I have seen the gym of the future – you may now gouge out my eyes. Please.

The gym of the future will feature all the usual stuff you expect to find in a gym – free weights, weight machines, treadmills and stationary bikes. To appeal to the aging Boomer generation, it will also include classes in yoga, tai chi and Pilates.

And if Nifty After Fifty, a fitness center for the older set, is any indication, tomorrow’s gym may also feature oxygen tanks, defibrillators and maybe even an attending physician.

As America continues to age (and sag), more and more gyms are turning down the volume and the tempo, and trying to lure a more … uh … mature clientele.

According to a recent news article, gyms today are trying to attract more than young hard-bodies. Sheldon Zinberg, 74, who opened Nifty After Fifty last year, said, "As we get older, we're sort of intimidated about going into a 25,000 square-foot gym with rock music and people in tight leotards and muscle bulging from every aspect of their tank shirts."

I go to a gym, and plenty of the people I work out with are around my age (I’m 52). I see lots of tight leotards and bulging tank shirts. But at my age, this is usually not a sign of fitness. Let’s be honest – on most of these folks, a circus tent would be tight. And what’s bulging out of those tank shorts isn’t brawn – unless there’s a muscle named lardius maximus.

This trend of sweatin’ with the oldies is a potential goldmine. The oldest of the Baby Boomers – those of us born between 1946 and 1964 – started turning 60 last year. In less than 25 years, there will be more than 71 million 65-year-olds; that’s twice as many as there were in 2000. And seniors control more than 70 percent of the country's disposable income.

That means the older fitness buff can get in a workout, hit Luby’s for the Early Bird Special, and still be home in time for “Wheel of Fortune.” What’s not to love about that?