Most of the people who came to my gym had little effect. I was surprised that they would pay for membership cards.
Although I run a gym better than most of these people have visited a large commercial gym. Typical new members of the gym come only three times a week, although they should come four times as planned.
Then they'll miss two training sessions, then maybe one more, and then they won't come back. Most humans are so sad: they are stimulated by the media, presuppositions and prejudices, rumors, and foolish opinions, hoping to do anything easily.
So if they pay us membership fees, occasionally come a few times, and then don't show up, is that okay? It's not our fault, is it? Maybe. Yes, most people are lazy. But if these lazy guys come to your gym and you give them a plan that won't help them change their body shape - not even a training plan! Just say: Hello, this is the remote control of treadmill and TV.
Aerobics class starts at 6 o'clock. I hope you can come! Don't expect them to come back to the gym. Of course, if your only interest is to sell them a two-year membership card, then I don't say that. I don't sign contracts with members, so my only interest is to let them exercise more and bring one more friend. I have been trying to make positive changes in their lazy bodies as soon as possible and arouse their interest in the first four training sessions.
Of course, this does not mean that most of my members do not give up exercising. After all, as I said before, most people are lazy. But if I let them spend their time in the gym in vain and make the effect obvious, I would have a better chance of arousing their interest. In other words, I know that I have four training sessions to change things - preferably what they can see in the mirror - and even have the opportunity to keep buying classes.
After all, I need money. Specifically, I discovered long ago that the easiest way to make the body look different in the shortest time is to make the body stronger, and the easiest way to achieve this goal is to increase the weight of the barbell in each training session. In the first training session, I taught them basic barbell movements, because I found that they worked faster.