Do you go to the gym?

smudgley · 28-10-2009, 09:49 AM

At the age of 36 I had (until this week) never been to a gym.

I went to a spinning class & really enjoyed it and want to join a gym now. So I'm looking around. Just wondered what peoples thoughts are about gyms. Are you a member? Do you use the gym?

Donna · 28-10-2009, 10:28 AM

I have just joined a gym at 42 so you are doing better than me!!

I like the one I go to as it is not a big "warehouse" type of gym but more a club. It has separate rooms for cardio/weights/classes etc so it feels small and exclusive. Sometimes I go to the gym and no one is in the room I am in which is good. It also has a swimming pool, jacuzzi, saunas etc.

I started off being able to do nothing, and on Monday I did my first 2km run. I can swim lots more than I could when I started too.

Favourite stuff is treadmill, cross trainer and pool!

Annestaff · 28-10-2009, 11:26 AM

I joined a gym at 45 earlier this year and love it! One of the trainers there told me it was addicitive and it sure is I go everyday and have lost loads of weight and I'm so much fitter

smudgley · 28-10-2009, 11:39 AM

Well done both of you, that's really encouraging.
I don't know when I would find time to fit it in, but I was thinking of going early mornings before work. I'm trying to shop around and find the best gym for me, but I agree with you Donna, the smaller friendly ones seem nicer. I went spinning with my friend at her gym, which is perfect but it's 20 minutes away from work in the wrong direction and I already live an hour away from work, so can't justify the extra travelling which is a shame.

Donna · 28-10-2009, 01:57 PM

Yes location is important otherwise you find excuses for not going. Where I go its between work and home.. about a minute's drive from the office so I leave work at 3pm and am in the gym at 3.05pm!! Home by 4.30-5pm. Kids older now at 17 and 15 so dont feel I am being a bad mum for letting them be on their own for the first hour after school etc.

Am off work this week - so am going there for 2pm today for a few hours.

angieh · 28-10-2009, 03:20 PM

What's a spinning class Smugley? Don't suppose it has anything to do with wool!!!

I can't call my weekly gym a "gym" really. It's for people who have done a pulmonary rehab course and we are all old "puffers".

yola · 28-10-2009, 04:16 PM

Spinning is something to do with fast-paced cycling to music . . . I did stick my head around the door of a class some while back but nearly died of exhaustion in the 5 seconds I spent watching . . .

dandysmom · 28-10-2009, 04:21 PM

I've never been to a gym. I'm not at all athletic; my exercises such as they are have always been more solitary: running, exercise bike and light weights. And not as often as I should!

angieh · 28-10-2009, 04:40 PM

That's something I have found of real benefit - light weights. My shoulders were scrunchy and felt tight and stiff. I've been using weights only once a week and my shoulders are heaps better. I started at .5k and am now up to 1.5k - well worth doing - huge return for very little effort on my part.

smudgley · 28-10-2009, 05:15 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5yQJ0nPN8

this is spinning Angie

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