Team Fitness

From my comment on Sam Ruby's blog:

I’ve never been an exerciser before, but in the last year my wife got me started with her “Team Fitness” class, where we show up twice a week and do fun stuff like toss medicine balls back and forth, jump up and down onto boxes, do various pull-up and push-up variations, free-weights, etc.

It’s not so much that the exercise is more entertaining than the classics (although it is). The big motivator is that we meet with the same 5 people every class. It’s been fun to watch as collectively everyone’s gone up in energy level and fitness. We also help each other keep coming back. If someone’s out for a week due to illness or travel, they are more likely to come back to the group, than they might be to keep up a treadmill habit.

Just one perspective, but for the time investment I think it’s the best thing I’ve done for my health. Not just because it’s fun or gets me stronger, but mostly because now I have a fitness habit, and habits are extremely hard to change.