Daily, I go to one of the branches of our local gym chain. These are opening up about every 10 miles throughout South Florida, and your membership allows access to all of them, so they are extremely accessible. Indoors, they offer a large free weight and selectorized machine open exercise area, a large cardiovascular area, a regulation basketball court, racquetball courts, a large aerobics/classroom area, a "spin" cycling room, a 25 meter pool, a large spa, saunas, a kid's supervised area, and beautiful locker rooms, and a fitness snack bar. The architecture and interior design of the facilities are excellent, and the equipment is plentiful.
At the $34.95 per month rate, and as mentioned being used daily, it was quite a good deal. I "lift" alternating body parts and do cardiovascular exercise four days, and distance swim three days per week. Three months ago, the manager of our real estate office negotiated a corporate rate, that lowered the cost to $29.95 per month (with no initiation fee). We were told to pick up a voucher to give to the gym manager, and the new rate would be set up for us. Unfortunately, today was the eighth time that I was told that this had been processed, and it has not been since it was set up...
Many of the members have no honesty, common courtesy, gym etiquette, or even any appearance of being coherent (see "Tuned In...Tuned out" in this blog)! If they take a paper towel, they drop it on the floor...they never replace weights (in their labeled locations!)...they "hog" equipment by doing multiple sets without allowing anyone to alternate usage with them...they steal the sets of 5-pound increment dumbbells from 10 to 30 pounds...they steal the selectorized pins and equipment attachments...they hardly ever wash their hands after using the restrooms..and .they urinate on the restroom floors and toilet seats, and they stuff up the toilets. A janitorial service is in continual operation but can not keep up with the actions of the members...I spend a third of my workout time trying to find missing items and put them back in their correct location...
Aesthetically wonderful and well-equipped facilities with fairly lucrative demographics...and then these kind of behaviors...I ask "why"???
Many of the members have no honesty, common courtesy, gym etiquette, or even any appearance of being coherent (see "Tuned In...Tuned out" in this blog)! If they take a paper towel, they drop it on the floor...they never replace weights (in their labeled locations!)...they "hog" equipment by doing multiple sets without allowing anyone to alternate usage with them...they steal the sets of 5-pound increment dumbbells from 10 to 30 pounds...they steal the selectorized pins and equipment attachments...they hardly ever wash their hands after using the restrooms..and .they urinate on the restroom floors and toilet seats, and they stuff up the toilets. A janitorial service is in continual operation but can not keep up with the actions of the members...I spend a third of my workout time trying to find missing items and put them back in their correct location...
Aesthetically wonderful and well-equipped facilities with fairly lucrative demographics...and then these kind of behaviors...I ask "why"???
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