My First PR

I had just started to train at a local gym at the age of twelve. Not very big and a bit clumsy. My life became whole as I moved the weights six days a week. I was just starting to understand what it meant to work hard for something. As much as I gave, the weights gave back. What it gave back was the feeling of satisfaction, accomplishment and pride. These are great feelings to have to live life to its fullest. One day I saw I large man bench press over four hundred pounds. After the lift, he said to everyone that this was a PR. I asked him, what was a PR. He said that a PR was a personal record(PR). So, I went over to the bench press and pushed up 135 pounds for one rep. I took my journal out and wrote Bench - 135 - 1 REP --- PR. Then I wrote next to it a goal of 155 - 2 months. After that day I was taught a great life lesson that I use everyday. Goals are great things to have and use as motivators in life. Whats better? To achieve those goals. To make a PR.