New York City, Day 3

Break day! No big activities today. I signed up for a 2-week trial at a Bally Total Fitness near where we’re staying. It’s a little cramped b/c it’s underground, but it’ll do for the time that I’m here. The good: a bench, treadmills built after 2000, medicine balls, a cord pulley station and new weight machines (lots of back row machines)…none of which I have in my gym back home. The bad: No dumbbells between 15 and 35 lbs (makes it really hard to do bicep curls) and no tricep-extension grip for the cord station. A basketball hoop would have been wishful thinking too!

Emily got a “tui-na” massage and got her nails did, while I hung out at Starbucks and read magazines. Then we shopped at the Time-Warner Whole Foods (CROWDED) and cooked spaghetti for dinner.

For lunch, I discovered a place called The Pump: A Physical Fitness Restaurant. Every thing they serve is without salt or oil and nothing is fried. Most of the foods are high in protein and the breads are all whole-grain. I ordered a chicken pita…it was kind of like a meatball sub with chicken instead of meatballs.

Tomorrow: The Natural History Museum!