Photo Essay
Blink fitness photo essay

generate a realistic image of a fictional 15-year-old white boy with brown hair, slightly chubby, looking sadly at himself in a bedroom
mirror. -Chatgpt open AI in a bedroom
Being a skinny chubby kid was not the best feeling for me or any kid as a young kid.
Looking into the mirror, I’m not happy with myself or how I looked. looking into my bedroom
mirror and thinking of what I eat in a day to make myself into this brown hair slob. Being told
about my weight and eating whatever put a toll on me. its quarantine 2020 I’m in the 8th grade a
new virus covid 19 spreading all over the world and everyone’s stuck in their homes. Although I
had other plans, besides my online 7th grade zoom gym class that I thought I could smell through
the screen I would do pushups to better my shape while I could smell my sweat falling off my
head, I could only do 5. Going into the 9th grade as a scrawny kid was not easy either, but I waswith other scrawny kids that sounded just like me.

a chubby 15-year-old white boy with brown hair) doing push-ups in front of his laptop during a Zoom class — where the laptop screen shows
several other random kids’ faces in the Zoom grid
But something changed, I would watch gym videos and be in my school’s weight room trying to
figure out how to work the machines. It has been one year covid is basically away walked into
the Highschool gym both not too tall, but you know these two weren’t with no games, they can
see where they want to go in life, and I met this junior Ervin, a gym enthusiast and his close
friend, a boxer that learned from his famous boxing uncle. Although two years older than me
these men had hair like werewolves and looked like they could rip someone’s head off.I wasn’t known to being inspired to something like This is seeing people lifting online and
showing the best ways to. But something was different. He asked me where I go to the gym as
Ervin flexed in the mirror looking at the progress and boxer and it was my turn with my bad
physique and a skinny kid. As corny as that sounds it inspired me to want to go to the gym, I told
Ervin I wanted to go to the gym for a while, but I’ve been working out at home. Blink Fitness
Ervin started telling me about the gym where he goes to Blink Fitness.

Chat GPT “a stylized, dramatic illustration of a young athlete entering a gym and meeting two older, muscular students — shown
symbolically, with lighting and atmosphere emphasizing admiration and inspiration, not realism.”
I was counions at it first but when he told me where it was closer to my house than the
school, we were attending it made me more curious. I’m curious about how hard I can push
myself to and want to do that seeing what I could become. Ervin said he’ll go with me since it’smy first time and it’s not like I would know what I’m doing there. It’s a few days later and it’s my
16th birthday asking my mom if I can go thinking I’m too young, but I tell her how that’s not true
and she let me. I had seen there was a free trial pass on the website to go blink, so I claimed it. A
few days after my birthday I stepped foot into the blink fitness center. It was empty, with only a
few people in the gym. I had no idea what I was doing there, just standing in the middle. The
gym was large and could see almost every machine from the entrance; it smelt like cleaning
wipes from everyone whipping the machines for germs and you can hear everyone walking on
the trammels and dropping weights with the quiet music on the speaker system no one listens to.

Chat gpt “make an image into this”. I stepped foot into the blink fitness center. It was empty, with only a few people in the gym. I had no idea what I was doing there, just standing in the middle.
The gym was large and could see almost every machine from the entrance; it smelt like cleaning wipes from everyone whipping the machines for germs and you can hear everyone walking on
the trammels and dropping weights with the quiet music on the speaker system no one listens to.”
I was hitting random machines for different muscles. It was obvious that I had no idea what I
was doing, and I could feel it, watching the other people, Adults and teens there looked like theyhad an objective. I was there alone with no one to know what to do. The next day I went to
school and Ervin let me know he was going after school, and I was going with him ready to
learn. We were in the gym, and we already knew we clicked like we had known each other for a
long time. He was from Montenegro, and I was from the top of Albania our home counties where
very close, and then from there we had the same mindset and ideas. We were going to our first
bicep curls machine, and he was teaching me what’s the right form and how to get the most out
of the machine and how to control the weight. He told me while working out he was just like a
scrawny kid in the 9th grade trying to figure out how to work out the gym just like me and how he
used to Watch YouTube videos to learn how to. At that moment I knew I looked at everyone in
that gym
sweating and seeing how they also started from scratch. Me and Ervin having conversations
while working out moving onto bicep curls on the bench and then moving onto the functional
trainer machine, all while working out having great conversations and how to use the machines
for each muscle that day. As we continued to work out for the last weeks of school.Chat Gpt make me another imagine into this “We were in the gym, and we already knew we clicked like we knew each other for a long
time. He was from Montenegro, and I was from the top of Albania our home counties where very close, and then from there we had the
same mindset and ideas. We were going to our first bicep curls machine, and he was teaching me what’s the right form and how to get
the most out of the machine and how to control the weight.”
I learned a lot and still continued to learn. It was time to go by myself with my hoodie on,
under my hoodie headphones blasting music. It was nothing but my thoughts and headphones
and whatever I was feeling that day to get it out onto the weights. Now being alone is very
different, focused while trying to still be comfortable in that environment, trying to feel
belonging. As I was trying to go to the gym every day, I felt great and knew a good amount little
did I know it was only the beginning of what I would soon love. I started to investigate what the
body needs protein to build muscle and carbs for energy and muscle growth, then found more
influencers that were also in the gym. While in the gym I started to lose interest and not seeingprogress and not eating well really got to me and This wouldn’t be the first time going through
this struggle. I would look in the mirror and want more but after not going to the gym I realized
it got worse, so it was time to go back with more dedication.

Chat gpt “create an imagine of this man alone in the gym with a hoodie on”
I always didn’t like Blink in the hours where everyone sweated touching shoulders
asking how many sets you have so, I decided to go to a building gym my dad works for. The
gym was small as a corner store and was in the basement and would be empty like no one knew
it was there and smelled and looked clean. The gym was a new playground for me to learn more,
and no one would be there to bother me. It’s just me and my own mind and the machines and thefree weight in front of me was great. Going to this new gym had me feeling like it was me new
home,

Chat gpt “create this same guy but in a smaller gym with mirrors and black walls”
a new Hobbie and something I enjoy going to every day after school, being right next to
my house made it even better. It’s been 4 years since I first started my journey at blink fitness
struggling to curl 20 pounds and now being able to curl 50 just like when I was that insecure boy
in high school. I was not the strong man people look at me today; I was just like everyone else
staring trying to learn Blink Fitness How to get better. Just like everything else in life, everyoneis is their own position in life trying to get better. The gym is not only connected to just health
and what you look like but disciplined with everything else you do in life. The gym can also be
an escape for many people from life and stress.

