Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy. And today, in a special two-part podcast series,

you're going to learn about the problem with pollution in gyms. And then next week, you'll learn about

how you can effectively exercise outdoors and still get really, really fit doing so. So,

recently, I've been exercising outdoors far, far more than I usually do. As a matter of fact,

these days I'm in the gym about an average of

once every two weeks or so. This stands in pretty stark contrast to the years when I was a

bodybuilder, spending one and a half to two hours in the morning pumping iron at the health

club, typically followed by another visit later in the afternoon or early evening. Now, don't get me

wrong, if the only thing that keeps

you physically active, exercising, and motivated to train or live healthy is a gym membership

or a regular visit to your health club, then that's far, far better than laying on the

couch, eating Twinkies, and watching Game of Thrones. But at the same time, there are some big

problems with gyms

and some big benefits to being outdoors that you're going to discover in this two-part episode.

And today, like I mentioned, we're going to focus on gyms. You're going to learn about the

problem with gyms and tight indoor spaces where lots of people are exercising. And then in the next

episode, you're going to learn not only

about how to exercise outdoors and some tips to exercise outdoors, but also the potent

mental and physical fixes that nature can provide. So let's start with the problem with gyms.

Recent studies, and I'll give you a full list of those studies, if you go to quick and dirty tips.com

slash get fit guy 239. That's get fit guy 239.

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