There’s no need to feel down
August 24th, 2006 at 9:42 am (Physical)
I’ve been thinking about quitting the far-away ghetto gym (where I’m only allowed to enter on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and weekends) and instead join the YMCA that is about 5 blocks from my house and 2 doors down from work.
I went there yesterday and the gym facilities are nothing fancy. There is no mirror wall and no overhead hiphop music thumping away competitively. I’ll be able to hear my books on tape or Aerosmith or Kelly Clarkson or whatever embarrassing music I feel like listening to.
It’s a bit of a rougher crowd, which is good. And they offer a series of 12-week programs which are monitored by their staff and tailored and everything. That sounds great.
Also they have this system called Fitlinxx which supposedly tracks all of your exercises and remembers your settings. I’m a gadget geek, so this really appeals to me. You can access your stuff from the internet too, apparently. And, at the YMCA in question, you can earn t-shirts by sticking with it! Not that they would fit me at this point, but still.
It sounds like common sense to think that I’ll do better at a place that’s literally between my house and work than a place that is all the way over in the boons, involves 20-minutes of parking detail, and won’t welcome me on a Monday afternoon if that’s when I feel like working out.
