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Now I promised I'd keep you up to date on my gym use, and here it is Saturday and not a peek. So did I chicken out and not go along after my induction? Not a bit of it. I went along on Thursday after work, and got down there just before seven. i'd intended to stick the half hour workout I used to do most mornings, of 5 minutes warm up and cool down on the bike, 10 minutes each on the steps and rowing machine, then spend about an hour in the sauna. I figure I can do two or three sessions of that, then start back on the weights sometime next week.

The bike was fine - I liked being able to see my heartrate, and it got into the recommended range pretty quickly, which didn't surprise me, and stayed there, which did. After the five minutes I wandered over to a rowing machine, set it to 10 minutes and the resistance to about 50%, and remembered pretty quickly that rowing machines bore me. Rowing I like, rowing machines I don't so I cut it short after 5 minutes and made my way over to the step machines. Definite improvement here - I remembered I hated them before I even got on, so I didn't.

On to the cross-trainer instead, a kind of mock-up of a cross-country ski-ing thing, which uses your arms as well as the legs. This was actually great fun - I was listening to my "I'll sleep when I'm dead" mix, which, I was ashamed to admit, had a lot more eighties stuff on it than I thought - Robert Palmer singing "some like it hot" for instance. Anyway, ten minutes on the trainer was quite good fun. Then I realised I'd been going backwards, instead of forwards - well, who knew? So another 10 minutes for completeness going the other way, five minutes on the bike to cool down, and then a sybaritic half hour in the pool, sauna and spa bath. All in all, well worth rewarding with two glasses of white wine afterwards.

Friday morning I had a spell in the pool before work (pretty quiet at 7.30). Next week I'll try to make it an hour in the morning, half in the gym and half in the pool.

And next week I also promise to find out how to do LJ cuts, so you won't all have to be bored by my born-again enthusiasm!