Hello listeners. I hope everyone's doing well this week.

This is the penultimate episode of the show with me as the host.

This week I'm going totally off-piece and will be talking about philosophy.

So if you haven't ever wondered what the meaning is in life, what's right and

what's wrong or what's real and enjoy living in complete ignorance and bliss, then tune

out now. But if you do sometimes ponder the deeper things, stay tuned. As a perhaps

recurring theme on the show during my tenure, I've talked about how to think about

things we see online in magazines and so on.

I have to tell you that the fitness industry doesn't exist to get you fit.

It exists so that people can make money from telling you how to get fit. And these are

two different propositions. Because there's a danger to anyone who has fitness as their full-time income,

the scenario where I tell you how to do it and then don't need you anymore, it's quite terrifying.

Because even in the most bourgeois of global locations like Mayfair, Malibu and Manhattan,

wondering also why all these places start with an M, well, a personal trainer will cost, at the most,

$180 to $200, which sounds like a lot for an hour, but it's not enough time for you to come

and do a session with me, learn how to do all the stuff and then go off and do it on your own.

That wouldn't give me enough income. Personal trainers need to put food on the table and pay

rent, so they rely on ongoing business across the years. So weirdly, it's in their best interests

to bamboozle you into thinking things are really complicated and they need you to stick around.

This is why I always like sharing facts because you don't need fancy tests, complicated equipment

and workouts that are hundreds of exercises long.

You just need someone to tell you the truth.

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