Not Going Swimming
I am in my third week of swimming twice a week, and I am scheduled to go today, but I’m not going. I spent several hours interpreting at work and I’m tired. Oddly enough it’s not the swimming I don’t want to do - if I could teleport to the pool deck and magically be in my swimsuit, and then teleport home and magically be dry, I would swim the laps. But I’m tired and I don’t feel like dragging myself to the pool.
I’m still planning to exercise, though. We have an elliptical trainer and an exercise bike at home, and I’m going to use one of them. I’m hoping that if I force myself to use the home equipment on days when I don’t feel like going to the pool, I will feel better and not get angry with myself for wimping out of exercise altogether.
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I don’t think I’ve mentioned this yet, but I’m starting a swimming class! This actually began when I found a very pretty swimsuit, and I wanted an excuse to buy it and wear it. I looked into water aerobics classes at my local recreation center, but they were over $200 so I figured I would just do my own laps to get some exercise. I really do need to exercise, but I don’t like using the elliptical machine or the exercise bike we already have, because both are hard on my knees. (I have symptoms of arthritis in most of my joints, but my knees are especially bad.) So I figured that swimming would be a very good no-impact workout.
My wife convinced me that $80 was too much to pay for a swimsuit, and the swimsuit I ended up getting was just $15! I got this style, but the accent color is magenta rather than orange. Then I was checking out the website for my local rec center, and I thought I’d look again at the class offerings. It turned out they have a four-week “Lap Swimming” class for $75, so I signed up for that immediately. They will teach us how to create a proper workout, how to use the pace clock, and probably things like turns and etiquette too. The first class is tonight and I am really looking forward to it - even if we don’t do a whole lot of swimming, it will be a good start.
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- My cholesterol, which had never been tested, was 169. So that’s good.
- I am considering attempting to make peace with this guy. I am not the grudge-holding type, and I could have used his help this coming weekend when I will be voice interpreting a leather contest alone. He has turned up on the BLeGIT mailing list (that’s the RID-sponsored organization for queer interpreters) so I know how to reach him. I’m not sure if I will get in touch with him or not, but I hate thinking I have an “enemy” out there.
- I have had practically nothing to do at work for the past couple of days. This is not a bad thing, given that I’m participating in NonFicWriMo, but it feels kind of weird. I’m not doing much of anything.
- I figured my supervisor would have to hear about the sex workshop anyway when I submitted my CEU’s, so I went ahead and mentioned it to her. Not only does she think I’ll get approval to use my annual educational stipend for the workshop cost…but she wants to go! And so does another co-worker who happened to be in on the conversation - somebody who is actually cool. So it’s shaping up to be a fun trip. I haven’t heard back from the one person I contacted through CouchSurfing, but if there are going to be three of us we can probably afford a hotel room anyway.
- Tonight I tried the first workout from the exercise DVD set MK&R got me for my birthday. I feel like a total klutz, heh. I have got to figure out a better arrangement of furniture for exercising - I can’t keep an eye on the TV and touch my toes at the same time.
Still Shaken
There are some emotional musings I need to get out. They’re kind of rambling and confused. I’m pretty open online about who I am and how I’m feeling, so I’m going to share these thoughts.
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LiveJournal Phone Post: Curves
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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.
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