![]() When I typically go to the gym, I can knock out at least seven exercises followed by an abs workout in less than two hours. To me, I felt like we were moving insanely slow. In the two hours that we would work out, we would only do three exercises: bench, squat, and deadlift. I improved my form and gained a bit of muscle, but not as much as I would have liked.Īdmittedly, I got a little bored of the powerlifting workouts. I started squatting and deadlifting again, something I had not done since football workouts. ![]() I went to the workouts every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. There were a few guys on the team who were intimidatingly big, and I saw them as role models in the gym. I went to the powerlifting workouts and I loved the team. The second week of the year, I joined the Powerlifting team. The first week of my freshman year, I purchased a membership to the campus gym. If I were to gain the freshman 15, I wanted it to be entirely in muscle. I didn’t have any major fitness goals, I only knew I wanted to keep working out. People say, “I will never get the ‘freshman 15’.” Others say, “It’s time for me to get in the best shape of my life.” To be honest, when I entered college, I had no idea what I wanted. Many people enter freshman year with goals. Freshman year is a time of major transformation. The life that you had before you arrived is gone in the wind and you become an entirely new person. So let’s help push them, not push them away.College is a defining time in the life of all those who choose to attend. I’m sure there was a moment in every gym goers life that they made the decision to change their life. I promise, the world, nor the gym, revolves around just your gains.Įmbrace the fact that people are trying to better themselves. Go at 4 in the morning before work or go in at 11 at night before bed. If you don’t want to be in a packed full gym, then switch the time that you go to the gym. We should embrace the New Years resolutioners because what makes our goals that much more important than theirs? I mean honestly is there a reason? “Well I’ve been here longer than they have,” is not a good answer. Why should we shun the people that could potentially share the same passion as us? What I also want is for other people to do the same. I want them to look back to when they first started going to the gym and be thankful that I was there to support them. I want to make a difference in people’s lives, I want to help people. ![]() By February 1st, I would say close to 90% of them have already given up at the gym. There is one thing in common at each of these gyms: right after the New Year, they are packed full of unfamiliar faces. I’ve worked out at Gold’s Gyms out west, small local gyms, small university gyms, and the biggest college gym in the nation the Ohio State University’s. Hell, even you were the new guy at your current gym. Every familiar face you see at the gym was once a new face. Would you still shun the new people at the gym if a surge of them came in July? I doubt it. Business would be great through December and January, but it would be ideal to have that kind of income year round. I’ll be honest with you, my life goal is to one day own my own gym. What if the gym rats, gym bros, personal trainers, squat girls, powerlifters, crossfitters, and all other demographics of the gym, took one New Years resolutioner under their wing and showed them the ropes? What if we properly taught them how to do a back squat or corrected their curl form? What if we told them they shouldn’t be doing the same workout Sunday through Monday? What do you think would happen? Maybe we could just go to an always crowded gym because that’s the norm. If they weren’t shunned away maybe they wouldn’t be the people that leave the gym crowded for a few weeks. I want to embrace the New Years resolutioners and make them gym regulars. I would guess that they quit showing up because of negative side remarks and not feeling welcome. Not to be seen again until the next New Year. ![]() (Duh.) These people usually leave the gym packed for the first few weeks of the New Year and then slowly drift away. So for starters, what are the New Years resolutioners? Well, the New Years resolutioners are the people that join the gym after the New Year to fulfill their New Years resolutions. I have, in summary, been an asshole to the New Years resolutioners. I have been the guy that laughed at the new guy at the gym when he tried to bicep curl the leg extension machine. I have been the guy that got annoyed that someone was doing a full arm workout in the only squat rack in the gym. I have been the guy that shunned the New Years resolutioners. Before I get started, I would like to start out by saying that I have been the exact person that I am calling out in this post. ![]()
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