One of the drawbacks of being on the jabs is that you can lose muscle mass as well as body fat. I’ve been taking Mounjaro for about six months and, apart from the expense, I have few complaints. I’ve lost about 20lb and generally feel healthier. But Caroline insists I combine the weight loss with lifting weights, so I’ve been making regular visits to a gym in White City.

I hear horror stories from gym users about people treating the space as if it’s their personal film set

I hear horror stories from gym users about people treating the space as if it’s their personal film set

I used to be a bit of a gym rat in my twenties and thirties, but marriage and children, not to mention a full workload, put paid to that. Not much has changed in the last quarter century, save for one glaring difference: everyone is constantly on their phones. I don’t just mean while waiting to use a resistance machine, like a shoulder press or a lat pulldown. I mean while sitting on a piece of equipment in between sets. I’m not exaggerating when I say I can do almost an entire circuit, doing two sets of ten reps each on nine different machines, while some man has been staring at his phone the entire time, parked on a piece of equipment without........

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