My Journey With Health And Fitness – The Best Gym Experience

Today marks 17 days of walking at least 20 km per day. Ok, in reality most days are more than that. For example, today is the least amount of walking I have done so far this week, only 25 km. Yesterday was the best day I have had clocking in at 27.25 km. My goal is to get through 4 more days at these kind of levels so that I will have done 3 weeks of over 20 km per day. I figure that will be quite the accomplishment but I don’t quite know what I am going to do next to ramp things up.

As I wind down my 6 week challenge I realized this has been one of the best gym experiences that I have ever had. Goodbrand Fitness is entirely different from what I have been used to in the past. Unlike other gyms I have tried, this one doesn’t have a bunch of fitness equipment. As a matter of fact what they mainly have is weights and mats. Instead they seem to believe in using the power of your body to keep you fit.

They operate on a system of doing a range of classes. These include everything from bootcamp, power strength, zumba to yoga. There are ones that they describe as a full body workout that I look forward to trying in the near future (though seriously the power strength class this morning definitely covered the full body). They don’t exaggerate when they say the classes are for all levels of fitness as even the the guest instructors are quick to help with modifications to any exercise. I noticed this morning that the board listing what we were going to do had a lot of sets that involved kneeling. I quietly went to the instructor to advise I can’t kneel and she was like, great, let’s go through what you are going to do. I should note, she did not make things easier for me, she just found a way that I could get the same workout without having to kneel.

I guess the other thing I find unique about all of this is the comradery of the 5:30am class. About 1/2 the participants show up every morning, Monday to Friday. I guess we are all just a group of very early risers because we all seem to be ready to go as soon as the class starts. There seems to be a lot of support amongst this group which helps especially on the tough workouts.

Because this has overall been a very positive experience, I’m pretty sure I am going to stick around to finish this leg of the journey. It has really re-invigorated me to get myself back to my peak level of health and fitness.