Nearly one-third of gym-goers say they have not returned to their workout facility.
For those that haven’t returned, 27 percent said they don’t have plans to go back, according to a new survey from UpSwell Marketing. That begs the question, is it the pandemic or the work that is keeping them away?
Source: Pump You Up: Third Of Gym Goers Haven’t Returned Since Start Of Pandemic
My last day at the gym was Feb 28, 2020. Seeing the upcoming Covid threat, I did not renew my membership starting March 1st.
Three weeks later, our public health shut down the state and put us under lock down for several months.
The facility re-opened briefly, later in the year, but was eventually closed. In the past month, the building was demolished to make way for a new roadway bypass.
I switched to exercises at home, but they have never been as good as what I did in the gym, plus I lost my main source of social contact.
The effect is my health is not as good as it was in February 2020, which does not reflect well on public health.