As sales of home gym equipment skyrocket during the coronavirus pandemic, the physical fitness industry stays confident individuals will largely go back to their pre-pandemic workout routines at gyms and physical fitness studios.
Bottom line:
- There are fears one in 10 fitness centers and physical fitness centres might never reopen
- Gyms and fitness instructors are fretted some people may not return after COVID-19
- Many physical fitness teachers are planning to continue providing online sessions
But as the market grapples with the monetary losses of a prolonged shutdown, some physical fitness companies that moved to online workouts have chosen to keep live streaming classes, even when restrictions are lifted, after discovering an unexpected benefit to virtual training.
In-person classes are slowly resuming at Yoga Area in West Perth, however they are likewise being live streamed.
Studio owner Jean Byrne stated by broadening Yoga Area’s online existence throughout the shutdown, she had had the ability to connect with new and old students from interstate and overseas, together with those who could not access in-person classes.
” What we’re realising now is that many of our trainees can’t enter a physical class due to the fact that they have caring obligations, they have auto-immune illness, perhaps they are dealing with chronic pain or they have elderly parents,” Dr Byrne said.
” So it’s truly important for them to be able to access online content, but with a school and with teachers they have a pre-existing relationship with.
” Definitely, we’ll never be an online studio since being together personally is rather lovely and the connection and the relationship is essential.
” However you can also have that relationship online, so long-term we