Lord help me, I might JOIN A GYM...

Also, I have a bike in serious need of love, but again since the core idea is to work out with the wife, I'd have to buy a second bike (which would be cheaper but more of an up-front expense). Also, I kind of want to join in with the fitness community and meet some wildly different people through working out.

You know, I just realized that the gym I'm looking at has no pool BOO HISS. There's a Y which is 10 minutes away; maybe I should investigate them instead? Or just check to see how much free swim costs...

FEAR MY POTENTIAL PYTHONS!

* they're expensive ($600 something per year)
* they play the most sedative music in the workout room sound system.
* they sued the group behind the local Sunday flea market on the streets near their gym. (They've since been denied 3 of their 5 counts, but the two are yet to be dealt with)

..so, fuck 'em.

Oh, and by the way, the gym is called Sound Mind & Body. If they google this, hi y'all.. fuck y'all.. you coulda had more of my business had you not fucked with the neighborhood.

My dad's prostate cancer situation has duly kicked me into more formal gear about eating A Bit Better And All, and that's good. Today's been a bit less of that due to birthday things, but my next goal is to try to take the weight down a touch. There's some gym stuff in the complex I"m at and I might start taking advantage of that as time continues.

Actually, I've been really sick for a while now, and these steps are all in hopes of getting better sooner.

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you were being ironic right?

Yeah, when the days get a bit longer and warmer, I'll start walking up from an earlier stop on my bus route when going home in the evenings. Already did a few test walks -- good way to burn up some energy!

I'm tempted to join the Y because it has a pool, but it might be better to just pay to swim there (as that's all I'd really be intereted in).

and then feel your muscles BURN!

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Does anyone else find this idea to be somewhat...nonconducive to good health and nutrition?

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Well I have learnt that people in my gym are happy to come over and start a conversation, headphones or no.... Maybe I need bigger headphones?

>Does anyone else find this idea to be somewhat...nonconducive to good health and nutrition?

one of the more popular gyms here has a bar & nightclub inside it

... I HAVE JOINED A GYM!

YAY

IT HAS A POOL

YAY

(oh shit, i have to be disciplined about something now)

Plus I also scored a three day Crunch pass!

totally, my class last night had 82 people in it! :(

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That said, I do gotta do something. Im considering buying an elliptical trainer or stationery bike for my flat. I'd be way more likely to use it, and plus I can watch my own DVDs!

I guess my friend-of-friend knew what she was talking about when she unconditionally put me off this place across the street a few years ago.

http://gothamist.com/2007/08/25/gym_rat_gets_wo.php

My gym's more appropriately filled with a few basketball dudes, some little gymnastics kids, some yuppie spinner girls, and lots of old racquetball dudes who reminisce about the warsaw ghetto and stuff. Of course, some of those dudes are like amazing marathon runners.

Screamer got what was coming to him.

Brokers vs. hedge managers in a fight to the death. (With cadaver material.)

Finally, the ballistic broker dismounts and "charges my client's bike like Leonard Marshall of the New York Giants hitting a practice sled," Davis said.

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I don't get it.

I'm on a health kick, but so far all it's gotten me is a bruised spleen and torn groin muscles.
I know it's a fad, but I would get a kettlebell or two in a second if they weren't so expensive.

Oh man, that noisy guy on the stationary bike sounds like he deserved to be beaten, even if he actually wasn't. Gyms should be practically monastic, am I right?

to the extent that gyms are temples to our preening self-obsessed individualistic lives, yes

It's true, society was built on loud and sustained grunting.

I would've just taken a dump in his gym bag, but yeah, screamer has to go.

I miss the minigym at my old office so much I almost don't mind any more that one of my coworkers would insist on having Lou Dobbs on the TV while we were exercising. (And at the time Lou Dobbs made me want to firebomb CNN.)

I am swimming every day at the moment, for around 2 and a half weeks. It is really enjoyable and I've started to get quite into the idea of raising the amount of lengths I do every day. When I started I could only manage about 6 and now I'm up to 20 or so.

What the hell is up with this "spinning" crap, for years I assumed it was some sort of specialized workout routine until I recently looked it up and found out it's just using a stationary bike. Uh, we call that "use a stationary bike," it doesn't become magical when you do it in a group.

omg there is a class at my gym that is a bizarre combo of spinning and yoga
i would like to try it and report back but having watched this class in action i know it wld only frustrate me and my v specific definition of what yoga is

i dropped my running regimen in june when the weather got really hot and my body rebelled. but it is a horse i'm looking forward to getting back on. not looking forward to having to give up my bike when the cold weather comes though :( spinning /stationary bike is certainly not the same thing.

i have wanted to punch people at teh gym

I dunno about spinning really, I think the group experience just forces/inspires you to hold a pace so you work harder. Plus don't some of them have like computerized "rides" that get harder etc to fake hills and wind and stuff? And sometimes there's a view of the "countryside" projected on one wall? Maybe this is just a Hollywood version that I have seen in movies.

i wld do it in a second if there were projected views of countrysides and narrow city streets and space bike battles

spinning is different than using a bike on your own, unless you're crazy disciplined. you're on a preselected course, one that's probably more difficult than anything you'd set for yourself, and the whole time you've got an instructor yelling at you to stand up or do various other things to compound the intensity. i don't like it, personally, but you're going to get a much more intense workout than pedalling for half an hour while reading the new yorker.

Wow, spinning sounds like some insane lower level of Hell.

I have a cheap treadmill at home (purchased at a garage sale for $50) and I walk 5 miles on it, 3-4 times per week (I watch movies to distract myself), I also lift weights 2x a week, which is a lot more boring. Going out to a gym just seems like a lot of extra time wasted, plus the trauma of exercising in public...

i normally don't see what's embarrasing about going to the gym but every so often while i'm working out i realize how surreal the scene is, everybody in a confined space, doing these weird movements mostly for reasons approaching pure vanity and inadequacy and trying their best to ignore each other. then the eye of the tiger puts its foot up my ass and all is right. I genuinely like going to the gym though, at the moment.

i'm about to walk into a gym today
it's going to feel like that scene in what's eating gilbert grape where gilbert goes to the other grocery store
fucking terrified

seriously tho what do i say, hi i'm interested in a basic bitch membership?

surm, ask on thread of getting sw0le

More people will have that bookmarked and everybody's friendly.

I just use my office's gym and weights at home, so idk.

awesome thanks dude