So after 2 years of saying I want to go to the gym, I might actually do so very soon xD
I work as a teacher at a vocational school and although there's a few gyms in my area, I'd like to avoid running into my students. I'd rather not have my pictures taking etc. or anything like that by students who might spot me. I know the chances of such a thing actually happening would be incredibly slim, it's one of the main reasons I'd been delaying it. Also, I'm just lazy with commiting to something like this.
What I ended up doing back then though, was start mealprepping meals and do workouts using Ring Fit and Fitness Boxing 2 on my Switch, which ended up helping me reduce my weight from 114kg to about 100kg in the span of 3 months. Since then i've basically been roughly maintaining my weight anywhere between 100 - 104kg, which is kind of what I was expecting to regain after stopping my fitness games.
Fast forward to September last year and I had a colleague of mine who goes to a gym that's run by our school. Now ironically, though you'd expect our students to be there as well, they don't tend to go there because many of our students associate it with school and as we all know, school for kids is like garlic to vampires. Best part of it, it's free. He's been telling me to join him for some time now, and I feel like I'm willing to take my chances with it now.
Now I've also been looking around my area for other gyms, and actually found out there's a gym like 2 minutes away from me xD Having said that, it asks a premium price though. If I want to go there as many times a week I want, it would be 72 euro's a month. 2 days a week would cost me 60 euro's, so i'd already be looking at the highest price option anyway.
What makes this second gym so interesting is that it offers a whole bunch of group activities to partake in, with each group existing of a maximum of 12 people. So it's a lot more personal.
I know for a fact I'm probably not the person who can just walk into a gym and start doing my own thing, as I definitely feel like I need some sort of 'support' buddy to keep me going, at least at the start. Which is why both options with either my colleague or these group sessions would seem pretty ideal to me. Now if I go through my work, there's also a chance I'd be able to get one of the students that studies there to probably set up a simple training schedule for me to get me started. Any form of personal training at the second gym would cost me hundreds of euro's a month, so that's a big no for me.
I should be geting my gym pants tomorrow and my shoes on Monday, so the clothes are already on their way. Now I just need to decide on which gym I'm planning to go to. Basically it comes down to this:
Work gym:
+ Free
+ colleague as a buddy
+ chances of getting a simple training schedule made
- probably no further assistance from people there
- its through a school, so it's closed during holidays, which would mean no gym for 7 weeks during summer.
- could potentionally run into students
Closeby gym:
+ offers both group sessions and open gym
+ small groups of max. 12 ppl, so feels more personal
+ available every day of the week, so even during holidays
- Premium price, but probably pricey enough that students won't visit
- most of the extra's like a training schedule is pretty much locked behind the personal training sessions for $$$
- Wouldn't know anyone at the start, so for me to get going would be more difficult
So that's still something I got to figure out. I also got to think of how often I plan on going. Was considering doing 3 times a week and see if I could maintain that or not. My main focus would also be on increasing my stamina and get rid of my belly fat haha.
