Changing Up Gyms

For the first 8 months of this year, Gary and I belonged to an open all hours inexpensive gym. We enjoyed going, especially because its low cost meant that the twins could join us. However, as the year went on, it seemed to us that more and more boys used it and would congregate around the machines. Not only could we not get to the machines, when we could we all felt a bit intimidated by the sheer volume of male school children. In August we left. Gary was the first to go, then Charlotte (because the boys made her tics worse) and finally Lillie and I.

Exercising at Home

We naively thought we could continue with a similar progress at home. We did okay at first. I upped my walks and Gary is fairly active at work. However, it soon became obvious that if we wanted to continue with this health journey, we needed to make a concerted effort, and (we concluded) for us, that meant being part of a gym.

A Diary of an CEO

I’ve been reading Steve Barlett’s A Diary of a CEO and one of the first caveats he makes is to put your health above anything else. If you’ve not got your health then it doesn’t really matter if you’ve got a perfect job, loads of money or the love of your life. On the day I read this particular part of the book, Gary contacted me saying he’d made an appointment at the local Nuffield Health for that afternoon because he really felt we needed to put our health high above everything else. God’s timing always makes me smile.

A New Gym

By the end of the day, we had signed on the dotted line for a year’s membership. This is a membership which includes classes, the gym and their swimming pool. It’s the swimming pool which excites me the most. I love to swim! Being in a swim suit? Not so much. Oh, and it also includes a sauna and steam room.

Hopefully, this is going to kick start our health journey heading in the right way again. It’s so darn easy to slip back into old ways. Hopefully we’ve caught this early enough that we haven’t completely undone all the good we had achieved during the first half of this year.

I think I am also going to start to write a few more health related journal posts. Writing about things really helps me personally to keep accountable.

Is anyone else on a quest for better health?