Ahmed Ali

At the beginning I was kind of nervous as I had always thought of the gym as a scary, intimidating place, this being one of the main reasons I had put off going for so long. I had thought every person there would have arms bigger than the Hulk and legs the size of tree trunks, but I was wrong. There were people with big muscles of course but also people who looked just like me, you, and everyone else in the world. There was something quite nice about people having different goals with some looking to gain muscle and bulk up to people looking to lose weight, but everyone was there to do one thing: better themselves. I found it quite inspiring really. Another surprise was that people weren’t that judgemental. People don’t stare at you everyone’s just doing their own thing in my experience not care what anyone else is doing, which was something I was scared about.