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Those Fitness Assessments at Gyms Could Be Lying to You

FALSE NUMBERS

‘The chart was manipulative... it was clearly directed towards making me—and people—[think] that they were less fit than they were and therefore needed training.’

Ashley Ross
Ashley Ross
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Ashley Ross

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