If you need a laugh today, you're going to love this email...

I ran a contest a few years back, looking for the funniest workout
story. I was digging around my site today for some other reason
and came across the page it was on and thought I'd share it again.

It's bloody hilarious...I can just picture it happening like I was
standing right there watching... :)

Nick

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Name: Karen Barker
From: West Valley City, Utah

My office has a workout room that is most often frequented by the
guys in the office. Most of the women don't spend much time there
because we don't like the posing, screaming 'one more, one more...'
or strutting that some of the tough guys like to do when we ladies
are there. One of the tough guys is Mike. Mike is about 6'3' and
probably about 250 pounds.

He does everything at 100 miles per hour. If he is lifting weights,
he has to lift all the weight in the room at the same time, yelling,
and dropping weights. He looks at himself in the mirror all the time.
He flexes and puffs up at every opportunity. And he laughs at some
of the other guys with their 'wimpy' workouts, or the women when
we try to do aerobics or Tae Bo. He is oblivious of anyone else in
the gym. He often gets on the treadmill and runs like crazy, slinging
sweat in every direction and even sometimes blowing his nose into
the air. It is disgusting.

One day I was in the gym with another of the women in the office
doing aerobics on the mats. In came Mike already wearing his shorts
and a bright red sweat shirt, carrying a boom box. He looked at us
and laughed. Then he turned on the boom box to some of his
headbanger music that played so loudly that it was almost impossible
to hear our aerobics DVD. We asked him to turn down the music and
he just laughed and sped up. We decided to just pack up and leave
the gym, as we were close to being done anyway.

As we gathered up our things, Mike got on the treadmill and cranked
it up to top speed, and at a good incline. He started thundering away
on the treadmill. He had only been on it for a minute or two, and Mike
decided that the sweatshirt was too much.

He wanted to take it off, but, in typical Mike fashion, he wasn't about
to get off of the treadmill just to take off some clothes. So he tried
pulling the sweatshirt off over his head while running flat out.

When he had his eyes completely covered by the sweatshirt, he beame
disoriented, stumbled, and lost his balance. He aburptly stopped
running but the treadmill didn't stop! He couldn't pull his arms back
down to grab hold on the treadmill.

Mike shot off the back of the treadmill at the speed of light. The back of
the treadmill was just a couple of feet from the wall, and Mike made a
direct hit on the wallboard. He was going so fast, and was so big that
he crashed nearly all the way through the wall, and let out a thunderous
'UUUggggghhhhhhh!' Then he fell to the floor with his arms straight up
in the air and his head tangled in the red sweatshirt, landing directly on
top of his boom box, smashing it flat.

For the longest moment, Mike lay there motionless. The only noise in the
gym was the whirring of the speeding treadmill.

Luckily, Mike lived through the episode. The only things that were hurt
were the wall, the boom box, and Mike's overinflated ego.

As soon as we realized that there was no blood or protruding bones, and
we knew Mike would live, we died laughing. Mike lay there for a moment
longer, unable to see because of the sweatshirt that covered his eyes. He
slowly, unsteadily, got up and took off the sweatshirt, his hair standing
straight up, his face bright red, and his breath coming in gasps. He looked
sheepishly around the room at the few of us who were there laughing,
picked up the remains of his pulverized boom box, and quietly left the gym.

The wall had a hole in it that reminded me of the times that Wiley Coyote
crashes through a wall chasing the Roadrunner, and leaves his form clearly
visible in the wall. Word quickly spread in the office, and soon there were
whole groups of people coming to the gym to see the damage and to laugh.

Some of the guys started calling the gym, 'The Hole in the Wall' or 'The
Hole that Mike Built.' It took maintenance several weeks to repair the
damage to the wall. That entire time people had fun reliving the event of
Mike being launched through the wall.

The legend grew and grew until the story was that Mike had gone
completely through the wall, and nearly killed a group of people in the
hallway. Mike never came back into the gym until long after the crater
was repaired. When he finally did come in to use the treadmill, he got
undressed before he got on it! He didn't bring in a boom box again, but
started wearing earphones. Harder to smash, I guess.

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Oh, and before I forget, I just got an email from my friend Dale Buchanan,
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If you had a chance to try them, you know how good they are (the vanilla
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He's having a "one day only" 20% off sale on any orders of $50 or more
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Here's the link:

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