In my life I have never really been one to be driven to do something. Whenever I wanted something, most of the time it would be handed to me, nothing was worked for. I was always content on being average,whether it be in sports or work. The problem with this is that I was never getting a true challenge and due to that I was never getting real satisfaction out of the things that would occupy a majority of my life. I was always reluctant to work my hardest because either I was to lazy or I would be to scared to fail. I did not understand what I now do about hard work, I did not understand that to get true satisfaction from doing something you need to put in countless hours of work and work as hard as you can.
At home two of my best friends are sculpted as if they were greek gods because they work out day after day and put their all into it. After years of them begging me to take working out more seriously they finally got to me. I never thought i would turn into that kid that lives in the gym but thanks to them I did and I can not thank them enough. The lessons I learned due to being in the gym are ones I will never forget.
Though I started to work out a lot more than I was used to, I was not up to the level that they were and not the level that I wanted to be on. They would always tease and say I was “a fetus” and I was determined to make that stop. So just as everyone does, I made a new year’s resolution to go to the gym more often and by the end of the school year bench 275 lbs. Now as I said earlier, I was never one to push myself and everyone knew that. I had everyone telling me there would be no way I could keep up with my goal of benching 275. To be honest, even though I did not let others know this, I did not think that I would be able to do it, but I was determined to find out.
For the first time I grinded and worked my ass off. Moving up in the amount of plates on the sides of that 45lb silver bar gave me a feeling i had never experienced before. After one month I was able to put up 185 and after two months 225 was lightwork. My friends were enamored by how quickly I was advancing up the ladder. Soon enough, I did it, I achieved my goal. I finally put the weight up. Proving to myself that hard work pays off.