Back At The Gym

Well, you know, not that I exactly thought I was getting away with anything, far from it, but I hadn't been to gym for a few weeks. Over the Xmas period, you know what I mean. Taking time off - even if I actually only had two leave days, in fact - Xmas and all that. It just seemed like what was the 'go' if you know what I mean?

Anyway, that's what I'd done, taken a, erm, ah, cough, cough, a few weeks off from the grim, er gym.

Not that it had gone unnoticed by Sam, oh no, I wasn't getting past that one, he'd mentioned it numerous times, except, he was talking about it from a financial, it being deducted from my bank account on a fortnightly basis and if I wasn't going to go I should at least stop the payments.

Well, girl trainer number 2 called me to check up and see how I was going, and, you know, I can't tell lies, having realised at a young age that I was so good at lying and that it never did me any good, not in the long run, you know, if you don't want to be a fake, but I digress, so I told girl trainer number 2 that I hadn't been doing training.

"Oh, it's just a holiday thing," I heard myself say. "I haven't stopped going, of no, not me."

She sympathised, gave me words of encouragement, knew from where I was coming.

Anyway, the following day, I get a text from girl trainer number 1. 

"I hear you haven't been doing training, do you need an encouragement call from me to get you back on track?"

She also said that she didn't realise my training app had stopped working, and she'd rebooted it so my training schedule was back on track. 

I thought as we'd finished, that it had been switched off, which I have to admit I found a little disappointing, and a bit disconcerting when I went to train and I had nothing to train too, anyway apparently that wasn't the case, I guess I should have said something earlier.

Well, anyway, I was still contemplating this message in the afternoon, when my phone rang and it was girl trainer number 1.

"What do we have to do to get you back on track?" she asks.

She's really lovely, but determined. She wasn't taking any of my excuses.

After a bit of backward and forward, she said, "Are you working?"

"Yes," I said.

"So you could go after work?"

"Um, er, I guess." 

"So, you could go and do a session this afternoon? After work."

"Um, er..."

"Is that a yes?"

"Yes."

"Good, that's good," she said. "I'll be stalking you training app to see."

So, I did go back to gym in the afternoon. Back at the gym, that's what I did. That's where I am. Yay. Smile.