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Yay, thank you. I did join a gym at work when I was in Sweden; in typical Swedish fashion, it was just assumed that the employer benefits from having healthy employees, so the university provided gym facilities (you could also get free light therapy or massage sessions). Colleagues would sometimes get a group together and head to the gym at lunchtime, never a regular thing but it was easy enough to say yes when someone suggested it. The gym also provided classes, which was somewhat less boring than just spending half an hour on the machines. That worked quite well for a while, but then they introduced some slightly complicated bureaucracy around employees of one bit of the institute using the gym in another bit, and that was enough of a barrier to put me off. If I'd had to travel to the gym that would definitely have been too much hassle.

I definitely wanted to combine exercise with stuff I was doing anyway, such as commuting. Partly this didn't work because I couldn't motivate myself to go out in bad weather for brisk walking or cycling, but also it didn't work because moving fast in cold air sets off asthma. I hoped this would get better once my base level of fitness had improved a bit. But so far that hasn't really worked; I'm sticking to indoor exercise, which is annoying because it means I have to set aside specific time for it, but at least I actually do it.