The Ghetto Goodlife is the Goodlife for ME!

For those of you that don’t know in addition to going coaster crazy,  last September, I joined Goodlife Fitness.   Not my 1st attempt at working fitness into my lifestyle it has been the most successful.   I started taking the fitness classes they offer, (Mostly the Lesmills ones for more info see http://www.lesmills.com/ ) I can say that I have enjoyed them a great deal.   I am now up to about 5 a week, including; Body Pump, Body Step, and RPM (Which is a killer spin class).

I joined the closest club,  the Argyle Mall location, which in my opinion would be the ghetto Goodlife, why ghetto?  Well it is old, they equipment is comprised of castoffs from the other clubs, the sound system in the group fitness center is often skipping, not working or generally just craptastic.   I can certainly go to any other Goodlife in town, but I don’t want to.  The people at my club are the best the instructors are amazing, the other people in the classes are friendly and welcoming, and I really enjoy the whole experience.   On occasion I will head to the “Flagship club” at Galleria Mall downtown, and I will be faced with snotty people and lots of attitude, nice equipment, but really to me a bike is a bike and a treadmill a treadmill.  

I have enjoyed the classes the most, I have become stronger, leaner, and they have helped me a great deal with sleeping problems brought on by my evil grave shifts at work. My co-workers think I am crazy for taking a fitness class after I am done a 10 hour shift but, it makes me sleep like a baby.   It has like the theme parks has helped me deal with stress which is a great benefit, so while I don’t think joining a gym is great for everyone, I know it has been great for me!

What is this place all about?

Well what to say?

I guess I should start with the what am I all about thing and explain the title of my blog.

Well I am a 32 year old guy living in London, ON. I work for a crown corporation as a cashier. I have been happily with my partner Curt for the last 6 years. I have quite a few hobbies, some of which you can find in my profile.

The reason for the title "Boblo Land" has to do with many childhood memories, and with the a recent family heath crisis. When I was young our family would travel to Aherstburg and take the Ferry across to Boblo Island Amusement park. One of my earliest memories of my father (who was recently diagnosed with Lung cancer) was him going with us and him getting horribly ill on the pirate ship. The memory of this event got me thinking about all the time I had been to the park and how much I enjoyed the rides and the feeling of freedom I got from them. So last summer in the words of some of my co-workers I went Amusement park crazy. (I will make another post about Boblo later as it certainly deserves its own place here.) I have found visiting the amusement parks very therapeutic in many ways, it is very easy to forget about your worries when you are whipping thought the air pinned to a roller coaster train, it has been a great way for me to blow off stress.

So this year I have made plans to visit several "Local" amusement parks (Cedar Point, Canada's Wonderland, King's Island), as well I have booked in for a 12 day trip to the West Coast with www.themeparkreview.com which I am very excited about.