A MAN obsessed with the gym, weight-lifting and fitness is only trying to keep away terrors you could not begin to imagine, it has emerged.
Friends of 31-year-old Tom Booker are beginning to realise his intense 24-7 fitness routine is only his desperate attempt to silence the ceaseless screaming of the damned.
Friend Charlotte Phelps said: “Tom goes to the gym before work, on his lunch break, after work. If he’s not lifting weights he’s chugging a protein shake. But it isn’t a choice. He’s staving off a darkness none of us can comprehend.
“When he can’t exercise he’s a different person. You can almost hear the demons whisper to him. He mutters strange incantations under his breath, listing his PBs.
“In between workouts he talks about workouts. Change the subject and he gets this crazed, desperate look in his eyes, pleading you to ask about his warm-up routine.”
Colleague Ryan Whittaker agreed: “I once saw Tom at the end of a triathon. There was no joy or sense of achievement in his eyes. All it had done was temporarily quiet the tempest raging inside him.”
Booker was asked to comment, but was running frantically on a treadmill as if being chased by every devil in hell.
