Survey For my Research Project (Please read)

[Benrc10]

Hi everyone, my name is Ben and I am fairly new to this site. I am a 21 year old (so no not a teenager anymore) and I have been an avid lifter since I was 16 and am now pretty satisfied with what I have turned into from lifting. I have had many routines and have attended many gyms throughout my career as a lifter and have even competed in a few competitions. Mostly bench press comps. I am now doing a research project where I am trying to figure out just how to get more people to go to the gym, and also what keeps people going there. If anyone has any questions about me, who I am, or anything please let me know. As I know people are usually interested in that on forums. My question for you guys is if you are willing, and I would greatly appreciate it if you were. Simply fill out this survey below. It will help my research tremendously. For your convenience I have numbered them so in your posts you do not need to have the full question just your answer and the number. Thank you guys! (Yes I know it looks long, sorry) (I'll be posting this in two other forums on this site too because I am trying to gather data from different age groups and backgrounds. Sorry if this appears as spam)

The following questions are based on this hypothetical situation:
Pretend as if you are someone living in a town with a few gyms to choose from. You currently attend a make believe gym called "Super Gym". Super Gym is whatever gym you are currently attending (if attending one). However you wish to look around and see if there is a better option out there. You have many options to choose from but you must ask yourself a few questions first.

1. Gender (Circle One) M F Prefer not to answer

2. Age (Circle one) 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-40 41-50 50+ Prefer not to answer

3. Are you currently a member of a gym? (Circle one) Yes No



4. What do you like most about your current gym? (If you have one)


5. What do you dislike most about your current gym? (If you have one)


6. What do you wish your gym had? (i.e. more equipment, free tanning, discounted supplements, courts, saunas etc.)


7. In order for you to buy a membership from a gym what are the things you consider? (location, size, price etc.)


8. Why do you go to the gym? (Sports, Weight lifting, Bulking, Socializing, staying healthy etc.)


9. Anything else you would like to add about why you go to the gym or how a gym could get you to buy a membership from them?

[PK-III]

1. M
2. 18

All the rest N/a

[FightingMachine]

1. Gender MALE

2. Age 19

3. Are you currently a member of a gym? NO



4. What do you like most about your current gym? PERSONAL GYM


5. What do you dislike most about your current gym? NOT ALL THE EQUIPMENT


6. What do you wish your gym had? (i.e. more equipment, free tanning, discounted supplements, courts, saunas etc.) MORE EQUIPMENT


7. In order for you to buy a membership from a gym what are the things you consider? (location, size, price etc.) FACILITIES/SIZE


8. Why do you go to the gym? (Sports, Weight lifting, Bulking, Socializing, staying healthy etc.) WEIGHT LIFTING


9. Anything else you would like to add about why you go to the gym or how a gym could get you to buy a membership from them? NO

[the1satanfears]

1. Gender (Circle One) M F Prefer not to answer
M
2. Age (Circle one) 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-40 41-50 50+ Prefer not to answer
16-20
3. Are you currently a member of a gym? (Circle one) Yes No
Yes
4. What do you like most about your current gym? (If you have one)
The convenience. It's right on campus at school.
5. What do you dislike most about your current gym? (If you have one)
The equipment is all really old. The dumbbells are all chipped and getting rusty (humid climate) aside from being dusty and stuff. I'm also annoyed by the fact that there are 6 different brands of plates in the weight room. I'm OCD about that stuff.
6. What do you wish your gym had? (i.e. more equipment, free tanning, discounted supplements, courts, saunas etc.)
I wish my gym had one of the shrug things like at my old gym, but aside from that they do have all the equipment I need. I would be ecstatic if they had tanning at all, let alone free tanning. That'd be great.
7. In order for you to buy a membership from a gym what are the things you consider? (location, size, price etc.)
The first thing I consider are the rules of the gym. Some gyms have a great price but have stupid rules. After that I would go with location. I go to the gym at school because it's convenient for me because I'm here anyways, but during the summer I'll switch to a gym closer to home. This is followed by price. I'll pay more money to go to a gym closer to home because then I'm more motivated to go. That is followed by gym size/people there. I like the gym to not be very crowded and I don't like certain types of people that go to some of the gyms around me.
8. Why do you go to the gym? (Sports, Weight lifting, Bulking, Socializing, staying healthy etc.)
I go to the gym because it keeps me sane. If I didn't have my weightlifting, I would not be a happy person, and that's a fact. It makes me feel good, and I love getting the pumps in my body.
9. Anything else you would like to add about why you go to the gym or how a gym could get you to buy a membership from them?
A gym could get me to buy a membership from them if they didn't have initiation fees and stuff. That's always annoying. And as mentioned before, a tanning salon would be nice.

