Few or single products are what is on the shelves in the training department in the larger sports stores in Umeå.

But it's not just where it ends.

It basically looks the same throughout the country.  

Online consumers are faced with the same thing.

"Out of stock" is written on lots of sites when SVT is looking for weight plates and dumbbells.

Traders who specialize in gym stuff have been running out of certain products for several months.

- We are expecting some weights in February, but they would have arrived six months ago, says Dan Hamlet, warehouse manager at Gympartner.

Lack since last spring

Already in the spring, the site Prisjakt reported that interest in home training products skyrocketed.

Dumbbells, barbells, weight plates, resistance bands increased by several hundred percent in the search results.

Increased demand during the pandemic is part of the explanation, another that the producers did not have time for.  

- It is corona that is messed up and you are behind in production, says Dan Hamlet.

According to him, there is a shortage throughout Europe and it could be for several more months.

Peter Lundin at Team Sportia in Umeå extends even further.

- They have not had time to produce what is to be distributed in Europe, or really the whole world, he says.

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