Female Invaders

Our Latest Edition to the Atomic Athletic Club

Hmmmm. Chalk, rust, concrete and foundry dust all mixing with locker room sweat. We also have the clanging of crashing weights, maybe a heavy bag being hit and even the occasional hard ripped fart. I have even heard some unlikely facts mixed with dirty jokes. It certainly seems like all the parts of a hard working serious gym. A serious gym that would make most women run in fear.

Well, that pretty much describes the atmosphere at the “Atomic Athletic Club”. Sometimes we call it the warehouse gym, but whatever it's name, we are getting some notoriety for results. This is a garage gym where relaxing means hard work. There is a particular atmosphere I want to cultivate and this is no commercial fitness facility with daycare and a spa. You won't find a fern in our spittoon. But there is something nice about a female presence to look at while you train, isn't there? So I am finally adding a friend for Marilyn Monroe and my signed Detroit Derby Girls poster. I've been holding off on releasing this one for the right moment. It's another classic magazine cover poster out of an old issue of The Body Builder.

You can see it here:

http://www.atomicathletic.com/store/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=POS08

Yep, even back before WWII they were putting hot women on the covers of “fitness” magazines. In this case it is a purely classic red head pin-up. Grandpa LaPointe would have been just a kid when this issue hit the news stands, but this beautiful girl would have been perfect for the nose of some fighting ace's plane.

As for the occassional girls that sometimes meander in and find themselves lifting at the Atomic Athletic Club warehouse gym, I  hear that they are at least  impressed with the way most of the gym art has been properly framed. One of the guys also called our spittoon a cuspidor the other day.

Obviously, we're not complete Neanderthals.

http://www.atomicathletic.com/store/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=BK1000

Live Strong

Roger LaPointe