Page 4 - MidWeek - May 11, 2022

4 MIDWEEK MAY 11, 2022
How do you like to exercise?
Cheat Day
Please stand by for an important announcement: Ron Nagasawa has gone back to the gym and is working out again! After a two-year hiatus during which the most exercise I got was brushing my teeth, I decided it was time. Some of you might remember that I was a pretty vora- cious workout artist, going to Bootcamp class six days a week and sometimes multiple times a day. Many of my friends were my accountability partners, as we went through burpee hell together.
KEN LEE
Medical Operations Officer, Honolulu
“I like going to the gym with my wife so we can live a long, healthy life together.”
SHANELLE GANIRON
Senior Display Coordinator, Mānoa
“Movement is medicine. I love exercising through various forms of movement, including dance, pole fitness,
and aerial, power and restorative yoga.”
TRESTON SOLMIRIN
Special Projects Recon Technician, Makakilo
“Mainly deep squats, lunges and calf raises to get that tight and firm perfection of posterior that I’ve been longing for.”
JULIE CHU
Real Estate Agent, Honolulu
“I love exercising by going to F45 in Kāhala. Their workouts are always changing, the staff is so pleasant, and I always feel great after. When I’m not there, I like to swim at Kaimana Beach.”
I started in a dingy warehouse in Waipi‘o Gentry. My first trainer was a woman named Heather, and I have been loyal to her and Bootcamp ever since. That’s not to say other gyms haven’t tried to woo me. Recently I’ve had all kinds of offers from all kinds of gyms and exercise organizations. I guess they’re trying to recruit members that were lost over the past two years. Plus, I have friends who work at other gyms as trainers and they have been trying to entice me to join theirs. Some are quite relentless in their pursuit.
Of course, my priority was to go back to my good old “until death do us part” Bootcamp.
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But on the morning I planned to return, I got a call from a friend who works out at another gym. He begged me to give it a try and so I agreed. He worked at an all-hours type of gym, and it was clean and bright with top-notch equipment. Knowing that I was not going to sign up, I thanked him and headed out to my “first love.”
I walked in to Bootcamp and was heartily greeted by all my friends. One of my coaches even gave me a hug. “Wait a minute!” she cried. “What’s this I smell on you? It’s some kind of disinfectant, but not the one we use here!” Then she looked at my gym bag. Sticking out was a logo towel from the other gym that they gave me for free. She grabbed it and pulled it out. “Are you cheating on me?”
Now desperate, I yelled back, “It was only once. It didn’t mean anything!”
She was now pacing back and forth. “I can’t believe you would do this to me. I thought we had something special!”
I threw the logo towel into the trash can and stammered, “Listen to me. It will never happen again, I promise.”
“I don’t know if I can trust you,” she replied. “How do I know that every time you see a newer, hotter gym, you won’t cave?”
“Just give me another chance,” I begged. “I’ll make it up to you, you’ll see.”
Then I had the toughest workout in my entire life. When I got home, my wife asked me how it went. As I collapsed on the floor, I replied, “It was brutal!”
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