Gyms and health and stuff
Feb. 3rd, 2012 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxI cancelled my gym membership last week, partly because the guilt of not going was a swirling vortex in my soul. I was feeling so bad about not going that it was stopping me doing any other exercise, because I knew I shouldn't be wasting my gym membership by doing things that are free. Brains are very strange things, seriously.
I signed up for the Rebel Fitness Guide instead. It cost a tiny fraction of the gym membership and for the money I got six months worth of exercise plans, with exercise guides for everything on Youtube so I don't bork myself doing it wrong, but most moves are actually pretty simple. I've had to buy some more dumbbells and a set of resistance bands. In the later stages I'm going to need a pull up bar (D:) but they seem to be pretty cheap, so.
It appealed to me because really into using your own body weight and some free weights to exercise, and has designed the exercises so that most of them work lots of muscles at once, unlike the gym where I was painstakingly guided through working each part of me bit by bit and it took forever. INEFFICIENT. Don't they realise I have fanfiction to read?
I did my first workout yesterday, using the Rookie level 1 exercises. The exercises took about 20 minutes, faster than I expected, and then I had to do 10 mins of any cardio, so I did skipping, but I could do running or cycling or just going up and down the stairs - anything that got me out of breath. I thought my thighs were going to stop working after 5 minutes, but things got a bit better after that, and I don't actually ache too much today. But it was enough of a challenge.
I'm actually supposed to do three workouts a week, with 30 mins of other exercise on the off days. That's not going to happen, because there's no way I'm going to exercise 6 days a week. But if I can stick to the workouts and do a bit more other exercise, that will be a start.
The guy who runs Rebel Fitness seems okay, apart from some annoying slogans like 'Nothing tastes as good as being fit feels'. WHICH IS PATENTLY UNTRUE. Cakes and pizza taste at least three times as nice as being fit. This is where my problem lies.
I signed up for the Rebel Fitness Guide instead. It cost a tiny fraction of the gym membership and for the money I got six months worth of exercise plans, with exercise guides for everything on Youtube so I don't bork myself doing it wrong, but most moves are actually pretty simple. I've had to buy some more dumbbells and a set of resistance bands. In the later stages I'm going to need a pull up bar (D:) but they seem to be pretty cheap, so.
It appealed to me because really into using your own body weight and some free weights to exercise, and has designed the exercises so that most of them work lots of muscles at once, unlike the gym where I was painstakingly guided through working each part of me bit by bit and it took forever. INEFFICIENT. Don't they realise I have fanfiction to read?
I did my first workout yesterday, using the Rookie level 1 exercises. The exercises took about 20 minutes, faster than I expected, and then I had to do 10 mins of any cardio, so I did skipping, but I could do running or cycling or just going up and down the stairs - anything that got me out of breath. I thought my thighs were going to stop working after 5 minutes, but things got a bit better after that, and I don't actually ache too much today. But it was enough of a challenge.
I'm actually supposed to do three workouts a week, with 30 mins of other exercise on the off days. That's not going to happen, because there's no way I'm going to exercise 6 days a week. But if I can stick to the workouts and do a bit more other exercise, that will be a start.
The guy who runs Rebel Fitness seems okay, apart from some annoying slogans like 'Nothing tastes as good as being fit feels'. WHICH IS PATENTLY UNTRUE. Cakes and pizza taste at least three times as nice as being fit. This is where my problem lies.
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Date: 2012-02-04 03:19 pm (UTC)Yours and mine both, sweetie. I'm trying to force myself to go to the park on my own (because the dog is too old to appreciate it these days). It's funny how easy it was to do 2 hours/6 miles a day when it was for the furry brute, and how impossible it seems when it's just for me.
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Date: 2012-02-04 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 10:51 pm (UTC)Yes! Some might argue that since I never was truly fit in my life, I can't be a proper witness to how it feels, but-- cakes!