MP3 Phone Post (711k, 3m30s)

I haven’t recorded a phone post in awhile, but I felt like doing one rather than tapping it out on my Sidekick while it’s fresh in my mind.

I just finished visiting the local Curves, which is a gym. Curves is a women-only gym, and it’s not anything like what I was expecting — it’s basically just a big room with a couple of hydraulic machines and just some … little pads where you kind of step to the beat in between stations, or something. It seems okay — it seems nice. I would probably be among one of the younger people there, although more people started showing up while I was talking with the lady. The lady didn’t really have a lot to say, but she described how they do it. They don’t really have any classes, they don’t really have– you can’t really extend your workout very easily. And I need classes — not for specific targeted things, but because I have no idea really how to exercise after being sedentary for so long, or even my whole life, that I don’t know what to do.

The other problem is the cost — it is $150 down. She said that you can also– she indicated that there is also a $75 down option that she wasn’t supposed to be telling me about, or something. So maybe I will sign up next month, if at all. But then — it’s $40 a month if you sign up for a one-year contract, and $50 a month if you’re doing it month-to-month, and on the month-to-month you don’t get the privilege to go to other locations, you just have to use the one where you are. Mine is a couple of miles from work, in Alexandria. It’s not very far, but I could theoretically want to use a different one. But it’s just — it’s a lot more expensive than I was expecting, and I assume all gyms are going to be more expensive than I was expecting, or than I’m even really interested in doing.

But I don’t think I will exercise without a monetary component, so what I’m thinking is, maybe I will– for every time I work out, I’ll put $5 into my travel fund or my gift fund or my buy-something-for-me fund, or whatever it is … from my own money, of course. And I’ll keep notes, and when I’ve worked out ten times, on my own home machine, or if I actually use the gym at work (which I’m not keen on doing), for every ten times I work out I’ll put $50 in my gift or travel fund. So we’ll see — maybe that’ll work. Curves is just *really* expensive — that’s a lot more than I was expecting … $480 a year is a lot.

So we’ll see. I’m not too sure what I’m going to do, but those are some ideas.

Transcribed by my wonderful phone post transcribin’ mother