Just the other day I made a trip to one of the most expensive spa’s in town. I visited this place to buy a gift certificate for a lady friend of mine. Having lived a good part of my life in Miami Beach I have been surrounded by these places but have certainly never experienced their services. I know that many of my friends’ wives just love visiting these places. This was an enlightening visit for me. I knew there would likely be stuff like facials and massages, but had no idea that all there was a whole bunch of other stuff on the menu, including the following:
- Lavender Manicure
- Rosemary Mint Pedicure
- Power – Wash Pedicure
- Gentleman’s Hot Towel Facial
- Hand and foot reflexology
- Warm stone therapy (they put hot rocks on you and let them just sit there….I guess)
- Opulence Infusion (Opu-infa who’a what’a?)
- Souffle Wrap (I don’t know what the hell this is, but don’t you cook a “soufflé”?)
- Reiki Therapy (A therapist “channels” energy and transmits it to you! Seriously?!?)
- French Pear and Chocolate Dip (They literally paint you with pear and chocolate sauce!… this is the only one I liked, because I would just eat the bowl of sauce and take a nap)
(Note: if you are a Dude and you are buying into this stuff, you need to come to MY spa. It’s free. The first treatment involves a fire hose, you, and a concrete wall. The second one is our “tenderize the sense back into you” treatment. Here we will simply beat you about the head and body with a “kendo” stick (like a wooden Samurai sword) until we knock some sense back into you)
Most of the daily packages for combinations of these items were around the $500.00 mark and lasted for just a few short hours.
These and other “spa” treatments seem to be the interface between what most of us understand to be “fitness” and the world of “health and beauty”. There are almost always really fancy “health clubs” attached to these spas; full of shiny muscle-isolating gym equipment, expensive personal trainers and other assorted, overpriced ancillary services. Some include iced smoothie cappuccino’s, tanning beds, eucalyptus rooms, various forms of massage and other exclusive personal services. This is where these two worlds overlap and a patchwork of “treatments” arise. The prices for this stuff go WAY up, but physical effort is replaced with a strange “Give us LOTS of your money…now just lie there and we’ll take care your problems” philosophy.
If you have the money and this stuff makes you FEEL better, then who can argue. But if you think this world of suedo-solutions will really help make you attractive I believe you are sadly mistaken. Whether you are male or female, the idea that this over-priced nonsense will get people in a crowded room to turn their heads, glue their eyes to you and say, DAAAMMMMNNNNN!!!!! when you walk in is an illusion. It’s like treating horribly severed artery that is bleeding all over the place with a cute looking little band-aid. The sad reality is that these expensive treatments will simply not improve someone’s true physical magnetism. I’m quite sure this hard truth is exposed every day. Consider the example of meeting someone who at first glance “seems” to be physically attractive. Yet, upon separation from their beautiful designer clothes, make-up and their expensive accessories, they are quickly revealed to be a soft, sickly mixture of unhealthy skin, fat and bone. Male or female – this is not the stuff of raw, sexual animal magnetism – quite the opposite. All this stuff represents an illusion. It is nothing but a sad and deceitful façade; far worse for the poor souls who merely treat the symptoms instead of solving their real health and fitness problems.
I remember hearing a Brazilian super-model talk about how she loved to wear just oversize, men’s shirts when she was off work. She didn’t bother with accessories or make-up, or any of the other stuff she was surrounded by when working in her industry. It reminded me that the purpose of all that stuff was to create beauty where it may not exist. This seemed rather contradictory. If we were trying to be more like our archetypes of real physical beauty; why wouldn’t we do things then to be more like them? These things would directly improve our physical health and raw sexual attractiveness. That would lead us first to truly healthy food; then to exercise that improved our physical function and appearance (ideally both at the same time). This is a responsible “inside-out” approach. Only then would these far less important, superfluous self-improvements be even remotely relevant.
Why wouldn’t we spend the vast majority of our time, effort and money DIRECTLY on that stuff FIRST? True sexual virility, physical beauty and health will always blast through to our senses! Beautiful muscle tone, skin, hair, vitality and health are all irresistible! Just ask yourself: “Am I eating foods and doing exercise that will optimally improve how I will look naked?” If the answer is no, rest assured that the use of over-priced, ineffective physical camouflage in an attempt to substitute for true health and virility is a foolhardy, pathetic and in the end tragic endeavor.
I contrast spa-junkies to many of the physically stunning ladies at my gym. They regularly lift heavy free weights with chains attached. They push and pull weighted sleds and prowlers among other great exercises. Their physical beauty is quite literally impossible to miss. I see them turn heads in a crowded room every day! On many occasions I have been approached by ladies who have just joined the gym who ask “Can you please tell me how I can look like her?” while pointing to one of these ladies. They are always surprised to hear that these gorgeous females eat as much as they want and spend almost no time on repetitive gym cardio machines. Many of these beautiful women are new moms and their “cardio” is regularly pushing the baby carriage while window shopping or otherwise. When I mention that their gym exercises mostly involve heavy dead-lifts, squats and presses, those inquiring are always surprised.
I am sure any of these attractive ladies at my gym would enjoy a relaxing day at the spa as much as anyone. They just don’t need it to enhance their robust physical vitality and beauty. Clearly, they have already achieved those things.
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