Ladies, your gyms may soon be overrun...

[Ceebs]

As much as I enjoy having the gym virtually to myself at 5AM, I still wish more people would take responsibility for their health. I'm tired of subsidizing their medical expenses due to their unhealthy lifestyles via MY rising insurance premiums, prescription drugs, and health care costs.

Amen and karma to you.

This thread makes me so happy that I: 1) no longer work at a gym, and 2) have a beautiful running path within a block, and a home gym. Only blind devotion could force me back into one of those places before the resolutioners clear out.

 

[makedah]

That sounds like a great idea. I'd go for it and would be happy to submit to regular fitness testing.

I've always wondered if it would be possible to get a large number of healthy exercisers together and approach various insurance companies to see if we could get our own "group" health plan? Since our health risks as a group would be lower than the general population, we should be able pay lower fees for our insurance. Does any such plan exist?

I've heard murmurings about a "fat tax" on junk foods, and about letting folks write off their gym memberships (as well as other "weight-loss" efforts) as health expenses on their taxes. Of course, weight-loss drug companies and companies like Weight Watchers are completely in favor of this!

 

[spiderwoman]

grrrrrripe!

This thread is like a breath of fresh un-sweaty-gym-smelling air!!! I hate all those resolutionists coming, lifting 15 lbs and hogging all the machines. I wouldn't mind it but they ALL have NEW workout clothes [xmas presents no doubt] and I am with y'all on the 'fat tax' where do I sign up and get a fitness test done, and it also p-o's me that the trainers are like beggars in my gym always looking to make some cash, and they don't enforce any sort of 'clean your equipment/put your weights away/bring a towel' rules, and HOLY COW I suddenly feel better :]

I think that if I had the space in my house and the cash, I'd have my own home gym and avoid all the gym crap...