First of all, I’ll start off by saying you made the right decision getting that membership to you’re local gym! This is coming from a guy who’d eat fast food and liquor everyday for the first few years out of high school and around this time 2 years ago I put down those habits and picked up the barbell. I was always that fat kid scared to take his shirt off and recently I went to Hawaii and wore abs I earned to the beach and it felt surreal being proud to take off my shirt. No matter your goals, everyone who puts in the work deserves that feeling. But this post isn’t about that it’s about those first weeks in the gym.
I remember walking in for the first time and feeling like the walls were looking at me and feeling like I didn’t belong. And looking back now that I’m one of the regulars I realize that no one was watching but I also realize how the group of guys talking around the weights can be intimidating. But to tell you the truth whenever I see a new face it’s makes me proud to be a part of the gym that attracts new faces to our family on a daily basis. And I look up to you because you made the same choice that we all did, to walk through those doors into the world of self improvement.
I made this post because recently I began working out with a new guy at the gym and today we just hit chest. And the look in his eyes when he hit a weight on bench that he didn’t know he could do gave me goosebumps. That feeling I saw coming out of his eyes is why we all joined. But he hit it with ease and the weight kept going up. Then he told me he never new he could do that much and didn’t wanna get hurt without a spot (makes sense.) But he said he didn’t ask any of us to spot him because he felt “out of place” and I want no one to ever feel that in a gym. The weight you lift doesn’t matter! You wanna meet your goals you’re damn right I’ll help you! I’ll celebrate every pound you lift right beside you because in a gym we’re all there for the same reason to kick our yesterday selfs ass! Welcome to the family.
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