With the third week of my internship starting, I have found my duties to be relatively the same. I am steadily in charge of weight room management and maintenance, as well as getting a chance to see the personal training aspect of the business. I was also enlightened on the aspects of fixed costs such as rent and other utilities. To rent out a facility as large as the one GSP uses takes quite a bit of money for rent and utilities. Just to heat and cool the building can cost thousands of dollars per month. On top of that, rent has to be paid along with other bills like water and electricity. The weather can also be a huge factor in utilities. If it is warm in the summer, the AC bill will be higher. If it is very cold in the winter, the bill can also be high. GSP has different ways of balancing these costs to keep expense low.
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