Where I live, the summer time can be straight brutal.
And this is the time of year where we’re all realizing that we have the next four months of steamy heat to contend with.
But it also reminds myself and others to be grateful as well. First, I super lucky to live in the age of residential Heating and Air Conditioning and all the fantastic Heating and Air Conditioning technology that comes with that. Second, I’m still thankful I don’t have to deal with a gas furnace and all that snow up north during the winter. So if dealing with the summer time heat and trying to keep the temperature control at a setting I can afford is my trade off, I’ll still take it. But I have to sort of transport indoors for the exercise portion of my life. I’ve never been a gym sort of guy. For 1, I can’t seem to find a gym in this neighborhood with the sort of commercial Heating and Air Conditioning that can handle the heat and a hundred boiling people. But there’s a different discomfort as well. I just know bizarre working out with people I don’t know is such close proximity. So mainly, I’m outside on my bike or playing tennis or something. The summer time forces myself and others into the basement because unless it’s the crack of dawn, it’s too boiling to ride bikes. So I have a ductless heat pump in the basement and a stationary bike to get my miles in. This summer, I’m going to add some resistance band training down there in that perfect air conditioning. The summer time is for air conditioning however it doesn’t last forever!