19/04/2024
π Sooooooo today I hit the gym and it was so bizarre... amazing.. but bizarre.
I started weight training back before covid and went full deep dive in a very very unhealthy way. I've never been shy in my latest realisation of what I was doing to myself back then and the reasons as to why I was doing it, but now things have settled slightly and I'm working on new ways to deal, I've really been working myself up to the idea of going back... more so to get my body right to be able to move more fluently as the old lady days slowly creep up on me.
And back when I was mental for it, I would round off all my training knowledge to whoever would listen, and a lot of the time that was my family, especially the older lot of my niece's, hoping that some of that knowledge would sink in for them and they'd be better at taking care of themselves than I ever did for myself.
I would even have them come along to training sessions sometimes and it was so much fun being with them, but today that scenario was completely reversed... me and my old lady body that I've not taken care of properly for the past year, with my 19 year old niece in the role of personal trainer.
I followed along and did my best to keep up but this kid is a machine and watching her smash increase after increase was amazing... and yes while I'm proud of myself and the little bits I accomplished, the highlight of today was just watching how strong she's gotten.
See photo... guess which side is mine and which is hers lol
Then coming home and talking more training stuff with my 21 year old niece... that was a bonus... superset this and leg day that, it just made me so fricken happy... even though I have been in bed since 4 o'clock waiting for the real pain to kick in, it'll have been worth it.
Who knows what's to come for me and the body that I've been brainwashed to hate... all I know is that today was a good day π