Why Your Gym Needs a Water Dispenser

Whether it’s your local gym, a leisure centre or training facility, staying hydrated is an important factor in enabling gym members to achieve their best workout. Although equipment, classes, and facilities will likely be at the forefront of most decisions, your hydration solution should not be overlooked.

Installing a water dispenser or bottle filling station can help you to enhance member experience, reduce single use plastics and encourage hydration.

Why Hydration is Important When Exercising

During exercise, your body sweats and loses water, and even mild dehydration can have detrimental effects on performance, concentration, and recovery. This is why drinking water before, during and after exercise is so important for gym goers.

Ensuring gym members have access to refreshing drinking water will encourage them to stay hydrated and feel comfortable when working out, so making hydration effortless with easy access to water dispensers will definitely boost morale in your gym.

Enhance Member Experience

These days, gym members have high expectations of the facilities they use to stay fit and active. Knowing that they can grab a bottle of chilled, filtered water whenever they need it will enhance the member experience.

Rather than carrying several water bottles around the gym or spending money on branded bottled drinks from the reception desk, your gym users can fill up a reusable water bottle whenever they feel thirsty.

Providing your gym members with better hydration options can increase member satisfaction and set you apart from your competitors.

Promote Sustainable Practices

We all know that businesses should be doing their bit to reduce single-use plastic, and many gym members will actually take your organisation’s environmental values into consideration when deciding whether to sign up?

By installing a mains-fed water cooler or bottle filling station, you can actively reduce the demand for single-use plastic bottles.

Save Money Whilst Staying Hydrated

If you decide to sell bottled water to gym members or staff, or even give it away for free, this can soon start to stack up your operational costs. Water dispensers are a much more cost-effective solution that provides all of the benefits of bottled water and more.

With a mains-fed water dispenser, you’ll always have access to fresh drinking water without the additional costs and admin of bottle deliveries and storage.

Promote Hydration Habits

Fitness Centres are all about promoting a healthier lifestyle, and hydration plays a vital role in said lifestyle. Placing hydration stations around the gym will encourage gym goers to drink more water throughout their workout.

By providing accessible water cooler options, you may even deter your gym members from choosing high sugar alternatives.

Providing hydration options shows you value the health and wellbeing of your gym members.

Show Off Your Facilities

Consumers like to know that the businesses they frequent care about their wellbeing. By providing gym members with access to quality hydration stations, you’re improving their gym experience and showing that you care about their health.

Water dispensers and bottle filling stations are available in stylish designs. No matter where you choose to position yours around your gym - in reception, the training area, studio spaces or the changing rooms, you can create a streamlined look that compliments your facilities.

Installing a bottle filling station will demonstrate to gym members that you value their comfort and are taking steps to help the environment too.

Finding The Perfect Hydration Station For Your Gym

When deciding on the best hydration solution for your gym, there are several things to consider. How many members do you have? Where it'll be placed? What is your expected usage level?

Here at Thirsty Work we understand that every gym is different, which is why we offer a range of water dispensers, bottle filling stations, and hydration stations to suit.

Popular options for gyms include:

• Mains-Fed Water Coolers
• Bottle Filling Stations
• Bottled Water Coolers
• Instant Water Taps

We work with gyms and leisure centres across the UK to find the perfect hydration solution to meet their needs and ensure they always have access to fresh drinking water.

At Thirsty Work, we’re passionate about providing gyms with modern hydration solutions. If you’re interested in installing a water dispenser or bottle filling station at your gym, simply call, email or use our contact form.