Hello again, listeners, this is Kevin and welcome to another episode of Get Fit Guy.

This week I'm going to talk about the merits of training together and see if it's true that you might get more from your training if you have a training partner.

Like most things that happen on this podcast,

I'm usually triggered by something that happens in my week.

So sticking with my usual modus operandi,

I'm inspired to talk about something that happened this week.

A very close friend of mine, using Aristotle's language,

a friend of true virtue, was getting into doing some rowing recently at the gym.

They were doing great and hitting personal bests.

I thought maybe I could help with some advice because I know a little bit about using the indoor rowing org.

Now, they sent me over some screenshots of the monitor after their training

and I gave them some tips. But then I realized that tips can be kind of hard to understand

just by sending someone a text message. So I decided I would go to the gym and make them a video

on how to set up the arometer and another video showing rowing technique.

I did this and then I thought to myself, okay, hold on, what distance is my friend rowing?

You know, maybe it would be fun to see if I can match their time or maybe beat it.

And if I can beat it, maybe then they can go away and try to beat my time. And this might

become a fun little game. So I went out and rode the same distance with about 400 meters to go.

I was really wishing hard that I hadn't decided to do this. However, it's also possible that if I

hadn't made this commitment to playing this new game, at least in my mind that I was going to play, then I would just have stopped and went to train legs instead.

I didn't stop, I finished strong and then lay on the ground like a dying animal for five minutes trying to recover.

So what did I take away from this?

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