To the lifters out there, thank you.
Apologies in advance for the odd post.
So. Introverted nerdy woman here. A few months ago, I was suggested to join a gym as a way to take a daily break from living too much in my mind (because: astrophysics) and be “forced” instead to spend some time just being in my body.
I’m enjoying cardio a lot (rowing, running, stair climber on a daily repeat), so I’m always facing the strength training area of my PF, which eventually has started to make me pay attention to the people who work out there.
And suddenly now, if my mind wants to wander somewhere while I’m working out, it doesn’t go to loop quantum gravity or dark energy, but instead finds its way to what I know of biomechanics.
At my PF, “hot” is the most recurrent adjective I hear when I accidentally catch comments about the people in the strength training area, and while undoubtedly true, when I hear such observations, I always itch to point out the small stance adjustments that you people do to ensure center of mass or to target different muscle groups, or how you (usually) keep to a drastic minimum the amortization phase during the SSC, or how it’s not guesswork what you do but a real understanding of musculoskeletal anatomy, and also what kind of mind it takes to embrace the struggle, turn it around, and have such control over one’s body.
And since there is precisely zero chance that I’ll ever tell anyone at my PF how much I admire what they do, I thought to leave a post here for all of you doing strength training, because yes, you are hot, but more than that, you are one extraordinary and beautiful example of discipline and resilience.
So, from someone who still lives a lot in her mind, thank you for the daily reminder how effin amazing the human body can be.
(And again, apologies for the odd post.)