20 years is a lot of time to spend doing anything. For 20 years I have been a weight lifter. The benefits I have gotten from this practice are too numerous to list. I have gone to the gym and had a lot of fun. Sometimes I did this alone, and at other times I had training partners. I am grateful for all the training partners I have had over the years, they have enriched my training and my life in so many ways.
A training partnership is a unique kind of relationship to be blessed with. A training partner is someone that shows up and helps you become better, all that is required of you is reciprocation. You don’t pay your training partners and still they show up and put in work to help you become better. It seems like very few people help others without some sort of profit to be sought, this makes this relationship so cool. When people come together and truly collaborate to become better, that is magic.
The magic shows itself in so many ways. A good training partner will help you manage your energy. They will help to pump you up when you’re acting tired, or pull you back from the edge of insanity when you’re getting too hyper. They provide an outside eye that is so important to your lifting. It can be hard to see yourself objectively in the moment, but your training partner can. Training partners also teach, they are a great source for training knowledge. I am so blessed to have training partners that have done all these kinds of things for me. When you get this working right your training life really starts to work a lot better.
Its really cool when people can come together and make their lives work better. This relationship is really nothing more than deciding “let’s help each other get better.” This can all be done without agenda or ego, there really is nothing to gain from being weird about stuff, we’re just lifting weights here. Even though we’re just lifting weights, we’re never really just lifting weights. The gym is a training ground for life, and it can help us understand how to live, and follow the path. A training partner can help us find the path in the gym. How wonderful would it be if we had training partners in all areas of our lives? People that helped us get better at our jobs, at our businesses, at being parents. People coming together to become better, to put in work together, and to push each other is a beautiful thing, no matter what they are trying to be better at. People might think us meatheads and gym rats are dumb, but we figured out something pretty smart when it comes to training partners.