This is life…

Today,30 June 2007, would have special significance all my life. Because i did what I always wanted to do, but shied away from. I JOINED A GYM.

Right from times when I had noticed well built, fit, smart looking guys in my college, I had aspired to join a gym. But something always stopped me, lets call it mind block. I always thought I could not do it, I many times visited various gyms enquired about payments, even bought track suits but never joined.

Things had gone from “like to join” to “should join”. Fat was showing at places where my trousers didnt like, my laptop bag became a burden to carry, return travel from office became quite tiring etc. So the time had come when i take the firm step and join.

Hence this time around it was different. The little bit of motivation/push that was given by my neighbour did the trick.

We had gone on a gym identification drive, visited several of them . We finally zeroed down on one particular gym which had the most significant advantage, it was near to where we stayed.

Even other wise, Body Basics (thats the name of the gym), is quite well equipped also has sauna and massage center. Reviews from friends was good. It also has A/C too (yes that still is a special feature here, not all gyms have it).

Anyways, we had several rounds of price negotiations and settled for a price late evening today.

We were contemplating since it was late today, should we join on Monday, then suddenly we both decided to join today. We walked back home, got into gym gear, and marched back (that in itself is an achievement to us, since our change inertia is quite high).

We paid the payment and entered the coool gym.

There was the instructor, waiting for us. There were a couple of other people doing advanced stuff, not to mention they were rather good looking girls. I was quite nervous, since this was the first time I was doing a work out (i dont think the ones that i did at 5* hotels count, since they were more for show off ).

The instructor started with a warm up session if simple body loosening exercises.

Then he gave us both to work on various instruments. He used to keep the weights at the minimum. First few felt far 2 easy, in fact I was contemplating whether to tell the instructor I am no child, and he should increase the weights. But then, my better sense prevailed.

By the time we reached some 6 or 7 instruments, my hands were shaking. Man how did this happen. I was feeling exhausted using the minimum weights for minimum number of times, what if… I didnt even want to think.

Finally at the end of some tiresome 45 mins, he asked us to rest. Phew! its about time he spared us. But after about 5 mins, he returned back. He wanted us to do the tread mill…. “Does he have no sense of concern” I thought…

But then as I had promised myself, this would my sincere attempt to stay fit. Hence I forgave him and climbed the treadmill…. I was used to this (remember 5*s ). So I did it for about 5 mins, lost 25 calories (or so it said).

We had a nice chat with the instructor almost made him believe that he was like a friend and that i forgave him.

On the way back checked my height, 175 cms and weight 70 kgs (with my shoes on). Checked the BMI table. Perfect!!!

Left the gym wondering….If I am having perfect BMI then why goto gym… thats a question that i would ponder upon leisurely tomorrow (its gyms off tomorrow)