That's a great way to put it. I've felt the same for as long as I've known what being active meant, but never really knew how to say it, so thanks! I owe you a (probably in-game) drink. I enjoy soccer, skiing, rock climbing, hiking, all sorts of shit, but exercising for the sake of exercising--working out just to get big--has never held any appeal for me.
My pleasure, Flipper. I'll take that drink (in-game).
I'm curious, what does your company do? If you don't mind telling us, of course. If not, no worries, I'll just get in touch with my buddies at the NSA ;)
For the purposes of camaraderie, I'd love to talk about what we/I do, but I think discretion will keep me from posting about it on a wide-open public forum. I'll definitely talk about it on com sometime, though, if you remain interested.
As a very general statement, we help people substantively improve their lives through nutrition.
....how good in a dress? :p
hrm... I'm gonna have to dig up a picture now...
Have you thought about taking dance classes just to get back into the swing of things? I don't mean like that Zumba shit, but like classes at the local dance company or w/e? I would imagine doing that would get you just active enough to make working out with weights or cardio less of a chore/bore. Can't beat a manual trade for that reason. Its part of the reason I stay as fit as I do.
It's an excellent suggestion, but I can't stand dance classes. It was always a thorn in my side when it was my career. As an improvisationalist, my body wants to move in the ways it wants to move, not the ways the teacher has decided we should all move. Less of a problem with choreography, because that's a job, and I could force myself to take dance classes as technical training because job, but I'd have a hell of a time doing it for fun. :( It's otherwise a great suggestion.
For similar reasons, I can't do yoga classes. I actually lived in a yoga ashram for a while as a yogic monk, and my body loves yoga and yoga inside of community, but I have the hardest time taking a class.
Right now, I'm fantasizing about rowing. (On a machine. On a river would be nice, but I'm nowhere close to that yet.) I try to bike for exercise; being in motion works for me (not stationary biking, I mean street biking), but I haven't been able to stay disciplined to a solo routine because of too much work. I'm thinking a gym that's in the neighborhood could work. I'm tired of looking at my gut.
We're looking to hire a few guys too. Bad thing is there just isn't a good way to try and advertise you're hiring. The local paper charged us some 400-odd bucks to run only 1, ONE, ad in Sunday's issue. Came with 30 days on Monster, but we've had only 2 people come in and its been a week since it ran. Hard to come by good help for sure.
We've got a built in audience for some of our positions, which helps, but I hear ya. I need to find someone to replace me as an Operations Manager, so I can focus on other things, and I have no idea how to go about finding that person. I can ping the circles around me, but don't yet know how to get outside that immediate grouping in order to get truly qualified candidates.
