Attending a BBQ in the park near our house today with a group of friends, we noticed a young woman about 100m away doing a series of exercises (boxing, pushups, weight lifting, etc) in the park. No, before you go there - we were not perving on her - it was 11C so there was nobody in the park except our group so any activity naturally caught our attention.

The thing that really got our attention was that she had a personal trainer doing, well, not a lot. Most personal trainers we’ve seen really get into the activity with the customer, doing pushups at the same time and generally being quite participatory. This personal trainer was rather more aloof, standing off to one side a bit whilst the girl exercised. He didn’t even seem to be getting in her face, demanding to know how much she wanted to get fit, to push through the pain, blah blah blah.

We were somewhat bemused that she seemed to have picked a personal trainer who was getting paid to just go stand in the park and watch her without getting too involved. Perhaps it was just a long-suffering boyfriend who’d been dragged out into the park on a cold day and he was not enjoying the experience? It certainly did appear more likely to be a customer not getting her money’s worth out of the personal trainer and for that, we declared her to be the SPOTD - paying someone to stand idly by and watch her exercise when she could just be there by herself and save the cash.

Also, it was either give her the award or accept it ourselves for standing out in the cold to have a BBQ!

Categories: SPOTD