[nagdu] Using a guide dog in a gym

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

This is actually one of those situations in which you might want to consider 
not bringing your dog if you cannot find a good solution. Usually, Lexia 
goes everywhere with me, but there are a few places that she does not go. 
How do you get to the gym? Sometimes, even if getting there with the guide 
dog is easier/smoother, it's what goes on after you get there that matters 
more. Just my two cents.

Nicole

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Fox" <rick at 4dewitt.com>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:53 AM
Subject: [nagdu] Using a guide dog in a gym


> Hello everybody,
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>
>
> I work out regularly in a public gym. I began this regime at the beginning
> of the new year.
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> One level of the gym has cardio equipment, such as treadmills, stair
> masters, and elliptical machines. Another level has strength training 
> weight
> machines. I spend about a half hour doing a circuit with the strength
> training machines. They're pretty close together. Once you start your
> circuit, each machine is a step or two away from the last one. The cane
> suffices nicely in this environment, and I need both hands to adjust
> weights, lift or pull, etc. The cardio floor is no problem, since there's
> room for my dog to rest beside me while I work on whatever machine.
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> I haven't shown up there yet with my dog, though I've told staff that I 
> will
> soon. Ideally, I guess I'd need a place on the weight machine level that's
> out of the way but within sight of me. I've asked staff if there's such a
> place they could suggest, and they didn't have any bright ideas. Even if
> they put a hook into the wall for me or had a chair under which the dog
> could scoot, I've never tied my dog at rest in a public place where
> strangers could mess with him in all kinds of ways and then left him
> unmonitored for minutes at a time. I guess that worries me. Please, how 
> have
> others handled this kind of thing. Thanks very much.
>
> Rick fox
>
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