Canel your gym membership / throw away your barbells

[platypus]

Anyhow, kinda on topic, I went by one of the local PFs and it wasn’t terribly busy. I’m wondering how this pandemic is impacting their business model?

The clubs that closed put people's memberships on hold till reopening, so they lost some revenue. But on the whole I think their business model shouldn't have been too much affected. They make most of their money off of people who don't go to the gym. The $10-20 a month it costs be a member is cheap enough to where people frequently keep the membership and tell themselves they're going to go one of these days. And for many clubs cancelling a membership has to be done in person or by mail, which is enough of a barrier to keep a lot of people from bothering to cancel.