Only now they have technology to augment their behavior. Unfortunately many of the things that get recorded may come back to haunt them . . . with concrete proof of their playfulness at best or at the worst, highly regrettable recordings.
Build a home gym. (I had one from 18 - 22) I am too lazy to do it now. Plus the gym to adds an element of motivation, some place to ‘go’ where I can do everything at one place. Thankfully my gym caters to an older crowd so I rarely see what others have been describing. If so I were you, if possible, ask the front desk when the gym is then least crowded and go then.
I do understand your position about kids being kids and always have been. That maybe true to a degree but I don't necessarily feel that way. I do agree from a generation to generation degree what we see as we get older.
Just as Levi said he sees things in the gym now that he's never seen before. Shirtless for example. Hard to argue that bc he's starting he's never seen that before (just as example).
I will give a example on a larger basis and not just the fitness industry. School shootings. I don't ever remember when I was younger many school shootings (one, maybe two) bc a kid was bullied at the school. Another example is how i see kids talk to there parents when I go into my children's elementary school. Again maybe it happened but for the most part I don't remember my friends talking shitty constantly to there parents.
Like I said i definitely agree as we get older we do start to see things in younger generation that isn't up to the older generation standards. In my personal opinion kids and society as a whole is more fucked than ever. Maybe I do the changing the way i think as we age more than kids have changed, but I don't believe so. Maybe I'm just naive and it always went on but I'm blown away what I now see in kids and society as a whole.