A gym for office workers

A gym for office workers

2023-10-26

With the fast-paced and busy lifestyle of Taiwanese office workers, gyms catering to busy office workers are on the rise. FTV reporter Stephany Yang takes us to a gym that offers 45-minute high-intensity training sessions.

Machines are arranged in rows, with a trainer leading the class at the front. Other coaches walk around the studio to assist students correct their posture.

In the workout studio, a series of TVs are mounted on the wall. It allows gym-goers to monitor their heart rate, the total calories burned, percentage of their maximum effort, and number of sets to go. This gym specializes in functional training, high-intensity training, and circuit training group workout sessions for busy office workers. In each class, students will perform a combination of strength, resistance, cardio, and hybrid exercises.

Away
Gym member
I have always enjoyed working out. I am an office worker, and I hope to be able to exercise very quickly and effectively. My company is nearby. I have been looking for gyms nearby. I have been here for almost a year. My muscle endurance, my posture, and muscle mass have all increased significantly.

Albert Ho
Gym member
My frequency of exercise went way up. Now I do about five times a week. What is really great about here is that you just come and kind of shut your mind off. They plan everything for you and they help you clean up too.

Pedro
Gym member
The courses here are different every day. There are weight training and aerobics courses. The past six months have been very helpful because it will make you want to continue to exercise.

This gym is a franchise of an Australian gym. The Taiwanese branch located in Taipei was founded by Justus Wah, a Singaporean who moved to Taiwan when he was 10 years old. After graduating from high school, he moved to Singapore to study and work for a few years. After working as a software engineer, he decided to move back to Taiwan to follow his passion. He found a branch of this Australian gym in Taiwan in November 2021.

Justus Wah
Founder
I started to get into this fitness trend. I lost a lot of weight. I started to eat healthy and workout really often. I felt good about myself. At the same time because I was bored of my job and didn’t really know what to do. I kind of felt stuck a little bit in my career as well. When that happened, I took a very bold move of just taking out all my savings and investing in a gym to help change lives because my life was changed. Most people today they don’t have an hour, two hours, or three hours to spend in the gym. They want to get results fast. We do that in a high-intensity setting with high energy.

Besides being results and efficiency focused, the gym hopes to create a tight-knit community for like-minded fitness enthusiasts.

Justus Wah
Founder
I think that a lot of times for fitness it is already really challenging for someone who is struggling with weight, struggling with their body image, struggling to get a good routine in to continue. I think as much as we want results which is super important, the main part of driving to that and the main way of getting results is by joining a community where you change the environment around you. You change the people around you. Our main target audience is office workers who are within the vincinity. They had a long day of work but they still want time to get a good workout in.

Taiwanese office workers live a fast-paced and busy lifestyle. Gyms like this one are becoming increasingly popular among gym-goers.

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沒時間運動? 健身房專為上班族設計不同訓練課程

2023-10-26

隨著台灣上班族快節奏、忙碌的生活方式，針對忙碌上班族的健身房不斷興起。一起來看看這間主打45分鐘高強度訓練的健身房。

放眼望去，一排排的健身器材。在前方由一名教練教導動作，其他教練們則在周圍來回走動，協助調整學生的姿勢。

在健身房內的牆上，有各種螢幕，幫助健身者監測他們的心率、燃燒的卡路里數、最大肌力值以及尚未完成的組數。這家健身房有專門為忙碌的上班族設計，具有功能性、高強度和循環式訓練的團體課程。而在每節課中，學生會進行力量訓練、阻力訓練、有氧運動和混合訓練。

[[健身房客人游婷羽]]
"我本身就是蠻喜歡運動，我是上班族，我希望在有效的時間內可以很快速的運動，然後我公司就在附近。我一直找尋附近周圍可以運動的場地。我來這邊已經快一年了，我的肌耐力、我的體態、肌肉量都有明顯的上升。"

[[健身房客人何慧鴻]]
"我的運動頻率大幅增加了。現在我一周大約練五次。這裡真正很棒，來到這裡可以暫時拋開腦中的思緒。他們已經為顧客打理好一切了，也有洗澡的地方。"

[[健身房客人郭哲佑]]
"這邊的課程每天都不一樣，他有分重訓還有結合有氧。這半年我覺得還滿有幫助，因為會讓你想要持續來運動。 "

這家健身房是澳洲一家健身房的加盟店。位於台北的台灣分公司是由Justus Wah創立的，他10歲時從新加坡移居到台灣。高中畢業後，他回到新加坡讀書並且在當地工作幾年。在擔任軟體工程師後，他決定搬回台灣追隨自己的夢想。2021年11月，他在台灣創辦了這家澳洲健身房的分店。

[[健身房創辦人 Justus Wah]]
"我開始跟上這種健身趨勢，我瘦了很多，也開始健康飲食和頻繁的鍛鍊。我對自己的狀態感到滿意。同時，我也對自己的工作產生倦怠，不知道該怎麼做，覺得自己的職業生涯有點陷入困境。當下發生時，我做了一個非常大膽的舉動，我拿出所有的存款，投資一家健身房，來幫助別人改變他們的生活，因為我的生活被改變了。現在大多數的人，沒有一個小時、兩個小時或三個小時的時間去健身房，他們希望能快速得到成效，而我們利用高強度、高能量消耗的運動達成這個目標。"

除了注重效果和效率外，還希望為健身愛好者建立一個緊密團結的健身空間。

[[健身房創辦人 Justus Wah]]
"我認為健身很有挑戰性，對於那些正在試圖改善自己的體重、體態和想努力保持良好日常生活習慣的人來說。想要達成目標，實現目標的過程和方式相當重要，要試著加入一個群體，改變自己身處的環境及周圍的人。我們的主要客群是附近的上班族，他們工作一整天，但仍然希望有時間好好鍛煉一下。"

台灣上班族的快節奏、忙碌的生活型態，像這類的健身房越來越受到歡迎。

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