so what's been stopping me?

Ok, so I went to the fitness center at work for the first time today. It's completely ridiculous that this was my first time in the nearly two years I've worked here. Here's why I should be doing this every day, from our intranet website:

"Increasing your daily activity and work outs get you motivated to turn up the intensity.

We want to help you with that process. And we have developed a point system that pays you to exercise.

Here's how it works ...

You earn one (1) point for each workout that lasts forty (40) minutes or more in duration. A workout encompasses aerobics, racquetball, basketball, jogging or walking around the outdoor track or weight lifting.

You qualify for a $150 gift certificate (less applicable payroll taxes) If you work out thirty-six (36) times per calendar quarter with a minimum of eight (8) sessions per calendar month. The gift certificate options are Academy, Oshman's, or travel discounts."

So basically, for over a year and a half, my company has been offering to pay me to work out, and I've been going to the other gym instead, which demands that I pay them. No sense. They even have classes during lunch hours, and an outdoor track if I want to walk outside. Like I say--I'm a moron.

It's right across the parking lot. I think fear of the unknown is what has kept me out...I have this thing where I have to map out every little detail ahead of time when going into a new situation where I feel out of my element. Exercise and gyms are far, far out of my element. I didn't know where the locker rooms were (downstairs, directly below the fitness room). I hadn't ever used some of the machines up there (duh--there's always a first time). I'm shy around my co-workers, and paranoid about being seen naked by them in the locker room (there are curtains around the areas just outside the showers. Can dress in solitude.)

There's nothing left to fear. I think I'll try the body sculpting class next Tuesday.

Posted by Joy at February 18, 2003 01:03 PM