Gym nutty

Was going to talk about gym in more details but then work and illness got in the way.

Anyway, the last couple of sessions was really good and i have actually engaged a personal trainer. Yes, the price is not exactly cheap but its something i have considered carefully and feel that would help me in my goals for signing up with a gym in the first place. I mean, i never really really liked exercise (NEVER ever ever) but i can recognize the need for it for health reasons and i do intent to get more fit and ready for next year's ermm "event" (hence more compulsion). So to tackle this problem of "what should you do when you need to get more healthy, build up your stamina and lose weight when you HATE to exercise", i have decided to make exercise more like work.

Yes work.

I think i give up trying to find "FUN" in exercising because it is never fun for me. I have tried so many ways to exercise by going for things that could be fun but it never really last because i don't have the tenacity and "fun" does wear off after a bit. It's really miserable and i am not known as "the one that is allergic to PE" for nothing back in school. So, now, i am going to stop kidding myself by thinking that exercise will be fun and approach it like any piece of work which i have to do. And surprisingly, it worked out better this way. It is a habit to be inculcated and i intend to make it a routine.

When i first join up with a gym, i thought i would be able to manage on my own and it was interesting and "fun" for the start but soon i realized that i have no idea what i should be doing and how i should go about reaching my goals. Hence the personal trainer... someone who will teach me to exercise in the right way (which i have totally no knowledge of after being a bum for all my 28 years) and not hurt myself, and to form a suitable exercise regime for me. I need that external factor, at least for the initial period because, left on my own devices and not knowing what i should be doing, i would give up and lose interest easily. Since exercise is going to be more "work" now (i am not disputing the possibility that it may become fun at a later stage), i intend for it to be at least productive. And thus far, it has been and that's really motivating and encouraging.

Anyway, i am just trying the personal trainer out for 10 sessions to get a feel of things first but so far, i have enjoyed the sessions and actually felt like i am doing something productive with my gym time. So much so that even when i am in the gym on my own, an hour passed rather quickly just going through my sets of exercises which was taught. Hopefully once a routine is in place, i would be able to continue on my own without a trainer but we'll see.