As I talked about the other day, I no longer have my membership for the gym I was going to before, so now I have to go back to the school gym. The reason I decided to stop going to the school gym in the first place (which is free as a student), and decide to spend the money on a membership was ultimately due to the amount of people there. It sounds so silly, I know. Paying money you wouldn’t have needed to.... because of a few people? Well let me just say, it was a heck of a lot more than a few people. In addition to this, the gym frequently closed for events at the school, renovations, holidays (many weekends as well), etc. So there were really only small frames of time where I could go, and that didn’t always work with my school schedule to be honest, or really the amount I wanted to go.
See the thing is, I don’t go to the gym because I want to lose weight, or just get in some exercise. I actually enjoy going to the gym, and I enjoy the activity of weightlifting. But when I was at the school and it took me 2 hours to get a somewhat decent workout in because I was waiting around more than half the time to use some dumbells.. that was not so enjoyable. And realistically, I didn’t have the time to waste on waiting around to pick up some weights.
This is when I was willing to go to another gym, even if it costed me (wasn’t a costly gym by the way). It was well worth it for me during the time. I got to go to the gym when I wanted to, use the equipment I wanted to, and be efficient in my workout! Like I said in that previous post though, I am only here for a couple more weeks, so it doesn’t make sense to extend my membership.
So I went to the school gym yesterday.. and OH MY GOODNESS. Think about it. Coming up to exam time, sunday afternoon, kinda gloomy out. There were maybe two other people there! AHH. Not that I don’t like having other around, but the freedom to do whatever in the gym is AMAZING. It’s legitimately like an open jungle gym, just open and ready for you to play!
Okay, so now I sound a little ridiculous, but I just wanted share my thoughts on the school gym, and the amazing feeling of an empty gym! I know it isn’t always empty, by any means, but man was that nice I must say :)