You can’t hold a gym LIABLE for any losses including the loss of self-esteem due to the lack of results.
I wish I could hold someone or something liable for my infinitesimal progress at the gym and my waning interest in hammer curls and reverse crunches. I wish I could blame it on my instructor’s total lack of concern over my Herculean struggle to repetitively lift 4 lb. dumbbells or on the gym’s ancient electricity-free equipment (I strongly suspect they inherited these from Fred Flintstone), but I can’t.
My failure to fit the clothes of yore is entirely my fault. You see, I can endure displacing my bowels with 15 straight sets of ab exercises but I can’t stand having to park my brain for a few minutes to run on a treadmill.
I can’t survive with my brain on screen saver mode. It constantly needs to have something to process. I try to process the images of the aero dancers in front of me into useful pieces of information, but all I can think of is me on that dance floor looking like a limp cow in a herd of gazelles.
I need to learn to mentally shut down or I will lose the battle with the bulge.
Haha, you don't have to mentally shut down. Try to convince your dance aero teacher to let you dance to the rhythmic beat of a T.H. White or Anton Chekov audiobook. 🙂 Anyhoo, you could always try yoga. It's not as easy as it looks but it's good for your body and your mind.
-MaryFGR
Disagree with audiobook idea.
Odd rhythm to crunch to, literature.
Also disagree with Yoga suggestion.
It requires 'clearing' the mind,
which is the dilemma here, right?
I think it's healthy to turn off your brain at least for a few minutes in a day. And maybe you shouldn't toss out exercising to literature just yet. Try jogging or even dancing to poetry audiobooks. The kind of peotry with a real rhythmic beat to it. And if you really want to be productive while you exercise, I hear doing normal household chores can be enough to burn calories you need to stay fit and healthy. 🙂
-MaryFGR
If that's the case Mary, I should already be thin as a rake now. Remember I have two monkeys in the house and they each have to be carried around or played with for extended periods of time but instead of losing weight, I seem to be gaining. Eeps.
My boss suggests listening to audios of his interviews while exercising. 😀
Oh if raising kids were an exercise, there would be a video of women in leotards at a gym instucting you how to lift your baby to develop your biceps.:D
Why? is you boss Larry King or does he sound like Richard Simmons when he does interviews?
-MaryFGR
Actually, to be honest, I did get great biceps because of my eldest kid but it's the abs and triceps that are difficult to form…
My boss is a marketing fanatic… His interviews are supposed to help me sell better 😀
WOW! the wit and humor made my day! i enjoy reading your posts!
Hehe. Thanks looney planeteer. I enjoyed reading your posts too. 🙂
The best way to train is to have a gym buddy or a close friend and to pick an instructor who is dedicated to help people.
I had 2 gym buddies once. Unfortunately, they quit. 😀