Shake your booty!
On Tuesday I went gym shopping. There are 4 within a few miles of my apt. Two are YMCAs, one is a World Gym, and the other is Midtown Athletic Club. I decided to look into all of them and pick which one was best for me at this time.
The YMCA downtown is quite large so the smaller one was out. I’ve heard pretty good things about this Y location so I checked the prices. Promo signup fee of $37.50 and $54.50 a month. Not too bad. I didn’t take a tour of the Y.
Next I went to World Gym. I took a tour and got a 1 week trial membership. I was told fees were $150 signup, $60 per month. It was physically smaller than the Y but included 4 free personal trainer sessions and some other perks. No swimming pool or indoor track but I don’t need those anyway. I did like the fact that World is open 24h a day from Monday morning to Friday night. That flexability works well with polyphasic sleep.
I then moved to Midtown, widely know in Rochester to be the most swank athletic club. I’ve been there once before for a meeting and let me tell you, the place is really really nice. You don’t get much more upscale than it. Every piece of cardio equipment has an LCD tv, the locker rooms look like they’re from a private country club, there are a bunch of indoor tennis and squash courts. The other nice thing about Midtown is that everyone with money goes there so it’s a great place to network. That’s a stronger drawing point for me than the equipment. The problem: $150 signup and a whopping $104 per month. Almost double the cost of the Y!
I decided to try my week pass to World before deciding on anything. I had my first personal trainer session on Wednesday and I was instantly impressed. My trainer noticed my poor back posture and started working on it with me right away. I never thought it was something I could improve but now I believe it’s going to change. We did a baseline skinfold measurement: 11.9% body fat. Much lower than I expected! Looks like hitting my targets won’t be hard at all. We decided that bulking up first and losing the extra fat later would work best, so my body fat percentage goals may change.
Prior to leaving my first session I scheduled my second for today. After a warmup jog we did some more work with my back and then some chest work. On the way out I happend to ask if they had a student discount. $60 signup, $49 a month! I was instantly sold.
So now that I found my gym I can work on my physique. I’m going to start working out 3-5 times a week. As I get more into it I’ll be going 6 days a week. I have plenty of time for it thanks to polyphasic sleep.
Speaking of polyphasic sleep, how has the exercise effected it? I haven’t noticed a change whatsoever. I’m hoping that it may actually help since I think I’m going to exercise in the 2-6am time period which is usually the hardest time to stay awake. Working out should solve that problem.
on January 8, 2006 at 3:20 am
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