Fitness centres losing out to home gyms for now

Alternate route: Gym-goer Azrin Zhafran Zainal Rashid, 34, searching for home gym equipment online as the gym that he used to go to in Puchong, Kuala Lumpur, was still closed. — IZZRAFIQ ALIAS/The Star

PETALING JAYA: A surge in many setting up their own home gyms during the movement control order (MCO) period is one of the reasons why people have yet to return to the fitness centres.

Under the recovery MCO, fitness centres were allowed to reopen since June 15.