"But.... you can't have over 100% of capacity" [He wouldn't listen]

<p>"But.... you can't have over 100% of capacity" [He wouldn't listen]</p> <p><br></p> <p>We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Next March will mark 20 years since I started working in the Fitness Industry.</p> <p>At Fitness First Derby.</p> <p>The following February I moved to the new Fitness First at Sheffield and spent three years there doing 1:1 Personal Training.</p> <p>I also took a few classes – partly for the income and partly as way to get in front of some members who might then be interested in PT.</p> <p>The guy who ran the studio was called Rich (“2002 Fitness First Presenter of the Year Rich Hawke” as he’d correct me) and he became a good friend of mine.</p> <p>But we did have one thing we disagreed on.</p> <p>Part of his job was to keep track of studio usage.</p> <p>Total numbers for each class and that number as a percentage of capacity.</p> <p>He put the capacity of every class down as the same.</p> <p>18.</p> <p>I ran a Fitball class and we only had 15 Fitballs.</p> <p>So I could only reach 83% of “capacity” even if every class was full.</p> <p>I ran circuits classes you could get 20 or so in for.</p> <p>His dance fitness classes could easily get 30+ people in the same space, so he regularly ran at 150+% of “capacity”.</p> <p>Many a time I would explain to him that the classes should all have different capacities.</p> <p>Based on how many people you could actually get in.</p> <p>And that “by definition, you can’t have over 100% of capacity”.</p> <p>Like how, by definition, you can’t be in a calorie deficit and not lose weight.</p> <p>It might seem like you can.</p> <p>That we might feel like we’ve “not being eating much but haven’t lost any weight”.</p> <p>But there’s just something not quite right in our ‘calculations’.</p> <p>Some numbers are a bit off at some point.</p> <p>If we were using more energy than we were consuming, that energy would hav