Musings of a Potential Gym Rat
In the past few years, I’ve been trying to be more intentional about exercise. Previously, most of my exercise came from chasing after buses and all the forced exercise Hong Kong foists upon me (night walks after my bus stopped running, cliff-steep stairs, lugging Ikea furniture home). While those are all good workouts, they are not quite consistent enough for a good exercise regimen. I have actually thought about signing up at a gym for as long as I’ve been in Hong Kong, but I never seem to be successful. Hong Kong gyms have a certain reputation. You might be familiar with the California Fitness debacle. While not all gyms close down while customers still have thousands of dollars in credit, they do seem to be known for misleading sales tactics, very expensive membership fees, and not being very customer friendly. When I was new in Hong Kong, some of my coworkers told me that there was a special promotion at the nearby gym, so a bunch of them signed up. It was only $100 for...