November 2018 – Gym POC

Easy Gym, Gym Telanjang di Spanyol

Posted on November 30, 2018 by blogger

Ada-ada saja memang usaha seseorang dalam mengakali resesi yang berimbas pada usahanya. Sebuah pusat kebugaran di wilayah Basque Spanyol melakukan hal gila untuk menarik minat pengunjungnya, mereka menawarkan sesi telanjang untuk peminat olahraga yang kaum nudist. Easy Gym di Arrigorriaga merupakan gym pertama di Spanyol dimana pengunjungnya tak memakai baju sama sekali saat sedang melakukan olahraga. Menurut Merche Laseca, pemilik gym tersebut dengan adanya krisis maka hanya sedikit orang yang pergi ke gymnasium.

Ia mengaku bukan bagian dari kaum nudist namun yang ia lakukan adalah semata-mata untuk menarik minat pengunjung. Gym itu sendiri telah melakukan penelitian sebelum mentargetkan usaha mereka pada kaum nudist di Eropa. Dua kolam renang di daerah tersebut juga menjadi terkenal karena menyajikan sesuatu yang beda yaitu berenang dengan pakaian ulang tahun. Setiap tahun di dekat Sopelena banyak orang yang berlari telanjang di wilayah pantai. Sedikitnya ada sekitar 12 pantai kaum telanjang di wilayah Basque dan masih banyak lagi di semenanjung Spanyol.

“Kami selalu tertarik pada aktivitas baru,dan berolahraga dengan tanpa pakaian lebih nyaman serta natural” demikian yang dikatakan oleh Maite Vicuna, Presiden dari Basque Naturist Association yang menghadiri sesi trial di gym telanjang tersebut. Namun banyak juga yang merasa bahwa berolahraga tanpa pakaian sama sekali sangat tak nyaman dan pakaian olahraga memang diciptakan dengan maksud yang baik. Namun pemilik gym tersebut membantah bahwa konsepnya tak praktis. Ia mengatakan bahwa dengan telanjang bukan berarti tak bermoral, justru banyak olahraga yang lebih mudah dilakukan dengan telanjang.

Namun Easy Gym juga menyediakan handuk untuk kebutuhan pengunjungnya. Menurut berbagai pencinta gym lainnya hal ini memang sangat unik namun banyak dari mereka yang sangsi akan hal ini. Mereka mengatakan bahwa salah satu fungsi pakaian adalah untuk menahan keringat saat berolahraga dan jika dilakukan telanjang maka keringat akan merembes kemana-mana dan sangat menjijikan. Hal itu dibantah oleh pemilik gym mereka mengatakan bahwa setiap pengunjung sangat menikmati sesinya. Sesungguhnya hal ini tentunya berlawanan dengan kodrat manusia moderen yang memang memakai pakaian untuk menutupi kemaluan mereka. Sungguh tidak pantas jika telanjang di muka umum untuk alasan apapun.

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Health Club Marketing With Gym T-shirts

Posted on November 27, 2018 by blogger

Whether you own a circuit training franchise or a large national chain gym, there’s no doubt that two of your primary functions are health club marketing and boosting profits. Every fitness center in the country is looking for new members, while at the same time seeking to increase their income.

What if you could do both at the same time? What if you could get your existing members to do some gym marketing for you, and do it for free? Even better, how excited would you be if your members actually paid you to advertise your health club?

A custom t-shirt can help you achieve all these goals, bringing in more revenue and free advertising for years to come. Selling workout clothing has been profitable for many gyms, and it can be for you, too.

Perhaps the best way to capitalize on the workout wear market is to sell t-shirts with your logo on the front. Your members will wear a high-quality customized t-shirt, and every time they wear it they’ll be advertising for you.

