Finding The Right Gym
Health & Fitness → Weight-Loss
- Author Jean Griffiths
- Published March 18, 2011
- Word count 436
At some point in our overweight and unfit lives we've all had the New Year's resolution to "join the gym" and come the first week in January we run off to our local gym, sign up for the obligatory year's membership, go 2 or 3 times and then never go back.
Maybe every couple of months we get a burst of energy/guilt and go back once or twice but never really get into the whole gym thing and curse every time we see the "only £1.48 a day", as the gym manager put it, coming out of our bank account. It's not the £1.48 that bothers me it's the £540 per year that's making me sick.
Anyway, it's no wonder we develop this deep rooted hatred for the gym, to the point where I had to break up with a guy once because he was called Jim.
Let's take a step backwards for a minute and try and repair this "12 months with the first month free", rift. Let's think about why we didn't actually keep up our planned three times a week down the gym. (Here's a list)
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Too many people in there
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Embarrassed with the size of your ass
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It was raining
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Can't work the machines properly
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No one to go with
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It's raining again
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They keep watching me
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Too tired to go
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It's too cold
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I haven't got an iPod
The list is endless, it's at least as long as your arm. Now what's going to make this relationship work? (Here's another list)
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Buy an umbrella
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If you're a woman, see if there is a gym near you that has women only sections or women only days
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Book a couple of sessions with a fitness coach. Get them to do an assessment of your fitness and ask them to write you out a training program
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Don't think about exercising to lose weight think about exercising to get fit. The fitter you are the more weight you will lose.
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Join a Step class or Tums and Bums class or even a yoga class at the gym
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Try and find a mate to go with, once you get into it, your friends will want to follow.
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Force yourself to hang in there. Nothing sustains motivation better than results
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Treat yourself. You've done well.
There are many ways of keeping fit including walking, swimming, running, all sorts of ways but the gym can be a really great place to get yourself back in shape.
Give it another go...
...go on,
give Jim a call.
Jean.
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My name is Jean Griffiths, I am forty eight years old, I'm married and a mother of two boys. I live in Spain and run a weight loss retreat with my husband. I specialise in life coaching and Health and Fitness. http://www.fab-weight-loss-program.com
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