Comments on: Never Mind, Moving Along

By: Fatter and Fitter | run - laugh - eat pie

Fatter and Fitter | run - laugh - eat pie — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:40:50 +0000

[...] I have been a member of HealthCity before, back in the day where I was clearly not able to balance work and life (and commute) so I paid a lot of money for nothing. Since I’ve been more reguilarly going to the gym and running over the last two years, I have no doubt that I will actually take advantage of the membership this time around. I know I’ve had periods where I didn’t go to my old gym; the hours weren’t the greatest and in the summer particularly the hours were absolute crap and didn’t work with my schedule. Back in September I tried to quit but they talked me into trying it one more time and offered a Fitness Test and a new program to support me where I really needed it. I did have that fitness test and I did get a new program, but I didn’t really feel like they were that interested in me. In fact one of the appointments I had with Nico was moved to another trainer who was late/made me wait and I was pretty pissed about it since I consider my time very precious and didn’t feel like that was respected. You may remember my fitness test from this post. [...]

By: Renée

Renée — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:19:26 +0000

Thanks Scott! I’ve got no excuses, i haven’t done my burpees yesterday or friday… so I have quite a few to do today The challenge has been good as it makes me realise I CAN actually get exercise in every day and it doesn’t have to be an hour long session!

I’ve pretty much decided now that I’m going for the other gym. I just have to fill out the paperwork.

Thanks for the support!

By: Renée

Renée — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:09:33 +0000

hey thanks! yeah I’m still unsure about the gym… but we’ll see, for now I’m going. If it’s just once a week surely I can make the time right?
and yes I definitely felt good about my fitness results, I really am ready to do something MORE now though!

By: Renée

Renée — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:07:05 +0000

Karen I bet you would have a great fitness test right now!
I still need to find a way to eat less cals during the day, but I’m getting there! Dinner is the hardest part to control!

By: Scott at Your Inner Skinny

Scott at Your Inner Skinny — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:41:43 +0000

SO glad you’re participating in the challenge and even happier to hear that you’re getting to the gym! My suggestion is to not let the gym bully you though. You need to do what’s best for YOU. Quitting a gym can be tough, I’ve done it and it IS hard, but if you can get a better price, with better hours and better locations that fit your schedule, it seems like a no-brainer to me.

Keep up the good work.

By: Karen @ No Sugarcoating

Karen @ No Sugarcoating — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:23:07 +0000

Great that your fitness test result was so good. I am not sure mine would be!
I hope you can find a way to make meals work for you. Having breakfast a bit later sounds like a good idea. Some of my co-workers also eat breakfast at work (and I do too when I don’t have the time to eat at home).

By: Emilie Smith

Emilie Smith — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:30:16 +0000

Great post and very positive actually which I know is hard when you are frustrated and things aren’t always moving in the right direction. I thought it was interesting that you decided to give the small gym another go. I can’t believe they close at 1pm on the weekends – I would never get any exercise in if my gym did that!! I think in terms of travel it would be great for me if my gym had a thing where you could go one of their gyms or “partner gyms” while I was travelling. When you travel a lot you feel like you are wasting your membership. It’s great that things have changed since you started going back. I’m really impressed with your “outstanding” on the fitness test!! Something to celebrate even if there are other areas that need to be worked on.

Keep it up