Trying a new gym today gave me an outlook on why investing in the right environment matters.
I've done a fair amount of gym hopping over the past couple of months as a person who lives in his car, but the gym I hit today I feel like changed everything about the slump I have been in recently. I was a little anxious to walk in because I've never been there before (I'm working on that about me) but also google told me it was closed on Sunday and they didn't even have a parking lot. I don't know. I think some version of me wouldn't have gone over there. But I am not trying to be that version of me anymore. This gym might have been the portal to a universe where I could be the version of myself I want to be. Not sure how peak hours look there but Sunday morning it was empty as can be. The man working the desk sold me some preworkout energy drink that had me sweating bullets before the workout started and bouncing off the walls, which for a caffeine addict like myself, is hard to come by. It was called Total War and they don't sell those things at your regular 711 . Chemical weapon type shit. Maybe it was the release of anxiety knowing that everything was going to be fine even in the unfamiliar place but all my cylinders were firing. Every piece of equipment was so pristine and the gym was dark and loud and grungy but as the same time it was the cleanest and most organized gym I had ever been to. The few people that were there were absolutely jacked and working like beasts. You think about the investment you are putting in when you pick a gym, and the circles you want to run around. I am hoping I find that here in this group. That place fired me up. I am feeling so motivated to keep striving for better. Like why does being in a gym full of jacked dudes make me want to be a business man? Is everything really that competitive or do rising tides raise all the ships? Maybe because it was an expensive place to be you know you are going to be surrounded by folks who take this kind of thing very seriously. Whatever it is, taking it serious, and going hard feels good to me. Being in the right environment matters.