We've decided to join a gym.
This is something we've never done in our life together as a couple, always preferring to utilize the many forms of free exercise out there, especially ones that doubled as transportation. And when we lived in Iowa City, we qualified (as students/employees) to work out for free at one of the gyms there. We didn't do it often, but it got us through the winter months leading up to the summer we got married.
Now, however, neither of our jobs (nor my school, which is located in Kentucky) offers workout facilities. I've accepted that it's impractical and unsafe (not to mention gravely unappealing) for me to walk or ride a mile and a half to and from work in the pitch black, which it inevitably is, regardless of which shift I work. Matt still walks to work pretty often, but that doesn't do much for me--and Matt's not the one facing an unavoidably and extensively expanding midline in the coming months, either :)
So, given the fact that health and fitness are really important to us, and we also feel like it's a priority to have activities we can do together, we've decided to join a gym. Specifically, the YMCA. Here are a few of the other perks we're excited about:
-Access to a pool and a hot tub
-A variety of classes, including yoga and aerobics and several prenatal workout classes
-The fact that the YMCA is not just a well-furnished and relatively inexpensive workout facility, but also a force of good in the community
I get 10% off my membership for working at the hospital, and a "family membership" (for any more than 1 person) is $104 a month. So we're looking at around $90 for unlimited classes and workouts for both of us, which seems pretty reasonable. At this point, we're planning to join mainly through the winter months, and then see if we want to keep it going through spring and summer, though my hunch is that we'll go back to outdoor walking and swimming by summertime. We're looking forward to getting started!
This is something we've never done in our life together as a couple, always preferring to utilize the many forms of free exercise out there, especially ones that doubled as transportation. And when we lived in Iowa City, we qualified (as students/employees) to work out for free at one of the gyms there. We didn't do it often, but it got us through the winter months leading up to the summer we got married.
Now, however, neither of our jobs (nor my school, which is located in Kentucky) offers workout facilities. I've accepted that it's impractical and unsafe (not to mention gravely unappealing) for me to walk or ride a mile and a half to and from work in the pitch black, which it inevitably is, regardless of which shift I work. Matt still walks to work pretty often, but that doesn't do much for me--and Matt's not the one facing an unavoidably and extensively expanding midline in the coming months, either :)
So, given the fact that health and fitness are really important to us, and we also feel like it's a priority to have activities we can do together, we've decided to join a gym. Specifically, the YMCA. Here are a few of the other perks we're excited about:
-Access to a pool and a hot tub
-A variety of classes, including yoga and aerobics and several prenatal workout classes
-The fact that the YMCA is not just a well-furnished and relatively inexpensive workout facility, but also a force of good in the community
I get 10% off my membership for working at the hospital, and a "family membership" (for any more than 1 person) is $104 a month. So we're looking at around $90 for unlimited classes and workouts for both of us, which seems pretty reasonable. At this point, we're planning to join mainly through the winter months, and then see if we want to keep it going through spring and summer, though my hunch is that we'll go back to outdoor walking and swimming by summertime. We're looking forward to getting started!
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