Recently I’ve talked to a few people at the gym and how often I train has come up. I don’t know if it’s my history of rowing crew in college (one day off a week, two days a week w/lifting in addition to practice) or just general obliviousness that it never occurred to me until now that I train A LOT.

The first time I was enthusiastically chatting with a newbie (I’m still a gremmie, afterall) and she asked which classes I typically attended. I started to list them off when Ashley walked by and said “Pretty much all of them.” And I realized she wasn’t wrong. With the exception of Tuesday/Thursday noon classes – which my 8-4 type work schedule doesn’t allow for – my regular schedule is the M/W/F weekday classes and the Saturday noon class. Sometime about a year ago, I started adding in either training at my buddy Rob’s or “Church” (open mat) on Sundays. Another time I was talking with a woman who was feeling bad about how infrequently she could attend and she asked how often I trained. I told her not to use me as a measuring stick – I don’t have a busy life pulling me in other directions so I can make all these classes a fairly regular thing. Plus, I’m kind of addicted.

After I said that, I had this song in my head, slowly changing the lyrics to fit my particular addiction…

I’m so addicted to all the things you do
When you’re rollin’ round with me on the open mats
Oh all the sounds I make, when my breath you take
It’s unlike anything, when you’re chokin’ me