the adventures of pinkaholic girl

The beginning of a new era.

Today is the beginning of my new and exciting life philosophy. Like
the Summer of George, it is a time that will change my life for the
better. A time for action. A time, ladies and gentlemen, that will
bring me happiness, enlightenment, and hopefully some rock-hard abs.

Today, for the first time in my life, I joined a gym. :-o

A real life gym, with a real life monthly membership fee of £63, with
real life intimidating gym eqipment monitored by real life peppy
instructors.

I've done the "I can wuss out at any time by adopting a pay-as-you-go
strategy" trick before, which served me nicely in Sydney and
Marylebone, but my daily commute has once again hit an hour and a half
round trip and I work late (read: old habits die hard, OR I'm a lazy
sod and don't get to work on time so I need to stay back to make it
up), so when I finally get home at 7:30 or 8pm, I'm hungry. The last
thing I want to do is forego dinner to exercise, especially since the
gym near my home is choc full of people all the time. I've walked past
the pool at night and seen lanes shared by up to 8 people. Like,
what?!

Enter: the opening of a new gym near work late last year.

I've heard people at work raving about this gym, so I bit the bullet
today and went to go and visit. This gym is soooo shiny. The change
rooms have wood panelling, are nice and clean and supply you with
endless white fluffy towels, free shampoo and conditioner. There are
HAIR STRAIGHTENERS you can use to style dry your hair before you go
back out into the real world. There's a steam room, a pool, a huge
room of brand new gym equipment, a boxing ring, a golf simulator, and
when the summer comes around there will be a rooftop garden with bar
so you can go and relax in the sun after your workout.

The best bit: because it's so new, there's nobody in there right now.
woohoo! I toured at lunch and there were 4 people in the pool, 10
people in the equipment room and about 8 people in an aerobics class.

I've signed up on an opening special monthly rolling contract, so
technically I haven't actually committed myself to exercising for the
next 12 months, just the next 4 weeks. I bet I'll either be a brand
new gym enthusiast by April, or 10 kilos heavier. Hopefully the
former (with bonus rock hard abs :-)

posted by d @ 6:38 pm