After my first workout in more than seven years, nerve pain was way down last night.  Best night I’ve had in many weeks.  My body obviously needed this.

     It felt kind of awkward being back in the gym yesterday.  The Ballinger 24 Hour Fitness has changed considerably over the last seven years, in some ways good, in some ways less so.

     A positive change is that they’ve got a lot more equipment.  However, it’s in the same floor space so where things used to be easy to navigate and organized in a logical manner that made it easy to find what you were looking for, now it’s very cramped and haphazard.

     It’s good that they can accommodate more people this way but also a bit uncomfortable, especially if there isn’t enough air flow.

     In the old days they used to provide much more personal assistance and tracking, body mass index measurements and so on, as just part of the basic membership.  But it also used to be expensive to join, several hundred dollars.  Now there is only one hour of personal training included, none of that tracking, and if you want personal training it runs $260 for five hours, kind of steep.

     To be able to just go in and use the equipment, its only $30/month now, a fee I can actually handle and well worth it.  Knocking this nerve pain down is easily worth way more than that.  I certainly spend way more than that on pharmaceuticals and I’m pretty sure this is way healthier.