Attempting to move it

During my time working away, I often attempted to pop in to the miniGyms at the hotels and try my hand at various things, and being a complete novice at Gyms, it didn't always go so well, and my motivation was never really at the levels that I needed it to be.

As we all know, exercising is one thing when you're not used to it: hard work

I'd often find myself trying to run 1km, and very often coming up short, and only managing to last for periods of 1-3minutes, and even on the bike I was struggling to last more than 5-10 minutes.

My inability to perform when going to the gym was restricting my motivation, and it was only when I began to go swimming that I really started to feel that I could turn things around, but ultimately these brief visits would never stand me in a good stead to lose any weight, and much less improve activity.  I simply didn't want to stand on a treadmill for 20minutes.

At this point there were a few work friends that would come in and out which sometimes would help motivation, but even this wasn't really helping me move along, while it was an important part of progress.

Rather than push through the boundaries slowly, I needed to speed things up, so I looked in to hiring a personal trainer, which i'll come back to soon.