Posts

Showing posts from April, 2015

Easy Fit [Fitness]

Image
One of the best things about living outside of Jeddah is the myriad of fitness and workout options available to me that I'm naturally not taking advantage of, because I'm a well-trained complainer and self-oppressor. Here in Malaysia, you really have to work hard at making excuses. Look at these two old dudes just chillin like martial arts villains on an early Saturday morning. Like whatevs.   See, excuses adjust, too. They're like those people you hate so much: they have feelings, too, and we have to be considerate about them. In Jeddah, I'd whine about expensive gyms getting in my fitness way. I used to go to Z-Club, where they charged about 3,000 US dollars a year (if you were on a corporate account, you get a USD 1,000 discount on that price). Seriously, wtf. Now, there's a gym upstairs from my office that charges about USD 300 a year, and that's considered a fancy gym. WAIT, there's a free gym in my apartment building. It's a ...