The Gym Of Vice

By Enrico Cinaschi

Healthy physical activity is essential for keeping fit: 'Mens sana in corpore sano', it has always been said. The registration in the gym can, however, cause some unforeseen events: especially when poor Luigi, the unlucky protagonist of this brief story, falls prey to a small group of visitors who  impose degrading violence on him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Enrico Cinaschi
• Release date: Dec 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781547589340

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Bukowski

CAPITOLO 1

Imagine if someone like me needs to go to the gym.

And let alone that it has to be Cristina to tell me that, she who has an ass with more cellulite than the whole orange basket.

She is ready to become a wife, poor Cristina: it’s sad that even after ten years of our engagement she still doesn’t understand that I have no intentions of marrying and giving up my life.

But, I have put a few extra pounds: I have to admit it.

And I'm not going to get lazy, I have to take action now, after all, I am twenty-eight, and I don't want to risk finding myself at forty with the waist like Oliver Hardy.

God forbid, I have no desire to make myself a bodybuilder, I’ll leave it to those who can't find anything else to do in their life: but paying more attention to the diet and some healthy physical movement will benefit my body and my mood making me live and work better.

Mens sana in corpore sano.

It has always been said.

I found this gym on my own: it was its advertisement sign that called out all of these considerations I had been making in my head for some time, and that made me decide to register as soon as I returned from my summer vacation.

And so I did: besides it is convenient because it’s very close to my house and I don't have to take the car, or the bus, to get there; moreover, it is well equipped, with an impressive amount of gym gadgets for all users, which will not waste my time on waiting between one set of exercises and another.

The owner’s name is Nicola: two days ago I paid him my registration fee three months in advance, and tonight I really want to start for good, without excessive efforts but concentrated.

I am greeted at the entrance with a smile and I am immediately told to go and change: Then come straight to me, I'll give you your membership card.

I am wearing a t-shirt and shorts, while I join Nicola: Please, my reason for joining this gym is simply maintaining my weight, don't overdo it because I just want to lose a few pounds and keep fit, I certainly don't want to become a bodybuilder like you! I say, laughing.

He gives me a light card and welcomes me again.

I like the environment, it seems to me that there are none of those fanatics who infested other gyms that I