Before entering this side-business, it’s important to consider exactly what type of custom printed t-shirt your members will purchase. As an example, consider the extremely popular women’s circuit-training gyms that are spread across the United States. Most of these hydraulic circuit-training gyms cater to women. Color and quality are important, especially to a woman. While most women will not wear a regular white t-shirt, they will eagerly purchase a custom designed t-shirt. Cheap t-shirts that are practically see-through after the first wash won’t generate many sales. Offering high-quality shirts in a wide assortment of colors, on the other hand, will maximize sales.

So how do you get into this profitable business? It’s simple! You already have the membership base, and all you need is a t-shirt design. For most of you, that will be your existing health club logo. Once you’ve decided on an image, slogan or logo for your printed t-shirt, your next step is to find a supplier that can wholesale t-shirts and also handle all your t-shirt printing needs.

Perhaps you already have a t-shirt printer that you’re working with. Maybe they’ve even quoted you a price that appears to be low. But is that really what you’re paying? Be wary of the hidden charges on your bill. Most gym clothes providers charge a set-up fee ranging from $60 to $140. You pay this fee every time you make a change to your t-shirt design. Other companies quote you a low price on the shirts and then hit you with a huge shipping and handling fee, bringing the per-shirt price well over $9. Hidden costs like these will erase any profit potential.

To discover what kind of profit you’ve been making on retail health club t-shirts, find one of your old invoices and figure out your actual cost per shirt. Take the total amount you paid, including set-up fees, shipping and handling and divide that number by the actual quantity of shirts you received. You may be surprised by how much you’re really paying for t-shirts.

Assuming that you’ve found a supplier with a reasonable price, you can resell logo shirts to your members for $10 each. However, you may want to consider charging more for your shirts. For example, 24 Hour Fitness center charges $16 to $20 for their women’s t-shirt. Bally’s Gym has a t-shirt for a man listed at $16.99. World Gym offers their basic logo t-shirt for $15.95 and their designer t-shirt for up to $26 each.

If you decide to charge more than the basic $10 for your gym t-shirt, your profit margins might look something like this:
$10 retail = 42% markup
$12 retail = 71% markup
$14 retail = 100% markup
$16 retail = 129% markup
$18 retail = 157% markup
$20 retail = 186% markup
(Based upon a cost of $7 per shirt)

So now you’re aware of the potential profit to be gained by selling workout clothes, while at the same time getting completely free fitness center marketing and advertising. Still not convinced that you should be selling t-shirts in your health club? Here’s another idea that may even help with member retention:

Hold a t-shirt design contest for your gym members! Have your members submit drawings or ideas for a novelty t-shirt. Choose the best design and have some printed up for sale. Give the member who submitted the best design a free t-shirt or some other prize. Your members will have fun, and you’ll be surprised with the humorous t-shirt ideas they’ll create.

If you like this idea, here are a few funny t-shirt sayings to get you started:
“Leave Your Fat Behind At __________” (name of your gym)
“Actually Weight What Your Drivers License Says.”
“Don’t Weight Another Day! Join __________ Today!” (name of your gym)
“The Weight Is Over!”
“Change Your Life Inch By Inch.”

Selling t-shirts in your health club is profitable, it provides you with free advertising and it can help increase member retention. No matter what size your gym may be, this is one strategy that deserves a closer look.

