Gymnasium

As a place for exercising the gym has a long history. The first gym was found in the Greek society. The word gym is often associated with fitness centre and fitness club. Earlier gym was a place reserved for activities like boxing, martial arts or body building but with the changing trend gym has been replaced by the fitness clubs.

Everything from ad shows to movies depicts the models as skinny and sleek. Due to this culture the society priorities have changed and people are motivated to go to fitness centers. This essay is based on ethnography of a gymnasium. This gymnasium is called club fitness and it is located near to my house. The major aim of club fitness is to provide an environment to people so that people can improve and increase their fitness level.

This gymnasium was formed 25 years ago and the reason for its creation was to create awareness in people and provide them with a state of art environment where they can come and achieve their fitness goals. The management of the club fitness is well trained and excellent and makes the customer fitness journey fun. The management of club fitness is aware of the importance of society welfare and hence they collaborate with local NGOS to do charity.

For this research, interviews were conducted from regular visitors of club fitness. They were asked many questions regarding the service quality and environment. Through club fitness many people achieved their fitness goals and are now living healthy and active lifestyle. The fitness equipments provided by club fitness are of modern technology and the trainers in fitness club are ever ready to help the customer in need.

People from all society and social status are welcome at club fitness and given equal attention as well. I chose club fitness because it's near to my house and it would be convenient to conduct research there. During my visit I found many unique behaviors of mankind. I found that most of the people who visited to club fitness were health conscious. They were inspired to have model like body as shown in TV commercial and soaps. These people went to extent of starvation to have the model like body and they worked on treadmill for hours without having food.

Most of the regular visitors to club fitness belonged to elite class. However the middle class group also visit but the percentage is very low. Elite class people visited the gym on regular basis and I also found that the elite class is usually rude to the trainer and they keep complaining about the environment too. They wanted individual attention and even after getting individual attention they were not satisfied with the services provided to them.

A lot of the regular visitors visited gym because they were conscious about their social status and they wanted to try everything on the board. As the gym is popular in our area so they visit it for current gossips too.

It was found by the researcher that regular client's ...