Most girls go crazy to get in shape for their own weddings. I've chosen to go insane for someone else's. My oldest friend has chosen to get married on 05/09/09 in honor of $5.99. This girl has also chosen to have an extremely over-the-top wedding, destined to be in WHIRL or the City Paper.
Nothing about her wedding is $5.99, so in honor of her "theme", I've chosen to get in shape while spending no more than $5.99. Thankfully as a new grad student, I have many new tools at my fingertips that I'll consider to be "free."
First of all, I don't believe in working out at home. Second, I don't believe in running. So I've chosen to frequent a campus fitness center. The room is tiny, and although it is 32 degrees and dry outside, it is 82 and steamy in this room. It's also crammed to the hilt. The silver lining in all of this is it allows me to take on my favorite persona: the anti-social athlete.
I love working out, but I have never exercised with a friend. I have even been guilty of wearing purposefully frightening things so that strangers wouldn't talk to me. Forgoing my usual grooming routine to avoid people talking to me.
To set the bar higher for myself this time, I am setting three new goals:
1. Go to the fitness center at least 4 days a week
2. Use 1 new prop or piece of equipment daily (weighted bars... here I come!)
3. Try not to be the one glaring at people from the Spin Bike.
Also, my only expense can be 1-2 post-workout tea lattes for this entire semester, so I better take really good care of my sneakers.
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