I quit the gym today. Well, okay, almost<\/i>. I mean, I tried<\/i> 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…<\/p>\n
So I’ll be quitting the gym tomorrow. I’m a little sad, but what with my busy 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?<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\nhigh fashion model<\/del> 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.<\/p>\n