Happy & Healthy
9 things every sports junkie can relate to
Ten years ago, I took my first step into the gym. I did it so enthusiastically and often that my hobby grew into my job. For years, I stood in front of the class. Spinning, conditioning training, body pump, or XCO; you name it, I taught it. Teaching classes was the most fun thing there was. Until I discovered strength training. You might think this is more for men, but I love it and can imagine you will enjoy it too. But be warned; when you enter the arena with the weights, you get this for free and for nothing, but especially also unsolicited.
- You have to constantly defend yourself when for the thousandth time you get ‘strength training makes you broad’ thrown at you. Do I look like a guy then?
2. Manicure no longer appears in your vocabulary. Because yes, long nails are not very handy. With freshly manicured nails, I dropped a dumbbell from my hands, that was one nail less. And I will spare you the rest of the bloody story.
3. The squat rack is always, but really always, occupied. While you are getting back to work after a minute of rest, that pumped-up neighbor has already been admiring himself in the mirror for ten minutes. That's not rest anymore, buddy. Move over, it's my turn.
4. You are on team always hungry. You are hungry, always hungry. And you always have to defend yourself. Say, where do you put all that food? One way ticket to my muscles, bro.
“Move over, it's my turn.”
5. Your boyfriend never wants to work out with you. Because yes, what if you lift more during a bench press than he does?
6. That fit chick next to you is checking you out non-stop from the corner of her eye. But if you are honest, you just did the same to her when she lifted double her body weight.
7. Your waist keeps getting smaller while your butt just gets bigger. Weird, huh, that your favorite jeans no longer fit…
8. Just like with parking, the men around you think they need to help you carry weights. If I can squat with this weight, I can carry them too, I think. Move over, buddy.
9. You are always happy at the thought that you continue to burn calories for 24 hours after a weight training session. Bring on those comfy and cheesy recipes…
