Seeing "Before" and "After" at the same time

[Mdlftr]

I was working out in a different gym yesterday. I'm on travel and far from home. [I had a GREAT leg workout--set two new personal bests in squats and leg presses! Feel Great!]

I was working out from 5:30 to about 7 p.m.--the usual prime time for when people get off work. As I was doing seated leg curls on a machine, I looked up in the mirror and saw a guy with dark hair and a tight white undershirt working out on the incline press machine. I noticed him because he had BIG arms,pushing against the sleeves, and big pecs, clearly visible as they pushed against the tightly stretched fabric. He Looked good!

After looking, I went back to what I was doing. A minute later, I looked up, and saw the guy in the white undershirt again--except he looked really different--much thinner. Pecs were showing under the shirt, except not as much, and his arms were much thinner--no swelling curves. Huh? This didn't make sense. As I kept looking, the guy got up from the incline press machine he was using and stepped to the side. Another guy, also in a white undershirt, with dark hair came from around the side and sat down in the seat. He had big arms, and a big chest with pecs pushing up against and wrinkling the fabric.

It clicked then--two different guys--both wearing white undershirts, and both of the same height and hair color --were sharing the machine. As he stood facing the big guy in the machine, the thinner guy said something to him and they both laughed.

All I could think was--how often do you get to "work in" with a preview of your bigger self? Lucky dude!

Mdlftr