Britain’s kids sweat it out in new mini-gyms:
“I just want to get fit,” she says.She goes to the gym five times a week.
She is nine years old.
Bradley’s parents suggested she join this gym in Potters Bar, southeast England, to help make new friends when they moved into the area.
She is now one of a growing band of children across Britain — some as young as five — who have been bitten by the gym bug.
With child-sized treadmills, exercise bikes and resistance weight machines, mirrors on the wall and pop music pumping out, this gym in Potters Bar looks and feels just like its larger adult version.
Children are attracted by its grown-up feel, but also say they want somewhere to go with their friends, somewhere to do some new kinds of exercise.
At least 80 such gyms have opened in Britain in recent years, and one of the leading kid gym companies, Shokk, says it alone is opening new ones at a rate of around three a month.
With memberships reaching the hundreds for each one, tens of thousands of children across Britain are expected to pump weights and sweat it out on running machines this summer.
Evidently the idea was exported from America. Who knew?