I Joined A Gym Today.

After we left Boston, and I had to surrender my Equinox membership, I said I wouldn't join a gym.

"Only Bikram yoga for me, thankyouverymuch!" I proclaimed.  

And I meant it. I was not gonna join a gym.  But you know what? I also said I WASN'T gonna do a lot of things...  Like:

• Get another search engine marketing job. I held out much longer than The Husband thought I would.  I held out returning to work much longer than a lot of people thought I would.
  
• Drink coffee. I just can't stay away from the stuff. Please don't ever ask me to.
  
• Eat broccoli. I actually like broccoli now.  But only in its raw state. I can handle it being sauteed. But it has to have a hard crunch to it still.
• But light-colored living room furniture. Almost immediately when I sat down with the design consultant, my eyes flicked towards the lightest, creamiest fabric swatches.
• Pull back-to-back Bikram classes. I had done plenty of doubles, just never back-to-back ones. And I figured the B2B ones were for people who were "show-offs."  Or complete masochists.  I actually enjoy the occasional challenge of a B2B class now.
• Join a gym. I did my two years, with personal training sessions twice a week, at Equinox. I loved every minute of it. But besides being expensive... I found that I ultimately went to the gym LESS when I had a trainer than when I didn't.  I was much more motivated to go when I was relying on myself to get my body worked out.  But when I had a trainer, I would just go my two days a week, and that was it. LAME!

What's changed the game now, though, is the fact that a gym similar to Equinox is right around the corner from our house.  

Seriously... It takes three minutes to walk there. It is in the same building as the Whole Foods I shop at.  It opens at 5:30am and closes at 11pm on weekdays.  It is open from 8am to 8pm on weekends.  They have two different yoga studios in it... And they even have a HOT YOGA studio - though it is not Bikram yoga, and I will not be practicing hot yoga there.

It is just too convenient to not join.  And they gave me a really good deal because The Husband joined it the other day.  I like spinning classes. And I like strength training with weights.

I will NOT, however, be doing personal training sessions again.  They were awesome. But I am not motivated to go to the gym on my own when I am also doing PT.

Mark my words: No PT.