Truth is Alec is kicking my butt at regular blogging 
I had written a nice long post about the first month of being unemployed but it turned out to be kind of depressing and angry so I sat on it long enough to decide to not publish it. So what have I been doing? Well a lot of stuff, but that’s not what I’m here to write about…
Let’s talk about my return to the gym. As many of you know my former office had a gym literally 100 feet from my desk, I was in there at least 3-4 times a week, usually every day. After being laid off, I also took some forced time away form the gym and working out in general.
I found that this time off was horrible for me. I was used to getting up early and working out to clear my mind and get ready to start my workday. Not having that I found I had significantly reduced energy and was generally in a grumpy mood. I even relied on caffeine more than I had in the past and felt I needed that morning mug of tea to get going.
After two weeks of this I started slowly by walking (fast) on the treadmill in the basement. I could go for about an hour and work up a good sweat but I was doing it in the evenings and it wasn’t really satisfying for me. I did drop a few pounds, but that was almost all muscle mass.
A few weeks into that I joined Anytime Fitness here in Cottage Grove and I’ve been slowly working my way back into feeling fit. The place is nice, always has a lot of friendly people including some really huge lifters. I am also struggling with getting there on a consistent basis because sometimes I just don’t want to drive the 3 miles. I have lost a lot of strength in my month off from weight training, in fact I would say I can lift about 1/3 less than I could before being laid off.
Enough rambling, as this whole post was really just my latest form of procrastinating before heading to the gym.
