Fitness

Working Out at Home Won’t Replace Going to Gym, Barclays Says

A man wears a face mask as he exercises with free weights at Bologna's Lodi Gym in Italy on May 25.

Photographer: Roberto Serra - Iguana Press/Getty Images Europe

Home workouts may have become a lockdown staple, but Barclays Plc analysts say gym-goers won’t be ditching their memberships anytime soon.

A survey of U.K consumers found that only 14% of gym members planned to cancel their contracts, despite 35% of them changing their attitude to home exercising amid the outbreak, the bank said in a note to clients Tuesday.