A good while back, I made some comments (here and here) about an exercise class I’d started and was taking. In the time since, I’ve moved to a different county and through more jobs than I care to recount, and I’m not in that class any longer, although I remember it fondly and wish the instructor (who is still in the business as of this writing, here) well.

I’ve also done what I could to keep going to the gym. It hasn’t been in organized classes, as such, although I did join a gym and was reasonably diligent about going a couple of times a week. As my work situation shifted, I had more or less trouble keeping up, although I did feel guilty about missing gym time when I did. Even so, my weight rose, my waistline expanded, and I felt myself becoming…less capable.

More recently, with the newest shift in my working situation, I made an adjustment to my gym-going. Since I don’t regularly work in a town with the other gym I was a member of, I disenrolled from it and took up with a local place; it’s a lot easier for me to make a five-minute drive than a thirty-five minute one. Since my schedule has moved a bit, I’m now able to go to the gym more days, and with my family having the schedule it does, I have a block of time many mornings or most in which I would be alone at home or too early to the workplace; I have time to get some exercise in more often now than before, and I’ve been working to take advantage of that time.

I’ve never been in the best shape, to be honest. I was a scrawny kid, and I have always been a paunchy adult. I don’t expect that I’ll ever lack a flabby belly or jiggling jowls. (Part of why I wear a beard is to minimize the appearance of the latter.) But I can be better and do more, and I think it might well be the case that, over the coming weeks and months, I’ll write somewhat about the efforts I’m making to that end. If nothing else, I do have to show that I can do more than hammer out summaries and snippets of verse in this webspace.

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