Exercise...at...THE GYM!

Today was my first day going to the gym! I had a friend go with me and it was good to have someone with me that I knew. I thought I might feel uncomfortable in front of others, but everyone there is a person... a lot of the people there were skinny or athletic, but there were people my size there as well. I'll explain what my planned routine is later, but for today, I went on the stair stepping machine. It had built in programs of all sorts, but was easy to figure out. It kept track of your heart rate, the number of steps you took, and the number of calories you burned. The only thing that was difficult was keeping my pace low - I find that I keep wanting to push myself to go further, and I ended up having my heart rate above the cardio level for most of the time (my average throughout was 173bpm). It's do-able! I'm really happy that I took this step... I'm used to walking and running (a bit) on flat ground so it will take a bit of getting used to, but it's definitely something that I feel I can keep up. ^-^

I don't really have more time to talk or else I'd go into further detail tonight because I've got a test at 10am tomorrow! Wish me luck ;)