I was always more of a play sports kind of girl than a go to the gym kind of girl. Gyms always intimidated me and so I avoided them. But after sitting around on my butt too much in my early 20's come age 24 I decided I would start going. To cut down on the intimidation factor I joined an all female gym. It was great. Still the greatest gym I ever belonged to because they literally had a class going every hour, either water aerobic or land. They had trainers in the gym that helped you, not just wiped down the equipment. And everyone was friendly. I miss that gym. At the time I was teaching at the time most of my friends were females (elementary education is a predominately female occupation). So I worked all day with women and then I went and worked out with women. My dad feared for some odd reason that I would never meet a guy (I wasn't really dating anyone at the time). So my dad has this idea for me to join a co-ed gym. He would pay the start up fee and then I would pay it monthly … [Read more...]