I have really embarrassed myself today- and the worst thing is its not the first time either!
You see I workout (or used to work out) 6 days a week. I have just recently tried to cut it down to 5 days a week. This is because I am just not able to work out as intensly every day on 6 days a week, its almost like the last 3 days are so slowed down and physically gruelling you begin to wonder what the point is. So 5 days and it makes a real posative difference.
So my use of the gym is right now, even more important then ever to me. Today after one of my rest days, I tried to go to the gym. My local council run gym for just a one off session (my membership for the private gym I had been using had ended). I had minimal time to squeeze in a workout.
They said I could not go in. I had no registered membership. Now I spent money and time the previous week regestering and was annoyed that they would not let me in. I was then told I was not even on the system!
I just threw the biggest strop- tears, raised voices, saying "I can't BELIEVE this....this is a JOKE!...what a WASTE of my LIFE...etc etc" then trying to calm myself down with the type of breathing you only get when your about to give birth -I was so stressed, I was really sweating- using tissues to mop myself, heart rate shot up, I was so angry at the incompetance, but also more annoyed and angry that they were refusing to let me in the gym and that I'd not be able to workout!
In the end, after all of 3 minutes in his office the manager said he'd follow it up, said to just go to the gym (free) and to see him at the end. (When I went back I was curtly spoken to by the receptionist who said I was still not on the system, that the head office had turned over all their paperwork and not found anything, and that it was my job to do the chasing)
I am still angry at the fact they seem to have lost my personal details, all record of my payment and that I lost time out of my life registering when I needn't have bothered, but in a different space (where my gym use is not threatened as I can go to a different gym tomorrow) I can see I badly over reacted and am sooo embarrassed!
Has anyone had any ....withdrawal effects from a missed workout or is this just me?!
You see I workout (or used to work out) 6 days a week. I have just recently tried to cut it down to 5 days a week. This is because I am just not able to work out as intensly every day on 6 days a week, its almost like the last 3 days are so slowed down and physically gruelling you begin to wonder what the point is. So 5 days and it makes a real posative difference.
So my use of the gym is right now, even more important then ever to me. Today after one of my rest days, I tried to go to the gym. My local council run gym for just a one off session (my membership for the private gym I had been using had ended). I had minimal time to squeeze in a workout.
They said I could not go in. I had no registered membership. Now I spent money and time the previous week regestering and was annoyed that they would not let me in. I was then told I was not even on the system!
I just threw the biggest strop- tears, raised voices, saying "I can't BELIEVE this....this is a JOKE!...what a WASTE of my LIFE...etc etc" then trying to calm myself down with the type of breathing you only get when your about to give birth -I was so stressed, I was really sweating- using tissues to mop myself, heart rate shot up, I was so angry at the incompetance, but also more annoyed and angry that they were refusing to let me in the gym and that I'd not be able to workout!
In the end, after all of 3 minutes in his office the manager said he'd follow it up, said to just go to the gym (free) and to see him at the end. (When I went back I was curtly spoken to by the receptionist who said I was still not on the system, that the head office had turned over all their paperwork and not found anything, and that it was my job to do the chasing)
I am still angry at the fact they seem to have lost my personal details, all record of my payment and that I lost time out of my life registering when I needn't have bothered, but in a different space (where my gym use is not threatened as I can go to a different gym tomorrow) I can see I badly over reacted and am sooo embarrassed!
Has anyone had any ....withdrawal effects from a missed workout or is this just me?!