I’ll be perfectly honest, I was not upset to see the gym membership become a casualty of the pandemic.
Unlike my wife, I didn’t really care for going to the gym.
At the same time, it had become increasingly clear that sitting in my recliner soaking up the air conditioning and sucking down beers wasn’t good either. So I finally acquiesced and started going to the gym with my wife. Well, maybe not quite as frequent as she went. There were morning where I was still on my first cup of coffee when she’d come walking in from a morning workout. A gym rat, I was not. Plus, I really never liked how the air conditioning seemed just constantly overwhelmed. The humidity level was just never getting balanced by any of the heating and cooling process from the commercial HVAC equipment. So when the pandemic hit, my wife and I both stopped going to the gym. It was actually her idea to stop the gym membership and I smiled in delight. But she had a plan. She wasn’t stopping the workouts. She was just relocating them. Within a month of leaving the gym, I started seeing all sorts of preowned exercise equipment gathering in the basement. The next thing I know, we have a full blow gym in our basement. Not only was she working out down there but so were her friends. I knew I would have to join in but I had an idea of my own. I called the HVAC company and had a ductless heat pump installed in the basement. So now I’m at least working out in the most perfect quality heating and air of any gym anywhere.