2008
n is for the new wave dreams
maura @ 8:58 pm
I quit the gym today. Well, okay, almost. I mean, I tried to quit the gym but the person that handles membership transfers wasn’t there even though I had called earlier and they said I could come anytime. Grrr…
So I’ll be quitting the gym tomorrow. I’m a little sad, but what with my busy high fashion model adjunct schedule recently I haven’t had time to go as often as I really feel like I should be going, given the cost of the membership. While I do take Gus swimming there on the weekends sometimes, it probably only works out to about once every 3 months or so. And the water there is so completely hellishly cold — I’m sure we could find another pool in Brooklyn for the occasional non-Arctic swim.
Now I need to find some sort of gym substitute. I have some hand weights from a pre-Gus fitness jag, so I can use those a coupla times a week. And maybe I will finally buy that bike I’ve been jonesing for. Though winter is hardly the best time for getting into biking. Though #2 it was over 60 degrees today, where the hell is my winter, Al Gore?
We also have a small area of donated exercise equipment in the basement of our building which I could conceivably use a few mornings/week. But really what I should be doing is trying to work more exercise into my daily life. Maybe walk one stop further down the subway before getting on in the morning? Taking a lunch break walk couldn’t hurt, either.
This morning I took my farewell tour of the gym. While on the rowing machine I came up with a wonderful solution to the whole gyms suck up electricity for no good reason problem. People are pushing and pulling and running and moving all of those machines: can’t they all be used as generators? Then the gym could make electricity, and either store up the excess or sell it back to ConEd or something.
I’m sure I’m not the first person to have thought of this. And of course generator exercise machines would probably be more expensive than the normal ones. But doesn’t it sound like a lovely solution?
2 comments on “n is for the new wave dreams”
I know! We could use all of those exercise bikes to power the whole dang city!
How very Gilligan’s Island!