{"id":342,"date":"2008-09-02T20:58:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2008-09-02T20:58:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:58:45","slug":"how-gyms-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/02\/how-gyms-really-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gyms Really Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually this is how gyms work, they just dropped the pretenses.<br \/>\nthanks to Marginal Revolutions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"entry-author\"><span class=\"entry-source-title-parent\">from <a class=\"entry-source-title\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/feed\/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marginalrevolution.com%2Fmarginalrevolution%2Findex.rdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/span> by <span class=\"entry-author-name\">Tyler Cowen<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div>\nPeter Risager, a loyal <strong>MR<\/strong> reader, relays the following to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\"><p>A Danish chain of gyms is now offering membership free of charge, with the only caveat that you have to show up, in order for the membership to be free. If you fail to show up once per week you will be billed the normal monthly membership fee for that month. This should solve the problem with incentives that gym-membership normally carries &#8211; there is suddenly a very large (membership is around 85$ per month) incentive to show up each week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He offers also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinox.dk\/\/kommerDu\/vilkaar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a link in Danish<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually this is how gyms work, they just dropped the pretenses. thanks to Marginal Revolutions: from Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen Peter Risager, a loyal MR reader, relays the following to me: A Danish chain of gyms is now offering membership free of charge, with the only caveat that you have to show up, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/02\/how-gyms-really-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Gyms Really Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}