Overweight-only gym fosters understanding atmosphere


DALLAS –  Downsize Fitness is an disdainful health club, evocative of a nation’s trendiest gyms. But there’s a despotic requirement to join: You contingency be 50 pounds or some-more overweight.

The sequence wants a members to feel gentle while exercising, so there are no mirrors inside and a windows are fogged. Even a apparatus is designed for heavier people.

Chicago businessman Francis Wisnewski says he started a gym since “I’ve been overweight my whole life, and we was broke to go to a gym myself.”

The initial locations non-stop in Chicago and Las Vegas in 2011, and stretched to Dallas in 2012.

Gym member Janie Busch pronounced she likes a understanding atmosphere.

Krisanne Hale, a personal tutor in Dallas, is still perplexing to remove weight. She says that helps members relate.

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