Having issues getting to the gym? Getting your sweetie pie to bribe you with the promise of a reality-show marathon afterward might just do the trick.
At least that's how 29-year-old Astoria resident Kale Bogdanovs motivates his wife, Jessica Wakeman. "Getting dressed in my workout clothes and walking to the gym is annoying," notes Wakeman, also 29. "Kale will push and prod me and remind me that I really do enjoy it once I get there. The last time I remember wanting to skip, he promised me we'd watch some crappy reality TV show once we got back."
It seems plenty of pairs believe that couples who weigh together, stay together. The question is, do they stay true to their exercise goals?
According to Fitness magazine, 94 percent of couples stick with their workout regime when they do it together.
But Julie Fredrickson, co-founder of personal training business Minimum Viable Fitness, says that, for couples, finding time to work out can be twice as hard. "We've had clients opt out of Minimum Viable Fitness," she says, "because their significant others didn't like that the schedule we had our clients on didn't mesh with theirs."
Others encounter problems when they try to work out together for a set interval of time. Web editor Natalie Gontcharova found that promising to work out with her partner for a specific period made it too easy to quit. "[We] took up an almost-daily 7 a.m. yoga class for Lent in 2012," says the 29-year-old. "Some people choose to give up vices during Lent, but we chose to take up healthy habits — the result is largely the same, since you're sacrificing comfort.
"It was fun and motivating to do it together — until we broke Lent . . . and then we never did it again."
But Gontcharova still exercises. "We just stopped going together, because it's usually too early in the morning. I am not a morning person!"
The biggest hurdle might be getting your partner to start a routine at all. Wakeman says she was tentative at first: "I was reluctant about the cost because I've wasted a lot of money in the past — $170 a month at Equinox — not going to gyms.
"But it turns out that having a permanent gym buddy makes me go a lot more! It's a much easier motivation, because it feels like another way to spend time with my husband. Doing anything with him is fun, no matter what it is."
Wakeman says it's hugely beneficial to her own workout habits. Her husband goes to the gym four days a week, and she goes three. "He's more enthusiastic about going to the gym than I am," she says. "[But] I'm the healthier one in non-gym-related areas of our relationship, like encouraging healthy eating."
That doesn't mean they're glued at the hip when they're at the gym.
"We'll walk to the gym together and walk back home together, [but] we don't work out in the same way," Wakeman says. "Kale runs on a treadmill, I use the elliptical or the exercise bike. We actually keep our distance from each other inside the gym — maybe we'll blow a kiss at each other — but I think both of us feel a little self-conscious about how sweaty and exhausted we become."
New Year's may be past, but working out with your lover could be a fun way to work off those heart-shaped chocolates in a few weeks.
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