Some questions for Coach and other gym owners:
1. How much money will you have to spend in order to comply?
2. Can you 'convert' or adjust your present equipment to comply?
3. How many of your present members have special needs?
4. Do you anticipate a membership increase as a result of compliance?
6. Will that membership increase cover the cost of compliance within a three year time frame?
7. Does the current square footage of your gym allow you to comply without the removal of any of your present equipment?
8. Are gym owners considering any form of investment in companies that manufacture special needs equipment?
9. Were gym owners contacted by their state reos about this?
And for you Entrepreneurs - There seems to be a decent opportunity here for those of you who might be interested in openihg Special Needs Gyms as a business of your own.
And here are two suggestions that might give you the kick in the ass to get you srarted.
I am almost positive that the government has funds available to set you up in a full scale business such as this.
I am familiar with someone who opened a soup kitchenb as a non-profit and makes a substantial income each year ... and all very legal.
AND ... there are hundreds of athletes and former athletes who have been awarded "compensation" for their physical damage.
A lot of them would possibly want to get involved as investors.
I'm still very much against the President's decisioin and don't think that much thought went into it.
And I doubt that any of these decision makers have ever stepped into a gym outside of their multi million dollar country club.
And then ... they most likely entered with a Martini in one hand and a cigar in the other.
Then down those stairs and back to the bar.
And not one wheel-chair in the whole damn place!
