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It helps a lot to have a trainer. In fact we should be paying for gym and fitness trainers for pretty much anyone who wants it. The benefits are extraordinary e
by x5n1 11y ago
It helps a lot to have a trainer. In fact we should be paying for gym and fitness trainers for pretty much anyone who wants it. The benefits are extraordinary especially in Canada where we all pay for everyone's healthcare.
Yes exercise costs nothing. But it is often repetitive and boring. And in Canada it's cold 1/2 the year so having some place indoors is very helpful and having it paid for is even more encouraging.
We need to make exercise free, fun, and with trainers that work with people. It needs to be like gym in school on days where the gym teacher didn't have a stick up his/her ass... for anyone at any age.
- monochromatic 11y ago> It helps a lot to have a trainer. In fact we should be paying for gym and fitness trainers for pretty much anyone who wants it. The benefits are extraordinary especially in Canada where we all pay for everyone's healthcare. This mindset that the government should be spending tax revenue on anything beneficial is bizarre.
- rdtsc 11y ago> This mindset that the government should be spending tax revenue on anything beneficial is bizarre. Anything? Did they say that? Health care of citizens is not "anything", it is a very imporant thing. More important than military, guns, flying to the moon, and many other things. So yes, they should be spending the hell of out of that tax revenue to keeps citizens healthy, productive and not have hundreds of millions of chronically sick patients all needing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of care every couple of years.
- x5n1 11y agoYes the government should only be spending it to bail out distressed financial institutions, bankrupt individuals, etc.
- danharaj 11y agoNo, clearly the government's only job is to enforce property rights and suppress anyone who is discontented with the condition of their society.
- jokamoto 11y agoThere's a pretty clear potential for overall net savings, if the cost of providing citizens access to fitness programs is less than the cost of providing additional healthcare to those citizens if they remain sedentary.
- WalterBright 11y agoThe business model of a gym requires that 90% or so of the members never actually show up. The rates charged would have to go up enormously if they did. An awful lot of garages have a treadmill in the corner buried under other junk, as the resident's good intentions to get in shape inevitably evaporated.
- x5n1 11y agoEven if you made it free, most people still would not show up. But baby steps. Healthcare costs are huge and so are economic costs of sick employees, if they are diverted towards gyms, not much will be lost and much will be gained.
- WalterBright 11y agoGoing out for a walk is free, and few even do that. I doubt free gyms would make a dent.
- viraptor 11y ago> fitness trainers for pretty much anyone who wants it Oh god, yes! I did not realise how much difference it makes. Even just having the time scheduled on the days you'd rather do something else is really helpful. But a person to actually tell you what to do, or just chat with you makes the whole experience N times less boring.