Weight Room Research Paper

The weight room. A place where athletes are suppose to get better, bring out the best in each other, where people show their true colors. were work until there muscle can’t move another inch. It is a place where people take pride in their work In sports movies you see people working out in the weight room with the best facilities to offer. What I just described is the stereotypical weight room that everyone thinks of, but that is not the case anywhere.
The summer before freshman year was the first time i had ever stepped in a true weight room. Park Hill South was offering a summer weights program for their football teams, but anyone who wanted to attend could. I walked through the doors and could immediately smell and feel the deep heavy air. It was almost impossible to breathe. I looked around at the plain white walls, walking …show more content…
I had continued for four straight summers lifting with the football team. Waking up at 6:15 a.m. in the summer just to go lift. I now walk into the weight room and everything had changed. The walls aren’t so white any more. In the front of the room there is a Park Hill South mural painted on our school colors of black, purple and white reminding us of who we are. Under that mural is the dumbbell rack. All of the rusty and fractured ones are history. Brand new equipment we can actually use. The racks are still silver with black skid marks, but those skid marks are a reminder of the grind we go through every day in that room. There isn’t a bent or rusty bar anywhere to been seen. The floor is new, purple and clean. It doesn’t smell like an unwashed shirt after you have worked out in it. We have all new benches. They are clean with no rips and don't have foam oozing out of them. There still are those beat up fans, but you can actually feel a breeze in thr room. You no longer feel trapped or enclosed in the weight room. Its feel spacious and clean. It makes you want to work

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