![]() The New Year (gympocalypse) is unique because this is the period of time when most new members join. Everyone starts somewhere and no one has the right to claim their reason for joining a gym is superior to anyone else’s. There’s no place for a “here come all those dam resolutioners” mentality at the gym. Is someone using this bar or were they just too “busy” to clean up after themselves? It’s confusing and somewhat annoying to approach a bar loaded up with weights. ![]() When you’re done using free weights, put them away in their proper place. No one likes to workout around the stinky person, and in a confined gym, that stinky person does a lot of damage to the entire gym. You should also wear deodorant and practice good general hygiene. Always wash your gym clothes before wearing them again. Yes the gym is kind of a disgusting place when you think about it (try not to dwell on it for too long), but this does not give you the right to go to the gym wearing dirty clothes. It makes no sense to do bicep curls (or other isolation exercises) on a squat rack when you can just as easily do them anywhere else. Gyms have a limited amount of squat racks but an almost infinite amount of space to do bicep curls in. There are not too many exceptions to this rule and curling in the squat rack is definitely not one of them! The squat rack is a magnet for non-squat exercisers because it’s placed directly in front of a mirror and has easy access to a bar and plenty of weight. Get wireless headphones, turn your music on, and put your phone in away until you’re done working out. This isn’t only selfish, it also makes your workout much less effective as rest periods increase, intensity decreases, and duration becomes ineffectively long. Don’t use your cell phone while sitting on equipment between sets. It only becomes an issue when your cell phone use prolongs the time you occupy equipment. No one really cares if you use your cell phone at the gym. Instead, use a jump rope or body weight exercises in conjunction with gym equipment to increase intensity without inconveniencing others. Avoid taking more than one machine at a time during heavy traffic. When the gym is crowded, these supersets are impossible to do without inconveniencing a lot of people. By the middle of February, however, he says the “New Year’s resolutioners” are usually nowhere to be seen.Supersets are a great way to increase intensity. suburb of Redondo Beach, manager Rashaad Green brings on extra help to handle the crowd. As he explains it, “Some of the chains still like to try to sign you up for a yearly program, knowing full well that most people, after three or four months, are not going to be using the facility, because they get tired and lose interest.”Īt least they’re giving the job market a lift. John LaRosa, who tracks the industry at Market Data Enterprises, says many fitness clubs get their money even if you end up abandoning your exercise plan. ![]() rates unused gym memberships among the top 10 money-wasters. Wait a few weeks, though, and the lines for the treadmill and stationary bikes are likely to go away. “To put that in perspective, that’s roughly 15 percent of all the new memberships that we added for the year.” ![]() “Last year at this time, we added around 100,000 new memberships,” Strait says. “This is definitely our prime time - this is our Super Bowl, so to speak,” says Patrick Strait, a spokesman for Snap Fitness, a global chain of 24-hour workout centers. It’s the busiest time of the year for health clubs, and that helps keep the industry financially fit. In the meantime, the workout rooms will be packed with “best intentions” for the next few weeks. “I’m going to get back in shape this year!” can quickly change to “My muscles hurt I’ll just pick things up tomorrow.” By some accounts, that “tomorrow” never comes for as many as four out of five people who buy gym memberships. ![]() Now that the holidays are over, you might be determined to lose some of those extra pounds, but here’s a word to the wise: Today’s New Year’s resolution is often tomorrow’s excuse. ![]()
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