Hey, my name is Kristīne and MyFitness is also my story. If someone told me 4 years ago that I’d visit the gym regularly, go to the group trainings and invite my friends to join me, I’d laugh out loud and not believe it. Why? I thought only athletic people go to the gym, those who know what to do.

How did my story begin? Unexpected – a colleague at work offered a free monthly subscription to the gym. I thought it was impossible at all, because until then my only regular physical activities where P.E. lessons in high school, and then everyday walk to work and back to home. Oh, yes, also the stairs at buildings with no elevator.

At which floor you can’t breathe anymore? For me it was already hard on the third floor.

I’d like to think that I am not the only one. And all those funny thoughts, prejudices about gym and athletic people. It seemed that everyone would look at me in a contemptuously way that I can’t do something, how fragile and clumsy I was. Oh, of course, I was worried about my red face and how I will sweat next to strangers.

In spite of this, getting free monthly subscription seemed to me as an opportunity to get in a place I’ve never been in my life. I went to one of the trainings and felt lost – where I have to stand, what can I touch, where I can look? We were a lot – 25 women in the training. Different ages, different bodies and different energies. I took the sport step deck and stood in the far corner so I could stay unnoticed. The training began, music was super energetic and cool, the disco lights went on and the couch was jumping in the front as if she had drunk all happiness of the whole world. I raised a challenge for myself – repeat everything what the couch does. All of a sudden, I realized there is no person who looks at me, I understood that everyone is looking only at themselves in the mirror, what is recommended to do, so you can complete the task more precisely. I realized that I’m only with myself, my red face and a surprise that ladies, which seemed much older than me, punches so that my mouth goes open. Then I was ashamed that I was only 23 years old and I couldn’t do even half as accurately and quickly as the others do. The good news is that this shame is also motivating! Then other thoughts start to come in my head – if I am fragile now in 23 years, what will happen years later? This thought was the first impulse to continue.

After the first training, I realized that all those stupid thoughts about gym were my prejudices.

I vividly remember the first time I felt that little happiness after the gym visit, and it seemed incredible to me that it might be true.

Because, what a feeling of happiness can be, when you go black at times, you feel sick and there is no strength to continue? What a feeling of happiness you can feel if the next day you can’t sit down, because every muscle hurts? But in spite of that I caught that famous happiness after sport and I enjoyed it.

An unprecedented passion about sport took over my mind. Very quickly I noticed the changes in my body, which certainly pushed me to continue. You often smile when you are on the scales? I never had done that before I became friends with gym.

I wonder, how my mind and body are synchronizing – I go to the gym, I challenge myself a little bit more every time and later I can say to myself: “I did it!”. You won’t believe it, how suddenly and automatically eating habits change. You want to read the product label and compare nutritional value, because it becomes interesting to know, from where body will take power and energy, so that next time in the gym would be even more valuable.

Another important impulse that prevented me from stopping – improvements in health.

After 3 months of regular physical exercises, a family doctor compared my heart performance and blood tests to the period before I started my athletic adventure. The changes were really noticeable, I received praises from the doctor and words: “Keep it going!”.

In that moment idea about sport set in my mind completely – it’s not a short period in which you pull yourself together to lose weight. Everyday physical activities gives you additional energy, a healthy and strong body, a joy and confident spirit.

Of course, this is a very small part of MyFitness adventure. Countless smiles, new friendships and yourself overcoming. As a result – minus 25 kg, a strong body, that allows me to enjoy life in all its expressions, and clear head. Here I am, Kristīne, 27 years old, happy and healthy. I’m planning to go on and continue!