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Kasz216 on 30 April 2008
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Mummelmann said:
famousringo said:
I'd be curious to know how often those customers used the fitness centre. There are a lot of people with gym memberships who never get around to going in.

I can see somebody getting better results from using Wii Fit two hours a week than going to a gym for two hours a month.

In Norway, about 20% use the gym they pay for every week or so.

On topic; Elixia is very small compared to S.A.T.S, Spenst, Kaliber (where I work) , 3T and City Gym (select small towns only, we have one near here) and their total amount of customers would probably amount to about 20.000 (roughly 5% of Norwegian gym memberships), which again turns out to 1600 when removing 8%. Significant for Elixia perhaps but not in the grand scheme of things.

And the reason PT's and instructors are "badmouthing" WiiFit is not that they are afraid of loosing cash, rather that consumers in most cases are lead to believe that WiiFit will cover as many bases as a gym with a PT/instructor. They/we feel that people need to realize that good old exercises tried and true are the best and most efficent way of getting fit/healthy. I think the main issue is that most people want to work out but don't want to spend a lot of time or energy doing it, at which point we need to tell them that there is no easy way into better health.

I am not opposed to the idea of WiiFit, I'm simply worried over all those who think that it will replace a well equipped gym and the people who work there!


I'd guess the people who think that are the people who aren't going to a gym in the first place.  Or do go to the gym and then spend all their time on the low stress machines more so they can say they went rather then actually go.

Either that or they are just idiots.  I mean you need a degree to be a personal trainer.   Maybe it's different in europe been in America most people who go to a gym and don't have a personal trainer.  They don't talk to anybody in the gym and just do whatever excercises they fancy...  even more don't go to gyms and just do home workouts.

For the majority of people who work out Wii Fit is going to be a good thing... the only very small population of people it's going to hurt are idiots who have a gym membership and also are stupid enough to think a home fitness product is going to equal a gym workout with a personal trainer. (Because if they are that stupid they likely are doing the wrong gym workouts in the first place.)

Most of those people have probably already left their gyms and bought "The Total Gym" anyway.