No shaving

When I got to the health club last night for my meeting with the trainer and my first workout, I found out that she wasn't there--she'd had something come up and wouldn't be able to make it. But the receptionist offered to show me around and get me started, and I took her up on it. She didn't know how to program the cardio machines, but she was able to show me the weight machines and tell me what a generic program would be. I was grateful for that, because I really wanted to get started, and didn't want to wait another week to do it.

I rode awhile on a stationary bike (it said 3 miles, but it really didn't feel like 3 miles, so I'm reserving judgement until I figure out what I'm actually doing), did the weight machine circuit (about half a dozen machines, 2 sets of 12 reps each), then sat in the whirlpool for awhile.

There's a pool, with the whirlpool in the far end of the room, and on the other side of the room are wet and dry saunas. There are signs posted everywhere about stuff you're not supposed to do (no children, no dogs or cats, no horseplay, no swimming while class is going on), and stuff you are supposed to do (wear a swimsuit!), but there was one line on the sign painted on the sauna that I couldn't read.

I couldn't really read all of it, but I could interpret it by extrapolation. I kept trying to figure out what this one line said, though. "No staring?" "No shoving?" "No sharing?" I couldn't come up with anything that seemed to make sense as something someone would want to do in a sauna.

I finally got out and walked over there, and even after I could read it, I couldn't figure it out. The very first line, before "wear swimsuits," "no oils or creams," and "don't pour water on the rocks," was "no shaving." What?? Why would that even come up? Weird.

Okay, so I did a Google search on "shaving" and "sauna" (which I would not recommend doing!). According to Steve's Sauna Secrets (one of the very few sites from that search that I actually clicked on), shaving in a sauna gives you an "incredibly smooth result, without the use of gels or foams." Who knew?

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