Lately, I have been seeing a lot of people at the gym carrying around huge water bottles. Now, I'm not talking about those tall liter bottles of Poland Spring. I'm talking about the gallon jugs that people buy when there is threat of a hurricane.

Are those jugs really necessary? Do we really need to drink that much water when at the gym? And, more importantly, isn't that thing just too heavy to be carrying around?

Maybe it's a New York City thing. I was on the subway when I saw a trainer get on with his gallon jug. The first thing that caught my eye was his Bally's trainer uniform. The next thing that caught my eye was the gallon jug of water. Then I realized his excessively plucked eyebrows, but that's a whole other story.

Why would anyone deem it necessary to bring a gallon of water to the gym during their workout? I know of nobody who sweats more than I do when at the gym AND I still only fill up my small bottle of water twice which hardly totals a gallon. Is it a cost thing? I guess it would be more cost-effective to buy the gallon jug BUT come on, get a tall liter bottle and keep refilling the damn thing.

For those of you who do carry a gallon jug of water to the gym, you should know that a lot of us other gymrats are laughing at you. For most of us common sense dictates that we not carry this heavy jug of water. Maybe you are scared to drink the New York City tap water. Last I checked, nobody ever died from drinking NYC tap. We leave that to the Love Canal people in Western New York. Later.  ¶ 8:52 AM