Trinity Fitness Colorado Springs — Local services in Colorado Springs

“Faithful.”

This has been the word on my brain lately. I’ve never much loved it; it always felt like a boatload of exhaustion & pressure I didn’t want to face. It meant slogging through the mundane & the painful—and emerging with a smile.

It seemed ingenuous.

Thus, faithfulness was not a virtue I spent much time pondering—until I joined Trinity Fitness.

My friends probably think I have posted way too much about the gym lately, but I promise it’s not because I’m becoming an exercise junkie. (My abs hurt just thinking of it.) No, it’s because Trinity Fitness is the one place in my life where I consistently feel seen & accepted as I am. That safe vulnerability has allowed me space to learn something about faithfulness.

At Trinity, every morning, we go through a battle—a set of exercises rotated through over a specific period of time. However many rounds you complete, you’re done when the time is up.

This is the only way I get through most of the workouts.

I am not fast. I am not strong. Every battle I participate in, I hit a wall of pain that makes me want to drop to the floor & not get up.

But I get up anyway.

It’s so much work—sweaty work that leaves me wanting to spend the rest of the day in bed. Watching the other warriors around me zoom through their rounds while I struggle doesn’t always help. What does help is seeing them hit their own walls, breathe through them, & keep going.

THIS is faithfulness. THIS is what it looks like, feels like. It’s doing one more thruster when your shoulders are screaming for you to put the barbell down. It’s doing five more pushups when you’re fairly convinced they’ll make you puke. It’s not fast or fit or flashy—it is a slog, but a productive one.

Because you come out stronger.

There is the smallest shadow between my abs now, the slightest contour on my biceps. My posture has improved. So has my stamina. More than all that, I have a tangible reference for how to love Jesus well in hard seasons. He is not asking me to excel; He is asking me to finish.

And most days, oddly enough, I do leave the gym smiling. Perhaps this can be true of me...

There aren’t enough words to explain what this place means to me. I came to this gym at opening day 9 years ago to support some friends launching the COS chapter- at the time I knew absolutely nothing about form, technique, or anything of the sort. It was intimidating at first, not knowing what to do- until I showed up! The concept of “fitness” felt so out of reach and only for advanced athletes who seemed to be born with pure talent. What I found at Trinity Fitness was a deeply encouraging and truly loving community that met me and many others exactly where I was at, (from teaching me how to do my very first squat and push up and everything thereafter), included me and intentionally took time to pour out and teach from expertise and knowledge, without making me feel less than or that certain levels of fitness were out of reach. There was something about the community- the people that saw good and called it out (both in physical fitness and internal health), and challenged me to keep going that kept me coming back. I’ve learned through Trinity fitness that this is so much more than working out- it’s building relationships, it’s challenging each other and growing together in and outside the gym. 9 years later I make a point to get here regularly, because the people know me and I know them- they’re the kind of people that call if they don’t see you when they normally do. It’s truly a safe place to learn, grow, love and be loved. They care for the wholeness of the person, not just your performance- and if you care about that, they walk with you and challenge you in that way too! The same heart holds true today, everyone has a place and belongs here, no matter your background...

My wife and I have been at Trinity Fitness for over 4 years and we absolutely love this gym. It has us in the best shape of our lives as we enter into our grandparent phase, but that's not why we love it. We love it for the community. The trainers and the warriors have a love for each other that you're not going to find at any other gym. It is the first thing that everyone says when you ask them what they love about Trinity. It is a true family that is more interested in encouraging and building one another up than in admiring how good they look in the mirror, or posting their PRs on social media. One of the rules of the gym is to glorify God with your best effort. Not the best effort of the person next to you, not the best effort of that guy bending barbells, but YOUR best effort. No egos here. Just people who want to take care of the bodies that God gave them, and do it with...