Gold's Gym

In off-season, it's not a supplement.

Now, what I'm not suggesting here is that therefore, right now, you need to go and get a membership to Gold's Gym because it's time for you to become a bodybuilder.

It's not.

It also doesn't mean that you have to be lifting weights four times a week.

Is it an expense or is it an investment? So now if you switch the language and the narrative of what you're actually paying for, dollars in exchange for what? So I could pay $10 at Planet Fitness in exchange for what? You're not going to get the same effect unless you truly know, like someone maybe like yourself, where you know what you're doing.

Now, as far as newcomers, I know for me personally on my fitness journey, I used to only work at my apartment complex gym because I felt like I wasn't even good enough to go to Gold's.

And so I felt like I literally wouldn't let myself get a membership and start going to Gold's until I got to a certain point in my journey.

where I felt like, oh, you know, like, I'm good enough or I'm serious enough about the gym to, like, even, like, be in a gym membership or, like, be around people that are, like, more serious about working out.

Like, and, like, my friends that do CrossFit are all, like, super, like, jacked and, like, super fit.

And then I thought, well, when I was a baby, I used to heal animals, and I would put my hands and I would heal.

So then he called back a few days after that, and he said, "I'm gonna tell the guys at Gold's Gym to come to you.

You have nothing else to do." So that's how it all started, Lindsay.

Then Katie came, my friend, back over, and she said, "Let me get you a Reiki table." We put it in the living room.

One gym in the city, but because it conflicted with my college schedule, I didn't get to keep that job very long.

And then I stumbled into Gold's Gym in Brooklyn.

And that's where I was hired by Will.

He was the fitness director in that facility at the time.

Hyrox has since changed the rules.

I spoke to Devon Miller from Gold's Gym, Hyrox winner and trainer, about this incident.

Uh, Devon, what is your response to this rather incredible story?

Sure.

It has old bodybuilding gurus.

There's Ken Sprague, who used to own Gold's Gym, is on it as well.

And the last thing, because I know I'm ranting, any book by David Chapman, any book by John Fair are must-reads if you're interested in the history of bodybuilding.

Throw in Randy Roach, Muscle Smoke and Mirrors, and you're just going to have a wonderful time going back through the history of things.

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... like, in Europe or, like, Australia, or I would be a personal trainer at some, like, Gold's Gym or something.

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That's so funny.

Oh.

Oh my God.

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