Have Britons Fallen Out Of Love With The Gym?


	Have Britons Fallen Out Of Love With The Gym?

Steve McGookin

3-4-2008 12:10 PM

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A world without the gym: a glorious Utopia, or the road to (yet more) national
slothfulness? Whichever your view, the death of the treadmill has arrived.
For the first time since gyms muscled their way into the public
consciousness in the Eighties, there has been a sharp decline in the number
of people joining them.
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Five years ago, when gyms and health clubs were at the peak of their
popularity, 8.7 million of us in Britain were members. But statistics from
the accountancy firm Deloitte reveal that 54,000 fewer people took out gym
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