Gym Love

Posted on November 23, 2018 by blogger

The place is hot and steamy, pulsing with the beat of blaring music and gyrating bodies. You see her working it across the crowded floor, and you have to meet her. A brilliant idea: youll buy her a drink. But wait a second – that only works in night clubs, and youre at a health club. So while you could send a 20 oz. Tropical Xtremo Gatorade her way, that probably wont produce the intended result, no matter how important it is to replenish fluids during strenuous exercise. What do you do?
Gyms notoriously attract eye-catching people. Theres no greater concentration of sinewy muscles and tight, skimpy clothing anywhere except maybe the adult thriller section of your local Blockbuster Video. Lets face it, even the most average-looking gym-goer is fit and healthy, or at least will be in a few months. But while fitness clubs are a veritable bakery of available beefcakes and beefcakettes, they can actually be rather tricky places to meet people. Gyms are often chock full of cheesy pick-up artists with sleazy come-ons, or, on the other side, designer gear-wearing posers who walk around a whole lot and manage to lift very little.
But there has to be some way for normal people to meet other normal people at the gym, right? The simple answer is yes, but not without keeping several things in mind – especially if your idea of a good opening line is something like Nice shoes, wanna french?
Listen up, all you muscle-bound Casanovas out there: no matter how eager you are to begin the mating er, dating process, youve got to scope out the scene. Some gyms are as flirty as all-you-can drink body shot nite at Club Med. Others, well, youd probably have better luck cruising a Buddhist monastery. Look around. Are people talking with each other and not asking whether they can work-in? If thats the case, fire up conversations at will (well cover what to say shortly). But if the atmosphere is more businesslike, its probably best to keep minding your own. Unsolicited banter, no matter how witty, can stick out worse than a left elbow during assisted tricep dips.
Next, and most importantly: you can check someone out, just dont freak them out. Its one thing to sneak a peek while shes sprawled on the stretching mat, but quite another to train your penetrating gaze on her (no matter how amazing her side crunch technique might be). Among the women Ive spoken to, the consensus is clear. One or two quick glances, and maybe even a little smile, are flattering; prolonged staring, drooling, or high-fiving your equally lecherous friends, is not. Of course, even the strongest exhibit occasional weakness – if you absolutely cant help it, use the gyms mirrors for a far less detectable stare. (This technique can also give you a better view of, shall we say, the traditionally hidden parts of an alluring physique.)
Youve spotted someone on the lat machine, youve used the mirror, and you like what you see. Youre ready to make your move, right? Hold on there, tough guy. The next step is recognizing her receptiveness. Just as exercise is a social experience, it can also be solitary and serious. Some people just want to get in and get out as quickly as possible. This is especially true at gyms where members squeeze workouts into hectic appointment schedules, or even before the workday begins. People probably arent looking for romance in the midst of the daily grind, and while your hormones might be awake at 6:00 a.m., its unlikely that someone who gets up while its still dark wants to meet anyone, aside from the coffee stand guy.
Same can be said of those who hit the gym after work – chances are they just want to exercise, go home, and eat a salad. If some meathead wearing zebra-print Zubaz pants impedes that progress, do you think hell get that number (the real one)? She might have caught your eye, but you cant assume the feeling is mutual unless she sees you and smiles back. Even then, wait an extra minute, just to make sure shes not there with her championship kick-boxer boyfriend, whod be more than happy to use your face as a leather focus mitt.
When it comes to opening lines, we all have our stand-bys. But at the gym, inspired pick-ups like Sagittarius, right?, Im on the football team, and please dont call the cops might not work as well. True, womens reactions vary, depending largely on delivery, making it tough to say what to say. But there are definitely techniques to avoid. Worst offender? The old let me show you how to do that maneuver. Weve all seen this move in action, and might even be guilty of trying it (listen up, personal trainers). Theres nothing wrong with correcting someones form – unless its used as a pretext to ogle her body at close range, or, worse, place an instructive hand on it.
Most men dont mind a strangers touch (and probably fantasize about it), but women like it about as much as filthy bathrooms, back hair, and spitting contests. Heres something else they hate: guys who comment on how stretchy they are. Yes, women are flexible, and flexibility is awesome – just ask Emoke Ritter, world-famous Hungarian contortionist (youve never heard of her?). Women understand they can bend in ways that stir the male imagination – spare yourself the embarrassment of mentioning it.
The last thing a woman wants to hear from a stranger, unless youre Leonardo DiCaprio, is boy are you flexible. Same goes for great muscle tone, killer pecs, or nice ass. Keep the focus off her body, at least out loud. Instead, comment on the book shes reading or the music shes listening to. Or simply ask what her name is. Talk a little. Work out a little. Established a rapport first, then you can show her the right way to do a shoulder press. Better yet, let her show you.
Top 5 Least Effective Gym PIck-Up Lines
1) Is that a Detour bar in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
2) Nice Glutes.
3) Id love to ask you out for a drink, but Im on Atkins.
4) You know, my favorite exercise is pushups. Theyre best done with 2 people, care to join in?
5) Hi, my name is Richard Simmons.

