Except for the health (excluding fitness)industry, every industry such as food industry, transport, education, tourism, textile, and many small businesses faces a major setback but the industry which almost came to disaster is the fitness industry because of the lockdown gym were shut down and this lead to a major setback as there was no more fitness enthusiast coming to the gym. Smaller gyms in localities are about to die and the larger gym chains such as credit, gold gym, fitness first, etc. are facing a 20 to 30 percent loss of annual sales. There are a lot of people who are directly and indirectly earning through the fitness industry. For example, the cleaning staff, equipment dealers, supplements dealers, sports shop owners all are facing a downfall in the time of pandemic and one thing in common between them is that they all are related to the fitness industry. Gym owners are unable to pay their members and sending them on a no salary leave. Many of the trainers are losing their job because of this.
FACTS:
The global fitness and health club industry generates more than 80 billion U.S. dollars in revenue per year.
The gold gym filed for bankruptcy in may as the gym is may as coronavirus hits the U.S economy. The 55-year-old company is going to restructure its 700 centers across the globe and some of them may get closed permanently.
According to Chirag Sethi, owner of anytime fitness outlet in Delhi said the current state of the fitness industry in India is a far cry from what it was in April last year. They are facing a loss of approx. 100% as there are 0 new admission and people are scared of going to the gym.
There is a rough estimate by some of the big names from the industry that it will take about 10 to be back on track completely.
Alternatives:
Well
if you are a fitness enthusiast then nobody can keep you away from your fitness the regime and the gym owners need to take a look at this, constant interaction
with their customers will save them from customer loss.
Home workout is going
to be the next big thing in the upcoming time and the owners had to prepare for
that in order to survive in the market.
Personal trainers can train through live video streaming and the people in this business can rely on apps and internet websites to train and guide people and train them without getting in any form of physical touch.
Seeing the current
situation if the market and the fitness industry the technology could the best
way to deal with the losses in the fitness industry.
you can visit these
websites to get a proper home workout plan
CONCLUSION:
As a whole, we all have to just unite
and fight with this virus by keeping our nerves calm and cool and any kind of
overexcitement can cause a permanent wound on the individual level as well as
the entire human society.
Majorly the govt. have to take some more
interest in this and made some proper guidelines for the gym owners as well as
for their customers and lastly the govt. only could make the rules but it is us
who need to take care of our and others' health very carefully.
Again, we need to address the fact
that the homework out is the most effective way to main our fitness health at
this particular point in time. We just can't be complaining all the time and
cursing the virus and lockdown every time. We need to find the local solution
around us to get fit in the most effective and responsible way.
