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…
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If she's more comfortable with working out around other plus size women that's fine, but I don't think gyms should be banning skinny people. At the very least, skinny people could provide motivation.
If she feels too out of place that's her own mental problem she has to over come.
Maybe if she didn't worry so much about her size or stopped comparing herself to people she would work on her main goal.. to lose the weight.
Believe it or not, some of those extremely fit people worked so hard, and made such strict changes in diet (when I say diet - I do not mean you need to starve to death but rather eat healthy).
*****And some of those fit people would actually take time to explain how to work out and help you. Trust me, I live with one... If I showed you his before and after photos, there is no way in the world you would ever believe he did it in 8 months.
From fatty (230ish lbs) to toned, with defined muscles, fat-free (180ish lbs).
No illegal or unhealthy products, just regular exercise and adjusted diet.
We have awesome working hrs 5am - noon, so we go to the gym after work. Only people that really want to work out are there between 7am and 5pm.
Facebook fitness is usually 6-8pm. :) [that's the way we call those that are there to be seen or hook up]
BTW, if we applied that logic, he would have to change gyms now..