Latest teen hangout: the nearest gym

More crap from the establishment.

This article shows once again how the sick care industry and its leaders would rather ignore reality than offer true advice on fitness.

"'The gym is like the mall,' he said. 'It's where everyone likes to hang out.'"

Ah. And what do they do?

"'Sometimes we have to break them up,' said Joe Algana, a manager at Pavilion Fitness, where the number of high school-age members has jumped to 360 from 210 in the past two years, most of them from Elk Grove and Conant High Schools. 'They're using it more like a social gathering than a gym.'"

They don't do squat.

And they don't do squats, either.

The sick care leaders don't care about whether it is effective. If they did, they would not spout the party line bullsh** about diet and "exercise" which has obviously failed decade after decade.

"''Even if it takes a health club being a social entity to get them there, it's great news,' said Joel Press, associate professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and a medical director at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 'A lot of the health-care costs are because of problems associated with obesity. If you can get kids exercising as part of their lifestyle, it will be beneficial to society as a whole.'"

It is not "great news."

They are not "exercising," moron.

And even if they did, they would not do it successfully, since your fitness advice is wrong, anyway.

It is another waste of time, as the problem progresses.

Like being a member at Nero's Gym.

"In the 1980s, most people who belonged to a gym were bodybuilders, said Rosemary Lavery, spokeswoman for the International Health Racquet and Sportsclub Association. It was rare to see an average person, let alone an average teen, using a weight machine, she said.

That began to change in the 1990s. In an effort to increase membership, gyms began marketing themselves as wellness centers that could serve everyone, not just the pumping-iron set. Studies showing the health benefits of exercise and the risks of obesity helped draw in a variety of people."

And what did this change yield?

"Meanwhile, as childhood obesity grew, health and fitness became a hot topic in schools."

The obesity issue grew.

"There's a ripple effect. When teens sign up, their friends follow. Before long, the gym is known as a place to mingle and be seen. At school, students discuss what time they are going."

But, from the "ripple effect," they won't get ripped.

It is fashionable to be seen in the clothes of certain designers. So what?

It is fashionable to be seen at the gym. So what?

"'I want to lead a healthy lifestyle and look good,' she said. 'And there are also really hot guys here who are fun to flirt with.'

The boys tend to congregate in the free-weight areas and basketball courts, while the girls stick to treadmills and other cardiovascular machines, but there are plenty of opportunities to cross paths, Levin said. It's not unusual for her to make eye contact with boys as they pass by a machine.

'They'll smile and say, 'What's up?' ' she said. 'And I'll be like, 'Hey, what's up?'"

"What's up?"

A male teenager fitness club member's member and possibly the teenage pregnancy rate among female teenager fitness club members.

That's "what's up."

Idiots, child abusers and killers. (see here, here, here, here, here and here.)