Comparison in Fitness within
different areas
Aside from watching
different people in malls, we have also made observance onto their leisure, in
this case the fitness leisure to be found in SM and to compare it with the
fitness aerobic culture of that in UPLB.
In the mall
Aerobic in the mall is visibly
pretty much more of a spectacle for passers-by rather than a place to really do
work-outs. For starters, the mall only does it within a space in the cyberzone,
second I personally find the mall as not an optimal place for effective work
out area simply because first, it’s a mall. Dancing, doing punches and all is
done in the middle of the shopping area where joining in is quite discourage
because of the number of passers-by looking at you. I find it a bit
embarrassing because of all the eyes looking at you. Also, the air-conditioning
also keeps you from sweating and oddly enough there is this guy who seems to be
checking the progress of the participants which I find a bit annoying. The area
is filled with distractions and that it also started a little late. The
aerobics proper is filled with people mostly of women with the exemption of one
guy, and he’s gay. Their participation is not that lively and it can be said
that the aerobics itself is not that long given the time constraints within the
mall. The aerobics can be said to cater towards those employees mostly above
their 40s and older women. They often go there simply for meeting with their
own peers as we notice a lot of them chattering before the program begun.
In UPLB
The hall in UPLB creates a
whole different atmosphere to us compared to when we observed the mall. Here we
see a much diverse number of people. One could say that it is here where we
could see people actually coming to socialize and exercise. I said this because
we came there at the morning wherein the university becomes more of a park open
for everybody. Unlike in the mall, the people he consists of much different
people from different social class. We could easily distinguish them through
their accessories. People who are better of, often wears branded sports
clothing like Nike and Addidas cross trainers, dri-fit tops and cycling and or
dri-fit shorts for men. Some of them could even be seen to have other accessories
such as earphones. We could see here that perhaps due to the size of the venue,
there is quite a lot of people participating, there are almost no one simply
sitting down, except of course for people passing through perhaps students and
the observers which is us. The place was very comfortable as everyone is doing
their own thing, and that no one would look at you should you start goofing off
while trying to do the work out. I find it very comforting personally as I
joined the work out myself and it didn’t feel awkward at all. Everyone is so participative;
in fact people just kept on coming in to work out. This only goes to show that
the venue is a factor when it comes to conducting and participating in something,
in this case a mall caters to those people often trying to put a little bit of
work out into their hectic lives, specifically the employees of the mall
itself. UPLB on the other hand caters to a wider variety of people specially
families of different status, the large venue actually focuses onto working out
and since it is a Sunday morning it basically turns into one big gym campus.
People come there specifically to work out, there are no shops for distraction
and the there climate is optimal for sweating.
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