Stas pulled on his own gear. The haptic rig was a web of black straps crossing over his broad chest and shoulders, lined with sensors that read muscle fiber tension, sweat rate, and cardiovascular stress. He checked the monitor on the wall. The digital lobby was already filling up. Five thousand users logged in. Ten thousand. Fifteen thousand.
He looked at the monitor. The session summary was generating. New personal record for total group caloric burn. A 98% retention rate through the Meltdown Sequence. Stas - FitCasting
Ten minutes in, the heat was real. Stas was drenched in sweat, his skin slick beneath the sensor straps. The algorithmic director of the FitCast was pushing the resistance up. Every repetition felt like pulling through waist-deep mud. Stas pulled on his own gear