Gym problems

So I miss my gym. I may have already said that in a previous blog. But it's true.

Outside of getting my haircut, the first thing I will do when things open back up, is get in a nice long 2-hour plus workout at my local Anytime Fitness.

I miss A.J. and Brittany, the husband-wife couple who run the gym. I miss the giant purple floor in the middle of the gym. I miss the treadmills. I miss the bicycle. I miss the weights that I use. I can't wait to get back to it.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said yesterday that fitness centers can open on Friday but by appointment only. I wasn't sure what that even meant as most gyms don't operate like that. It turns out, the wonderful folks at Anytime Fitness posted today on Facebook that it means only one person can be in there at a time.

What a stupid deal. No way anyone who uses a gym on a daily basis thinks that's realistic. If they do, they are just SO desperate to use the facility that they don't care how dumb that is.

Hopefully we get some better news on May 15. Hopefully Reynolds opens the other 22 counties to a point where we can at least start using some things. Hopefully we can get back to the gym soon. But our Anytime Fitness is not going to open for now because they realize having only one person in the gym at one time is not realistic.

To pass the time I can't be in the gym, I have found ways to workout. I have recently got into YouTube on my TV. So I searched and subscribed to a few fitness folks to give a few ideas on workouts without weights.

That can only go so far for me. I need my weights and cardio machines.

The past two weeks, I have started another regimen. I run two miles one day and walk two miles the next day. I did that four straight days last week and then five days in a row this week. My daughter went with me on my walk today.

It's so terrific listening to a 7-year-old in that kind of setting. The stuff she says and the things we talk about is priceless. You can tell that little head is working overtime trying to think about things to say. She analyzes things more than I do. And I think that's great.

I will get back to my gym soon enough. But I miss it. I miss it more than anything else to be honest.