Network Magazine Spring 2018 | Page 69

NEWS News and views from the New Zealand fitness industry. What consumers think of us It can be scary to ask large numbers of non-customers what they think of your business. The answers can be both enlightening and humbling – to say the least. Recently, however, ExerciseNZ did exactly this, but rather than focus on a single business, we asked consumers in New Zealand about their attitudes, perceptions and actions in relation to exercise. In undertaking the research we asked not only current exercisers, but also past exercisers and non-exercisers, what they thought about exercise, their intentions to start, continue or stop