TURIN. About 200 representatives of gyms, personal trainers, coaches and owners of swimming pools demonstrated in Piazza Castello wearing a white sheet: “We are invisible as ghosts” is the cry of Piedmontese fitness. The sector has felt abandoned for 10 months and “close to collapse”. A delegation was received in the Region.
In the square in Turin the ghosts of gyms and fitness centers: “Closed since March, we are collapsing”
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«The income of instructors and operators of the centers was already critical before the outbreak of the pandemic with an average of 1280 euros per operator. Today this sector is now closed, with a short summer break, from March 2020 », the professionals complain. Decreases in turnover for 2020 between 41% and 83% have been indicated by many entrepreneurs in the sector, against incompressible management costs for 80% of business plans. “This – they explain – is rapidly bringing the sector to collapse”.
It is currently estimated that 35% of companies in the sector may not be
in the conditions to resume the activity at the time of the desired reopening. The distrust of the population “fueled by an unjustified hunt for the greaser towards fitness centers, in none of which, to date, have any significant outbreaks of contagion since the beginning had a negative impact.
of the epidemic “.
“We have been transformed into temporary workers who now live by means of expedients
online services unworthy of the professional qualifications we have won
on the field and training in the parks at -2 ° C “, add the organizers of the event who ask the prefect to intercede with the Prime Minister, the Minister of Sport and the Minister of Health to start a discussion table also at the national level “.
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