The triumph of hope over experience

[f4f3]

I joined a gym at lunchtime. It's in the nearest hotel to my office, 2 minutes in the car and five minutes walk away. As well as the pool/weights/cardiovascular stuff they have yoga and pilates courses which I'm quiet keen on.

I'm ENTIRELY confident that THIS TIME I will actually go 3 or more times a week, and I WILL NOT SPEND MORE TIME IN THE BAR THAN IN THE GYM OH NO I WON'T.

Plan is to go for a swim tomorrow morning (playing badminton tonight, so can't do it then) and book in for my gym induction at lunch time.

I'll keep you posted.

Comments

[eidechsenengel.livejournal.com]

YAY! Very proud I am of you! I myself swim every morning at 5am and have yoga 3 times a week... you'll love yourself for it, that is, after you've kicked yourself for the soreness... hehe! ;)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I started yoga lessons before, and really enjoyed them (espescially the meditative aspects) but let my work schedule drive them out - well, being 450 miles away from the classes was a bit of a clash.

So I'm looking forward to renewing my acquaintance with pain...

[eidechsenengel.livejournal.com]

Pain... YAY!!!

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

"I WILL NOT SPEND MORE TIME IN THE BAR THAN IN THE GYM OH NO I WON'T."

Good luck - the last time my work held a meeting at the David Lloyd place nearby, Maureen & I stayed afterwards, smoked up a storm and got so pissed her husband had to come pick us up!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

There's nothing quite like that first drink after you've worked up a sweat. Well, except for the second, third, fourth and fifth drinks...

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

Good for you! I'm sure you will start to feel the benefits very soon!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping there will be less of me to appreciate..

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

I was hoping that to keep all things equal, we would be instructed to appreciate more, what was left of you!!!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

It's one of those "appreciation per pound" things - if "a" remains constant while "p" decreases, I get more "a" per pound! Yay!

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Good luck. :)

I have been talking myself into starting yoga again too. Haven't had much success yet...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm very good about thinking about yoga, which must be a form of yoga in itself.

Or not.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Well, I have found that I have to indulge in a lot of mental gymnastics to rationalise why I can't start *right now*...so it does make my mind more agile I think. But the body, ah the silly things still seems to require physical exertion.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yes - I've been tricking mine by letting it play badminton, which I enjoy enough that it doesn't get classified as exercise, but I need a wee bit more now.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Yoga is how I trick mine: Look, you are not sweating, you are not out of breath, and you can actually spend some time *lying down* -What more do you want?

We started this routine when I was 12 and opted for morning yoga to get out of morning jogs and basketball....

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

i love the lying down part. Lying down with my eyes closed is even better. And I can breathe without thinking (well, most of the time).

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

I don't do too many standing excercises - most of my routine needs me to sit or lie down. :)

By the time I was 14, I used to stand in for my yoga instructor at least twice a week [she wanted to sleep in]. I used to grant 5 minutes of shavasana after three other positions and if someone dozed off in those 5 minutes, I would let them sleep on. As a result, the entire group used to lend me their library cards...

Then there was the group who gave me their library cards in return for me drinking their morning milk...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Ah, at the same age I was doing a deal with my parents and brother and sister for their Library Tickets, which meant that I had 12 adult books per week and 12 from the children's section. No wonder I didn't have time for yoga. Not that we had yoga in Balornock. We had Fitba instead, though.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Heh. My parents and brother didn't even *think* that they would ever get to use their tickets. They just handed them over to me, even before I could argue with them. :)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that I ever told them they HAD tickets...

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

They had to sign the forms and they insisted on reading them before they signed...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I don't think forging is a sin.

A crime, maybe, but not a sin.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I can certainly appreciate the stance but my problem was that the librarian *knew* what my rents' signatures looked like. It would have been a sin, a crime, a local scandle, and a family issue.

I forged my mom's signature once - sneaked out for an all night party, the first one I ever attended.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

My writing was so bad I couldn't forge anyone's signature, even my own.

First all nighters.... God yes, I remember hearing the birds singing when we left the party and thinking, ah, so this is what it's like being a grown up....

Irony of ironies, the only time I get to hear the dawn chorus now is when I'm going into the office early.

(OK, that's a bit of poetic licence - I do live in Scotland, and the dawn chorus will start at around 10 a.m. soon)

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

I recall getting confronted by the chap on the library bus (I really lived in the middle of nowhere) who queried who was really reaing the books I took out on Mom's ticket. Fortunately, he was impressed when I confirmed it was me, and went on to make recommendations. I was 9.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Libraries are great. We didn't quite have the van, but we did have a prefab building that was more or less a shed. That was where I discovered Flashman, and Roger Zelazny, and Asimov, and Heinlein, and Westlake and Richard Condon and oh.... just about everyone.

[goldenbrown69.livejournal.com]

Considering parts of my person are now casting really big shadows (and when I say big, I mean small plants and animals could die through lack of light), I too should get myself to a gym. Good luck with your endeavours. When I've passed my driving test (ha!) I may well try this gym lark again.

Let me know exactly what levels of pain to expect.

[goldenbrown69.livejournal.com]

Crumbler of bastions indeed. Excellent.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Glad you noticed!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well I'm getting interesting twinges from the badminton already.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well, I am suffering all sorts of pain, just now, but nothing to do with the gym. I think I've picked up a low-grade fever. Added to the toothache that started on Friday, this has just about laid me low. I dosed myself up with co-codamol last night and this afternoon ("my stomach is churning but I feel fine") but I've decided to give up and retreat to bed for a while.... Bleugh!