Ian and I have been going to Gold’s Gym for about a month, and in that time I’ve noticed something disturbing: People are bringing their kids to work out with them. I’m not talking high school kids, I mean I have seen parents—men and women—setting elementary and middle school-aged kids up in the Circuit Training [...]
Thoughts
On Mac OS 10.7, otherwise known as Lion: So far I’m liking it, although I really haven’t gotten to delve into the newness of it too much yet. Except for the natural scrolling “feature” that was introduced. That one I got thrown into headfirst. Basically, Apple has changed scrolling with Lion to mimic the way [...]
So! The exercising.
It’s been nearly two weeks since Ian and I joined the gym, and so far so good. Ian’s working with a trainer twice a month to build muscle, and I’m flying solo to tone up and hopefully lose some weight. We’re trying to hold ourselves to going at least three times a week, four if [...]
New desk chair. Er, ball.
Since I’m on a get-healthy-get-fit kick lately, I figured it was about time to do something about my horrible posture while sitting at my desk. Ok, no matter what I’m doing my posture is horrible. I did some research and realized that a fitness ball would most likely do the trick—apparently the easiest position to [...]
We’ll see how it goes
Today after work Ian & I joined a gym. We’d been talking about it for a while and had tried to go check out the one a block from our house last week, but it was so full there wasn’t even anywhere to park for a minute. At about 7:30 p.m. So today we stopped [...]