Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Train for a Great Life. I am 14 years into gym ownership, and I am still finding reasons why I absolutely love it. These are two realizations in the last 24 hours. First one. I've been having a pretty deep back and forth discussion with a member who nearly quit inside of three months. Okay. Everyone has their own journey, and she was having a hard time with comparing against what she used to be and going in the direction of fitness that we do versus what she knew. What came from it, I think, is going to be someone who now understands quite deeply what we're about and how much we love this stuff and care for people who are willing to show up. I thought I'd said all I needed to, and then I thought, my God, send her the video. Back in 2011, I created a video called My Journey into CrossFit that went viral before viral was really a thing, or something that people were creating things trying to do, you know, for the purpose of going viral. I didn't create it for that reason at all. I created it for the members of a gym that I was coaching at because I was hearing rumblings that this stuff isn't hard for Jay because I was finishing workouts and half the time that they were. For context, I came from high-level sporting background in multiple sports that had good carryover. I'd been lifting weights for 10 years, and I already had nearly two years of basically going all in with CrossFit and focused on competing and being the best that I could be. Okay. I had a ton of video, um, though none of it from the first, like the early days, like the first six months or so, which would have really helped tell the story even more. Um, I knew the mental battle that I went through, and so I tried to share it in a way that would resonate with everybody. And what happened was over 100,000 views on YouTube um in a week in 2011 before it was mainstream, and somewhere in the area of 5,000 to 10,000 shares on Facebook. Um, even though it wasn't exactly what I'd hoped for, I remember hitting publish thinking I might have hit the nail on the head with this one. Anyway, this is all just context. I haven't shared that video in a long time, but it seemed perfect to stamp the conversation we were having with something that I had created 14 years ago. Like I haven't really changed that much, even though I mean it's it feels like a lifetime ago, and at the same time it feels like yesterday. Um, she responded to me saying, I love how non-pretentious it is, which when I think about it is some of the highest praise that I could think of. Um, fitness influencing puke has come to take on something that I don't want any part of. And here's the thing: I don't have to. I've been doing what I do for as long as I can remember, and and fitness influencing in my own way, and all I have to do is be me. I love that. Second one. Uh the YouTube algorithm yesterday brought me to a video called Last Day of High School in 2001, and I decided to click it. It's short, it's 45 seconds, it's not about anything, it's just quick clips of people that you don't know, and it's absolutely beautiful. And I was trying to figure out why. Some nostalgia, no doubt. Um, I was in high school then, and it's got that nostalgic feeling that everybody probably has about how things have changed since their time. Um, but it was something more. It just felt like it couldn't quite be created the same way now. You'd have people with devices in their hands and their faces buried in them, and you wouldn't get all of them. Everybody seemed so present, so vibrant. And I showed it to Lace this morning, and I said, Where could you shoot something like this now? Not a school, not a sporting event, not a concert, not a mall. And she said, Our gym is like that. And I said, Holy shit, you are right. And so while a certain part of the fitness industry goes all in with tech and wearables and online communities and even full VR, we are just over here cultivating that third place your home, your work, and outlaw. I love that. I'll see you in the gym.