Fitness chain bans cable news networks as part of healthy way of life
Source: Washington Post
By Samantha Schmidt January 9 at 4:54 AM
With the start of the new year, scores of Americans are rushing to their local gyms, resolving to get a head start on a healthier routine.
For some, particularly amid todays high-velocity news cycle, this daily routine may involve hitting a treadmill or elliptical machine while catching up on cable TV networks.
But one nationwide fitness chain has decided that the combination of cardio and cable news does not align with a healthy way of life.
Life Time Fitness, a Minnesota-based gym chain, has decided to eliminate all national cable network news stations from the TV screens at its 128 fitness centers in the U.S. and Canada. The removed channels include CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/09/fitness-chain-has-banned-cable-news-networks-as-part-of-healthy-way-of-life/?utm_term=.7cbd6592ba72
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)If I see faux news on a tv in a restaurant, I ask them to change it or seat me where I cannot see it. If they will not comply, I leave.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)n/t
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)I once told an oil change skop owner that I wouldn't be back due to his insistence upon running faux nooz on the TV.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)are the most dishonest as well. So yeah, moved on to smarter shops.
harun
(11,348 posts)from home with the family and they have that nonsense blasting away when I am trying to wake up
while eating some continental breakfast.
Luckily most won't put on Fox.
Freethinker65
(9,933 posts)Provide WiFi and let users listen to their own media, or perhaps just unplug for bit while at the gym.
Phoenix61
(16,952 posts)Not to mention there are studies that show the level of exercise is lower when people watch tv while exercising.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,310 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)It's not like people have to watch this stuff while exercising. I would agree with a ban in restaurants and such. There you can't tune it out.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Can't watch Farid Zakaria and a couple others all the time. Fox is designed to pickle, of course.
Agree with the entertainment value, but!
Before you disagree, just what did a couple million viewers learn from over a week of 24/7 blanket coverage of the Las Vegas killings on CNN, almost as much on MSNBC trying to compete, and the wedge issues their coverage moved on to (as usual) in further milking of emotions for profit?
Versions of this continue every week as marketing experts agree on the most profitable topic to focus on. It permeates everything but is at its very worst in daytime programming, which is all filled with low-budget "very thoughtful people" reciting the simplistic group-think required for those gigs.
On the plus side, only about 15% of the electorate watches more than 10 minutes a day.
obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)It allowed only the Travel Channel, History Channel, Bravo, and ESPN. That was it, because of people both fighting with one another about what was on the news, or because it upset them (this was after the invasion of Iraq). It was so nice! I may suggest this to my current gym.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Seriously, even though I know better, with all these amazing events I'm once again turning on more cable to feed the fascination. Then on turning to positive stories about an amazing world, it actually feels healthy, like leaving a bad place where only bad things happen to discover that wasn't the real world, that sunshine and fresh air still exist.
brooklynite
(93,859 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Instead now airs HGTV fantasies.
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)that a member had requested it or they were trying to be fair. I'm really glad they're turning it all off. I go there to get away from news/politics/etc.