Losing it in the new year
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Fitness Instructor Kelly Munroe leads a jammed-packed Body Pump class Friday morning at The Punta Gorda Club. Local gyms have been teeming with people whose New Year's resolutions are to lose weight and get fit. Unfortunately, club manager Chris Wilson says, most members who join at the start of the year give up by April.
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A Body Pump class at The Punta Gorda Club is filled with people looking to get fit in the new year. January and February are the busiest months for the gym, manager Chris Wilson said.
SUN PHOTO BY BRENDA BARBOSA
Ted Robedee, manager at the Fitness Salon at the Cultural Center of Charlotte County, gives new members Reed Corson and Donna Leland of Maine a quick overview of the treadmill at the gym.
Greg Demmink dreads going to the gym this time of year. In fact, between January and March, he does everything he can to avoid the throngs of people at The Punta Gorda Club who, like many Americans, have made it their New Year’s resolution to lose weight and get fit.
“I go as late as I can just to avoid that mess,” Demmink said. Mornings at the health club during the first quarter of the year, he said, look like the mall at Christmastime. “The place is packed. The parking lot is full. All the machines are taken. It’s nuts,” he said.
