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Economic Recession Leads to Overcrowding at Gyms & Yoga Studios?

Eric Banana is almost fully convinced that a positive/negative side-effect of the current economic recession is that people are going to the gyms and yoga studios (sidenote: the acronym GAYS is a pure coincidence :P) more often. There are two aspects of this: (1) Those people who have been retrenched have a lot of free time on top of their job hunting and therefore spend more time exercising; (2) Those people who survived the retrenchment have more work to do now and are more stressed, so they need to release their tension via exercise. Of course, the assumption for both groups of people is that they have already signed up for a prepaid package at a gym or yoga studio, that is, they have to pay the fees through monthly installments until their packages expire. Another assumption is that given the economic crisis, it's unlikely that many new customers will sign up for packages at gyms and yoga studios, So why is the side-effect positive/negative? Well, more people are devoting more time to exercising and work

 

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