Most gyms manage their locker rooms the hard way — with wristbands, keys, and a front desk staff member whose real job is handing them out.A new member signs up. The front desk gives them a wristband. They lose it. The front desk gives them another one. They forgot yesterday’s wristband in the car. The front desk gives them a third one. A locker key gets stuck. Maintenance has to go fix it. A member cancels their membership but keeps the wristband. Two months later someone finds a moldy gym bag in an unassigned locker. A mid-size gym spends more staff hours on locker management than most owners realize. And none of it has anything to do with fitness. Why keys and wristbands don’t scale Wristbands wear out. After three months the rubber cracks. After six months the sensor stops reading reliably. Every visit, members stop at the front desk — “Can you open my locker?” During peak hours — 7 PM to 9 PM — there is a line of people waiting for the same thing. Members haven’t started their workout yet and they have already waited three minutes at the front counter. Keys are worse. One key per…