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Traditionally, productivity is associated with economic terms
which refer to the idea of commercial effectiveness of the
performance of an organization or an individual. However,
today, the concept of productivity may be enlarged consistently
and refer not only to the economic field but also to the field
of an individual health and lifestyle at large. In this respect,
it is possible to refer to the concept of productivity in
the context of training in a fitness center, where productivity
refers not only to the commercial performance of a fitness
center, but, in contrast, it is mainly associated with the
effectiveness of training and its impact on the health and
physical as well as psychological shape of customers of a
fitness center. In such a context, productivity becomes a
concept which basically define the extent to which training
process is effective and what the effect on the health of
an individual actually is.
On analyzing the concept of productivity in the concept of
a fitness center, it is primarily necessary to point out that
this concept is dubious. On the one hand, it preserves some
elements of the traditional definition of the concept of productivity
given in purely economic terms since training being organized
within a fitness center targets at the satisfaction of customers’
needs and demands, namely the improvement of their physical
shape. Consequently, the economic principle of the correlation
of supply and demand works in the context of a fitness center
and, therefore, makes the concept of productivity as an economic
term still relevant in the context of a fitness center. What
is meant here is the fact that the productivity, even if it
is applied to training in a fitness center, implies the effectiveness
of work of the personnel of the fitness center and the entire
organization itself. Obviously, the effective and productive
training influences consistently the customer satisfaction
and loyalty of customers to a fitness center. As a result,
the productivity of training inevitably affects the effectiveness
of the performance of a fitness center. In such a context,
it is possible to speak about productivity as an economic
term which designates the effectiveness of the performance
of employees of a fitness center and the performance of the
entire organization.
On the other hand, the concept of productivity, being applied
to training in a fitness center, is primarily related to the
positive effect of training on the health, physical shape
and psychological state of people attending a fitness center.
In actuality, training may be considered as productive only
on the condition of its positive effect on the health of a
customer. At this point, it is possible to argue that any
kind of physical training is supposed to produce a positive
effect on the health of people practicing sports or any sort
of exercises offered to them in a fitness center. Consequently,
any training in a fitness center can be considered as productive
However, such a view on the concept of productivity in the
context of training in a fitness center is apparently erroneous.
In this respect, it is important to underline that productivity
essentially implies a positive impact on the health of an
individual, but it does not mean that all people who attend
a fitness center can benefit from any positive effects at
all and, what is more, for some people such training may be
even dangerous. Moreover, it is not a secret that training
in a fitness center produces a different effect on different
individuals. In such a context, the question concerning the
precise definition of the assessment of productivity and its
essence in the context of training in a fitness center arises.
In order to answer this question, it is necessary to point
out that the productivity in the context of training in a
fitness center in relation to an individual attending such
a center may defined as the effectiveness of training and
its impact on the health of an individual. To put it more
precisely, if an individual decides to train in a fitness
center, he or she wants to achieve certain goals, for instance,
to decrease a body weight, improve physical shape, etc. Consequently,
a productive training can be defined as a training which allows
an individual to attain goals defined before the start of
training process, while the productivity is the achievement
of desirable changes in the physical shape of an individual.
For instance, a decrease of body weight can be viewed as an
effect of training. In such a context, the amount of ponds
an individual loses in the result of training in a fitness
center allow measuring the productivity of training since
the more pounds an individual loses the more productive training
is. However, at this point, it is necessary to remember that
the productivity cannot be assessed on the basis of one criterion
only, such as the changes in the body weight. In stark contrast,
the productivity of training should be assessed in the context
of the general health and physical as well as psychological
state of an individual. What is meant here is the fact that
in order to assess the productivity of training an individual
should pass through a series of tests which can reveal changes
in his or her physical shape before the beginning of training
and after a certain period of training. In such a context,
the body weight is only one of many criteria. In this respect,
it is important to underline that for some people productivity
of training is different depending on their age, gender, physical
capabilities. For instance, younger people have larger potential
than elderly ones and, therefore, their training may be more
productive, while for some people, who have cardio-vascular
problems, such training may be dangerous since it can deteriorate
their health and cause a heart attack or other problems.
Thus, the productivity in the context of training in a fitness
center should be viewed not only as a purely economic term,
but this concept mainly refers to effects of training on an
individual health and the productivity of training is very
individual since each person has unique capabilities, potential
and goals, which attainment defines the productivity of training.
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