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It took recording my fitness to start seeing progress
You should do it too.
I’ve been weight lifting off and on(mostly on, I swear!) for about three and a half years. It was something that I did when my boyfriend and I started dating. It’s actually kind of funny; he invited me once and when I saw how much I could lift in the beginning, I was hooked. It didn’t hurt that it was something I could do with someone that I was starting to get really interested in that didn’t involve sitting at a bar. It’d be a win-win for me because I’d get gains and find out more about this special human.
I was so jaded by a culture that spent more time recording their experiences than living them that I didn’t see other possibilities.
We went to the gym three times a week in the beginning and have kept that up for our entire relationship.
As everyone knows, there’s a special type of person who also works out at the gym. They spend the entire time on their phones, taking selfies or recording themselves for the internet. They’d be that dude bro, or dude chick, who would stand in front of the mirror after a lift and record themselves flexing or doing a fitness pose. They would be the people that wouldn’t be caught wearing baggy sweatpants or a stained shirt from a trip to Hawaii three years ago.
