I've lived in many countries and realised that in some there's no music in gyms, everybody can listen to their MP3 or to no music at all, in others irritating music is obligatory, and even when you're alone in the gym in most cases they won't turn the music down at your request.
In gyms they might have different rooms, some empty, but all are equipped with stereo which you can sometimes turn down, but not off and not to make it quite enough-still the music is loud and soon makes you tired, not from exercising, but from the irritating noise.
When you're in the changing room, after 'working out', or actually enduring the noise, you feel like runing away, even without changing clothes.
You can't complain to the owners and it's pointelss to complain to the managment who themselves are fed up with that crap music, but are trained to respond for the owners benefit.
Of course, there are members, who don't mind, there are even some, who like it, but it is not because of them that they play that crap, because as I mentioned before, you sometimes can be alone in one of the rooms, and still you're forced to listen to the 'MUSIC'. They paly it because it's profitable for them, and no complaints would change it. Not necessarly loud but irritating music at gyms, if there are no gyms around with other conditions, generate higer profits. Members get tired not by using the equipment, which is good, saves money for maintance, but by the music and members' time expectancy at the gym are considerably lower, I would guess about twice, so the profits are two times more than for a gym which doesn't play irritating music supposedly 'for his members'.
In gyms they might have different rooms, some empty, but all are equipped with stereo which you can sometimes turn down, but not off and not to make it quite enough-still the music is loud and soon makes you tired, not from exercising, but from the irritating noise.
When you're in the changing room, after 'working out', or actually enduring the noise, you feel like runing away, even without changing clothes.
You can't complain to the owners and it's pointelss to complain to the managment who themselves are fed up with that crap music, but are trained to respond for the owners benefit.
Of course, there are members, who don't mind, there are even some, who like it, but it is not because of them that they play that crap, because as I mentioned before, you sometimes can be alone in one of the rooms, and still you're forced to listen to the 'MUSIC'. They paly it because it's profitable for them, and no complaints would change it. Not necessarly loud but irritating music at gyms, if there are no gyms around with other conditions, generate higer profits. Members get tired not by using the equipment, which is good, saves money for maintance, but by the music and members' time expectancy at the gym are considerably lower, I would guess about twice, so the profits are two times more than for a gym which doesn't play irritating music supposedly 'for his members'.