Munich in mid-January was a special kind of grey. The sky looked like wet concrete, the Isar carried chunks of dirty ice downstream, and the streets smelled of wet wool coats and diesel exhaust. Inside BavaFit, however, the world was always the same: warm, metallic, loud with the rhythmic clank of iron and the low bass pulse of someone’s Bluetooth speaker.
It was Sunday, January 11, 2026, 7:42 p.m. The post-New-Year rush had already started to bleed out. The cardio area, which had been a wa