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WHAT'S THE STORY WITH GETTING OUT OF A GYM CONTRACT?THE NATIONAL Consumer Agency (NCA) recently announced that it had reached an agreement with many of the State's 600 gyms encouraging (but not obliging) them to be a little more transparent when it comes to taking our money.

In response to an increasingly loud chorus of complaints from consumers about unfair and ambiguous terms and conditions which forced them to shell out for gyms long after they'd lost interest in working out, the agency launched a consultative exercise involving the representative bodies of the fitness industry in October 2007.