. Believe it or not, I was unaware that there was even a "female side" in the co-rec until I took a good look around. As a male, I can tell you that I feel the need to lift weights and to life more than other individuals. My workout buddy and I always have competitions and discuss who can lift more than the other. I think this is an aspect of the "male side" of the weight room; competition. Men, it seems, are much more likely to compete with each other and see who is the strongest while women seem more content just running. Looking at the faces of the women, I felt like they were much more content with being alone in the weight room. Men are almost always accompanied by partners. I don't think that the need for a spotter contributes to this entirely since the staff there are "more than willing to assist you" but rather because men need to lift with someone else for conversation, for morale boosting. I thought that women seemed more content going to the co-rec alone simply for the purpose of running and losing some weight. I also think that the division between the co-rec is very much a part of society's portrayel of what is masculine and what is feminine. I believe men are bombarded by the image of being very buff that influences many males to get really into lifting as to be significantly larger than the average male. Meanwhile, women are also bombarded by the extremely skinny female to the point that their main concern is running and losing weight or maintaining how much weight they've already lost. In summation, the co-rec is a large reflection of society's norms and values of both men and women and the behaviors and work-out tendancies of individauls directly show this relation.