Essay On A Visit To La Fitness Club.

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The effort in getting my clothes fit and having to breathe properly with them while I took meals was a constant reminder to me that I had put on weight. Quite often, I thought of losing it but whenever there was time to fix the joggers and run I started taking pity on myself. For that matter getting up early or investing a whole evening working out seemed to me the hardest labor in the world. I thus came to the conclusion that I needed supervised guidance that could keep me determined to fit in my clothes again. I thought that I should go to some gym, and I had already heard about LA Fitness club, so I set off one fine morning on the mission to explore a place effective enough to take me down.
I started moving deeper into the club reaching and moving past several rooms, halls, and corridors each one of them specific for each activity and equipped with highly advanced machinery. What I could see was that this place was designed as a multipurpose sports and health club. From the usual exercising equipment, weights, group exercising rooms it had added up with a vast variety of workout options by facilitating people with large swimming pools and gigantic halls for court sports such as basketball and badminton, etc. I kept moving through the lobbies where all sorts of advanced exercising equipment were operational. I could see people working out with the least care and most comfort. Moving forward I could enjoy the music played the same lively encouraging kind. I stood outside the big halls specific for court sports and watched because the entrance said ‘members only.' Through the clear glass doors, I could see people playing with full energy and at ease. I had not stopped long over there and while exploring I happened to pass by the pool side which was also for the members only, so I only got a look at the clean blue water through the glass panes, only the sight of which was soothing.
I then climbed the stairs which lead to a somewhat silent corridor only a faint sound of music could be heard. In that corridor, two doors to the toilets could be seen and on the walls outside I saw the fire extinguishers. Moving past that corridor of much use I opened up into a circular lobby which was packed with jogging machines or the treadmills. Standing in that lobby I could see down to the ground floor from where I had just come up. It was thronged with energetic people exercising and working out. I took a round of the upper floor and on the way down the stairs I encountered a middle-aged well-built man whose body language told that he must be a staff member of the club. Since I was an unfamiliar face at the club and had inquisitive and fascinated eyes the man passing by asked me, who was I and what I had come for. I told him how desperately I wanted to become fit and he after introducing himself that he was one of the instructors over there guided me how and when should I start. I expressed the feeling of awe that I had after having surveyed the club. He on finding me interested told me about the concerned people who dealt in finance and administration so that I could get proper information and start with.
The fact that I had found LA Fitness club so captivating and that they had six hundred other clubs of the same enthralling kind could not keep me from asking the instructor about its grandeur. He started telling me a bit since it had been founded; he told me that it was founded in 1984, by Chin Yi and Louis Welch who were the chairman and the president respectively, in California. He then made me understand that how they developed and made it possible to that grand number of its clubs. He told that they had expanded first by acquiring other underperforming clubs in other parts of California and secondly by developing, opening and reconstructing their own with better ideas. He threw some more light on its history and told me more about its features such as its signature add-ons like swimming pool and court sports that they were introduced as a part of LA Fitness in 1995. He further added that with a successful club of its kind in that place LA Fitness kept making developments and the openings of new units in several parts of United States. In 1998, they had twelve proven clubs and with a rapid rate of expansion 180 new clubs had been added from 2006 to 2009. Through this development, the company kept acquiring other performing clubs and enlarging their units into clubs. In 2007, it moved outside United States to Toronto, Canada and gained the status of the largest chain of health clubs.
The information that he shared with me was even more awe-inspiring as I had already been fascinated by the sublimity of that place. I had started feeling fortunate on having encountered him on my way back. The instructor welcomed me again and instructed me on how important fitness is that it eliminates sluggishness from life which I had been a victim of. I, leaving LA Fitness club had quite made up my mind to come back.