Tere!

Do you remember that I changed my job in Estonia? Timbeter where I used to work for was a super startup, and there was almost no company’s benefit. If you include, the commission (7% of the sales) is possibly said to be one. But normally it’s not counted as a benefit. 

In the beginning of working at Timbeter, they gave a laptop but it was really old. Also at that time I didn’t know of a free software which enables switching Japanese and English by alt keys, so eventually I used my own laptop to work.

Before I resigned from Timbeter, the company got invested so everyone got new laptops, but I didn’t get one because I never went to the office. Besides I was working, planning to quit so I didn’t see any point to get a new company laptop, and didn’t waste their money.

Then I successfully got a new job, and the new company gave me Macbook Pro. It sounds like I got a rich laptop, but don’t forget — this time’s theme is not the laptop but the company’s benefits, particularly a gym membership.

In my current company, there is a very small gym, but it can have only a few people, so we have options to use the third parties’ gyms like myfitness or Gym!. The company compensates and we have a determined amount of money per month. What is more, we are required to register the sports ID at Stebby, so we cannot use the compensation for entertaining sports like bowling.

The company recommends us to use myfitness which is an Estonian (or perhaps Baltic) chain gym. In Estonia, as far as I know, the cheapest gym is Gym! which you have to pay only 15 EUR if you contract one year. However myfitness has more gyms all over Tallinn.

Usually it costs 58 EUR for one full package at myfitness, which is pretty expensive, but with this sportID called Stebby, it costs us only 49 EUR. I found one 15 minutes away from home by walk, so I started going there almost every morning to run.

Depending on the gym, if it is a large place, they have a swimming pool too. I guess any gym has saunas because it is connected with the shower space. It is a great opportunity so I started going there every Saturday. (Of course I can’t go either to the sauna or even to the

As an extra information, I also started 30-day challenge (iOS, Android) training, and eating three boiled eggs instead of protein shake.

I’m not sure what I have been aiming for, but in Estonia where there are more than 1000 corona cases per day, the restrictions have got stricter. I was nearly forced to stay home all day due to the lockdown, I decided to do some even small exercise. 

Besides, in the psychiatric hospital they ask me if I do some exercise like taking a walk because of the happy hormone that we can get while working out. This hormone makes us positive. (However, it doesn’t guarantee anything because we still possibly get depressed even if we work out like I did.) Plus, the protein reduces frustration. There are plenty of positive effects, but I didn’t like any exercise or sports except swimming as a kid. This is becauseI was slow to run, and bad at ball games.

At the gym I don’t have to care about any other “outside” things, so I can run at my own pace. From Monday to Friday I listen to different playlists for running, which is pretty good (not during the lockdown).

Although Estonia started a lockdown again, we don’t have any restriction to go outside, so if I have time, I’ll start taking a walk in the morning instead of running in the gym.

Aitäh! 🙂