Place: NYC Subway System

The NYC subway system is awesome. It goes all over, there’s no need to look for parking when you get to your desired location, and you can read as you go. Best of all, however, are the people. It may be the best show in the city. It is certainly the cheapest.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Subway Calisthenics

New Yorkers lead busy lives and have tiny apartments. There's really no room to house bulky exercise equipment, and who has time to go to the gym? Why not just follow this man's example, and use the subway as your elliptical machine/ThighMaster/that fancy thing with the bars. It's a little hard to see in the picture, but when we got on the Manhattan-bound A at Jay St, this guy was already well into a clearly well-honed exercise routine. He switched smoothly between pull-ups on the overhead bar and quad-sits (or whatever they're called) in front of the seat. While I have no idea how many sets he did before we got on the train, he did four between Jay St and West 4th, when he finally got off the train, having, at this point, shed several layers of clothing and resorted to a very audible focused breathing routine.

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