January stinks if you want to find an open treadmill at the gym

You know it’s that time of year when you walk into the gym and can’t find an open treadmill.
You wander the free weight area struggling not to bump into somebody.
It’s January and the season of New Year’s Resolutions.
As a year-round gym goer, I hate it.
Trips to the gym become hellish as crowds of people who don’t typically frequent gyms on Wednesday nights hit the exercise equipment.
Why do people do this? Don’t they realize they’re missing American Idol?
Last night, there were several people at my gym waiting, unable to find a treadmill as I and other used them to run or walk.
I was lucky to have spotted an open treadmill right as I walked in about 7 p.m. But if I were having to wait, I’d be pissed.
I go to the gym three or four times a week year round. The only month of the year it’s over crowded is January.
Gym crowds always seem worse this month than any other of the year. Coincidently, no one goes in December.
In talks with Amarillo-area gym owners and managers, they say they don’t receive a rush of applications in January.
Seems different from my perspective.
I can’t complain too much. At least people are getting themselves healthy.