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

I spent all weekend in Birmingham at the UK Arnold Sports Festival.

I saw unbelievable feats of strength, bodybuilding battles and upsets and more sports than you can imagine.

But even with all of these amazing spectacles, the best thing I've seen is something we often talk about in this newsletter, community,

whether it's the strong men and strong women, the cross-fit athletes, the bodybuilders

of bikini competitors,

or the medieval fighting, I saw people competing

with each other cheering for and lifting each other up

no matter what their sport is it gives them fitness but it also gives them a

community and I love that we've talked in this newsletter about how face-to-face interaction and being a part of a community

are just as important to living a healthy life as exercise, and we've shared some of the brutal statistics about how loneliness, which is on the rise more and more hurts your health.

So seeing all of these fantastic communities developing around sports gave me great joy.

It really hit home when I met the founding members of the Pump App for a hangout in the middle of the chaos of the festival.

Here were hundreds of people who had traveled from all over Europe and the UK who before this

only knew each other through their comments on the app,

which while the most positive comments you'll find on the internet

still isn't the same as meeting in person.

And it was unbelievable.

They shared some of their biggest struggles.

I heard a heartbreaking story of one member who lost both parents in a car crash around Christmas.

But I also heard about some incredible successes.

One gentleman lost 40 kilograms for my American friends.

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