Time and energy: I suspect my doctor was right

[redbird]

I saw my doctor recently (for a routine checkup, which found nothing problematic or surprising). He asked how I was doing, and I mentioned my current commute. He sympathized, and said he'd moved back into the city because the commute from Plandome [the stop before Port Washington] was too much for him. And then he said that it sounded like I didn't have time for exercise, so I told him about my gym's Xpressline program.

But I rather think he was right: not just that I've stripped away a lot else to keep exercise in there with this job/commute, but that this is at least part of why I (again) didn't get to the gym this weekend. Another part, of course, is that it's a lot less trouble to stop off on the way home than to make a special trip downtown: there is no gym handy to my home, the nearest branch of my gym is in Harlem, and the one I usually use is in Midtown. (Geographically, Harlem is closer. In travel time, ditto. Psychologically, once I'm on the A train, it's only one stop further, albeit a very long one.)

Tomorrow, I'll do my freelance proofreading on my way to work; go in, do such work as they offer me, and find out whether I still have a job; and almost certainly go to the gym afterwards. My figuring is that if I am still employed, there's no reason not to, and if I'm not, I'll want the comfort of shoving heavy pieces of metal around.

Comments

[aliza250.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should give up on going to the gym when it's going to be a separate trip, and just buy some free weights so you can workout at home.

Also, your public library probably has a wide variety of exercise videos that you can borrow for free - you might find something you like. If nothing else, trying different things will challenge your muscles in new ways.