Wednesday, January 11, 2006

The cost of fitness

How do you motivate yourself to work out? Try paying $140 for a 3-month membership to a gym! Dude, even if I work out 3 times a week every week of the membership period (which already ain't gonna happen), it still works out to be about $4 per visit.

But if it will get me to work out, it's worth it.

And it's not too bad considering the cost is covered by a day's wages at Nova.

Here's to pumped-up muscles after working out making you feel like your buff :-D

--JPB

PS - how deeply ironic that in America now you have to pay such an extraordinary amount for the *privelidge* of working your body. Most of the rest of the world either works their bodies or dies! :-/

2 comments:

Laedelas Greenleaf said...

here's to ankle braces and ice after jumping rope in my kickboxing class...

Exercise is incredibly fun, once one can get past the uncomfortableness. Do you ever daydream or forget where you are or think about really deep stuff while you're pumping iron (or whatever it is you do)? I do...it's incredibly fun to "come back" & be incredibly sweaty :-P

Clear Ambassador said...

mm, I'm working too hard to daydream. Counting repetitions, thinking about what weight to use, next exercise to hit, keeping proper form, tightening abs, de-arching the lower back...

It's still fun, though. At times my upper body just aches to grab a pec fly machine and do some work. Good times :-)