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SWEATING THROUGH COVID

ears ago, I wrote a sobering article titled, “Confessions of a Steam Room Junkie.” Last March when COVID hit, I was forced to go cold turkey. The gyms closed and the withdrawal was nasty. Not from the weight room or cardio machines – none of that nonsense. I can lift water jugs or run whenever I want. The fix I’m referring to is trickier to replicate, and the only logical reason one would pay for a gym membership in the first

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