Who Can Save Lord's Gym? Heaven knows

Use it or Lose It.


This gym can be filed under "One of a Kind" 


Fitness for body and soul.


This is the link to the gym's website for inside pics and hours and such:
Lord's Gym in Tumwater Washington

This is a fabulous gym. I joined here last fall, with worries I would not stick with it or remember how to work the equipment, or maybe do it all wrong.

They let me know how to use the stuff, what classes are offered, and designed a starting workout with my goals in mind (number one for me was stress management) They gave me a clip board to track my weight machine settings and workout plans. After three weeks of tracking it all to the tee, I could just do it without the chart, pushing or easing up the workout depending on that day's energy level. I always feel better leaving than when I come in.

Best advice I got was to make those work out appointments with myself, and keep them. (instead of with my girlfriends or husband or making excuses)

And they showed me how to change it up for some muscle confusion so that you don't just do the same old workout rut or overdo, but you keep your muscles challenged and surprised just enough to keep them in tone and building and burning fat.

I like to go after work and use 8 or 9 of the weight machines, then the total body workout on the elliptical. Each machine lets you know what group you are working on and most of the workout machines have heart rate, time, and lots of other ways to see your way to the end of the workout.

I don't go for the group classes, but lots of people do Y-God, cycling and other classes. Many of the machines have cable TV and music and earphone jacks and ipod plug ins.

I am quite boring, I just like to watch the dots add up as stare into space or close my eyes while working out, but that is what works for me. Amazing how the brain drains and meditates and clarifies and sorts things out while the body is moving but still somewhat staying in one spot.

Easier to do if I just close my eyes, especially if I picked an elliptical by the window that faces Quizno's subs and it is close to dinner time.....

Speaking of windows, there are lots of them, making this gym bright with natural light. I like to watch the cars going all directions while I work out. (It is weird that I actually enjoy exercising these days, guess that makes me all grown up)

I have lost 26 lbs since joining. Try picking up 26 lbs of potatoes and carry that around all day.

Why do I mention all this? They gym is in need of funding and membership this week to determine a course of action for the future. The gym you see, is only about half full (membership wise), and it is summer in the rainiest city on the planet.

The location is perfect if you are a worker in Tumwater, or a New Market, Tumwater High, Black Hills High, or Tumwater Middle school student. The bus line is the 12 and the 13, every 15 minutes during business hours.

I would love to see this gym stick around. It is a relaxing atmosphere with modest dress, a place to build some muscle and decompress.

Anyone can join and the shakes are very tasty. I have purchased and consumed exactly three. 

They do take prayer requests and enjoy the customers and no pushy stuff. 

Top of the line equipment and staff and $19 a month for basic hours or $29  a month for extended hours is a great price if you use a gym at least 3 times a week.

Lord's gym at your service for fitness. I have got another 8 lbs to work away one little red LCD blip at a time these next few months and hope that come winter it is still here. 

If you do go in, and sign up, add some family members, you can ask for my milkshake....or better yet fund the youth program to put this gym to better use when most of us are slaving away at our desktops. 

Sweat it out or Stuff your Face with Pizza while Imbibing? Heaven or Hell, and which is which? 

June Special, you don't actually have to be a state worker, and you can ask for my milkshake if you sign up!

Key Tag, very cool, swipe it and the thing says "have a great workout" 

Info and milkshake plugs, read them, or not.  

Take the stairs or elevator up 

Bus 12 line right by Gym

Capital Way and Tumwater Blvd

Capital Way and Tumwater Blvd

Directly across from Lord's Gym

Dept of Health, next block down from Lord's gym

Dept of Heath

I like this door, says "Tobacco Free Zone, Dept of Health"

Bus 13 on block next to Lord's gym

Heading Home

This statue has always reminded me of my husband's Father

Point Tavern, one block from Lord's gym, shut down this week

Mark Tumwater Twain

More state buildings and Hot Shots coffee stand (great coffee stand)

Capital Way and Israel Rd, Farmers Market each Wednesday, next  to  City Hall and the Library

Post office, one block down from Lord's gym

No Environmental Impact?

I wonder what that statement means.  


We live by the South Puget Sound Community College and every time they need to put in a building or parking, we get a flyer describing details.  It almost always says, "no environmental impact anticipated"  I guess removing all but a few of the trees so we wonder if they will now blow over onto our bedroom in storms and putting a parking lot behind our fence with lights that shine in our bedroom until 11 pm and then building a ginormous Science building for which the HVAC makes annoying stop and go noises all night did not make the short list for "environmental impact."  


I enjoyed the crickets and frog and bird sounds.  Don't hear them now, at least not so much.  We did not do the tadpoles this year.  Kids and I used to scoop some up each February form rain puddles they would have dried up in (over by 7-11 area ground water pond) and by  mid June we would have little tree frogs.  Things started late this year, it may have been longer for them to develop.  


That woodpecker was a problem, and so is keeping ahead of the occasional wood rodent exploring and setting up shop in the garage as weather cools come fall. Wonder if we will have any this year.    


And the kids liked to watch the raccoons and opossums sneak across the yard into the neighbors for dog food.  If we were lucky enough to have snow, they would leave little tracks in it.  Have not seen them this year. 

And this week there is artillery testing up at the base in the evenings...Add that to the constant purr of the interstate you can hear when you lie there very very quietly.   


Not complaining, just sayin....this is some beautiful county we are paving over here.  And I would give something up for a tour of the Science building, it looks pretty cool. 


City of Olympia Environmental 2008 draft & checklist link is here: 


http://nuprometheus.com/friends/TriWayProposal/DraftSEIS.pdf

http://www.ci.olympia.wa.us/~/media/Files/CPD/Planning/Forms/EnvironmentalChecklist-SEPA.ashx