If you are looking to join a gym somewhere and get a gym membership, before you do so, you may want to think about a few things first.
The main thing being is that gym actually certified? There are a lot of gyms all over the place.
From the major ones owned by professional corporations to small mom and pop gyms in smaller areas. But are these gyms certified and why would it matter? Well, if you are using a gym that is not certified and there is some sort of an accident, you will have no back up to either seek compensation for your injuries or you will not be working with professionally passed gym equipment most of the time. The gyms that are not certified are usually operating on a shoestring budget and are not very good in the first place. But some of them may seem really great at first until something actually goes wrong inside the gym. Then you are up the creek when this happens. So the way to find out if a gym is certified is to either look them up online and do some deep research on them. Such as registrations with the better business bureau for instance. If they are registered with them, then chances are they have their certification. If they are not, you will want to go into the gym and ask to see their certification. It’s better to be safe than sorry is how I look at it. Even though they may get annoyed at you.