Author Topic: How much is your gym membership? (Read 730 times)

BayGBM · « **on:** June 21, 2025, 11:11:17 AM »

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?

Rambone · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2025, 11:24:16 AM »

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/

Wiggs · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2025, 11:25:37 AM »

$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.

IroNat · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2025, 11:59:54 AM »

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.

funk51 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:17:51 PM »

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.

Henda · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:34:08 PM »

£25 a month

Van_Bilderass · « **Reply #6 on:** June 21, 2025, 01:27:54 PM »

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.

Dreadlifter · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2025, 01:54:45 PM »

£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.

BigRo · « **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2025, 02:18:59 PM »

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.

SF1900 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2025, 03:37:05 PM »

38 a month and I can bring a guest any time and go to any Retro Fitness.

joswift · « **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2025, 04:22:29 PM »

£35 a month, i could get it cheaper booking 6 months or 12 months but i cant be arsed

Spike · « **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2025, 05:34:39 PM »

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

US MUSL · « **Reply #12 on:** June 21, 2025, 05:48:36 PM »

$40/month, multiple locations and 24hr access.

affeman · « **Reply #13 on:** **Today** at 12:16:28 AM »

45€/month

Griffith · « **Reply #14 on:** **Today** at 12:22:37 AM »

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.

Humble Narcissist · « **Reply #15 on:** **Today** at 12:28:35 AM »

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.

affeman · « **Reply #16 on:** **Today** at 12:34:00 AM »

Quote from: Griffith on Today at 12:22:37 AM

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? $:-\$

Wiggs · « **Reply #17 on:** **Today** at 05:52:51 AM »

Quote from: Spike on June 21, 2025, 05:34:39 PM

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?

joswift · « **Reply #18 on:** **Today** at 05:55:46 AM »

Quote from: Humble Narcissist on Today at 12:28:35 AM

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

Grape Ape · « **Reply #19 on:** **Today** at 06:25:05 AM »

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.

Donny · « **Reply #20 on:** **Today** at 06:30:17 AM »

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..

joswift · « **Reply #21 on:** **Today** at 07:34:13 AM »

Quote from: Donny on Today at 06:30:17 AM

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?

Donny · « **Reply #22 on:** **Today** at 07:58:07 AM »

Quote from: joswift on Today at 07:34:13 AM

so you are saying your gym is £5 a month?

Nope...I paid 0 £/$/€ ...haha
Trained for free.

Irongrip400 · « **Reply #23 on:** **Today** at 08:25:53 AM »

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.

Never1AShow · « **Reply #24 on:** **Today** at 08:30:23 AM »

Quote from: Rambone on June 21, 2025, 11:24:16 AM

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