Welcome to the chain.

This is the BCC Club.

We're your host, Kendall Andrath.

And Sarah Schauer.

And each week we talk about a weird part of the Internet.

And what are we talking about this week?

Well, we're talking about gym culture.

Mm-hmm.

Especially in the online age.

It more has, I mean, gyms have been around for.

Forever.

Yeah, like the Romans and the Greeks used to throw rocks.

Yeah. But we're talking about how the internet has influenced gym culture. Yeah. Yeah. But honestly, too, gyms I feel like have been the same,

like their vibes have been the same for a really long time. Like I feel like there's old sitcoms

where they talk about how hard it is to like end your membership at a gym and how stressful it is and I

recently did personal training yeah for like a couple weeks well I did it for like a month probably

and then I was like done with my personal training and I didn't really want to buy more and I was just

kind of like it's so expensive yeah and I also was like I kind of like working up by myself and I feel like I learned I kind of like, I mean, it's so expensive. And I also was like, I kind of like

working out by myself and I feel like I learned, I kind of started doing personal training because

I wanted to learn how to use some equipment. And I felt like I'd done that. And it was like

breaking up. It was like worse than breaking up with someone. Oh yeah. They would not let me

leave personal training. And today I was at the gym and my old personal trainer came up to me while I was working

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