beach workout

Growing up I frequented this Santa Monica beach, called Muscle Beach, and enjoyed all the characters displaying their prowess and agility on various apparatus such as these rings and other weight-lifting areas, which were usually fenced off from the public. Ray Bradbury used this location several times in his novels, in my opinion, the best being “The Illustrated Man.” I liked the juxtaposition of the vertical lines of the gravity-defying athletes and chains against the circular rings. Their strength was matched by the strong symbol of the rings.