Gym boys

Our college had a decent gym facility to feed the fitness freaks inside us. College going boys usually would have an interest towards building their bodies. May be it was the raging hormones or the natural intention to attract girls or whatever be the reason, being fit always felt great. Until about one month since the gym was opened, so many guys were thronging it in a “welcome attraction”. Well the welcome attraction soon faded away and the gym master became the only one visiting the gym regularly.
Soon, My friends Suresh Krishan, Madhan (Maddy Mathan @ facebook) and I started giving company to the gym master at least with our regular visits to gym. We used to do some random exercises and we felt our muscles growing day by day. The one thing that we could not have at home was the all-round mirror arrangement in the gym. We could just look our toned body reflected and this added to the high that we got from working out.
As our exercise routine was starting to become more mundane of sorts, some greatly interested guys like Dinesh and Giri joined with us. They showed greater endurance and inspired us to do more repetition of the exercises we usually would be doing. This new surge in work our naturally increased our interest in going to train daily. Soon the gym master also gave some work out training regimes to follow that made the work out sessions a lot more interesting and exciting.
Every single day we felt our muscles bulging. It was not just about spending an hour after college sweating out for calorie loss and body building but is was also such a good relaxation method. It gifted me a good sleep and lot of energy to concentrate during the day time. I always spoke about the advantages of going to gym and encouraged many of my friends into developing a habit of working out regularly.
We used to call ourselves “the gym boys” to proudly proclaim that we trained and stayed fit. It was not the exercises alone, we used to hang-out together after college hours. We used to treat each other with fast foods, noodles, mushroom fries and so much more. So many memories still remain fresh when I start thinking of the time I spent at the gym.
Quite obviously, exercising was the only physical activity that we ever had in our whole college life except the few small walks between the college and bus stop and of course between classes and labs or canteen.  The workouts never made us the next Hrithik Roshans but it at least made us feel good about ourselves, know the limits of our body and the reserve of our stamina. There is nothing equal to the pleasure of full exhaustion after a heavy workout session. We acquired greater joy in doing an extra repetition of a high intensity training. Each and every day we felt our strengths grow as we were able to do more reps. So that kept us all alive and awesome.
More awesome feelings coming soon…