“It picked up today a lot more than it has last week.”įor the college crowd, that exercise peak is shorter, but still intense. “It’s been busier,” said Kaye Buhler, a program coordinator at the Orem Fitness Center. But last week, the center also saw the weather-related lull. There are usually also membership spikes in September, when kids go back to school and their parents start getting into routines, and in May, when people start to get a little more conscious of the upcoming swimsuit weather.Īt the Orem Fitness Center, expect to see double attendance during the new year. “It’s a lot of fun for us and getting to meet new people and new members.” “It’s a great time of year,” Merrill said. Last year, the higher numbers stuck around until April. Typically, the crowds start to thin out in February. Additional classes are added from January to April to deal with the crowds. Membership is up about 20 percent in January over slower months. Merrill said it’s possible memberships could reach 23,000 by the end of the month. 1, there have been 1,000 memberships added at the Provo Recreation Center, bringing the total to about 22,000 memberships. BYU and Utah Valley University classes started again Monday. He suspects the slow start to 2017 might also be due to Brigham Young University students coming back to town after the first week of the year. “It was a little bit delayed compared to previous years,” said Bryce Merrill, manager of the Provo Recreation Center. The Provo Recreation Center was busy Monday, typical of the first few weeks of a new year, but that wasn’t the case last week. Fitness resolutions for the new year are off to a tricky start for some thanks to last week’s snow dump and slick roads.

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