Fit and Frugal

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I have been a follower and a fan and a convert of the Crossfit principles for some time. I bought the kit, took out the subscription and “drank the coolaid”. I can see the results, I can understand the concepts. But there is only one problem.

It isn’t for me.

I don’t come from a particularly strong fitness background. I played football at school, and occasionally have played 5-a-side football since then. I have run and completed two 10k road races. I have rode my bike for 40 miles. But these are all one off’s. These are not regular occurances.

I used to regularly get up early and go for a run. Now I need the sleep.

I followed crossfit for 1 month and saw some excellent results. I also wasn’t working and had 10 hours sleep a day.

Right now, I realistically have about 3 to 4 hours a week to exercise. I have 2 real options.

1) Go for the extreme fitness & Fran, Clean & Pull-up til I puke

2) Get a local gym membership and get myself a sustainable habit

Both of the above have their benefits and disadvantages. See below:

As far as I can see, the fact that I have more variety, a place to go away from home/work/stress & a place where I have to publicly display my fitness (or lack of it) are all positive things. These are ways I can use a local gym as a tool to de-stress and get fit. In fact I want to go there right now!!

This also means I can free up some money from equipment I have. Such as selling my Olympic Weightlifting kit & maybe even my road bike to raise some cash.

Overall the reason why I have joined my local gym, is to simplify things. Now I don’t have to organise what equipment I need, to download the workout, to get the results of my workout, to post it on-line. I understand that this works for some people, but it just doesn’t work for me.

I want simple, check in, get kit, get working, check out, get home.

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