Joined a gym
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Last week I joined a gym for the first time. It took me a few weeks to get into the mood to go for it and when I had the chance I took it like that without thinking back.
I joined my local fitness First in Harrow, when I walked in it was quite quiet as there were only 10ish people working in there. I walked to the counter and asked to join them. The lady at the reception let me in and I was greeted by a personal trainer. She showed me around quickly and got me to sign up, I took probably 20min to fill a simple form as I read through the contract thoroughly. It didn’t seem so bad. As this was the first time I joined and I never tried it I took the shortest contract term which cost £1.50 more than a 12 month contract. So I ended up paying £41.00 for a platinum card which allows me to access any fitness first gym, which is around £58.00 if you paid full price. I paid the discounted price as I am a student.
Once I signed up I got given an appointment for an induction. At the induction, it felt really short and not a lot of details were given to help you started like recommendation on which machine to use for starters. The instructor just showed us how to use the machine and how to find our way around.
After that I went around for one hour trying all sorts of machines to get myself used to it. The atmostphere was not what I thought it was. It was actually a great atmosphere, the gym users were actually helpful. One girl showed me how to use one of the machines where the instruction was ripped off. And also no one stares at you if you are overweight, they actually don’t really care how you look as they are concentrated on themselves.
The personal trainers on the other hands are not to helpful when they are not doing anything as they just congregate and talk to each other. But once a while they walk around to see if the people they inducted needed some personal training or extra help.
The first week I just got used to all the machines and the new environment.
Some cool info
In fitness first they give out free drinks, the choice are none branded coke, fizzy drinks and still orange juice.
The locker room are awesome, they have those RFI card readers which locks and open when you swipe your gym card on them.
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I will be back in a few days to talk about my first week in details.