For lots of people, fitness is a social endeavor. They go to the gym with the intention of both improving themselves and catching up with friends, and for many, it’s that social interaction (and peer pressure) that helps keep them coming back. The social element of fitness can be a powerful one, serving as the basis for long-lasting friendships and offering a level of mutual support that can help you to achieve things you may not have thought you could otherwise.

I’m just not at all about that BS.

I’m one of the other kind of gym guys: the guys who have headphones in before they even walk in the door. In my personal and professional life, I strive to be more approachable than my admittedly gruff-looking exterior lets on — but in the gym … there I get to be the real me: no polite welcom

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