Gone are the days when people go to gyms for mundane workouts. Today, owners of gyms in the city come up with innovative and interesting techniques to keep their customers interested and motivate them to come to the fitness centre every day.
Keeping in mind women, several gyms plan the workout sessions that suit them. While some gyms hold aerobic sessions, others conduct Zumba classes.
“Crossfit training is a high intensity session which helps in body toning and building lean muscles. It consists of very interesting outdoor workout sessions. During weekends, we make our clients do beach and hill workouts,” says Ravi, owner of a gym.
True to his words, the trend seems to be catching on in the city. While those visiting a gym practise beach workouts once every week, at the other centre, a floor has been dedicated to mixed martial arts, crossfit training and aerobics.
A new gym, which barely holds any modern gadgets but has 120 members, promotes functional training. “We use various objects to create patterns of exercises which mimic everyday physical activities like opening a door or climbing down the stairs. We create 45-minute high intensity sessions. No pattern gets repeated even once throughout a year. The patterns calendar is prepared every year in Australia,” says its head coach and studio manager Sushma. These sessions help build lean muscles. “Running on a treadmill and lifting weights become boring after some time. But here, we create new patterns every day and the clients don’t know what they are going to do until they come here. The excitement keeps them motivated,” she says.
Another trend that seems to be picking up is the increase in the protein intake by gym-goers. Many gyms provide protein supplements for their customers. “In the beginning, they are apprehensive to take them thinking that they are steroids which are actually dangerous. But protein supplements only get absorbed by the body when there is a breakdown in the muscles and the absorption is also very low. A lot of proteins that we take get excreted from the body. They are like the products we mix in our milk, but much healthier,” says Raveen, owner of a gym.
