Bodybuilding For Life

Let me start out by clar­i­fy­ing to every­one that I am not what you would call big. I am not even near big. In fact, I am 143 pounds and 5’5″. I am prob­a­bly what you would call cute!

But even so, I love work­ing out. I am blessed to have found an activ­ity that gives me so much in return for the effort I put in. Work­ing out five days a week is a small price to pay for the enor­mous return of invest­ment you get.

Two years ago I was a com­pletely dif­fer­ent per­son than I am now. I was a smart kid and I thought I loved what I did. But the prob­lem was that I rarely ate break­fast, I sat at my com­puter for 10 or more hours a day, and I was depressed. My health was hit­ting rock bottom.

Then some­thing hap­pened. My best friend decided he wanted to start work­ing out at the small­est and cheap­est of all our local gyms and of course I had to come along. At first I felt a lit­tle intim­i­dated by all the guys being big­ger than me, but I then real­ized something.

The sport of fit­ness, body­build­ing or what­ever you want to call it is not just about grow­ing big. Sure, on the sur­face it is. But under­neath the sur­face lies a great jour­ney where you search for answers about who you really are. A jour­ney where you evolve and learn.

You see, body­build­ing and fit­ness has changed my life in so many ways. In the begin­ning there was the obvi­ous health ben­e­fits of work­ing out. Not just my phys­i­cal health, but also my men­tal health began to spike. My mind sud­denly became a lot clearer. It was as if I had been walk­ing around with a clouded mind all my life, and sud­denly every­thing was crys­tal clear. Of course every­thing wasn’t crys­tal clear, but that’s how it felt.

After some months of work­ing out five days a week, I began to see the sport though a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive. I began to love each train­ing ses­sion. Work­ing out sud­denly became the great­est thing in the world for me, and not just because I saw phys­i­cal results but because I began to think differently.

I began to under­stand the con­cept of dis­ci­pline and hard work… You see, the stricter my diet was and the harder I worked out, the bet­ter my results were. And that is a true and basic les­son for life! I have those beau­ti­ful and heavy metal plates to thank for being such a dis­ci­plined per­son as I am today.

Above all this, work­ing out has intro­duced me to inner peace. This is some­thing that can­not be explained, it sim­ply has to be expe­ri­enced. After a cou­ple of months at the cheap­est gym avail­able, I bought a gym card at per­haps one of the best gyms in Swe­den and I con­sider it to be one of the great­est invest­ments I have ever made. I was sud­denly work­ing out with real body­builders and fit­ness mod­els, and watch­ing them has taught me many things.

I can hon­estly say that most of the fit­ness mod­els and body­builders I have had the priv­i­lege to talk to are some of the nicest peo­ple I have ever met. Even though some of these peo­ple look like they are the most dan­ger­ous peo­ple in the world, they are so nice, under­stand­ing and helpful.

What I am try­ing to com­mu­ni­cate is that work­ing out can and will change lives. Don’t believe every­thing you see, for appearences can be deceiv­ing. Work­ing out does not nec­es­sar­ily have to mean going to the gym, just tak­ing a walk every now and then is a really good thing. But if you feel like tak­ing the next step and buy and gym card, don’t be scared or intim­i­dated. We are all humans, aren’t we?

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