What’s up the phrasing on that headline
I would cancel my gym membership.
And then discover every other gym is doing the same thing.
So then I figure to hell with it, I’ll just exercise at home.
Only to discover my “smart” home gym equipment is also spying on me.
And then Cory Doctorow will step out from behind a curtain and say “I tried to warn you”.
It isn’t hard to exercise without fancy gym equipment. Every result you want from equipment can be done with body weight and minimal equipment you can make yourself.
The second part of the comment is incorrect, as you noted, but exercising without equipment is cheap and effective at getting fitter. Getting big needs equipment but Getting fit can be done with calisthenics.
Power lifting requires practice of technique to win. However with just body weight and the right technique to make it better you can get as strong. Few people try this though as the good body weight exercise is hard.
Though power lifting can substitute rocks which are easy to “make” at home. (you cannot maintain perfect form with rocks though so you won’t win competition, but if strength is the goal rocks work)
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against a good set of weights, if you want to buy equipment I’d put good weights at the top of the list of equipment to buy. However you don’t need them if you get creative with body weight and are not trying to win competitions (unless the competition is really poor, you need to practice with the right equipment to win).
Why on earth would they put cameras in locker rooms?! That vague “safety and security” Is not going to cut it as an acceptable reason.
This wouldn’t fly as a reason to put cameras in women’s locker room, and it shouldn’t fly as a reason to put on in men’s, either.
A good thing to remember when they do things for “safety and security” is that they aren’t talking about your safety and security. This is just a liability issue they are trying to avoid while pretending it’s for your benefit.
This will 100% not end well. I think we’ve yet to see even hardened financial / data collection systems be hack-proof. A random gym is not going to safeguard that data and/or monitor it responsibly.
monitoring of these specific areas will be discrete and only accessible by trained monitoring technicians.
Sounds like they proved you wrong. /s
Is that not illegal?
