Fitness centers are doing their absolute best to destroy our ability to build the body-mind connection through exercise. Like a bunch of lemmings, we are content to not only follow the trend but we are also the driving force behind taking what I believe is the largest step backwards in the history of fitness. It involves the amazing amounts of media distractions, specifically televisions, now common place in fitness centers. These distractions take away our ability to focus on what we went to the gym to do in the first place