Philly-area gyms are still building back from COVID closures. They’re dealing with lower enrollment, rising labor costs, and supply chain issues.

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At Virtua's Rohrer Fitness Center in Voorhees, membership is still down by about half. The gym will close for good later this year.

Now the gyms that survived are tasked not only with winning back members who converted to at-home or outdoor workouts, but doing so while dealing with staff shortages, rising labor costs, inflation, and supply chain issues.in Wayne. “If a treadmill went down, trying to get the replacement parts” was a challenge.Several gym owners and managers said they’ve experienced delays replacing weights, cardio machines, and other equipment.

Still, “we’re doing fairly well,” Zacamy said, noting that the gym has more than 3,000 members and is down just a few hundred from its pre-COVID census. If the 40-year-old gym didn’t already own the building, Royal Fitness wouldn’t have had the same flexibility to offer outdoor classes, Zacamy said. Combined with rising rent costs, she added, the business might not have been able to survive otherwise.In Wayne, La Maison Health and Fitness has also experienced the benefits of owning, which has been especially helpful given its steep decline in membership — from about 4,000 pre-pandemic to 2,000 now, said Alberta, the marketing director.

 

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Hey But they prevented healthy people from getting a Cold

It's great that you posted the 2022 Top Workplaces. I assume it's not by design that you can't see the list of Top SMALL Businesses. Kind of defeats the purpose. Topworkplaces pleasefix

I wouldn’t go to a gym in philly. Too dangerous

This money could have helped

And members who are afraid they might get shot on the way to the gym…

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