Crunch buys out 24-Hour Fitness.....DEJA VU all over again!!

[MCWAY]

I went through this mess 12 years ago, after Bally went belly up. LA Fitness bought some of the clubs. I thought the local Bally Total Fitness club where I trained would be an LA Fitness place (where the weights are so clean, you can practically eat off them).

Instead, it became a Crunch Fitness place. This particular club SUCKED, especially since they got rid of the kids' club. That meant I couldn't take my kids (who were elementary and kindergarten at the time) with me and had to wait for my wife to come home before I could hit the iron. And the equipment with which they replaced Bally's stuff was lousy.

I joined 24-Hour Fitness in 2013 when I moved to KC and have been a member since then. Now, I've been Crunched AGAIN!! I just hope the equipment isn't as sorry as that in the previous club was. As of today, 24-Hour Fitness (at least here in Orlando) is KAPUT!!

[GymnJuice]

I bet they keep charging your credit card...

[MCWAY]

I bet they keep charging your credit card...

Not quite. I stopped that after Thanksgiving 2023. 24-Hour Fitness had black Friday sales where you can get 1-year or 2-year membership for a bargain. So, I got the 2-year deal, which ends after Thanksgiving of this year.

[ESFitness]

Not quite. I stopped that after Thanksgiving 2023. 24-Hour Fitness had black Friday sales where you can get 1-year or 2-year membership for a bargain. So, I got the 2-year deal, which ends after Thanksgiving of this year.

common practice in the gym industry to drop prices and flood their books with members leading up to a sale. gone through that process a couple times.

[MajorDomo]

Crunch Fitness has a pretty shitty reputation - put your money in a soloflex 

[Irongrip400]

I thought that place was done. There were two in my “area” that I knew of and both closed years ago.

[IroNat]

Get your own equipment and train at home.

If you can't afford to outfit a home gym buy a couple sandbags and use them.

Become a beast.

[LurkerNoMore]

Crunch has a horrible reputation.  The only redeeming factor to it is that at least they have free weights and free weight machines.  Unlike Planet Fitness for liability reasons.

[MCWAY]

common practice in the gym industry to drop prices and flood their books with members leading up to a sale. gone through that process a couple times.

It turns out Crunch Fitness purchased 9 24-Hour Fitness clubs in FL: Four (4) in Miami-Dade county and five (5) in Orange County, including where I train.

That also explains why their supplements were marked down 80%. If I hadn't already stocked up on the items of interest, I would have acted a fool and cleared their shelves.