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@Arawn
So, I went to the gym yesterday. The gym is about 10KM's (6.4 miles) away if I take the best route. 5KM (3.2 miles) if I take the shortest route but I'd rather ride the longer one). It's a terrible gym, that's for sure. The woman who owns it does not actually wants to help or set you up properly. I've been to gyms before (didn't tell her that) so I knew a few things already. There are machines with big warning signs that they should be properly bolted to the floor, but none of the mounting holes are actually used. If you are strong enough you can move the machines. A lot of leather on the machines is damaged. But it's at a proper distance to ride my bike to and it's cheap as well. It's only 25 euro's a month (21.40 pounds) and the second cheapest is 47 euro's (40.23 pounds)
Because of knee problems I can ride a track bike or a spinning bike with a proper flywheel. but the ones they had there had a very very light flywheel (it said 20KG (44LBS)). Because of that the actual spinning effect isn't there. wasn't able to ride them but I take the longer route for more cardio training so that's ok.
I only did my upper body yesterday because of a torn muscle in my upper leg. I drank my whey right after. I'm going back there today. I'm going to try to spend as many days per week in the gym as possible. More gym, less beer :)