Fitness.
Written Jul 22, 10:50 AM by PaulWhat with all the recent talk of working out and dieting with regard to the Fake Dog Ab Competition, I thought I’d share some thoughts on the phenomenom of health and fitness. You can’t get away from it, every time you turn on the telly they’re selling healthier living, which is a good thing I think. We’re constantly getting leaflets in our door for gyms, Crunch this and Curve that.
Normally Fake Dog would ignore this, but because I’m taking this ab wager seriously I decided to join a gym, so I took up the offer of free trials with various gyms in the city. A word to the wise – if you’re going to do this, don’t give them your real number as they’ll keep texting you and ringing you to join – ‘hi Paul, haven’t seen you in a while, juts letting you know we have a new offer bla bla bla…’ It’s kind of like that episode of Friends where Chandler tries to leave the gym, but he can’t because tof he lovely ladies. Anyway, I obviously went for the gym that was closest to my house. When I was getting my fitness programme done, the gym man kept talking about working on my glutials and tendonoids etc… needless to say, I didn’t know what he was talking about and said ‘no, no, no just tell me how to get abs’.
Gyms are funny places, filled with big, intimidating machines and people trying to figure aout how to use them .There are two types of gyms, the ones that people go to get escape for a while and just cook in a sauna for a few hours and gyms where people go to work out and get buff, these people take it very seriously altogether. It’s a good atmosphere for the ab training. My gym has a variety of classes including Stability Ball training, Boxercize and Spinning. I haven’t tried any of these yet, I’ve only been to Abs Blast and Extreme Abs but after I win the competition, I may try some of the other classes like Pilates
What I’ve learned is that there are loads of reasons to eat better and work out more, and there are no end of ways of getting fit and healthy with new gyms, diets and WAGs workout dvds. popping up all the time. However, I found the best motivation for a healthier lifestyle is spite and personal competition, and it seems to be working for me. Maybe Fake Dog should do a workout dvd…
— Paul
“Could claim mine are better…”
— Dara · Jul 22, 08:06 PM · #
“I found the best motivation for a healthier lifestyle is spite and personal competition”
That’s the spirit!
— Gearóid · Jul 27, 11:24 PM · #