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Abstract：
Fitness clubs are one of the largest exercise arenas worldwide. Still, membership withdrawal and exercise dropout rates are 40-65% in the first six months. One important approach to retaining members may be to create an environment that feels inclusive, and clusters members with mutual needs and interests. Increased knowledge in this field can provide valuable information that leads to more effective exercise promotion strategies and better retention rates, important to the long-term success of the gym and public health. Thus, we aimed to compare background factors, motivation, and social support between members of multipurpose (wide range of exercise concepts/facilities, middle to high membership fee), fitness-only (low membership fee), and boutique (one or two specialized exercise concepts, high membership fee) fitness clubs. A total of 232 members from multipurpose (n = 107), fitness-only (n = 52), and boutique gyms (n = 73) were recruited for this cross-sectional study. Data included background variables (age, gender, body weight and height, smoking, total household income, occupation, education, and general health), exercise behaviour, exercise motivation, and social support. A one-way between-group ANOVA with Bonferroni correction or a chi-square test was used as appropriate. Multipurpose and fitness-only members were older (mean diff: 9.1 years, p = <0.001) and exercised less (mean diff: 1-1.2 sessions/week, p = <0.001) than members from boutique clubs. Compared with multipurpose and fitness-only members, members from boutique clubs reported the highest autonomous motivation (intrinsic regulation: mean diff: 0.3, p = 0.030), and perceived greater social support from family/friends (mean diff: 6.4 to 6.6, p = <0.001). Boutique members were younger, exercised more, and reported higher autonomous motivation and social support than multipurpose and fitness-only members. Our results suggest that exercise enjoyment and a social community, the \"philosophy\" of boutique gyms, may be important for regular exercise.
摘要：
健身俱乐部是全球最大的运动场所之一。尽管如此，前六个月的会员退出和锻炼辍学率为40-65%。保留成员的一个重要方法可能是创造一个感觉包容的环境，并聚集有共同需求和利益的成员。在这一领域的知识增加可以提供有价值的信息，从而导致更有效的运动促进策略和更好的保留率，对健身房和公共卫生的长期成功很重要。因此，我们旨在比较背景因素，动机，和多用途成员之间的社会支持(广泛的锻炼概念/设施，中高会员费)，仅健身（低会员费），和精品店(一两个专门的锻炼概念，高会员费)健身俱乐部。共有来自多用途的232名成员(n=107)，仅适用(n=52)，和精品健身房(n=73)被招募用于这项横断面研究。数据包括背景变量(年龄，性别,体重和身高,吸烟,家庭总收入,职业,教育,和一般健康)，锻炼行为,锻炼动机，和社会支持。适当时使用具有Bonferroni校正的单向组间ANOVA或卡方检验。多用途和仅限健身的成员年龄较大(平均差异：9.1岁，p=<0.001)和运动较少(平均差异：1-1.2次/周，p=<0.001）比精品俱乐部的成员高。与多用途和仅限健身的会员相比，来自精品俱乐部的成员报告了最高的自主动机(内在调节：平均差异：0.3，p=0.030)，并从家人/朋友那里获得了更大的社会支持（平均差异：6.4至6.6，p=<0.001）。精品会员更年轻，锻炼更多，并且报告说，自主动机和社会支持高于多用途和仅健身会员。我们的结果表明，运动享受和社会社区，精品健身房的“哲学”，这可能对经常锻炼很重要。
