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.