The beauty of having muscles

This is the story of how and why I decided to pursue a muscular physique as a woman in my thirties. Most of it was sort of unplanned, but the start of it all has a very common reason: back pain. It's 2018 (I'm 32 years old), and the Desk Dweller lifestyle is starting to make its presence known in the form of neck pain and back pain. I was sitting too much, looking at phones too much because of my job as mobile app tester, and not moving enough. The only saving grace is that my weight was normal, I wasn't eating too much. how I looked in 2018, at the start of my journeyI wasn't happy with how I looked though, in typical female self-loathing style. Thinking I wasn't thin enough (I was), hating my belly fat, there was always something wrong with the way I looked. The back pain was where I drew the line though: "I'm too young for this shit!". This felt actionable.I didn't know where to start, so I went to a small local gym for personal training twice per week. I only had one request to my…