"It's MY Gym !"
Posted on 06/21/2012 3:51:06 PM PDT by kingattax
A Canadian gym has banned slim gym rats -- and it's not the only one to do so.
As anybody with a gym ID mouldering in their wallet, purse or glove compartment can tell you, there are a lot of obstacles to going to the gym regularly. There’s just not enough time in the day. Gyms are just too expensive.
There’s that Real Housewives marathon on Bravo. And then there’s one of the hardest reasons to admit: what if your gym just has too many skinny, healthy people in it?
For some gymgoers, a plethora of thin, peppy gym rats can prove to be too big of an obstacle to overcome. That’s why Body Exchange, a Vancouver-based gym, has made a bold business move and banned skinny people from their establishments in the hopes of fostering a friendly work-out environment for a primarily plus-size clientele.
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whole lotta shakin goin on
Many overweight people are highly self-conscious about exercising. They think that everybody will spend their workout time chuckling at the fatty trying to get fit.
The truth is that most people, who are working out are too busy to think about anything else other than their own workout and diet and stuff.
In fact, healthy people are usually glad to see an unfit person trying to make positive changes in their life and will help if they can.
The free market is a wonderful thing.
Wonder what happens when they lose the weight? Kick ‘em out or just keep ‘em plump enough to qualify for membership and their money?
"It's MY Gym !"
To each his/her own... This is not a club I’d want to patronize.
Tooting my own horn here, I’ve gone from 125 kg down to 106 kg in the last eight months at my club and a big part of my motivation is seeing people my age who are a lot healthier than I am, pounding the treadmills, humping the weights and doing stuff I couldn’t dream of doing a year ago.
The fact that there is quite a few nice looking young ladies in spandex doesn’t hurt either.
Go to a gym where everyone is flopping fat around? Yeeech! No thanks!
Gee!What gym do you go to?MKost gyms I’ve gone to have a dress code and they won’t allow woman to wear spandex outfits unfortunatly for me.
Your right though the eye-candy would make it more than worthwhile for me to go to the gym.Maybe that’s what the gyms should do is encourage more young lasses to dress in spandex to encourage us old guys to get on the health bandwagon.
Very nice. Congratulations.
LOL, it’s called NAS and it’s in Kichijoji, Tokyo. Only a few of the gals wear the spandex... but it’s enough... it’s enough...
Get’s my heart pumping before I get anywhere near the machines, I can tell you that!
Thanks. Doc says I have 10 kg more to go, but no rush. He’s happy with my progress to date.
Yes, yes it is. I used to be a personal trainer, and I have helped people to lose a lot of weight. A few of the people I trained really liked that I didn’t care how fat they were (My dad is a very large man, his dad more so, so I didn’t frown on large people as many do, to me they were like family).
Around these parts, there’s gyms for the elderly, gyms for the bodybuilders, gyms for the college students, gyms for women, and now, a gym that is for the “average person.” They don’t allow grunting, don’t allow equipment hogging, don’t offer really high weight (fixed) dumbells and barbells, and label themselves as the “Judgement Free Zone.”
I find it a brilliant business move, as every first Monday they order hundreds of dollars worth of gourmet pizza (about $1,000-$1,200 worth if they paid full price, but they get a steep discount), and feed everyone. Every Tuesday morning they have “Einstein Bros. Bagels” for those that missed the pizza. This isn’t your average take out pizza, either, it’s really, really good and fatty, lol, and about $20-25 a piece.
I really, really like the way that gym works (I was formerly a member), and the atmosphere. Even though I’ve never had what most people would qualify as a “weight problem” (I have never, at my largest, been more than a few pounds out of my ideal weight limit) I still enjoyed my personal exercise there over other gyms at which I have had memberships (many).
Back home (Vegas), I used to go to the gym at 1AM to get away from all the blowhards that would often hog the equipment for hours as they flexed in the mirrors. Good on this gym, and those like it.
Maybe we need gun control, so that whomever is holding a gun to their heads and feeding them twinkies will finally cease and desist.
At most.
I wish someone had thought of this crazy pro choice idea before they banned smoking in all Michigan bars. Non smoking bars would have made a fortune.
“Many overweight people are highly self-conscious about exercising. They think that everybody will spend their workout time chuckling at the fatty trying to get fit.
The truth is that most people, who are working out are too busy to think about anything else other than their own workout and diet and stuff.
In fact, healthy people are usually glad to see an unfit person trying to make positive changes in their life and will help if they can.”
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Sometimes, it depends. The age group of 20-25 is usually split, and there is a lot of mocking and snickering. As I mentioned upthread, I used to be a personal trainer. I’ve never been “fat” (although I feel fat, if I ever break 180), so I only know what I’ve seen and heard. I’ve been training/exercising with a lot of young people (I was a trainer when I was younger), and there were a lot of jabs made. I think as conservatives, we’d like to hope there isn’t that kind of bias, but it simply isn’t true. However, now that nearly 70% of Americans are overfat, and nearly a third of the population being morbidly obese, there’s less and less skinny people to poke fun.
Americans are FAT there’s no getting around that. (like others you mentioned) don’t care how much someone weighs, as long as they actively try to be healthy. Not everyone is like that.
No metric on FR. What’s next, how many stones you are? :)
I bet. I am originally (born and raised until adulthood) in Las Vegas, where the smoke is thick and acrid almost anywhere (restaurant/club wise) you g, even in the nonsmoking sections. I now live in Utah, where smoking is banned I think 100ft from and public building.
I am a big, big fan of people choosing what they want to do with their lives. I neither smoke nor drink, so I can’t speak to the bar situation, but if someone wants to, that’s their choice. I’m sick of Government intervention in every nook and cranny of our lives. Seriously, a business should be able to ban anyone they feel like banning, and being as exclusive as they want. No special protected classes, none. It’s amazing that we so rarely have it these days, that this is news! I bet this gym makes a fortune, good on them.
One of the more vocal bar owners against the smoking ban in Delaware was the owner of a bar that had gone smoke free on its own. He didn't want to lose the niche market/clientele he had created for himself.
The ones that truly annoy me are the ones who claim their customers would prefer non-smoking, but they would lose too much business if they went non-smoking, so they want everyone to be the same.
Just wait, this gym is going to be targeted as being discriminatory and they will be forced to change the policy.
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