Beating boredom
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sarahmichiganAs most people who are pursuing physical fitness/regular activity know, one of the big enemies to being consistent is boredom. This is why I am so freaking thrilled with our new fitness center. I think it’s going to take a LONG time for me to get bored.
Weight lifting has always been the part that bores me out of my gourd because there’s only so many ways to work out a particular set of muscles. However, our fitness center has a wide variety of machines, dumbbells, and barbells, and there are some classes that combine cardio with “sculpting,” so I think this will help alleviate my boredom and help me make gains with my strength training.
Being consistent with cardio has never been a huge problem for me. I already mix it up with outdoor biking and walking, doing exercise videos at home, and doing the treadmill or elliptical at the gym. Now, my options for various forms of exercise are greatly expanded with the new classes they’ve recently added at my fitness center. So far, I’ve done two spinning classes, one each with two different instructors, and one yoga class.
I really liked the first spinning instructor- her music was good, the routine was varied, and she gave clear instructions. As for the second instructor, though I liked her as a person, I thought her routine wasn’t as good and her directions weren’t as clear. The yoga instructor was the sort of fluffy bunny New Ager who spouts pseudoscience with a straight face, and that always rubs me the wrong way, but it’s endemic in the yoga instructor population (a separate rant). We may take more classes with her, or we may try the Wednesday morning class with a different instructor if we can get our asses to the fitness center by 6:30 a.m. Might be a challenge.
Additionally, they’ve added a hip-hop dance class, lyrical dance, some additional aquatic exercise/aqua aerobics classes that I’m dying to try out, and a Sunday morning Cardio Kickboxing class that I’m hoping I can get J. to attend with me. I also plan on trying to swim some laps here and there, depending on how crowded the pool turns out to be.
We’re paying a goodly amount for our membership, but I’m so excited about all this that I think we’re definitely going to get our money’s worth out of it.
Weight lifting has always been the part that bores me out of my gourd because there’s only so many ways to work out a particular set of muscles. However, our fitness center has a wide variety of machines, dumbbells, and barbells, and there are some classes that combine cardio with “sculpting,” so I think this will help alleviate my boredom and help me make gains with my strength training.
Being consistent with cardio has never been a huge problem for me. I already mix it up with outdoor biking and walking, doing exercise videos at home, and doing the treadmill or elliptical at the gym. Now, my options for various forms of exercise are greatly expanded with the new classes they’ve recently added at my fitness center. So far, I’ve done two spinning classes, one each with two different instructors, and one yoga class.
I really liked the first spinning instructor- her music was good, the routine was varied, and she gave clear instructions. As for the second instructor, though I liked her as a person, I thought her routine wasn’t as good and her directions weren’t as clear. The yoga instructor was the sort of fluffy bunny New Ager who spouts pseudoscience with a straight face, and that always rubs me the wrong way, but it’s endemic in the yoga instructor population (a separate rant). We may take more classes with her, or we may try the Wednesday morning class with a different instructor if we can get our asses to the fitness center by 6:30 a.m. Might be a challenge.
Additionally, they’ve added a hip-hop dance class, lyrical dance, some additional aquatic exercise/aqua aerobics classes that I’m dying to try out, and a Sunday morning Cardio Kickboxing class that I’m hoping I can get J. to attend with me. I also plan on trying to swim some laps here and there, depending on how crowded the pool turns out to be.
We’re paying a goodly amount for our membership, but I’m so excited about all this that I think we’re definitely going to get our money’s worth out of it.
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Does green look good on me?
Date: 2007-09-11 03:45 pm (UTC)Separate and sort of related: I got a card in the mail yesterday from the gym close to our house that I've been thinking of joining in November. Apparently, they're looking for 25 women for "testimonials" and are specifically focused on weight loss. Would I love free membership to a gym? Yes, and that would mean I could start now instead of later because I'm still currently paying back the loan for my car repairs. However, I would make a horrible testimonial and they'd never take me. Also, and this is the part that kills me, part of the offer is FREE TANNING.
We'll tell you what to eat, how often to work out, how much weight to lose, and also give you skin cancer. BONUS!
I'm still considering them as a gym because they are extraordinarily close, open 24 hours, and not horribly expensive. I have yet to go and give them a trial though, and I hope that they don't suck as much as their card seems to imply. I just want somewhere I can go and comfortably work out in the winter months without being pressured by, ahem, experts.
Anyway, didn't mean to write a novel. :D
Re: Does green look good on me?
Date: 2007-09-11 03:56 pm (UTC)And yeah- ick on the implicatons of the stuff they sent you. :(
Re: Does green look good on me?
Date: 2007-09-11 04:30 pm (UTC)Bally is too...well, I just don't like it. The Y is impossible for parking and has limited hours. Curves would be fine, but again with the limited hours and also distance.
I'm still just starting to look though. :)
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Date: 2007-09-11 04:46 pm (UTC)