Gyms are great. I don’t want to run or cycle somewhere when it’s pouring rain, or when it’s -30C outside. I’d have a hard time keeping track and incrementing weights with random heavy objects found outside.
A pair of dumbbells with adjustable weights and a decent indoor cycle machine thingy would technically do it for me, but at the cost of several months of gym membership for the former and years of gym fees for the latter, in addition to taking up space in my home and needing to be moved if I move (because currently I live in a rental apartment to be closer to my job)
And I do really just love lifting weights, it’s the only form of exercise that doesn’t make me feel excruciating mental anguish somehow. Cycling with a podcast on is also bearable, but then I can’t do that safely in the city. Yeah we have pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, but unfortunately you do still have to eventually cross roads and then you have to hear things properly, because vision alone has limited width and assholes can run red lights. It doesn’t help that my cycling style whenever I need to actually get anywhere on a bicycle, is literally “uh dude how have you not been hit by a car yet?” because I always leave too late and I don’t like going slow. It might all be an ADHD thing, really.
Gyms are great. I don’t want to run or cycle somewhere when it’s pouring rain, or when it’s -30C outside. I’d have a hard time keeping track and incrementing weights with random heavy objects found outside.
A pair of dumbbells with adjustable weights and a decent indoor cycle machine thingy would technically do it for me, but at the cost of several months of gym membership for the former and years of gym fees for the latter, in addition to taking up space in my home and needing to be moved if I move (because currently I live in a rental apartment to be closer to my job)
And I do really just love lifting weights, it’s the only form of exercise that doesn’t make me feel excruciating mental anguish somehow. Cycling with a podcast on is also bearable, but then I can’t do that safely in the city. Yeah we have pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, but unfortunately you do still have to eventually cross roads and then you have to hear things properly, because vision alone has limited width and assholes can run red lights. It doesn’t help that my cycling style whenever I need to actually get anywhere on a bicycle, is literally “uh dude how have you not been hit by a car yet?” because I always leave too late and I don’t like going slow. It might all be an ADHD thing, really.