[rockevans]

1. Gender (Circle One) M F Prefer not to answer
Prefer not to answer

2. Age (Circle one) 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-40 41-50 50+ Prefer not to answer
16-20

3. Are you currently a member of a gym? (Circle one) Yes No
Yes

4. What do you like most about your current gym? (If you have one)
Not many people training

5. What do you dislike most about your current gym? (If you have one)
Refrigeration sucks some days

6. What do you wish your gym had? (i.e. more equipment, free tanning, discounted supplements, courts, saunas etc.)
More equipment

7. In order for you to buy a membership from a gym what are the things you consider? (location, size, price etc.)
Location and price

8. Why do you go to the gym? (Sports, Weight lifting, Bulking, Socializing, staying healthy etc.)
Weight lifting and healthly

9. Anything else you would like to add about why you go to the gym or how a gym could get you to buy a membership from them?
Nope

[eggnog631]

1. Gender (Circle One) M F Prefer not to answer
male

2. Age (Circle one) 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-40 41-50 50+ Prefer not to answer
16-20

3. Are you currently a member of a gym? (Circle one) Yes No
yes


4. What do you like most about your current gym? (If you have one)
close to home, dark, musics not loud/terrible, fair amount of big guys, pretty hardcore at time, nice amount of equipment, no fancy useless machines ( at least in the area i use)

5. What do you dislike most about your current gym? (If you have one)
nothing, except if i could i would make it more hardcore

6. What do you wish your gym had? (i.e. more equipment, free tanning, discounted supplements, courts, saunas etc.)
nothing. im there to work out and it has everything you could possibly need. they keep it simple and thats what i like.


7. In order for you to buy a membership from a gym what are the things you consider? (location, size, price etc.)
location, price, equipment, atmosphere

8. Why do you go to the gym? (Sports, Weight lifting, Bulking, Socializing, staying healthy etc.)
to get huge.

9. Anything else you would like to add about why you go to the gym or how a gym could get you to buy a membership from them?
cater to the serious bber/pler's. theres enough sparkly white equipment gyms with 600 treadmills. there is a great need for these gyms, and they are becoming more and more rare as time goes on.

[Rhh410]

1. Gender (Circle One) M

2. Age (Circle one) 16-20

3. Are you currently a member of a gym? (Circle one) Yes



4. What do you like most about your current gym? (If you have one)

There's a ton of great people and it's mostly composed of bodybuilders who're always willing to give advice or spot. It's also open 24 hours.

5. What do you dislike most about your current gym? (If you have one)

The cardio machines break down to much.

6. What do you wish your gym had? (i.e. more equipment, free tanning, discounted supplements, courts, saunas etc.)

A sauna would be cool.

7. In order for you to buy a membership from a gym what are the things you consider? (location, size, price etc.)

The first thing I look at is how crowded it is during peak hours. I don't want to wait more than ten minutes to jump on a piece of equipment.

8. Why do you go to the gym? (Sports, Weight lifting, Bulking, Socializing, staying healthy etc.)

I like lifting how lifting makes me feel, and is something productive to do in my spare time.

[Benrc10]

Thanks guys you provided a lot of help.