I started going to the gym one year after I finished high school. I was never old enough and that stopped me from going. I remember going to 24 hour fitness with my giant sketchers and working on the stair master for hours. I was a gym addict. I loved going by myself and I remember listening to my iPod while working out. Fast forward a couple of years later, my husband and I had just started dating. He was just my boyfriend at the time, but I was glad that he liked going to the gym also. I never really had a workout buddy because I always worked out by myself. He quickly became my workout buddy. I found out that I was even going to the gym more often than him. And the gym became our safe haven. It was an activity that both of us could do together. We would go swimming, running on the track, walking on the treadmill, or just using the sauna together. We love it and I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. When you share something with your spouse, the both of you can motivate each other. Now, as I’m going back for my graduate degree, I use the gym to study while also working out. I find that I mainly workout to stay healthy and to keep my heart rate up. I now use it to study and decompress. The benefits are amazing. If you can, I would highly recommend going to workout at the gym. It has literally changed my life.
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