Back to 24 Hour Fitness. Bye Bye JCC

One of my friends convinced me that I needed to set a goal for myself when it came to working out. So, I let her set it for me. My original goal was running at least 15 miles a week and to reach the 100 mile mark within 6 ½ weeks. I thought she was crazy at first, but I was also determined to reach the goal she set. This was a friend of mine who hardly ever worked out when we were in high school or college. Now she is working out like crazy. She runs 11 miles in one day, and says she loves it. I know, it’s absurd!

Well, I have hit my 15 mile goal a week for the past 15 weeks. I’m not getting the drastic results I thought I would see. So, today I decided that it was time to kick it up a notch. I’m going to keep trying to run 15 miles a week, and throw in kickboxing and step aerobic classes. I’m finding out I need to do something to work my core. I went to my first kickboxing class in months. I had an incredible workout! The last time I went to this class, the instructor was pregnant. She is no longer pregnant and looks incredible. You would never even know she recently had a baby. So, I worked my butt off literally this morning. I am so sore. I’ll have to let you know in 15 weeks if I’m finally seeing results by supplementing my running with other stuff.

Oh yeah, and can you tell me why people feel the need to wear thong underwear and low cut workout pants? I really don’t want to see someone’s thong when I’m trying to workout. I don’t care that you matched your red thong to the red tag on the back of your pants and that your pants are mint green. I just don’t get the whole thong wearing sticking out of the back of your pants thing. Can someone tell me what that is about? It’s not like we have a bunch of guys in this class. We are all women and I’m pretty sure no one else wants that view either.

So, if you are hitting the gym again and you want this to be a lifestyle, like my sister does, don’t make the mistake she has made. She continues to pay around $30 a month for her 24 Hour Fitness membership and has been paying this for the past 10 years. She uses the gym probably 5 to 7 days a week and even takes multiple classes in one day, but she is paying way too much. I have tried to train her, but she is stubborn. Anyway, gyms are willing to negotiate their fee. I paid for my membership up front for 3 years which worked out to $15 a month. I even had them waive the initiation fee. Now once the 3 years is up I will only have to pay $49 a year for my membership for life. It makes me a little ill to think about all of the money my sister has been throwing away for the past 10 years. I have offered to even help her get the deal I have, but she continues to be stubborn. Somehow she did not get the same thrifty gene I got, but I’m working on her.

So, I'm leaving my friends at the Jewish Community Center and heading back to the meatmarket of 24 Hour Fitness. I would take the classes at the JCC, but it is hard to concentrate because all I see are overly enhanced boobs on the instructor(like cartoonish type), and she singles me out and not in a good way. Now, why would an instructor do that? That is not encouraging! That is discouraging!

Did I mention how crowded the 24 Hour Fitness was this morning at 10:00 am? I’m a little concerned about the fact that there were so many people working out during work hours that were in their 30’s and 40’s. So not only am I competing with them to be fit, but I’m also competing with them for a job. Is it possible that all of those people this morning are all unemployed right now?