My place of employment worked out a deal with Gold's Gym to bring TASB employees a discounted price on a Gold's Gym membership. Initiation fee waived and the monthly cost is less than $28, subtracted automatically from my paycheck.

That's the easy part. The hard part is getting off my ass and taking advantage of it. It's been several years since I pumped iron and I've been damn lucky my body hasn't completely disintegrated. I credit my low food intake, an earlier multi-month high-intensity Nautilus regimen when I was in high school, and my refusal to use the elevator at work. Four flights of stairs done four times a day isn't that bad. Better than nothing.

But now it's different. Building muscle requires a diet change and I flatly SUCK at eating right. This is partially because eating right means spending more time and money getting the right things to eat and then preparing them. Laziness and tight finances are hamstringing me. I'm pretty sure one can only achieve so much progress in a fitness program when one's diet consists of mostly sandwiches and microwaved foods.

My motivational propellant is a vacation I'll be taking from late June through mid July. Some Animeboards friends and I are meeting up and road-tripping to Anaheim, California for AX2003. We did this last year, but I'd like to be more fit this time around. Call it a strained relationship with my gut, which has taken on a chiseled-less form of it's own and now uses the US tax code as a growth idol.

Today will be Day 1.

It's time to fight Time and Gravity with Sweat and Swearing.