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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