The floor in Life Time Fitness consists of carob brown carpet and grey rubber depending which section the occupants are in. Rubber for the dumbbells, and carpet for the machines.The dumbbell weights start from five pounds reaching to ninety pounds in increments of five. The ends of the dumbbells are black, in the shape of a decagon, and have the weight written in white on them; the metal handle between the actual weight is silver and rigid. All of the dumbbells fill up black racks from small to big in order to support the various sizes of weights. In front of the racks, there are three chairs and three benches that can recline or decline.The framework of the seats are metal and white; they also have ruby red colored cushions about two inches thick. The rest of the setting is filled with machines to work out all the main body parts labeled: abs, shoulders, arms, back, and legs. The machines are all made from Life Fitness with the same framework and cushion as the chairs. The weight adjustment for the machines are controlled by a pin and pulley system which have plates in increments of seven-and-a-half pounds. The ceiling is a white scaffold setup with a popcorn ceiling and rectangle lights.

           A variety of people come to Lifetime Fitness, but there’s a certain standard to lifetime and the members pay a significant amount for it. People with a middle-class financial status or higher occupy most of the memberships here at Lifetime. But physically speaking, the people range in all different sizes depending on how long they’ve been coming here. From fat to skinny, and muscular to scrawny, people come to this gym with the same purpose. During my observation, I saw a man grunting who almost three times my size towering over me and because of his greying hair and wrinkling skin; it led me to believe the man was middle-aged. Excluding his massive size and build, the amount of workout equipment led to the assumption that he has been a long-term member. Only a couple machines next to me, a girl half my size was texting on her phone for an thirty minutes and didn’t even touch the machine. The amount of muscle the girl had obviously correlated with the amount of work she put it. This showed me that the occupants all view the gym differently; some come to focus and work hard while others come here to relax.

               The occupants come to lifetime for various reasons, but they used the objects for a common goal: to get stronger. The dumbbells and the seats are used to put people in the correct posture for the movement of the exercises as they push against a certain amount of resistance; this area is called the free-weights zone. The machines allow the people to use more resistance than they could with the dumbbells because of the pulley-system that the machines use. The occupants use these objects in order to put stress on their body so that they can gain more strength. These objects control how the occupants interact in the space because there is a certain motion for every exercise and there are different locations to do each of them

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Here I am again. The lights are bright as ever, but this particular space is more empty than usually (√). The lights are for studying.  The reason why is because it is a Sunday today, and not a school day.(X) I look around and see only two other people outside the study room that are focused on their computer screens. One of them was a girl in front of me and she was on Facebook looking at her news feed. She had blonde hair and her shoes were colorful. (O) She was drinking some coffee, and eating some fruit snacks. The second guy was focused as well and studying for human communications. I saw that he had the orange book that I also had for human communications, so I knew that he was studying for it. He had a vibrant red shirt on that had a nike symbol in the middle of his shirt. (O)He had some nike Roshe runs on that were bright red.  The bookshelves were still on the left side of me. The shelves were black and the books all thick. I looked to the right, and saw the study rooms. Study rooms are for studying and also for friends to just have privacy. There was a group of guys in there studying and writing equations on the board. (O+)All four of them were working on math together. At one point, they all got up and left and went to go buy coffee. The coffee shop was called Saxby’s and just around the corner. I could not see the shop, but they all came back with the cups.(X) The bottle was clear and filled with brown coffee. There was no one behind me the whole time, but only empty tables with empty chairs. As I looked up again, I saw that the girl was leaving. However she forgot her headphones. I got up, and I went and gave it to her and told her to be careful next time. We talked for a bit and I decided to interview her.