What's your workout personality?
Are you a treadmill junkie? Too busy to exercise? Or so unmotivated you make a koala look hyperactive? Identify your perfect sweat session and ditch those bad workout habits forever. By Fiona Sandiford.
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| 1. | Your gym membership card… |
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Gets used on Monday nights when you feel guilty about the weekend excesses. |
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Is proudly displayed in the window section of your wallet. |
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Doubles as a coffee coaster on your desk at work. |
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Expired one year ago. |
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| 2. | What do you think of when you hear the word camel? |
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An animal you rode on holiday in Broome last year. |
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The Hatha posture you can hold for a whole minute. |
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The colour of your latest jogging pants (the ones with the price tag still on them). |
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The first thing you light up after work at the pub. |
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| 3. | Your best buddy suggests a 4km run tomorrow at 6am. You… |
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are still in bed when she texts to say she’ll be there in five, but reluctantly pull on your trainers anyway. |
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are banging impatiently on her door at 5.59am. |
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feel bad, but confess you can’t make it – you have to be in the office early for a conference call. |
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assume she’s joking. That’s precious snooze time for you. |
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| 4. | How’s your stomach? |
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You get a little bloated before your period but, most of the time, it’s just fine thanks. |
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Your abs make Demi Moore’s look like a puppy’s. |
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You’ve found a way to balance your yoghurt on it while making calls and writing emails. Lunch breaks? Who has time for those? |
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You’ve noticed a few cheeky love handles recently, probably because of all the takeaways you’ve been chowing down in front of the TV. |
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| 5. | You’re at work and you need a report delivered to an office three floors above. You… |
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take it up next time you’re going that way. |
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slip on your Nikes, take the lift to the ground floor, then race up the stairs. |
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are too busy to take it yourself, so ask an assistant to do it instead. |
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stroll to the lift next time you feel like a break. |
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| 6. | You get thrashed at tennis by a friend. You… |
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figure you win some, you lose some. |
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feel cranky. You curse your racket for being crap and get annoyed that you forgot to eat your medium-glycemic porridge two hours before the game. |
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couldn’t concentrate on the game because you kept thinking about that damn fax you forgot to send before leaving the office. |
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are sweating like a pig and feel exhausted. You decide to stop in at Maccas on the way home - well, you deserve it after all that exertion. |
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| 7. | You receive an email asking you to join the company netball team. You are… |
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enthusiastic, but get shin splints after the first game. You endeavour to warm-up next time. |
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check your schedule and are stoked to discover you can fit it in after your step class. |
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Not interested. You’ve got a personal trainer for all that (even though you cancel your sessions half the time). |
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Such a dork! How could you have forgotten to bring your runners to work on the day of the first match? Oh well, you’ll just have to cancel, apologising profusely. |
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| 8. | Swimming 24 lengths of an Olympic-sized pool is… |
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a challenge you’re willing to take up once in a while. |
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part of your cross training. Well, the triathlon is only two weeks away now. |
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impossible in your lunch hour. |
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is this a trick question? |
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| 9. | You receive a gift voucher for a month’s worth of body pump classes. After two weeks you’ve… |
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been to four classes and feel fitter and more toned already. Wow, this stuff really pays off! |
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been every lunch time without fail (which is perfect because it won’t interfere with your early morning run or body combat class every night). |
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arrived 20 minutes late at the first class due to some moron in a BMW but enjoyed it anyway. If only you had time to go more often. |
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been once, realised the gym has a sauna and massage centre and asked if you can trade your voucher in. |
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| 10. | Have you ever tried yoga? |
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Yes, a couple of times with a friend. Well, it was raining and I couldn’t go for a run. |
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Are you kidding? My friends call me the Down-With-It Dog. |
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Yes, but I couldn’t switch my mind off to concentrate, so I don’t think it’s for me. |
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Once, but it was so boring I never went again. |
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| 11. | How many pairs of trainers do you own? |
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Two. One for running, one for gym. |
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Well, there’s the group fitness shoes, gym shoes, cycling shoes, basketball shoes, walking shoes, running shoes, squash shoes, tennis shoes, badminton shoes… oh, and fins for bodyboarding. |
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One pair, to walk from the station to work before changing into heels. |
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Who needs trainers when ugh boots are perfectly fine for walking to the servo? |
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| 12. | It’s a beautiful Saturday arvo at the beach. What are you doing? |
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Playing frisbee. |
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Challenging your mates to 2km sand-running races, up and down the dunes. |
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Sitting under the fluoros, working on that document the New York office needs by Monday. |
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Basking in the sun with a paddle pop. |
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| 13. | You check your bum out in the mirror. Hmm, could do with a bit of a tone. What now? |
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There’s no such thing as spot reduction, so you make an effort to upgrade your work-out intensity. |
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There’s no such thing as spot reduction, so you make an effort to upgrade your work-out intensity. |
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Throw yourself into more squats and lunges in the weights room. |
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Get a fitball to sit on at work. |
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Buy bigger pants. |
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| 14. | What’s your cardio of choice? |
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Walking for 30 minutes most days. |
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A 42km marathon annually. |
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Pedaling away on the exercise bike while reading the Financial Review. |
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Sitting in the spa with a champagne. |
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| 15. | What kind of sit ups do you do? |
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You use the ab roller at the gym now and then. |
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You use the ab roller at the gym now and then. You make sure you work on your obliques and transverse abdominus in your core- stability class. |
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10 reps on the lounge-room floor in front of the Today show. It always leaves you with a sore neck though. |
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Does getting out of bed count? |
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| 16. | You pull a hamstring while exercising. What do you do? |
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Obey the R.I.C.E rule – Rest, Ice, Compress and Elevate. |
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Go swimming instead of weight training and tell the guys at the gym you’re “trying to work through it.” |
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Throw down two Nurofen. |
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Check yourself into casualty. |
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