A place to feed the soul

I sit here writing you tonight while the world sleeps. It is completely silent with the exception of a few singing bugs outside the window and the tapping of my fingertips on the keyboard. The only other place that even comes close to making me feel this at ease is a gym filled with grunting overmuscled men trying to lift the weight of the gym. I'm sure I got your attention when you read that. You must be thinking that it would seem the most impossible place to find peace. I'm here to assure you that you are mislead.
I want more than anything, yes just more than anything, to reach out and take more people to this place that they just don't know exists. It's amazing when you discover what it feels like to be there completely in that moment where no one exists but you. It's magical when you close the curtain and leave those puffing too weight hungry animals back stage. It's almost overwhelming when you finally discover your very soul and mind make that awesome connection as you push set after set of too heavy dumbbells. I've failed time after time to reach my clients deep enough to introduce them to this place that few have visited. It's a place that few of us will ever reach. I've been here time after time with just the voice of Frank Sinatra singing about the cycles of our lives. I've heard every word that he's said as my body has pushed its self to cross brick walls.
I've heard as he's pleaded that although he's down so are many others. I've smiled on hard days as he's explained that through the cycles of our lives there will always be smiles followed by tears. I stress that I work out to Frank Sinatra and many like him to make a more silent point my friends. As I walk through the doors and hear the grunts and groans of my less peaceful gym goers with their my daughter couldn't listen music blaring in their ears; I am saddened for them. My heart absolutely aches for their missed opportunity. I assure you friends there is a place that you can go in your mind that will lead you to a deeper peace than you have ever felt.
I've been told before that there has to be a mind body connection in weight lifting to reach your full potential. I believe it goes even further my friends. You have to be there, I mean really there, just you and lose the audience that exists in your background. It's much deeper than the beautiful being that you are hoping to create for the world to see. It's more than the new gym outfit that you are sporting around for the first time. It's the hurt that your best friend keeps throwing at you time after time though you love them unconditionally...It's the way you always fall behind just when you think you will finally get ahead at work...It's the dreams you never made come true...The way others aren't great to you...It's anything and everything that's wrong in your world..
It's when you are there facing it all head on until it's gone. It's that moment when a pair of iron dumbbells become food for your soul. When you are completely in control. It's that moment when no one is there but you, though the room is more than full. When you push out, then bring them down and you never hear a sound; other than the sound of you...So my friends I hope you try to find this place that I want so much for you to see...Just clear your mind, open your heart and your soul shall set you free... Oh fitness friends, it's so much more than a rippled physique; get to know the rest...for oh how it fills a hungry soul...