You discover muscles in places you never knew were even meant to have muscles. 
You regret every pizza you ever had. 
You curse your trainer under every breath after the first set of every exercise. 
You check in every direction for your trainer before skipping an exercise. 
Holding a plank is the longest one minute you will ever experience. 
Every squat sucks the life out of you. 
You wish the hot guy in your gym did not see you in a tattered T-shirt with rivers of sweat dripping down your face.
You beg for mercy — “it’s just my first day” being the most common refrain — after every exercise (but in vain). 
You can’t sit down without pain or making (awkward) noises for a day or two, and stairs become your new enemy. 
You stop and stare at people who manage to do five reps without their tongues hanging out. 
Gym mirrors magnify every part of your body and you just can’t avoid looking, because they are everywhere!
Water breaks are your fave parts because you get a legit excuse to sip and pant. 
The moment your trainer says this is the last exercise, it feels like the happiest moment of your life.

Text: Tiash De

You know you’re directionally challenged when...

You can only understand the way to places according to how close/far they are from malls, parks or your best friend’s house.

You need to keep buffer time because you have accepted your fate and you know you will be lost. It is taken for granted that you will have to get down to ask people on the road for direction, and you do a happy dance when more than one person points in the same direction that you are headed. 

You envy the way Hansel and Gretel could drop breadcrumbs so that they could find their way back home with ease. #whycantI

Google Maps is your best friend, and you owe your life to that lady from the app who tells you to go left or right. 

You can’t believe your luck when your yellow taxi driver magically knows the place you want to go to. Take me there, my fair ride. 

When you’d rather pay a surge price on an Uber or Ola than take a yellow cab because you don’t have to get directions. 

You are in awe of people who can talk directions to each other and you stare at them with your alien face on, while they converse in their language and make a mental road map which is too complex for you to wrap your head around. 

You need to make sure you have enough talk-time on your phone because you will most definitely need someone to direct you after you realise you are lost. 

You will require your friend/relative to come and stand at a known location before the actual destination, so that you aren’t completely lost.

Text: Sehrish Hazarika