Unused Gym Memberships cost Brits £550m

Shocking poll reveals that 11% of British gym members will fork out a whopping £564 per year on gym memberships that they do not use.

Clothing brand, Banana Moon, released a survey last year which has shed light on the amount of money that Brits waste on extortionate gym memberships which cost consumers an average of £47 a month. This amount adds up to a startling £564 a year.

Robert Maddra, 19, works at Brighouse Swimming Pool & Fitness Centre and has witnessed gym members who have purchased 12 month memberships and then not showed up throughout the entire year.

Robert believes that people give up on going to the gym because they feel they are seeing a “lack of progress.” Gym memberships are also left unused as people will sign up with a “lack of knowledge on how to use the equipment.” Whilst also feeling “insecure and intimidated by gym members with more muscular bodies.”

In order to combat such reasons for quitting on a 12 month gym membership, Robert suggested that those who feel that they don’t know how to use the equipment should “approach a trainer who will demonstrate how to use the equipment correctly and safely”.

Robert also said to those who feel that they are seeing a lack of progress that “it can take months to see real progress” and that “those who do not see progress may need to look at what they are eating as some gym members do not eat the correct food for what their body goal requires”.

Robert also reassured those that felt intimidated by the bodies of other gym-goers. “Everybody has to start somewhere, those that have muscular frames have worked for months to get to where they are and if you can stick to the gym for an entire year you could also have a body like them”, he said.