Fitness books sales up, gym memberships down to start 2009

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Posted: 5:20 PM Jan 2, 2009
Last Updated: 6:28 PM Jan 2, 2009
Reporter: KXII-TV Staff
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SHERMAN, Tex. ― If you have ever made the New Year’s resolution to lose weight and get in shape, you are not alone. But several people this year are finding a new way to stick to it.

A recent survey by nutritionists and dieticians shows less people are signing up for gym memberships than in previous years and more are instead turning to fitness books.

Many folks are turning to bookstores and buying fitness books instead of buying gym memberships to save money. Bookstore managers say they see an increase in this type of sales every year, but especially to begin 2009.

“With all the new healthy trends, diets, nutritional, it just seems like every year this time people have New Year’s resolutions and people want to start getting healthy again,” Sherman Books-A-Million general manager Kenny Glatt says.

Several area bookstores say health and fitness books have been the hot sellers for the past two days.

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Posted by: kelly on Jan 5, 2009 at 10:19 AM
it`s whole bunches easier to lay around and read about exercize,than to actually do any

Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 4, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Go to Africa and read fitness books. You will surely lose weight from eating the food they have to live on.

Posted by: Mork Location: Ork on Jan 4, 2009 at 03:05 PM
I'm hungry, anybody want some ribs?

Posted by: Anonymous Location: howe on Jan 3, 2009 at 09:29 AM
I wish reading a book could make me lose 20 lbs. LOL

Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 3, 2009 at 01:17 AM
gotta do what they say in them books beforun you can lose sum weight.

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