Joined a Gym!

In my attempt not to be the person who quits there New Years Resolutions by March, Brian and I finally found a gym that gave us more or less what we wanted with a reasonable price tag. It isn't the cream of the crop and doesn't have everything we wanted, but its close, clean, reasonably priced and has the one piece of cardio equipment I like, the Precor AMT, its an elliptical that allows you to pick your own stride length and change it at will. So I don't have to go between an elliptical and a stair stepping machine, plus you can go backwards.

We joined a gym called Energy. Now all the people seem nice, most walk around with their ipods plugged in, but all smiled and/or said hello as they walked by. There was one creepy guy that made a point of walking behind me while I did my squats on the smith machine. He definitely thought he was something special, but an shorter, slightly chubby man with his weight belt cinched WAY too tight giving him a muffin top, not my idea of a fun person to interact with, the best part was, he wasn't doing any exercise that made him actually need the belt. I laughed to myself, finished my squats and moved on.

For my second day at the gym I managed to do over 30 minutes of cardio in the cardio theater, Meet the Parents was playing today, not a bad way to pass 30 minutes. I also did legs, thought I had gone pretty easy with weight and sets/reps, but while I do laundry and have to walk up stairs every 30 minutes, I can tell I got in a decent workout.

I am excited to really be starting in on my weight loss goal. I have been working towards some other improvements like increasing water intake, taking vitamins, eating smaller meals and better foods but until now I had done only minimal exercise, sporadic and definitely uninspired. Hopefully the precor machine, the classes they offer and just getting out of the house for an hour a day will inspire me to be bikini ready this summer!

How are your goals coming?