What if we started trying to train without phones again??

So, here's my crazy proposal!! I stopped bringing my phone to the gym a few years ago. No music, no podcasts, nothing! 99.9% of my sessions now are just me, the bar, and the mirror in front of me, just looking at myself!

I saw a woman doing incline ab crunches last month while trying to text, not doing either very well. The guy on the treadmill with a TV show on the screen and his phone in his hand, not really watching either haha! People who sit on a machine for 15 minutes, pick up their phone, and somehow forget they came to train.

I was away on vacation in February and trained at a local gym near my parents. The machines had little stickers on them: "please don't spend too much time on your phone, let others train too." And the thing is, it doesn't actually work, because everyone is doing it!!

I'm not pointing fingers. I get why it happens, but just wanted to vent about it a bit...to me, it's funny, we pay money to actually be in a gym or whatever, but mentally we are not there anymore! even that sacred time we had with ourselves and the weights, seems to be gone...thanks for reading!