Should Gyms Ban Skinny People?
SodaHead Living
2012/06/20 20:53:29
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Did you ever notice that most gyms are filled with skinny people? So did Wendy McNary, an overweight woman in her early fifties who felt too out of place to join a fitness club. Until she discovered Body Exchange. You see, Body Exchange, in North Vancouver, Canada, admits only plus-size women.
For Wendy McNary, Body Exchange was exactly the kind of environment she was looking for. “It’s intimidating going into a gym setting,” she told The Province. “I honestly think some people in a gym setting are judgmental to people who are overweight or have a different body type.”
Now, she exercises six days a week, is training for her second 5K race and is down 50 pounds. But does it make sense to ban fit people from the gym? Louise Green, founder and CEO of Body Exchange, thinks it does. “Many of our clients have not had successful fitness pasts so I can see the anxiety before we get started and I can see the relief and happiness after we finish,” Green told The Province. “People are often too fearful to become active. There wasn’t a model that offered camaraderie.”
But we have to wonder: Do they throw you out once you slim down? How do they decide who is too skinny to join? And wouldn’t a gym that’s only for thin people offend everybody? Hmm…
For Wendy McNary, Body Exchange was exactly the kind of environment she was looking for. “It’s intimidating going into a gym setting,” she told The Province. “I honestly think some people in a gym setting are judgmental to people who are overweight or have a different body type.”
Now, she exercises six days a week, is training for her second 5K race and is down 50 pounds. But does it make sense to ban fit people from the gym? Louise Green, founder and CEO of Body Exchange, thinks it does. “Many of our clients have not had successful fitness pasts so I can see the anxiety before we get started and I can see the relief and happiness after we finish,” Green told The Province. “People are often too fearful to become active. There wasn’t a model that offered camaraderie.”
But we have to wonder: Do they throw you out once you slim down? How do they decide who is too skinny to join? And wouldn’t a gym that’s only for thin people offend everybody? Hmm…
Skinny people make delicious high-protein snacks.
...and that was just after she had a baby.
"I have no self control over what I eat, feel sorry for me and persecute skinny people" Is their mindset. I know because I'm not very skinny and morbidly obese girls hate me because I'm skinnier than them.
I started going to the gym this past winter to lose weight, even though I would be classified as "skinny". I was intimidated too because everyone seemed so in shape while I couldn't even go half a mile on the treadmill with out having to stop to catch my breath. but you know what I did? Stopped having a pity party and did what I was suppose to do at a gym: get in shape! It's not a contest.
And a flaw in this logic is that what happens to these over weight woman who lose weight, make all these friends at the gym but then would be classified as average? They get booted and now are no longer accepted to that gym they've grown accustomed to.
While I understand that feeling, sure, they can make specialized gyms. But having a pity party over yourself is the same reason why someone gets fat in the first place. People judge everyone daily just for breathing. Working out? Just come on... those fit people in the gym should inspire you like they did for me.
But I really do wonder about when people do lose the weight. Do they actually just kick them out? What kind of system do they have to determine "too fit"?
I expect to see you women who voted "No" to be out picking all these female only gyms that are going up everywhere.