joining up

Today has just been a red letter day for my weight loss goals. I was feeling good about my progress and confident in myself, so Liz and I went and got a membership at the local Y. (Besides, some of the comments I got in response to my entry on joining a gym helped me decide that I was being unduly paranoid.) Liz is happy because she can go swimming in their indoor pool, and I'm pleased with their exercise room.

Today was a day off from strength training, so I only did a couple of short sets on the stationary bike (the exact same model I used the three days in Niagara), and tried out the various leg muscle machines. Tomorrow I'll start experimenting with the various upper body work out machines, and try and develop myself a workout.

My exercise schedule is now: treadmill in the morning every day, then evening workouts every day, alternating bike/legs and upper body workouts. Of course this will have to be flexible where my schedule simply doesn't allow this much time devoted to the gym... but my theory is that I'm doing enough that I can afford to miss one or two every now and again, as long as I always go back as soon as possible.

And once I hit 350 I'm going to start adding in some jogging to my treadmill workout every day. My plan is to try working my way up to running in a couple of 5 k's in 2008, and we'll see where to go from there.

I'm a gym member, can you believe it?