Some things I just don't understand. This week I ventured into the fitness room on the campus where I work to run a couple of miles during my lunch break. It's a beautiful facility for a community college. The treadmills and other equipment are in great condition. The treadmills all face large picture windows, which is nice. I can't really watch tv on a treadmill without risking falling, so staring out the window is okay.
I don't understand why every facility keeps their heat up so high? It was easily 70+ degrees in there with no fans available. I am a world record holder for sweating. It flies off my body like spray from Niagara Falls. In just two miles of running my shirt, shorts, socks and sneakers were soaked. Disgusting.
The heat seems to be high at most fitness facilities. It makes no sense. You are working out, a little cool air won't hurt anyone. Maybe the philosophy is most people don't stay on aerobic equipment long so the facility managers think it has to be warm for weightlifters? I don't know. The YMCA was the same, a small local gym was also the same. People would move away from me when I got on a treadmill. Give me a fan or turn the temperature down darn it! This is why I work out at home a lot. That and I hate people. Germy people. Yuck. I don't want their sweat near mine, that's gross.
I began what seems to be my annual late January diet. The last three years I have had some type of injury that slowed down or entirely cutoff training for a couple of months. Each time I managed to gain a minimum of ten pounds. This time I even cut drastically back on my alcohol consumption. In my first two days of really trying to diet I gained 2 pounds. Not exactly the direction I want to go in.
I was getting dressed for work yesterday and couldn't do up the belt I usually wear. WTF? One hole was too loose, the next one squeezed me in so much I couldn't breathe. Jan thought my tantrum was hilarious. I was not amused.
Maybe the key for me is to keep drinking alcohol and give up more food?
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Showing posts with label Fitness Facilities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fitness Facilities. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Working Out at the Y
I'm picking on the Y, but it could be any fitness facility for me. Working at the Y gave me a free membership and Jan a discounted rate that made it quite affordable. Before Jan got sick for about 5 weeks she would come and exercise while I worked.
But I only used the Y once for exercise and that was because our treadmill at home needed to be repaired. I discovered something about myself, I like working out at home. We have a nice Body-Solid weight system that can be used for at least 12 different exercises. Our treadmill is working again. Our road bikes are on trainers. We have a television (with color cable!), and a radio/cd player. We own around twelve bicycle training tapes, most of them from Spinervals. We have a rack of dumbbells and a curl bar. All of this is in our basement. We have a chin-up bar in the garage.
Magically I have ten reasons to exercise at home;
1. I don't have to worry if the person before me cleaned their icky germs off the equipment (this is really a huge reason for me).
2. It's free, at least after the initial investment. We have owned our treadmill and weights for years.
3. We don't have to drive anywhere.
4. I can look like a slob, sweat up a storm, and no one cares. Well, except when Jan comes downstairs to use the washing machine and tells me I made the whole basement stink. But I take that as a compliment for how hard I'm working out.
5. I can get up at 5:30am to bike or lift weights and just walk down the stairs with my fresh cup of coffee.
6. There's always a bathroom nearby. I can take a break from whatever piece of equipment I'm using and not worry that someone else is going to start using it, or that I need to clean it right then.
7. I can play any music or watch any television show I want.
8. If I want to grunt while lifting weights I can without being judged.
9. It feels more life-like riding my road bike over an exercise bike at the gym.
10. I can turn off the heat, turn it on, have a fan on, it's my choice.
Oh, and number 11, I can easily shower, all by myself, without using a locker for my stuff.
Of course some people can see advantages to a fitness facility;
1. More variety of equipment with hookups to online motivational "games".
2. Group exercise classes.
3. Meet new people, a social outlet.
4. Learning the correct way to use a piece of equipment or set up a weight program.
5. New equipment that you don't have to worry about repairing.
6. No going into a possibly dingy basement or room to workout.
7. People watching.
Only 7 reasons. Unless readers can come up with more. I guess I'm a homebody.
But I only used the Y once for exercise and that was because our treadmill at home needed to be repaired. I discovered something about myself, I like working out at home. We have a nice Body-Solid weight system that can be used for at least 12 different exercises. Our treadmill is working again. Our road bikes are on trainers. We have a television (with color cable!), and a radio/cd player. We own around twelve bicycle training tapes, most of them from Spinervals. We have a rack of dumbbells and a curl bar. All of this is in our basement. We have a chin-up bar in the garage.
Magically I have ten reasons to exercise at home;
1. I don't have to worry if the person before me cleaned their icky germs off the equipment (this is really a huge reason for me).
2. It's free, at least after the initial investment. We have owned our treadmill and weights for years.
3. We don't have to drive anywhere.
4. I can look like a slob, sweat up a storm, and no one cares. Well, except when Jan comes downstairs to use the washing machine and tells me I made the whole basement stink. But I take that as a compliment for how hard I'm working out.
5. I can get up at 5:30am to bike or lift weights and just walk down the stairs with my fresh cup of coffee.
6. There's always a bathroom nearby. I can take a break from whatever piece of equipment I'm using and not worry that someone else is going to start using it, or that I need to clean it right then.
7. I can play any music or watch any television show I want.
8. If I want to grunt while lifting weights I can without being judged.
9. It feels more life-like riding my road bike over an exercise bike at the gym.
10. I can turn off the heat, turn it on, have a fan on, it's my choice.
Oh, and number 11, I can easily shower, all by myself, without using a locker for my stuff.
Of course some people can see advantages to a fitness facility;
1. More variety of equipment with hookups to online motivational "games".
2. Group exercise classes.
3. Meet new people, a social outlet.
4. Learning the correct way to use a piece of equipment or set up a weight program.
5. New equipment that you don't have to worry about repairing.
6. No going into a possibly dingy basement or room to workout.
7. People watching.
Only 7 reasons. Unless readers can come up with more. I guess I'm a homebody.
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