The Gym and The False Sense of Accomplishment It Gives.
The purpose of this post is to explain the importance of going to the gym and some of the issues the gym can cause in your life.
I'll start it off by just straight up saying I think everyone should go to the gym and the gym is good for you. However, I think it is much deeper than that and this post shouldn't discourage anyone from going to the gym (if anyone even reads these posts lol).
For a while, I've thought the gym gives you a false sense of accomplishment and I've fallen victim to this too. For the first year-ish when I started going to the gym I would plan my whole day around the gym, when I ate, what I ate, and when I went to the gym. I would make sure to go at just the right time so I could get the best lift in possible. But what I started to realize was that this would affect other areas of my life. My quality of work would be lower or it would be harder to focus, of course it would, why wouldn't it? I just went to the gym and absolutely annihilated my CNS. Once I started to notice this I realized something has to change.
I realized the gym should not be a GOAL but simply a TOOL in my toolbox or an OUTLET. Not that you can't chase goals in the gym but that it is simply one of the plays in your playbook.
That is why I've recently started to hate the word bodybuilder, weightlifter seems much more fitting. Although I love the feeling of a skin-splitting pump or looking at myself shirtless in the mirror, the gym is simply a 1 and a half to 2 hour window in my day where I can give it my all. A window of my day where I can burn the midnight oil so I'm not up at night wondering what if.
And what I see in the mirror is simply a by-product of that