Today what I’m most proud of is my growing barbell collection. Fitness has always been important to me, but it’s always been more about cardio. I’ve run 5 marathons and ridden across the country several times, but I just never was able to get into weightlifting. I always found it intimidating and I think it spoke to my lack of self-esteem, especially about my masculinity. But recently I’ve been working with a personal trainer, and he’s helped me to come to understand the importance of it. And because of the pandemic, we haven’t been able to work out in a gym, so basically if I wanted to work with him, I had to go buy some weights. Because it became mandatory, and because I did it one weight at a time, I was able to make progress in an area of my life I’d never been able to do much with before. And now I find myself the owner of really quite a good collection of weights, up to 50lb. Of course it’s what I do with the weights that’s important, but today I’m just focused on this nice, clean organized set of weights. The weight rack I just purchased from Dick’s Sporting Goods and set up a couple of days ago. Looks nice, doesn’t it?
