11-10-22, 07:52 AM | ||
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NA
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There are cons to the gym of course. I am able to walk there so I don't bring my cell phone or anything. I am rather floored at the number of people who cannot seem to put down their phones for a half hour or hour and do their workout. On the weight machines especially, they will do a set, then look at their phone for 5 minutes before doing another. I will rest for 20 seconds then move to the next set, complete my sets and get off the machine. Maybe I am just a giant weirdo but I don't get it. That is one perk of exercising at home, which is why I am hoping to strike a nice balance between the two. |
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11-10-22, 08:25 AM | ||
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: TarHeel country
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I used weight machines regularly in high school and can’t wait to try them again. Our softball coach also trained the football team, and he used the same strength-focused methods. He’s probably why I love strength training. |
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11-10-22, 11:44 AM | |
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Colorado Springs
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I used to go to a Pilates studio for a while to work out on the equipment. I really liked it for a while. The instructor was very experienced, not a weekend certification. However I did burn out on it and longed for my dvds. Might try again in the new year.
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02-08-23, 09:43 PM | |
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I have a gym membership; after some practical problems, I hope to return soon enough.
My activities divide neatly enough because I've never had a fully appointed home gym (and don't plan to, for a number of practical reasons). As you can guess, I use the gym for settings and equipment that are unavailable or otherwise more impractical for me at home, such as heavier weights and even a pool (which I haven't used yet, for still more practical reasons, but would like to try sometime). My membership isn't for avoiding boredom, for other kinds of "psychological" variety, for having some group exercise experience (I prefer to do things at my own pace and have historically had an interesting schedule), or for socializing. I'm not uninterested in taking the free classes, but their timing hasn't quite matched my preferred scheduling. I don't generally visit just for things that I can do at home, but I've often added them to other things, like using a yoga-based cooldown. I'm generally interested in what's happening in the world of exercise videos, but my personal interest in exercise videos and home exercise is generally more limited to those things that I'm most able to do at home. As I usually say in such threads, I'm happy that VF--whether from the top down or from the bottom up--isn't characteristically chauvinistic about home exercise. (The most anti-gym" comment in my experience was posted on the forum of an instructor who taught in, filmed in, and owned her own gym! Unless that thread revived after I stopped reading that forum, no one ever mentioned the irony. )
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02-09-23, 10:42 AM | |
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I recently started working with a physical fitness coach. I started with her one on one, just to help me get up my confidence (that yes, I can do this stuff consistently without injuring myself (again)).
Just this week a new cycle of her balance class started up, so now I'm doing that. The work I'm doing now is mostly about rebuilding strength in my toes/feet/ankles/calves. Eventually we'll expand the work over the whole body, but the basic idea is to rebuild strength and agility in very basic ways so you feel more stable, strong and agile. So far so good. I really appreciate the way she's been willing to meet me where I am and help me build from there in reasonable ways. I wish such coaching was more routinely available, if you ask me, everyone needs this stuff. I had tried the standard aerobic class type gyms before, but without some feedback about what I should be doing it never felt as though I were doing much.
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