GYMAHOLISM: The Introductory Phase

Congratulations

You’ve graduated from college with your degree. While in college you’ve played intercollegiate sports building skills like: multi-taking, teamwork, and time management that should easily help you get into your career path. While everyone else was partying every day, you were working out or practicing for four years straight, your athletic experience should translate very well into the work place right?

Wrong

After you get that sheet of paper you fall into one or two categories employed or unemployed. You realized that no one even cares about your athletic experience. They mostly care about your job experience, and do you see yourself with this company for the next 100 years. Dude I just got out of school. I played sports while in college, and took a few internships not everyone can do that, what more do you want from me.

But You Have a Job

Ok so you may be the athlete who graduated with a job, great you soon realized that your boss overworks you or you barley make enough to get by. The job you have is just another dead-end work job that takes up your weekends and nights. So much for going to those college games to see old teammates. Don’t worry in 20 years you’ll weekends and holidays off, and someone else fresh out of college can work those jobs.

Now What

Either way you look at it your life sucks now. You can’t afford to do anything fun, or you have to work that day. Oh and good luck trying to be fake in interviews see how that works out. The only thing you have left that’s worth $10 dollars a month in your life is the…

GYM

That’s right the gym. The only place where people can tell you’re an athlete by the way you lift. The only place where you can laugh at the guy trying to bench 400lbs, but doesn’t even let the bar touch his chest. The only place where people back out of your way because they know you were forged by the gym eons ago. They have to ask you can they use the leg press machine, and it’s up to you to choose if they are worthy. That’s right you’re a…

GYMAHOLIC

The gym is your alcohol. The gym gets you though your day. The gym is like alcohol at a college party and your sport was the party. Why do you drink alcohol because you’re at a party. Why do you go the gym because you are playing a sport. When the party is over you still love the alcohol, just like when you’re done with the sport you still love the gym. You don’t need pre- workout to get hype for the gym. You don’t waste your time doing Zumba; you’re in better shape than anyone in there anyways. You live by the barbells and dumbbells. You don’t call for a personal trainer you are the personal trainer you’re training yourself. You don’t workout to stay in shape anymore, you workout to keep your sanity, because without the gym you have else nothing excited to do besides “We have found more qualified candidates then you” 19 times in four months. What your reason you have become a gymaholic you are walking down the introductory phase.