The past few days have been crazy and fun, full of awesome cooking adventure (including pumpkin spice pancakes, an at home orange chicken, and a turkey taco mixture thing) - wahoo! But more on that later.
A good friend of mine, who also happens to be a personal trainer, posted an interesting article on her Facebook page. Apparently, an incredibly popular fitness instructor at a gigantic mega-gym got fired over a tweet. And guess what that tweet was about? An open McDonalds bag on the desk of a gym employee at Lifetime Fitness in Rockville, Maryland.
A of all - really? Come on gym employee. McDonalds? My first response: not appropriate.
B of all - really? Lifetime Fitness? You fired this guy over a tweet when he is challenging people to change their lives, and teaches an apparently really fun spin class to over 60 individuals a week, and your regular employees are eating McDonalds? Who do you think is actually fulfilling your company mission statement?
C of all - read Grant Hill's response. He has an awesome argument about gyms, their structure, and how their built on failure. It's totally true. But how do you overcome this business model? What can you do to bring fitness BACK to people? How do you bring education on food back to people? I mean honestly, the US Government reconstructed the food pyramid this year, and it makes no sense. So what's the solution? PE in schools?
Read on and check it out.
Occupy Lifetime - Grant Hill
Let me know what you think!
J
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