Returning To The Gym Essay

Everyone in my house is (relatively) healthy! That means that I am able to finally return to the gym after about two weeks off.

In the meantime, I'd been doing some Wii Fit here and there, but it's just not the same. I never feel like I'm really getting anything going while playing the game. Plus, it's too easy for something else to come up or distract me.

That's what I like about going to the gym. I get up early and go first thing in the morning while it's still dark. Once I get there, I have no choice but to exercise. I can't go lie down and take a nap. I can't go watch some TV. I can't go read a book. I have to exercise, or I have to go to work.

Early last year, I was doing about 30 minutes of cardio (elliptical, treadmill, stationary bike), and then about 15 minutes of resistance training, usually using weight machines or dumbbells. But during the summer, I started slacking off and missing workouts, and now that I'm back I've pretty much just done cardio. This week I started adding back in some weights. The problem is that I don't remember where I was on the different machines. So I'm not sure about how much weight to put on them.

The "Shape Up at Work" program is going pretty well. They've really started it off slowly by design. I think they're afraid of giving people too much information too quickly. I can understand that. There is a ton of information out there about eating and exercising, and most of the time it doesn't make sense or it contradicts. So instead of just throwing a bunch of facts at us, they're taking it