Go4It!

The only thing I like less than exercising is wasting money. So I figure one sure fire way to force myself to actually maintain at least a showing of fitness is to buy a gym membership. There's no way I'd buy it, and then let it lie unused- I hate spending money too much. So Tuesday I bit the bullet and joined the gym in Dwingeloo. They didn't have an employee who spoke English well enough to show me around immediately so instead I set up an appointment for Thursday and caught a Zumba class.

There were maybe six or seven women in the class who all knew each other and didn't speak much English themselves. They chatted away in Dutch as every one was getting ready to start the class. Once the music started I followed along as best I could and started to get the hang of the moves fairly quickly. At one point the instructor was showing me the moves for the next song and a couple of the women remarked that I was good. "I've danced before I said." "We can see that." they said with a smile. Call me vain, but I do love a nice compliment.

Then Thursday after work I went for my introduction appointment. Granted, I've never really spent much time in gyms, but this one seemed a bit different than what I expected. They use an electronic fitness training program and so to enter the system I hoped on the bike for my diagnostic test. The results? I'm not in the lowest fitness level. Yay? Anywho, I messed around for another hour one the cross trainer and figuring out the equipment and weights and stuff then biked home.

All things told, it really won't be that expensive if I go twice a week- which is what I was planning. So say hello to your new, frugal, gym member.