DomiNation Gym

Just so that you know all my pre-caffeine rants aren't some incensed whiney tyrade about a global injustice, I present you with a vision that's been keeping me up at nights lately...Domination Gym.

This would be a Gym that concentrates more on geting in shape than in bulking up. And despite the gimicky looking description would be anti-trend. The theory behind it is: you have to move, you have to eat good food, and you will always look at what's painful but do what's pleasurable.

Overall look...dark. A little dungeion-y. There's a reason for this. We tend to remember the things that are well lit, so only the most pleasant areas would be fully lit. Any place where you might stress (like being whipped in the free weights room) would be darker. As you look back at your time spent, statistically the happier memories would be the ones you remember, and would thus tend to want to return.

We would have 4 types of trainers: passive, dom, stalker and fucko. The passive is just a cheerleader, really, meant to inspire you by telling you how good you're starting to look or how pumping iron turns them on. The dom is there to whip you into shape, literally. You have to sign speacial releases for the other two. The stalker, follows you around and makes sure your not cheating on your diet and such, if you look like you might, you get a creepy call from them. Also, they disturb you a lot if you miss appointments to the gym (or payments). The fucko takes a much more active roll in your life and will slap the Big Mac out of your hands and drag you out of social engagements (or work if you request) to make gym dates.

We'd have a lot of aerobically oriented movement classes like poi spinng, dancing, etc, but they'd have a rewards/punishment twist. Jogging would be done in groups, following a passive, and being followed by a dom. Perhaps poi spinning classes where lit poi are a prestige ranking (like martial arts belts) with the highest prestige looking the most dangerous (big, lit plastic spikes). Dance halls where 30 minutes of dance is mandatory.

The snack areas would be full service, it would have a wet bar, mini MacDonalds, and health food service. You would receive a metal ID bracelet that has your diet encoded on it. To order, you place your bracelet on a special reader and tell the cashier what you want. If you order something off your diet, the bracelet delivers little shocks, which stop when the cashier clears the offending item or the transaction is complete. Aversion therapy.

I'm thinking this place would only really appeal to the people who could afford it, but it might be scaled back a bit for the public. Though, I think it would be interesting to see a Bally's commercial with a little leather in it.