If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Free Gym membership given by GP as an incentive for patients to lose weight/get fit ?

Andy From Sligo · 2016-09-21 23:37:56

Just want to run this past you lot , how would you feel about people getting a year (at minimum) free Gym membership to their local gym prescribed by their GP if the GP says your BMI is too high and to help cure/relieve problems with patience caused by their weight/fitness level for things like diabetes and weight on…

Options

Comments

Options
#122 23-09-2016 8:17pm
Maximus Alexander

Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2011

Posts: 13042

cbyrd wrote: »

While I agree with the sentiment here, its very difficult to motivate yourself if you don't know what you're doing.
People get injured doing stuff their bodies are not physically able for and will give up after a few weeks. If it was easy, there'd be no need for trainers, personal or otherwise.
Also with eating habits, without research or motivation it's very difficult to lose weight. While in theory it's simple, we all know input less output more, putting it in to practice fast after day for months and months is not easy. Specially when you've been 'good' all week but you cant physically see a difference. Most people give up.
Look at January for instance.. gung ho on the 1st ... Couldn't be arSed by the 15th!

I completely disagree. Everybody knows how to walk, everybody knows how to run, most people know how to cycle, just for example. If people aren't doing these things then why do we think they'd go to a free gym?

And let's be honest, everybody knows that eating processed foods and a diet high in sugar and grease is bad for them. Most people know what a healthy meal looks like, and if they don't but they cared they could easily find out with the amount of information at our fingertips these days.

This isn't meant to be a judgement of anyone; but the point is that people aren't avoiding a healthy lifestyle because they don't have access to a gym. The reasons are clearly much more complex and more difficult to solve.

0