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Pretty much spot on.

I have a friend (a one-time business partner, actually) who used to work as a gym assistant in exchange for a "free" membership. Her job was basically to teach people how to use the machines and give some basic pointers on form. She constantly had women coming up to her asking, "You have a really great body. I need to know what kind of exercise I should do to look like you, but I don't want to sweat."

Her response was usually a more polite version of "WTF!!! You're not going to get any benefit from the exercise unless you actually DO WORK!!!" Suffice to say that once they realized how much effort (and sweat!!) she had to expend to maintain her rather muscular physique, they lost interest.



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