The great benefit of a training routine is that you improve your health and fitness. If you go to a gym, you meet like-minded people and enjoy mutual encouragement.  That brings self-satisfaction (maybe a smug feeling too, of being one of the better specimens! But why not?). The important gain is SELF CONFIDENCE... Not being 'afraid' of your body image any more: yes, you can get that shirt off without anxiety about what people think. Is that good? Should be!  Best sign we've seen in a gym for a long time! Today's lads have reached that point : happy to be seen in public, happy to post images on Insta or YouTube vids or whatever... this could be YOU...