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gym Friday afternoon
Aug. 29th, 2008 04:25 pmMade it to the gym later than I'd wanted, but got in 20 minutes on the elliptical and did all my weight machines. Better than nothing!
My yearly membership at my gym is up next month, and I need to decide what to do. I like my gym, but I don't know if I can renew for another full year because I don't know where F and I will be living. It's a lot more expensive to get a membership for just a few months, though. I'm considering canceling the gym membership and putting the money towards taking yoga classes at different studios in the area, with an eye to investigating which places I like and which teach the kind of yoga I myself would want to teach. Then I'll have a better idea where I want to go for my teacher training.
The best options for studios based on my extremely preliminary research are Wake Up Yoga in the Fairmount neighborhood and Yoga on Main in Manayunk. According to the websites, a 7-class card at Yoga on Main is $84, and a 10-class card at Wake Up Yoga is $120. That's $204 total, and would last me up to four months (three months at Yoga on Main, four at Wake Up). I could take at least one class per week, sometimes two, for just $12 per class, which is fair. Three months of membership at my current gym at my current rate would be $201, so it's a comparable price--I can take unlimited yoga classes at my current gym, but I don't, I'm actually lucky if I make one per week. If I did the multiple yoga studio plan, I'd just have to supplement the yoga with long walks on the weekends, to make up for not having access to an elliptical anymore.
I still have to do some more research--those are just two of the local studios that offer teacher trainings, there might be others that would be a good fit for me that I should try out. But I'm thinking about it.
My yearly membership at my gym is up next month, and I need to decide what to do. I like my gym, but I don't know if I can renew for another full year because I don't know where F and I will be living. It's a lot more expensive to get a membership for just a few months, though. I'm considering canceling the gym membership and putting the money towards taking yoga classes at different studios in the area, with an eye to investigating which places I like and which teach the kind of yoga I myself would want to teach. Then I'll have a better idea where I want to go for my teacher training.
The best options for studios based on my extremely preliminary research are Wake Up Yoga in the Fairmount neighborhood and Yoga on Main in Manayunk. According to the websites, a 7-class card at Yoga on Main is $84, and a 10-class card at Wake Up Yoga is $120. That's $204 total, and would last me up to four months (three months at Yoga on Main, four at Wake Up). I could take at least one class per week, sometimes two, for just $12 per class, which is fair. Three months of membership at my current gym at my current rate would be $201, so it's a comparable price--I can take unlimited yoga classes at my current gym, but I don't, I'm actually lucky if I make one per week. If I did the multiple yoga studio plan, I'd just have to supplement the yoga with long walks on the weekends, to make up for not having access to an elliptical anymore.
I still have to do some more research--those are just two of the local studios that offer teacher trainings, there might be others that would be a good fit for me that I should try out. But I'm thinking about it.
