I love these weekend challenges because they make me reflect and self-analyze.
This time, the challenge is to name something you wish you'd never done. It's definitely wishing I'd never stopped working out at the gym. I loved going to the gym. I'd been going for about a year and doing the routines to the letter with persistence.
I can't explain how liberating it was for me to go to the gym; it was an inexplicable pleasure. On each machine, with each exercise, I would leave my weight behind and forget about everything for a couple of hours.
Besides, going to the gym provides me with multiple benefits, both physical and emotional. As time went on, I saw an impressive improvement in my physique. My glutes and legs grew, and I was much more defined. And on an emotional level, I felt much calmer, happier, and much more energetic.
But unfortunately, in March, I fell into an emotional and financial hole. Everything collapsed, and suddenly I couldn't even afford to go to the gym. My priorities were more important than "paying for a gym," and from that moment on, I stopped going and didn't do any other type of physical activity.
I fell into an incredible emotional hole, and I deeply regret it because I felt emotionally unwell and lost all the physical progress I had made. I lost muscle mass and gained fat, I lost strength and became lazy...
I deeply regret that because it's like going backwards and returning to the same hole where I started.
The positive thing about this is that after six months, I returned to the gym, of course, despite all the consequences that stopping going had brought me, but with the desire to achieve the same or better results.
