Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.

There is something I have loved about the gym

ever since I was on my weightlifting team at 15 years old.

The gym is a community. If you have ever seen pumping iron, you

know that even though we were preparing to compete with each other, we all

trained together, we laughed together and we pushed each other, we all trained together, we laughed together, and we pushed each other.

To this day people say to me, you must have a home gym, why do you work out at a public gym?

I have a fantastic home gym, and I use it

if I want a second workout or some extra cardio.

But I'll never stop going to public gyms. I love the community. I love seeing the same crowd every day

joking together, enjoying our progress together, and just schmoozing between sets.

If you are someone who is a little scared about going to a gym for the first time,

I want you to know that there isn't anything to worry about. I see newcomers every day. I'm proud of them. The hardest thing is starting out.

I see the old members giving them pointers or congratulating them. The gym in many ways is the opposite

of social media, which should be called anti-social media. You won't last long at a gym trolling people. You learn to share

and work together. You build relationships. Everybody is starting from a different place, but we are all there for the same reason.

Just to be a little better than we were when we woke up this morning.

There are some rules you should know. I recently filmed a video at the gym

with some of my friends and training partners to help people in the pump club

app who were worried about what to do if a

machine is taken you can find it on YouTube. Remember none of us own anything in the gym.

Don't hog equipment, work in with each other. Leave the

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