Is a Gym Necessary to Build Muscle

Posted on November 21, 2018 by blogger

This is a great question. In fact, people ask this same question on many bodybuilding sites and forums, as well as on fitness channels on YouTube. The answer is well maybe. How much are you planning to bulk? If not so much, then you may not need the gym. If you’re really wanting to get ripped, then you may need the gym and its resources.

Why don’t people like going to the gym? A few reasons are the cost of the membership, the time it takes to get there, and then there’s the shyness/intimidation effect. Some people just don’t like to work out in front of people. Why? Self-conscious is usually the reason.

If you’re looking to have the body with the aimed for V-shaped back then the gym may not be needed. You will, however, have to buy some weights, a weight bench and some other equipment. To save money, check your local newspapers and garage sales.

If you’re looking for hulking muscles with the sculpted body, then a gym will more than likely be necessary. The gym will have a variety of equipment as well as special machines to help sculpt your body into a work of art.

Your body won’t know or care whether you work out at a gym or at home. It doesn’t care whether your weights are brand new or years old. Your body will respond to training and stimulation regardless.

Your muscles will only grow if you place a progressive overload on them, so you will need more and more weight plates as you move forward. At this point, you’ll need to buy even more weights or invest in a gym membership. Don’t freak out! It’ll take time before you need the extra weight, but if want the larger muscles you will eventually need them.

Another thing you might want to invest in are resistance bands. They will help increase the resistance your muscles will face. There are plenty of YouTube videos about the resistance bands so you can watch and learn.

If you’re just starting out it might be a good idea begin some bodyweight exercises. Exercises like pull ups, half squats, and push-ups can be done just about anywhere. Do as many as you can as often as you can.

If you have a park or playground close by with a set of parallel bars you can practice your dips as well as other exercises. Check out YouTube and you’ll be surprised at how many different types of exercises can be done with just a set of parallel bars.

In conclusion, is a gym membership an absolute necessity? No, you can do wonders with your body if you’re determined. Good luck!

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Opting Quality Cheap Home Gym Equipment

Posted on November 18, 2018 by blogger

Buying cheap home gym equipment is a great way to outfit your house and turn it into your own private workout center. Getting what you pay for is another matter entirely. There are some key elements to look for when considering a piece of cheap home gym equipment whether it is a big ticket item, or a simple hand-held device. There are many places to buy cheap home gym equipment both online and in walk in stores but the things to look for remain the same.

How Does it Work?

Some home gym equipment machines, cheap or otherwise are quite complicated. If you are buying a previously owned piece of equipment make sure your new cheap home gym equipment comes with the manuals you will need to set it up and use it properly.

Many full workstation equipment models have a very wide variety of exercises so it is a good idea to make sure that the home gym systems come with other information as well. Most of the complete home gym setups have workout manuals to help guide you through a full workout to get the greatest value for your money.

Nicks, Dents and Scratches

While a shiny new home gym would be wonderful and look great a few nicks, dents or scratches can lower the price on absolutely fine equipment. Many stores will sell you a floor model, or slightly used model at a much lower rate than you would otherwise get so you get great cheap home gym equipment that works just fine even if it has a few bruises.

The same goes for online sales, just because a piece of equipment is a little battered is no reason to turn away as long as all if the moving parts are in operating order. However, it should be noted that there are some areas where scratches, dents, or tears are unacceptable even if they do not precisely impede the operation of the home gym system. Padded seats, arm or leg supports and backboards should be free of rips or tears. Any of those areas that are badly damaged could irritate or even cut you as you use the equipment.

With just a little searching you can find great equipment ranging from barbells and dumbbells, to full-sized workout stations for great prices. Make sure they come with the information you need and are in good operating order and you will be well on your way to a great home gym at a very low cost.