Attendance, Adherence, Drop out and Retention — PT Direct. Building on your understanding of peoples motives for exercise and their reasons for cancelling or remaining a fitness club member it is valuable to gain an understanding of when members attend the gym, what helps them adhere to exercise, when they are at risk of dropping out, and what makes them most likely to be retained as members by a club, and as clients by you.
Before we continue with this page lets quickly clarify these terms: Attendance; refers simply to how often the member/client turns up at the club to trainAdherence; refers to how well the member/client sticks to the prescribed programme(s) they were given, i.e. are they training at the prescribed intensity?
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