

Regularly going to the gym is an insurmountable feat. Like pesky quests on your daunting fitness journey, the process is filled with various obstacles, villains, and perilous terrain waiting to be overcome. Starting with an alarm--always a damn alarm--you are called into action and spurred to armor up. You craft an outfit to ward off the sharpest of the blades produced by your self-doubt, past experiences, and others' harsh criticisms by piecing together armor made of latex and loose fabric.
When you're suited up, you gather your horsepower and weave through traffic, disregarding the red lights that encourage you to stop and the green lights that demand you go home. After experiencing rocky terrain, you somehow locate a place that only 28% of adults have found, and you bravely cross the threshold.
Immediately, you are confronted by villains of all shapes and sizes: the Equipment Hoarder, the Bodybuilder, the Fit Couple, and worst of all...the Grunter. Even so, you are prepared and equipped with your own self-made weaponry. With an ironclad playlist, unwavering workout routine, and determination, you slay your demons one at a time. One minute suddenly becomes five, five becomes ten, ten becomes twenty, and twenty becomes forty-five. You soon find yourself sprawled out, stretching your limbs, and gleefully preparing your return home. Desperate to share the news.
But, since you have accomplished something many consider to be impossible, you need confirmation before you go. After all, you cannot prove you've slayed the dragon if you never bring back its head. You must provide evidence that you came, you saw, and you conquered. You're feeling yourself post-workout, so you take a selfie to properly document your journey. However, now you're faced with a new daunting task: finding the right gym captions to encapsulate your adventure. But you've done enough, right? Right, and the last thing you need, after all of that, is to try to find the right gym caption. So, I have found some of the best gym captions for you and your workout glow selfies. After all, every hero needs a sidekick. A cheerleader, if you will.
So, here are 20 gym captions for your "feeling myself" gym selfies to showcase your wonderful quest. Whether you're just beginning your fitness journey or at the end of it, these quotes will help everyone see how happy you are to have shown up.
20 Best Gym Captions for Your Next Instagram Selfie
1.Them: You're beautiful. Me: I know.
2.Welcome to the show.
3.Look around everybody on mute.
BIG ENERGY!
4.I'm her, her, her, her, her, her, her, her She, she, she, she, she, she, she, she
In the words of the Stallion.
5.One day or day one. Choose wisely.
6.At first, it was impossible. Now, it's done.
7.Press. Prep. Plank.
8.I aimed for consistency, instead of perfection. The results: perfection.
9.Do it for the after selfie.
10.I can't take my foot off they neck, it's an encore.
If you're feeling a little "Conceited."
11."And I said to my body, softly, 'I want to be your friend.'"
"It took a long breath and replied, 'I have been waiting my whole life for this.'" Ah, Nayyirah Waheed, you get us.
12.Looking good, doing better.
13.Squats on squats on squats.
14.Go ahead, envy me.
15.I'm bad like the Barbie.
16.Healthy. Happy. Thriving.
17.In the beginning, I stumbled. In the middle, I tumbled. In the end, I've arrived.
18.I'm working on myself, for myself, by myself.
19.And the category is: Body.
20.Remember, quotes won't work unless you do.
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Taysha Robinson is a writer and high school English teacher, based in metro-Atlanta. A self described philomath, you can find her reading books and articles of every genre, attending educational conferences, and hiking wherever the terrain will allow.
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