Williamson Countians put premium on fitness
It's a sweltering late afternoon in Brentwood, too hot to breathe without air conditioning, never mind throw on bike shorts and hit the trails like these people are doing.
Around and around the trails that circle the Williamson County Indoor Sports Complex, fitness coach Stephen Taylor is leading a pack of cyclists on a training exercise in the sweltering August heat. Inside the sports complex are air conditioning, a 50-foot pool, room after room of gleaming fitness equipment and dozens more Williamson County residents exercising.
This is Williamson County, and that's what you do after work.
"I hate to refer to the culture of a place and say that determines whether you're going to exercise or not, but say no one in your family exercises, say they think it's a stupid thing to do, they think it's a waste of time, they think the clothes look silly. That's going to affect how you feel about exercise," said Taylor, who coaches amateur endurance athletes in the Metro area.
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