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Get fit, go to the gymn less

I’ve often wondered if gymns would keep their members for longer if they helped them to visit LESS. Like any relationship, it will stay fresh if you also do things with other people too.

I spend a fair amount of time doing fit, sweaty things. I actually like it, but even I get a bit sick of it sometimes. Sometimes those classes they do help, being around other helps, so does someone motivating you to keep going does too (but the So Solid Crew track in the last spin class I attended does not).

This week I cycled to the butchers, some of the hills were agony. But it was great feeling the wind in my hair (ha!).

I chopped down two trees in our gardens and I could hardly lift my arms by the end..

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I got some lovely sunshine, a lungful of fresh air, time to think and the satisfaction of a job well done.

Can’t gymns have group classes for stuff like this?

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7 responses to “Get fit, go to the gymn less”

  1. Jaks Avatar
    Jaks

    Hi
    I think that going to the gym regularly can get very boring, but if you go with friends or make friends there you will be more inclined to be motivated

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  2. Mark Hadfield Avatar
    Mark Hadfield

    I must admit I’m guilty of going from one extreme to the other. I love it and go very often, and then after a while I get bored of it and don’t go any more. I agree – there’s nothing like good honest graft to make you feel it’s worth it. Of course if we look beyond marketing, gyms like this are all over the place – and it’s called timebanking. Sign up to your local timebank – offer yourself as some kind of gardening/ manual labour type person and hey presto! You’re not only getting fit, but you’re helping out the community – which will probably be some old person or someoen less able to do physical graft so there’s a really good element of doing something worthwhile too. And you’re earning credits that you can claim back in another form. I did join my local timebank but as I’m a fat lazy get I gave some workshops about setting up blogs and stuff instead of physical graft. That said, I am doing a marathon next year.

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  3. np Avatar
    np

    Oh for sure, but some people find conversation gets in the way. Some want to get in and then get out.

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  4. np Avatar
    np

    Sorry Mark, that was aimed at the first comment.
    I hadn’t heard of timebanks, must be a southern thing.Sounds good.
    Good luck with the marathon. I always wanted to do one, but since I’ve now got the hip of a 60 year old it ain’t gonna happen.

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  5. Mark Hadfield Avatar
    Mark Hadfield

    Yeah, unfortunately I’ve got the hips of a 29yo, but the gut of Shirley Crabtree wannabe. Well, it’s not that bad… it’s more Philip Seymour Hoffman from Boogie Nights.

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  6. The Kaiser Avatar
    The Kaiser

    I never go to the gym. Im not allowed to smoke in there.

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  7. np Avatar
    np

    I bet they don’t allow your spiky helmet either. Even in Germany.

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