thebigt
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wow, that is crazy high....i truly believe the same thing is going to happen to food prices, my advice is to stock up now and be prepared in advance. my pantry and freezers are flush!!!
Post Lockdown
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Whisky
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that’s interesting bro. I wasn’t aware of the stats on how much pt revenue contributes.
I’m not surprised at the sign ups post lockdown but think that could be a short term bounce (like the jan bounce). Generally I think so many people have invested in home equipment they won’t go back (and they tend to be the more committed constant members).
But my experience is in small independent gyms so I could easily be wrong
CroLifter
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Yes thats a genuine problem, i can relate because a part of the year i live in an apartment.
But like i said, the apartment also more resembles a storage shed rather than the apartment so a hex bar and some concrete plates (i have a balcony where i keep those) alongside 2 adjustable dumbbells, a pullup bar and a set of bands is sth i always keep around.
Sometimes if i am only hitting upper body to change things up i hit the bars in the park.
Whisky
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yeah it’s insane right now. I used to buy equipment for my gyms all the time so know the market reasonably well and the prices now are just absurd.
Saw someone selling a set of 2kg to 50kg branded but used polyurethane db’s for £3,000 on Facebook. Mine are all either hammer strength or escape (same spec) and I’d brought them second hand a few years back for £450 (tbf it was a really good deal for me)
I brought 2 concept 2 rowers for £350 each and a full set of life fitness strength machines (shoulder press, chest press, lat pull/cable row, leg press, leg extension/leg curl and hip machine) along with some smaller bits for £1500 a few years back off a divorcing couple (best deal I ever did) - ended up selling the lot plus a cable crossover for £2250 during the first lockdown as my business partner screwed me and I was raging, wanted it gone immediately so sold it to a company. Could have got double if I’d been able to move it out and stored it somewhere
rowers are going for £800 a piece at the momentfortunately i kept most of what I wanted for my home setup and only added some select pieces so didn’t get hit with covid tax. The biggest out lay was my cage but found a top fella (actually the best powerlifter in the country as it happened) who did a really fair deal.
there’s a guy in Shropshire who buys pallets of cancelled orders for equipment from China, it’s been sat for a year or so in a warehouse but it’s brand new (he had rogue plates recently) and I got my comp plates at £2.50 a kg (klokov comp bumpers) so I’ve been lucky to hook into some stuff but generally people are paying crazy money for a **** bar and some rusted up metal these days
Slims
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The PT rent at the gym chain I work for is £500-£700 a month for gyms outside of London, with the London rent being considerably more expensive. There's also a yearly fee of £250 for legal stuff and each branch has up to 12 PT's, so they're making £104,000 a year just off the PT's.
Whisky
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Makes sense. We used to charge PT’s £250 a month at my place - we didn’t have all the same equipment but we also had far fewer people in so it was easier to use what they wanted when they wanted.
they also had to find their own clients as we weren’t an open gym (pt and class based stuff only).....harder than being able to walk the floor in a corporate
they also had to find their own clients as we weren’t an open gym (pt and class based stuff only).....harder than being able to walk the floor in a corporate
