The gym is somewhere where a lot of people genuinely enjoy going. My family, for instance, all love going to the gym— even if none of us attend the same gym. My brother and I both separately attend the gyms on our college campuses after classes at our leisure, while my mom wakes at 4 a.m. every day (except for Saturdays, of course) in order to head to her local gym’s classes. My father goes to the gym in the afternoon as the sun lowers, feeling the inspiration to workout while the sun goes down. While we all have different habits and preferences when it comes to going to the gym and working out, there’s one thing we can all agree on: during the winter, our gym absolutely has to have good heating. Have you ever tried to work out in a gym during the winter time while the heating is bad? It’s extremely uncomfortable, especially at first. Sure the point of exercise is to work up a sweat, but handling cold equipment while sweating inside of a frigidly cold room can lead to the feeling of having a cold or being sick. Exercising inside of a room that’s too cold makes things like stretching and warming up harder as well, which is something that many people may not be aware that their heaters have been helping them with. On top of that, it’s also demotiving and demoralizing in general, as finding the motivation to keep exercising while the room you’re in is uncomfortably cold is an extremely hard endeavor. The perfect environment to exercise in during the winter is one that is warm but not too hot. All in all, good heating is crucial to a gym during winter!