I made my first voyage to the school gym yesterday to do my first WOD all by myself. I also did my first workout in my weightlifting class today. So I don't have very much experience with being in the weight room but I have been in there enough to have noticed one very important point. That is that there is a difference between working out and being an athlete. I go into the weight room and there are these guys who think they are just the coolest thing to walk the planet because they come in and back squat 500 pounds. Don't get me wrong being able to lift a lot of weight is a good thing. I'm always trying to be able to lift more than I already can and I'm not trying to say that the way that I do things is the only right way but in all actuality what is back squatting 500 lbs (that's and exaggeration) going to do for you?! By working out you should be doing thing that are going to help you in your everyday life and are going to make you feel better in your everyday life. You can come in and be a macho man but what are you getting from it. You're not faster, you're not more flexible, you're not more agile, and you really can't be that physically fit. I just don't get it.
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