When you walk into a gym, you should be welcomed with music that has a beat, music that motivates you to get moving. For the past several years, the members at Determined Fitness in Poughkeepsie, New York have struggled with attempting to workout to slow country music, slow R&B, or the worst kind...acoustic versions of songs. No this isn't bad music, but there is a time and place for it and it is not at the gym .

We complain to the front desk, some of us have even went straight to the owner, Jim, to ask if he could do something about it, only to find out that it is his own doing! The gym is bleeding members, the music has a lot to do with it, Jim believes that the current playlist is perfect no matter how many complaints he receives. People leave early, leave if they don't have their headphones with them, or don't come in at all. The community at determined fitness needs to be catered to or it will no longer exist. Let's create an atmosphere that lights a fire inside of us to motivate us to workout. Let's put out the fire that gets lit under our ass to make us want to leave.