Gym facts that will shock you
The gym is pretty dull, right? Wrong.
Check out these 10 shocking gym statistics to find out why people really
go the gym and how genetics might be the reason why we can’t make it
through a workout. Trust us, read this article and we’ll unveil a whole
new side to the gym for you.
The size of your bank balance influences your gym habits
The healthcare charity Nuffield Health found that people who earned big incomes
were likely to go to the gym more than those gym members on low
incomes. The study of 1,600 participants found that people on less than
£20,000 a year went to the gym for an hour a week, whilst those earning
the big bucks went to the gym on average for three hours per week.
People use the gym to pick up dates
Although most of us probably look our worst at the gym, a new study
commissioned by Kettler found that of the 2,000 participants who took
part in the study a whopping 50 per cent of the gym goers only go the
gym to check out the opposite sex or meet with friends. Almost a third
of those participants also admitted that they never even worked up a
sweat at the gym.
Gym goers eat more chocolate
According to Market Research World, those people who go to the gym
are, strangely, thought to be 18 per cent more likely to indulge in chocolate bars. If you’re guilty of eating lots of chocolate make sure you are eating the right foods before and after your workout.
Genetics can make you hate the gym
Researchers at Iowa State University found that people’s ability to
withstand the pain and exertion of exercise could be up to 50 per cent
genetically influenced. For those people with low ventilatory
thresholds exercise caused their moods to drop and they were more likely
to stop working out earlier than those people with high ventilatory
thresholds.
Romance at the gym
If you want to find The One
stop wasting time writing and rewriting your online dating profile and
instead head to the gym. Apparently a study conducted by Nuffield Health
found that of their 2,000 participants, 10.5 per cent of members
actually live with someone they met at the gym.
Redundant gym memberships
Gym memberships don’t come cheap, which is why in 2009 the fitness
industry’s revenue was $19.5 billion. Yet despite the expense it is
thought that 80 per cent of those Americans who actually have a gym
membership do not use the gym.
The amount of people who have a gym membership
Sometimes it feels as though everyone you know has a gym membership,
but how true is that? Well apparently around four and half million
adults in the United Kingdom have a gym membership, whilst in American
it is estimated that 45 million adults have a gym membership or are
members of a health club.
The amount of time people use the gym in a week
If you’re fed up of feeling guilty for not going to the gym enough
compare the amount of times you go compared to the averages. According
to Fitness For Weightloss people on average tend to go to the gym twice a
week. Does that make you feel better or worse about the amount of
times you workout at your gym?
Post-Christmas memberships
We all know that after overindulging at Christmas most of us go on a
health kick and the stats reflect this. Apparently 12 per cent of all
gym members sign up to gyms in January, yet these memberships seem to be
short-lived and, according to the Fitness Industry Association, after
just 24 weeks most people have quit or stopped attending.
People lie about going to the gym
This is perhaps one of the most shocking of all our shocking gym
statistics and it is that 13 per cent of the 2,000 people who took part
in a study commissioned by Kettler said that when they say they go to
the gym they actually go somewhere else. We wonder where these devious
fitness dodgers go instead?
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