Training with a Friend

            Over the past month, my workouts have been awesome but today’s was great for a different reason. Today I was joined by a friend of mine (Greg) who has recently started training again. It was a nice break from the solitude that most workouts come with. I’m used to motivating people to train but it’s nice to have someone there with me to give me that extra push for a change.

I got to the gym an hour before I had to meet Greg just so that I could get my leg workout done. My leg press routine takes time and the last thing I wanted to do was bore him with it. He arrived at the gym and I could tell that he was ready to go full steam ahead. It’s always great to see people motivated to start training. I feed off of that energy and it really made me push myself today.

We did some work on the machines after a warmup and then I told him about the battle ropes. He showed some interest so I went and set them up while he finished off a couple exercises. I started off by showing him a few movements that could be done with the ropes and then it was his turn to feel some pain. They are really taxing, especially if someone hasn’t been training for awhile, so I didn’t expect him to go all out. However, he did!!! He really killed it and it pushed me to go even harder. Hell I couldn’t let him out do me!!! :P

Training with someone else can really give you that motivation to push yourself or keep you in line when you really don’t feel like doing it. If you are easily bored in the gym, I suggest you find someone to train with. The time just flies by!

So I’ll use this article to give my buddy Greg a big shoutout. Props to you for hanging in there and giving me some added motivation. Keep up the good work. I just hope he doesn’t show me up too bad tomorrow when we go play basketball. I haven’t played in years and look forward to seeing how I do.

Mike