This morning I went for a recovery run in the pouring rain with Rachel. We just did the usual 3.2 mile route around the Ethiad Stadium and back to the office, where we arrived soaked to the bones.
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about joining a gym to improve my core, especially at the minute as my back is killing me and my hip is a little sore too so I want to strengthen that whole area, amongst other things.
The thing is, I can do the work I need to do at home but I just never seem to have the time. There’s always something else I need to be doing or, in all honesty, I’d rather be doing. There’s a gym opening in our building at work soon and I had joined under the pre-opening cheap rate (£25 per month) but have cancelled this before I’ve even started for a number of reasons:
1. There are other gyms within half a mile which are cheaper (one is £20.99 per month and one only £16.99 per month).
2. The other gyms don’t have a contract whereas the one in the building ties you in for 12 months.
3. The new gym isn’t opening until March, even though they said it would open in December.
4. The lady from the gym opening in the building didn’t meet me when she was supposed to, nor ring to apologise, which doesn’t give me much confidence.
5. The gym opening in the building sends me patronising e-mails congratulating me on ‘taking the first steps towards an active lifestyle’ and welcoming me ‘on my fitness journey’. Sickening!
If I join one of the further away gyms, I can just use the time getting there and back as a warm up jog and get changed in our office as we have showers here so I won’t be wasting any time, therefore it won’t be any different to if I used a gym in the building as I’d still have to do a warm up/cool down there anyway.
The thing is, I can’t make up my mind whether to join the cheaper gym or just try to be more disciplined at working out at home and I’m driving myself (and probably others – but nobody forced you to read this) mad going round in circles with it. I just figure that my lunch hour is dead time but do I want to pay for something monthly that I can do for free? I keep going back and forth, one minute deciding to join the gym and the next minute deciding to set aside some time at home for core strengthening. If I don’t hurry up and decide though, the gym will be full of January New Years resolutioners and I might not get a place as there can be a waiting list for membership during busy periods.
I don’t even know what to do in the gym really. I’ll probably turn up there and just stare at all the machines and weights and have no idea where to start.
If only there was somebody who wants the same thing as me out of a gym session and works in Manchester and could join me to keep me motivated and work out a good training routine with me…
Total distance - 3.2 miles
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