It's something I'll never be able to stop doing!
Big part of life.
When I was a kid, I was told to never play contact sports because I had an autoimmune disease. That was all bull****. I never got involved in sport art school, and I think that has a seriously negative impact on life.
I wouldn't have started on gym, unless I spent a year in jail for intent to supply. While I was there, I found out what it means to put something into improving your body. It will never be as good as that year inside. It takes others to shout at you and encourage you to push harder, when you've used all you strength, and you can do another rep when someone supports the bar for you just a tiny bit, shouting at you to do one more, and put it down!
It'll never be as good as that year again. I'm just doing it by myself. I'm putting something back in, to make up up for the years at school.
Now I do more aerobic than weights, wanting to get rid of the weight. Feeling fit.
It makes me feel so good after a session, but I will admit I'm not so comfortable in a busy weights room. It's better than in a ... supermarket, because we have something in common. It's good to meet known friends once in a while, at random, but still anxious among strangers, a bit.
One thing I haven't got at my gym is a boxing ring or any punchbags. That would be the ultimate release of anger, and anxiety, which is currently huge. Running, rowing, pull-ups, bench... none of it is as good as smashing my knuckles into something heavy all day.
There's nothing I can attach a punchbag to at home - the ceiling isn't up to it. I can fix it to a tree trunk, but I need something overhead to hang it from. No floorstander.
Does anyone know a way to hang a punchbag?