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Fitness industry bulking up in B.C.
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“People in L.A. can pay $170 a month, but will Canadians pay that?” she said. “We’re going to take a wait-and-see approach.”
The fitness industry is big in B.C. and growing yearly. In the past eight years revenues for “fitness and recreational sports centres” in B.C. have jumped 160 per cent, to $404 million in 2014, from $250 million a year in 2007, according to Statistics Canada.
The number of clubs in Metro reached 300 this year, with another 19 in Abbotsford and 48 in Victoria, according to StatsCan.
The biggest names are Steve Nash Fitness World, with 23 and another on the way, and Anytime Fitness, Club 16 Trevor Linden, GoodLife, Curves and Orangetheory, with between four and 16 gyms each, and there are 25 city community centres in Vancouver alone that offer gym services. Each of the area’s other municipalities have between five and 10 community centres.
Add to the mix the yoga-only and Pilates studios, as well as cross-fit clubs, spinning studios, boxing and martial-arts and mixed-martial-arts gyms, workplace facilities, condo gyms and several other tennis clubs, golf clubs and schools that also offer gyms and weight rooms, as well as independent personal trainers, and the space gets more crowded than a lunchtime Tabata class.
Fitness is big business that could get bigger. In the U.S., one-in-five Americans belong to a fitness facility.
One in four Canadians belong to fitness clubs
The International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), which represents all-purpose and non-specialty clubs, said it doesn’t track data on B.C., but “the Canadian industry serves about six million members and 6,000 facilities,” according to its latest Canadian Health Club Report from 2013, spokeswoman Shannon Vogler said in an email. That’s 25 per cent of all Canadians between the ages of 20 and 80, which may be higher on the fitness-conscious West Coast.
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