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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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Well in April I moved house, and joined my local gym. I didn’t train as planned but I realise I lack the personal discipline to make myself train. Especially when I have the option not to!

So I have moved all of my things into the new house. There have been problems, plumbing & electrical but we are getting these sorted bit by bit. These thing are expensive and I have further expenses to come (such as purchasing Freehold of our property, getting married, buying a Porsche – all to be explained at a later date!!!), but we are financially much better off in a house we own with a mortgage, then just renting.

Don’t get me wrong renting is good, we had a really nice house, but that money was going every month but we had nothing to show for it. Hence the need to purchase our own property.

We moved in during the Easter break, and used a local removals company to do all of the lifting & pulling. This was so useful. Yes it cost money, but we think that this was a wise move as 1) we couldn’t physically move all of our things 2) We were so fried from working we didn’t have time to organise things ourselves. The removals company were excellent and did a fantastic job.

Once we were in we had problems such as broken washing machines and leaking showers and dodgy electrics. Almost all of which are sorted now.

Here are my current priorities:

1) to go to the local gym 2-3 times per week
2) to completely de-wheat my diet
3) to start growing my own vegetables in the garden
4) to keep costs low by going cheap

These are my top 5 things to try in May. Lets hope I can be more successful then my Easter resolutions!

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