The first few weeks were extremely painful and my muscles ached. All my muscles and bones ached extremely, and times I could not distinguish if my bones hurt or my muscles. The flesh on my palms was blistered and my feet swollen. My hands were unused to hold the weights and the bars.
The first three months were hard to get used to it. I could not sleep at nights from the all the aches. I could feel my chest grow at one night, and I had to adjust my positions in sleeping. My old sleeping positions are no longer comfortable due to my muscles growth. It made me smile and I loved it in a way.
Gym and the transformation
This is a major transformation in my life in the right direction. Weight lifting is a mental and spiritual before the physical. …show more content…
and how I can be my best?
I had no experience with weight lifting and I was too weak that I needed someone to spot me lifting the empty Olympic bar (44Ib = 20kilo) for chest bench press.
I had zero support and peer pressure and no resources to hire a fitness trainer, so I had to depend on myself if I want to get results. I would work out in the gym, and then I would spend 3-4 hours reading and searching on the internet. Again, in 2007, the information was not easy to find on the internet. Yes, they were there, but it requires hours of searching especially if English was not your first language nor you have mastered English yet. Now, Google indexes everything, so it is much easier to find information. Also, many experts write blogs and many publications are available.
I worked out with many experienced and great people from all sorts of backgrounds. In the USA, the gym’s memberships are cheap that everyone can join. While in Saudi Arabia, the gyms are only for people who could pay 100-120 USD per month and it is not the best gym at all. Also, you would have to pay at least of 3months in …show more content…
I mean people feel the strength of the soul and the mind regardless of the muscles size. I had many stories of that. I meant
I would not be able to stay physically strong without the mental strength.
Spending time with seniors during workouts:
I had a reason for spending too much time in the gym in the USA. It was my secret that I did not tell anyone about. People thoughts were different from the secret.
I thought it was interesting what the seniors had to share with me during out workouts in the gym. I spent lots of my 20’s hanging out with the seniors in the USA and in Saudi Arabia after I return.
By the time I arrived America, I memorized big parts of the Quran and hadith. Those are foundations of developing the Islamic Jurisprudence. I have also read books on history, sociology, history, geography, natural sciences, folklore, psychology—a huge number of subjects, a random selection of fields.
Books were hard to come by at that time, so I would reread the same books over and over. I imagine how great it would be to have as many books on my shelf. While I was in the USA, I collected few books that I thought there were timeless classical. By 2016, I had a huge
The first three months were hard to get used to it. I could not sleep at nights from the all the aches. I could feel my chest grow at one night, and I had to adjust my positions in sleeping. My old sleeping positions are no longer comfortable due to my muscles growth. It made me smile and I loved it in a way.
Gym and the transformation
This is a major transformation in my life in the right direction. Weight lifting is a mental and spiritual before the physical. …show more content…
and how I can be my best?
I had no experience with weight lifting and I was too weak that I needed someone to spot me lifting the empty Olympic bar (44Ib = 20kilo) for chest bench press.
I had zero support and peer pressure and no resources to hire a fitness trainer, so I had to depend on myself if I want to get results. I would work out in the gym, and then I would spend 3-4 hours reading and searching on the internet. Again, in 2007, the information was not easy to find on the internet. Yes, they were there, but it requires hours of searching especially if English was not your first language nor you have mastered English yet. Now, Google indexes everything, so it is much easier to find information. Also, many experts write blogs and many publications are available.
I worked out with many experienced and great people from all sorts of backgrounds. In the USA, the gym’s memberships are cheap that everyone can join. While in Saudi Arabia, the gyms are only for people who could pay 100-120 USD per month and it is not the best gym at all. Also, you would have to pay at least of 3months in …show more content…
I mean people feel the strength of the soul and the mind regardless of the muscles size. I had many stories of that. I meant
I would not be able to stay physically strong without the mental strength.
Spending time with seniors during workouts:
I had a reason for spending too much time in the gym in the USA. It was my secret that I did not tell anyone about. People thoughts were different from the secret.
I thought it was interesting what the seniors had to share with me during out workouts in the gym. I spent lots of my 20’s hanging out with the seniors in the USA and in Saudi Arabia after I return.
By the time I arrived America, I memorized big parts of the Quran and hadith. Those are foundations of developing the Islamic Jurisprudence. I have also read books on history, sociology, history, geography, natural sciences, folklore, psychology—a huge number of subjects, a random selection of fields.
Books were hard to come by at that time, so I would reread the same books over and over. I imagine how great it would be to have as many books on my shelf. While I was in the USA, I collected few books that I thought there were timeless classical. By 2016, I had a huge