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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: BayGBM on June 21, 2025, 11:11:17 AM
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I saw a fee schedule online today for another gym and had to do a double take. My gym membership is about $11/month with an annual fee of $65. If my gym was $60/month I would not be training there. You?
I like the idea of a lifetime membership but something about that does not seem practical. What if you need to move away or the gym goes downhill in quality or closes?
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I don’t join individual gyms anymore. I guess technically I do, but I don’t buy memberships. I use this instead. Ends up being $500 a year
https://fitnessyourway.tivityhealth.com/
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$28 bucks plus $20 for day care
But I'm a member of something called Active & Fit Direct through my bank USAA. With it you pay $28 per month and be able to go to any gym that participates. So while I go to EOS, I can go to about 10-12 other gyms in my area. Corporate gyms like LA Fitness. There's YMCAs and small gyms as well. Great deal.
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I had a lifetime membership over 40 years ago.
Seems like I paid around $250 initially and then a yearly renewal of $75.
I kept it for about 15 years until moving about 350 miles away.
As I recall a monthly rate was around $40.
This was a local gym. I bought the lifetime when the owner had only been in business for a year or so.
He is still going as is well-known in the gym business and bodybuilding. A very solid guy.
If I still lived there I'd still be a member.
I haven't joined a gym since I moved in the mid 90s. Train at home.
$11 a month ($15 with the annual) is unbelievably cheap.
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free, when you're old you get the golden ticket. I have memberships to gold's [all 3 locations have now closed in my area] and the local gym, but I choose to train at home.
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£25 a month
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One is $20, the other is $40
My understanding is that Bay is very well off financially. Why are those few extra bucks so consequential for something as important as the gym? In my case, being dirt poor, I would probably pay $200 for the $40 gym if I had to, it's so vital in my case.
It's like the fella I know online who is good for 100 million who still hunts for deals on toilet paper. Maybe it's that stingy character that made them rich in the first place and it's impossible to drop. I know a fella who is 79 who has a couple of million, but is too cheap to take a bath because the water costs too much.
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£12.99 a month. Joined when it opened for a "price for life" deal with the option to use other locations in the same price range. My home gym closed down and I was able to choose an alternative with my price locked in and ability to use other gyms (these days you have to pay an enhanced membership level for the same freedom).
It's ruined me for other gyms. Anything else just seems overly expensive.
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In the local 2 gyms in town its 65 a month, or 8-10 euro for a day pass, fucking greedy as fuck.
I can travel out of town for 5 euro day passes in better gyms or train for free at a gyms 20 and 40 miles away but it takes money to get there.
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38 a month and I can bring a guest any time and go to any Retro Fitness.
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£35 a month, i could get it cheaper booking 6 months or 12 months but i cant be arsed
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it’s $150/month @ Dragons Lair off Blue Diamond in Vegas but worth it and Flex is cool
pay $50/month in NC but can go to another gym anytime if the hatred and misery get too much @ this particular establishment
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$40/month, multiple locations and 24hr access.
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45€/month
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Cancelled mine a few years back.
After I bought a squat rack there was no real reason to go as I mostly went to train legs. I have enough equipment at home to train everything else.
So much more convenient and time saving this way.
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I work out at home so $0 but I'm reading American Psycho and Patrick Bateman paid $5000 a year at his gym in Manhattan in the 1980's.
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Cancelled mine a few years back.
After I bought a squat rack there was no real reason to go as I mostly went to train legs. I have enough equipment at home to train everything else.
So much more convenient and time saving this way.
But how do you stay motivated with nothing like that in sight? :-\
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it’s $150/month @ Dragons Lair off Blue Diamond in Vegas but worth it and Flex is cool
pay $50/month in NC but can go to another gym anytime if the hatred and misery get too much @ this particular establishment
You in Vegas now?
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I work out at home so $0 but I'm reading American Psycho and Patrick Bateman paid $5000 a year at his gym in Manhattan in the 1980's.
he also bought a pizza that cost $90
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Mine is any equipment I decide to buy now since I haven't paid for a gym other than while traveling for about 8 years now.
In the past, it's been as high as 135/mth for equinox, and as low as 20/mth for other stuff.
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I think the deciding factor for most people is what kind of people do you want to train with?
Cheap Gym's normally attract scumbags who can be troublesome particularly if you're a woman.
Some years back when working in Gym's this is exactly what I was told from people.
They were willing to pay more for a nice clean Gym with better clientele..
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I think the deciding factor for most people is what kind of people do you want to train with?
Cheap Gym's normally attract scumbags who can be troublesome particularly if you're a woman.
Some years back when working in Gym's this is exactly what I was told from people.
They were willing to pay more for a nice clean Gym with better clientele..
so you are saying your gym is £5 a month? ;D
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so you are saying your gym is £5 a month? ;D
Nope...I paid 0 £/$/€ ...haha
Trained for free.
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I work out at a country club, it’s included in my dues. It’s a great way to feel good about yourself. I’m definitely the strongest where I work out, but it’s old people, house wives and high school kids.
