One in three gym memberships go to waste, new figures show

Wannabe gym junkies are wasting hundreds of dollars on memberships they either rarely or never use.

The finance app Pocketbook has done some research and the drop-off rate is staggering.

One in three people who sign up to expensive gym membership contracts at the start of the year, often can’t be bothered.

And it doesn’t take long for the eagerness to fall away – often within months.