Reclaiming Focus in the Modern Gym

I walked into my gym last week, phone locked away, program scribbled on a scrap of paper,

and still got absolutely blinded by a ring-light bigger than the dumbbells. ring light in front

of a squat rack.) Right there, it hit me: the iron hasn’t changed a bit,

but the culture around it? That’s morphed—and it’s killing the very reason most

of us walked through those doors. – on one side, vintage 1970s gym footage with chalk

and grit; on the other, modern gym full of ring lights and tripods.)

This isn’t just a rant. The data backs it up: a 2023 survey found a whopping

46 percent of gym members feel more anxious inside a modern club than they did just five