Company Information Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. is a holding company for lifestyle brands. The Company is primarily engaged in designing, building, and operating multi-use sports and athletic, professional fitness, family recreation and spa centers in a resort-like environment. It offers fitness floors with equipment, spacious locker rooms, group fitness studios, indoor and outdoor pools and bistros, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, pickleball courts, basketball courts, LifeSpa, LifeCafe and its childcare and Kids Academy learning spaces. Its Life Time Digital features include live streaming fitness classes, remote goal-based personal training, nutrition and weight-loss support, curated health and fitness and wellness content. Its athletic country clubs, which are located in both affluent suburban and urban locations, total approximately 16 million square feet in the aggregate. The Company operates approximately 164 centers in 29 states and one Canadian province. I think the popularity of pickleball could help their bottom line. I play here in Florida with other snowbirds from around the country….they all say their hometowns are exploding with new pickleball courts. My hometown just converted their handball courts to pickleball courts. Just my two cents!
It's the truth. My next-door neighbor just reached out the other day wanting to know if I would be ok with him putting a pickleball court in his backyard.
Don't let him! It is fucking noisy. Our tennis/pickle court is about 200 yards from our house, with houses in between and I can still hear the noise and the yelling, when I am sitting on the porch. And there will be yelling, mark my word... I like to play it, but I don't want to listen to it.
People stand in line at the courts waiting for their turn. It’s usually the first thing i hear in the morning when i wake up. Was at golf galaxy yesterday….isles and shelves were full of boxes of pickleball paddles and balls. Unfortunately probably from inflation,costs of running fitness centers rose 8.2%. Time will tell i guess.
There is also padel. "Invented in Acapulco in 1969 by the Mexican industrialist Enrique Corcuera, padel (technically pronounced with a Spanish inflection, “PAH-del”; many Americans simply say “paddle”) is a game of doubles, played with a low-pressure tennis ball, a paddle, and a glass back wall and corners on a shrunken tennis court."
This pickleball thing hasn't slowed down yet???? Geez. Must be a lot of work from home people still playing this game on their 3 and half hour breaks!!!