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[desh]

Now that I'm unemployed, I feel like I should join a gym. It's always good to stay active and stuff, and probably even more so when you're unemployed, to avoid turning into a blob of jello and lapsing into depression.

So Penn's gym has this special membership for alumni. I could join for about $20/month through the end of August. And it's not that far for me; only about a 20 minute walk.

The catch? With this membership, I'm only permitted in the gym from 6am-8am, Monday-Friday.

Is it worth it? Will I actually wake up in time to go? Should I just buy DDR and get my exercise that way?

Comments

[jdcohen.livejournal.com]

Dude, just go gym shopping. Find something that's close by but not completely crap (something with good enough cardio and with a well equiped weight facility). Don't use the Penn gym if you can avoid it as they are trying to rip you off or, alternately, inconvenience you severly (though the Penn gym is VERY well equiped, that plan for Alumni is so OBVIOUSLY designed for their convenience and not yours it isn't funny). And, dude, seriously... you should have been going to a gym WHILE you had a job.

--Jeff

[desh]

Any other gym, including the normal Alumni plan at the Penn gym (yes, they have two) is too expensive, especially while I'm unemployed.

And I was employed full time for a grand total of like 4 months. I hadn't gotten good enough at managing my time to even think about squeezing in the gym.

[t3chnomag3.livejournal.com]

There's a gym I know about 4 blocks from where you live for $375 a year (I think you have to pay in 3 installments or less to get that price). It's not all stylish and pretty, but it has what you should need. Talk to me if you want to know where it is.