The biggest challenge is going to be cleaning out my garage. Getting rid of that binder full of emails from my freshman year at college that I know I’ll want to read when I’m 87.  Once that’s done I’ll have to learn how to stay disciplined to make working out a priority when I’m not paying for membership and laundry needs folded and there is email to be answered.  It’s going to be an adjustment.  I will “miss” the cardio machines.  Now I’ll be running outside (“Thankfully” I live in a hilly area.) and I have an old but working treadmill.  The high school is not far so I’m going to use that for sprint and bleacher workouts.  As for my strength routines I don’t use many machines anyway.  We have a bunch of old dumbbells that will work just fine although I’ll miss the pretty chrome ones at the gym.  Most of all I’m going to miss my “gym friends”. All the people I know but don’t know.  It’s just going to be out there in my garage and I’m likely to start talking to myself for company.

The exciting news is that parents train for free at the karate studio.  Heee-ya!!!  Extra cardio.  It’s funny but today I remembered a list of things I want to do in my lifetime.  I wrote it about it about 6 years ago when my second son was a baby and I was listening to The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn on a weekly basis.  On that list was family martial arts.  And ice skating. Ummmm… I think I need to update that list.

This will be good.  At least that is how I’m choosing to look at it.  I’ve pretty much had a gym membership since I was 16.  I’m going to be forced to get creative with the equipment I have in my garage which includes a good size set of dumbbells, a stability ball, a medicine ball, a treadmill, a curl bar, and a treadmill. Oh and a hula hoop but I’m not sure if that counts. But HIIT cardio with the hula hoop would make a wonderfully ridiculous youtube video. Mmmmm?????  We are going to hang a pull-up bar in the garage.  And in the future I’d like to get a bench and an olympic bar.  And my favorite a Bosu balance trainer.  I think that’s it.  I like simplicity.  It forces me to get creative.  

For those of you who work out at home I’d love to hear your pros and cons???

xoxo
j

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