It appears that the rush to suburban living is far from over. In a previous blog I suggested that high gas prices would force people to move closer to the urban core. This could mean that city dwellers walk, run or bicycle to work more frequently rather than drive. There is also better access to mass transit with a more compact city.
I may have been overly optimistic. Oil from Canada's oil sands, fracking, and offshore drilling has kept the supply of supply of gasoline rolling along.
Suburban living has always been centered around the internal combustion driven automobile.
That's why there are no sidewalks. Everything revolves around driving. Buses and trains can be a sporadic entity in the furthest reaches of the suburban hinterland. This discourages most unorganized physical activity. Sure there are hockey arenas and soccer fields and baseball diamonds and occasionally even a skateboard park. They just seem to be unaesthetic and lacking of and soul.
On the plus side, the suburbs are full of big box style fitness centers. There will likely be more of them being built as urban sprawl runs rampant. This should ensure a need for Fitness Trainers. Fitness Trainers that come to the place of residence to train clients will also be a potential growth business.
Fitness Trainer's will likely need to rely on the automobile to get get to their clients. I suppose they could become early pioneers of the electric automobile.
Maybe Fitness Trainers can't save the planet directly!
However, each person that we convert to an active lifestyle may come to rely less on the automobile.
"One small step for man ,.....one giant step for Mankind! "
(Neil Armstrong - First man on the moon.)
Until next time,.........Keep Fit
Little Bobby Strong. schwabe27.uwmfatloss.hop.clickbank.net
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