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The Fitness Industry is Failing

  • 45% of Americans make New Year's resolutions focused on weight loss, but 92% fail to achieve their goals.
  • The fitness industry profits immensely by banking on memberships that aren't used and produces a lot of unverified claims to market their programs.
  • Much of fitness marketing targets vulnerable demographics with pseudo-scientific claims, such as promising rapid results that are not based on solid evidence.
  • The fitness industry often complicates messages about diet and exercise, hindering rather than helping consumers.
  • A sense of exclusivity and unrealistic online self-presentations in fitness circles may deter newcomers rather than encourage them.
  • The industry needs to shift away from hard selling immediate results to fostering long-term, sustainable lifestyle changes in individuals.
  • Effective fitness guidance should focus on directing clients through the overload of available information, supporting them in group environments, and holding them accountable based on their personal values.
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