Iā€™ve been in a few communities during my lifetime, but the most recent community Iā€™m in is the fitness community. Iā€™ve been into working out for years now, but have been seriously dedicated for the last two years. I started during the beginning of quarantine since I had more than enough time to do something productive and beneficial. I started searching up workout and advice videos on youtube. I didnā€™t really understand the abbreviations fitness influencers would casually say and their language. It took me a while to do so. For example, fitness influencers use the terms ā€œpre-workout mealā€ andĀ  ā€œpost-workout mealā€ to highlight specifically if theyā€™re eating before or after a workout. When I finally understood the definition, I started getting confused on which one stood for before or after. After a while into my fitness journey I finally recognized the difference. I also struggled learning abbreviations that definedĀ  terms of specific exercises. For example, rather than saying ā€œIā€™m going to use the Bench Pressā€ we normally would say ā€œBPā€ for short. Rather than saying ā€œIā€™m going to do a deadlift or a back squatā€ we normally would use the abbreviations ā€œDLā€ and ā€œBSā€. There are many other abbreviations people in the fitness community utilize and understand, but if youā€™re a beginner you will definitely struggle to understand. During the beginning of my journey I had no clue what any of those abbreviations meant and some people may feel excluded within the community because of that, but I personally never felt a way. Iā€™ve been mostly on my own whenever going to the gym so if I donā€™t understand something in specific that just stays between me, myself and I. I prefer to just learn and grow on my own rather than asking others questions.Ā