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I don’t join individual gyms anymore. I guess technically I do, but I don’t buy memberships. I use this instead. Ends up being $500 a year
https://fitnessyourway.tivityhealth.com/
Golds Gym Venice does not accept that, nor does it accept any other gym privileges from other gyms reciprocity. Sad! Sign up with them or pay outrageous $50 a day guest pass
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prophecy is 40 a month and its second to none
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I work out at home so $0 but I'm reading American Psycho and Patrick Bateman paid $5000 a year at his gym in Manhattan in the 1980's.
Yeah, I remember the LA Sports Club (Sports Club LA?) was pretty pricey like that back in the 90s. Not sure if it’s even still around!
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I think the deciding factor for most people is what kind of people do you want to train with?
That's true, the mood and atmosphere is key for good lifting, equipment is a distant second. IMO at least.
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$28 bucks plus $20 for day care
But I'm a member of something called Active & Fit Direct through my bank USAA. With it you pay $28 per month and be able to go to any gym that participates. So while I go to EOS, I can go to about 10-12 other gyms in my area. Corporate gyms like LA Fitness. There's YMCAs and small gyms as well. Great deal.
It will be a great deal, once you start using it.
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It will be a great deal, once you start using it.
Dude, it's 2025 getting close to 2026. I'm lean, financially set, married, have a child and working on my Doctorate. I know you enjoy basking in the glory of my down years, but get over it. Operate in today's reality when referring to me and to yourself.
I don't want to bully the less fortunate but you're sort of asking for it.
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Dude, it's 2025 getting close to 2026. I'm lean, financially set, married, have a child and working on my Doctorate. I know you enjoy basking in the glory of my down years, but get over it. Operate in today's reality when referring to me and to yourself.
I don't want to bully the less fortunate but you're sort of asking for it.
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Now that Crunch just bought out 24-Hour Fitness (at least here in FL), I have to see what deal I can get after Thanksgiving. Back in 2023, I did the Black Friday sale and paid $280 for a two-year membership, after having my credit card charged indefinitely since I first joined in 2013. Back then, it was $30 a month. But, because 24-Hour Fitness changed nearly all their club to "Sports Clubs" (i.e. with basketball courts), the cost eventually went up to $50/month.
My membership got grandfathered into Crunch in May, almost exactly the same way back in 2013 after Crunch bought out Bally.
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When I joined my local gym they asked for my debit card. I told them no, but they could use my credit card. They told me that use of my debit card was required as that is their policy. The clerk waved his hand toward the gym floor and said everyone here pays via debit. I told them their policy was misguided and so were their members. The manager was standing nearby and joined the conversation. I told him that no one gets my debit card as I do not allow ANY merchant to reach into my bank account and withdraw funds—not even my mortgage lender; any funds that leave my account are initiated by me exclusively. If I don’t let my mortgage lender into my account why would I let some chain gym debit my account at will? I told him if a debit card was required then I didn’t need to be a member and would go elsewhere. And what about people who have no debit card? Guess what? Suddenly the policy changed mid sentence and they accepted my credit card. Why other members put up with that policy I will never know. ::)
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When I joined my local gym they asked for my debit card. I told them no, but they could use my credit card. They told me that use of my debit card was required as that is their policy. The clerk waved his hand toward the gym floor and said everyone here pays via debit. I told them their policy was misguided and so were their members. The manager was standing nearby and joined the conversation. I told him that no one gets my debit card as I do not allow ANY merchant to reach into my bank account and withdraw funds—not even my mortgage lender; any funds that leave my account are initiated by me exclusively. If I don’t let my mortgage lender into my account why would I let some chain gym debit my account at will? I told him if a debit card was required then I didn’t need to be a member and would go elsewhere. And what about people who have no debit card? Guess what? Suddenly the policy changed mid sentence and they accepted my credit card. Why other members put up with that policy I will never know. ::)
Amen.
There is zero reason to turn over one’s debit card. I do the same as you’ve done Bay. No one gets it. I do train at home most days but planet fatness gets my money too when I venture into the public with the mouth breathers for a sojourn. The price is hard to beat and gives me an excuse to head out. But most days I train at home; I’ve got $10k into the home gym and the rules are what I make them.
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When I joined my local gym they asked for my debit card. I told them no, but they could use my credit card. They told me that use of my debit card was required as that is their policy. The clerk waved his hand toward the gym floor and said everyone here pays via debit. I told them their policy was misguided and so were their members. The manager was standing nearby and joined the conversation. I told him that no one gets my debit card as I do not allow ANY merchant to reach into my bank account and withdraw funds—not even my mortgage lender; any funds that leave my account are initiated by me exclusively. If I don’t let my mortgage lender into my account why would I let some chain gym debit my account at will? I told him if a debit card was required then I didn’t need to be a member and would go elsewhere. And what about people who have no debit card? Guess what? Suddenly the policy changed mid sentence and they accepted my credit card. Why other members put up with that policy I will never know. ::)
Most people don't question anything & most Gym's have hidden costs. For example one Gym I knew offered an all inclusive deal..free drinks ..but suddenly the customers were charged for " service fees"
When people realised this some tried to leave the Gym only to be given a long hard fight with paper work & other means to mess them around.
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he also bought a pizza that cost $90
Only the best for Patrick.