How I started working out

When I started in 1999, I was in a fitness gym called Milestone, that was located in a small hotel along Banawe street. I mainly worked out on free weights, that’s dumbbells and barbells, as well as some basic machines.

The one thing I like from my stay here is that, it has a fitness instructor around. I can rely on the advice of this guy who was there, and can help me huff and puff my weights up.

What I don’t like though, is that , it is not located in a place where serious bodybuilders would go and train.

I moved on to York fitness gym. Yep yep, iron and hard core is all that matters here. No airconditioning, no spa nor showers with hot and cold water.

I did grow bigger here, I had contact with fitness buffs with muscular ripped bodies, as well as those who wanna keep fit like me.

I also tried another small gym by the way, prior to this, located in a street just after Araneta avenue, I forgot the name of this gym, but I did have some good burn in this gym too. After school, I would take two jeep rides to get here and work out till around 8pm.

Finally, I started working in mid 2002 and I started gym at Rev Flex fitness along Retiro area. Most weights are free ones, they have a good food bar, where you can order grilled chicken breast, whole eggs and reasonably priced liquids. Showers are the most decent among the others I mentioned. The crowd is mainly made up of students and business professionals and a smattering of medical pharma reps.

Late into 2006, I moved into a glitzier gym. This time I started covering St. Luke’s, and I had a car already. So with more mobility, I began looking for a better gym. And I ended up in Planet infinity.

I stayed in this very nicely decorated gym, with a pool, wall for climbing and stellar equipment, for a year or so.

But, my med rep friend gave me a chance to move to Fitness First, at a stunningly low rate of less than 1400 bucks. Sacrificing two months of paying for P.I and FF, I finally pulled my roots to move to this passport gym, and have been working out there ever since.

So fitness first, with all its unsavory stories, inept fitness instructors, not to mention snobs(for one has to pay them to get them to do anything for you.) and having to always look for parking, I still find it ok , with its advantages of being located in many areas where I frequent, such as RSC(near my office), FORT(near church and a weekend haunt), Wynsum and Megamall(odd times), ABS(relatively near house and restaurants) and in the past Rob Place(now I never have frequented it due to schedule difficulties).

Next I will talk about some routines I have been practicing.