Questions for the gym goers / exercisers
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@andyd Me too. I don’t remember commercial gyms (or rec centres) until my late 20s or early 30s. Prior to that, I think men went to places to do things like boxing or martial arts. I sort of recall ladies going to places to do aerobics and dance classes, but they did these things before adding weights, bands, step ups. Personally, I was too focused with school or work then. These group classes where you pay to join seemed silly to me.
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When I was a kid in upstate NY I don’t remember gym chains. My school had gym equipment and so did the YMCA. I was a member of the Y in high school.
As a pre-teen in Florida my parents bought me a home weight set. It was a bench that had a leg extension/curl attachment, a barbell, and various weights that were made of concrete coated in plastic. I think 25lbs was the heaviest. Somehow I kept that in my little 10x12 bedroom. When we moved to upstate NY it went in the basement.
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AI says my experience tracks. In the 70s only institutions had gyms like universities and the YMCA. California had a handful of gyms that catered to bodybuilders.
Late 70s - pumping iron, Jane Fonda, and Jim Fixx made fitness a thing.
80s - gyms started appearing around the country.
90s - the big chains we know today came into view.
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