Does financial depression drive people to focus on personal health?

November 5th, 2008

I’ve been working out at the same gym for a long time now. They gym opened a new place in the beginning of this year and since then the traffic in the gym has been quite nice. Not so much people at rush hours.

Suddenly 3 weeks ago more people started showing up at the gym (about the same time Iceland was flushed down the toilet).

I mean like a shitload more, like 3x the usual amount of people.

Even tho there are more people now loosing their jobs I would have thought they would use the typical workhours to go to the gym.

Do people seek out for mental and physical health during financial depression? Maby because there is less money carrots to chase in “battle for the best” and people feel depraved and hopeless?

Just a thought.