My Fitness Improved After Getting Covid

Simply getting a reminder of why I do things was enough to push myself again.

This is pretty close to what I look like at the gym. Photo by Ryan McGuire on Pixabay.

There’s nothing better than not being able to do something to make you really, really want to do it.

There’s nothing like feeling your absolute worst physically to make you desire feeling great.

There’s nothing like seeing months or even years of hard work disappear in two weeks to make you really start pushing yourself to get back to your peak strength.

For me, it was Covid.

From Boredom to Beast to Couch Potato

I’ve been working out for years now. I wasn’t a sporty child or teen, but I luckily found the gym at 22 when living in Costa Rica. I had followed an ex-boyfriend there for the nice chance of seeing the world, but I soon got bored and the gym was a way to cure it.

For the first several years I had no idea what I was doing. I followed a plan the instructors designed for me, and tried some classes. I did everything from yoga and pilates to Body Combat sometimes working out twice a day. There was nothing else to do.

Later, I found running, which I stuck with after moving back to Europe. Then, when I was already in Argentina, I discovered the…