I recently had the great displeasure to visit one of the local gyms here in town. A friend of mine convinced me to go with him as he had a membership for two and being that his wife went to another gym he asked me to go with him which I did with reluctance. Once we got there we met a male personal trainer who was awesome with us and helped get us started and showed us the right way to use the treadmills that he suggested we use and gave us encouragement unfortunately he had to go on his lunch break and he left us with a female trainer.
If the male trainer was great to us the female trainer was the total opposite and did as little as possible to help us and spent more time with a male customer several machines away who was definitely fit and did not need her so called encouragement she was giving him but said next to nothing to us. There were a couple of other trainers walking the floor but all ignored us and to make matters worse for us we aren't fit and somewhat overweight every other customer in that gym were in shape and toned and all or most every one of them gave us looks of "How dare you share the same space as me?"
We felt like third-class citizens and couldn't get out of there fast enough. We couldn't stand the vanity of the so-called "customers" nor the indifference most of the so-called staff gave us. I was under the misguided impression gyms were for people like my friend and I to get into shape. Instead we were made to feel belittled and unwanted as gyms apparently are for fit people only. Overweight and fat people need not enter.
Dean Soiland
Prince George
