Lemme see… $50/month base fee, + $12/month for locker rental and $2.00 parking every day I use it (so 4 times a week). This works out to
$94/month.
It is at my University and is 450,000 sq. ft. (for 40,000 students and probably 20,000 employees.) It also is mobbed with students most of the time and doesn’t have near enough equipment for people who do free weight since they are dangerous. Hundreds of machines though. Oh and all the student have to pay mandatory $120/semester and with only 20% of them using it, the fair market value is about $100/month for them too… The University defends this by claiming it is a service and enhances quality of life for the campus.
$36 a month. Has a pool, and tennis courts, basketball courts, raquetball court, and a shuffle board. Has way too many ab machines, but supplies us chalk, and has plenty of weights. If I have to wait for a squat rack I might have to wait 2 mins, but not much more that that.
Edit: forgot to answer the last question. I like my gym. Maybe $50 a month. Would prefer to get my own equipment and work out in the garage. That might happen in the next year or two.
I pay $28 a month with a once a year $40 fee that they use solely for equipment purchases. It’s called Big Sky Fitness and they have a few locations around CT. They have a couple of racks, sleds, ropes,some chains, and bands. I’d pay $100 for an EFS style gym (more for the clientele and motivation than anything.
I paid for the year (my wife is a teacher so there is that discount rate) & it was around $320.00 yearly - megachain here in Toronto / Canada known as Goodlife Fitness…
The main perk is that this allows me to use almost any location in the city - there are 3-4 locations on my commute to/from work.
Most locations are open 24hours Monday-Friday but close at 7pm on weekends (too bad)
For the most part its decent, the equipment varies from gym to gym based on what former gym the chain has decided to buy out & may have kept in the inventory
If it’s a downtown location they stock the good stuff for the condo dwellers & beautiful people…
Ideal gym rate? I would pay up to $70.00 monthly provided they allowed chalk, stocked AND allowed access to chains, kettlebells, ropes, fat bars/hex bars, resistance bands, Hammer Strength equipment, a Prowler/weight sled(s), more than 1 squat rack/tower, etc. - (Yeah, I know, I want a hybrid powerlifting/Crossfit/gym Paradise Mecca…)
At the end of the day you make do with what you’ve got; if I go to a location missing a certain piece of equipment, etc. I go to plan B/alternate exercise (I’ll be the guy trying to do sled pushes with an inverted loaded weight bench on the carpet & glute ham raises off a lat pulldown bench, etc.)
[quote]fatInIC wrote:
I didn’t want to be the creepy, old, overweight guy trying to get back into lifting.
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Oh man…about 10 years ago I worked at a University and had access to the gym. Every morning at 7:00 was uneffing believable. Only the girls that wanted to work out would be there at that hour. Was awesome. I did end up there once at lunch and felt like the old, creepy guy. Much more crowded and 75% of them were just like there to say they worked out.
$95.00 per Month for a fucking SPA ; ( No other option where I live, which is in the middle of nowhere. Crappy 19 Yard pool, because the Jackass that built the facility did not want swim meets held in HIS pool ! That tells you the mentality of the fucktards i have to deal with.
95% machines, 5% free weights…
1 raquetball court…the other 5 where converted to “cardio” shit. Even though we live at 8000ft and the outdoor possiblities are
ENDLESS !~ 6 tennis courts which are under SNOW 6 months of the year !~
A BISTRO where after your fat ass comes off the elliptical you can order a Burger, Beer, Wine and Taquilla …
Yeah, my right nut for a proper training facility…
$109/mo. It’s embarrassing too because apart from the bumper plates it’s really nothing special at all. Only 3 benches, 2 squat racks and a small dumbbell rack. Then a bunch of other machines. I should note this is more of a ‘health club’ type deal in a wealthy suburb. They have tons of courts and a waterslide and rock climbing wall and all that jazz. Open 24hrs. I would not be a member here if it wasn’t on a temporary basis. I basically never venture anywhere but the weight room.
Used to pay 230/yr for LA Fitness membership. That was a good deal. Plenty of room and equipment. Usually not too crowded.
In 2 months I get free access to a 4 level university rec center. Already checked it out. Has just about the largest set of dumbbells I have ever seen and oly platforms, and everything else one needs.
*Edit: Not really free when tuition is raping your wallet.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Just curious what everyone pays and how much variation there is.[/quote]
$45 a month for me, $35 a month for my gal. That’s the flat rate for women, theory being (or so I’ve been told) they’ll probably use it less but it gives them free admission to the cardio classes. Sexist? Probably, but the majority of women I do see there, my lady included, train hard anyhow. So the joke’s on management
Three power racks, three Smith machines, two cable crossovers/full cable stations, dumbbells up to 170 pounds, tons of Hammer Strength machines, well-equipped boxing room (ring, several heavy bags, speed bags, double-end bags), battle ropes, separate cardio section with plenty of equipment (if I had to nitpick, I don’t like that the cardio is basically on the second floor of the warehouse building with poor air flow, so it gets crazy-hot and stuffy).
I’ve been to the “East Coast Mecca” Bev’s Powerhouse and I do believe the gym I go to has it beat. Same serious, hardcore atmosphere, but not as cramped and crowded. We don’t have pros training here though, a few local competitors, but no pros or magazine shoots.
I’d probably go up to $75ish a month if it had everything - plenty of racks and benches, full Hammer Strength line, boxing room, outside area designated for tire/prowler work, some kettlebells to play with, same serious atmosphere, and within 5 minutes walking distance.
I currently have two gym memberships: one is about $15 per month (24 Hour Fitness and a 50-minute drive round-trip). The other is $30 per month and is the optimal powerlifting gym. The problem with this gym is that it is an 80-minute drive round-trip. So I just hardly get down there because it requires such a time commitment.
The only gym close to me (10 minutes away) costs $90 per month. Believe it or not, members at this gym pay $495 per month for their memberships if they want to take boot camp classes offered by the owner.
I’m struggling with time management in my life and actually considering joining the close gym solely because it is so close. But $90 per month seems OUTRAGEOUS to me.
Ouch $90 a month… Build a home gym $5,000-$10,000 would be an awesome gym. You’ll break even at 4.6 or 9.25 years @ $90 a month. It’s an investment up front, but you make out pretty quickly.
For me it is all about time. I only have an hour to hour and a half to work out so I have to get in and get out. My gym is a 5 min drive from my house. If my round trip was 40 mins then I would only have 40-50 mins to workout. I would pay more to keep it close to me, or I would come up with an excuse to not go work out.
I used to work at a place called Nebraska Elite. Nothing over the top, but had most of what I wanted in terms of racks, weights, machines, pool, sauna in Men’s room, hot tub, pool, etc. Problem was, it was a 15 minute drive and ~50/month when I stopped working there.
Since my car is broken, and I kind of enjoy being able to walk to the gym, I got a membership at a local “Blue Moon Fitness” (They took over in place of some of the local Gold’s Gyms). Basic membership is 10/month, “VIP” is 20. Tanning, little massage chairs, enough equipment selection to do what I want.
That was the cost of my squat rack, 500lbs of Oly weights, 200lbs of adjustable db weights, adjustable bench, Oly bar, 10 and 30lb medicine ball, straps, back brace, a couple of rubber bands and two boxes for jumping, give or take a few bucks.
I had a deal where I paid about 100US a month for 18 months then the membership would be free…FOREVER.
That 18 months finished about 7 years ago…so I go for free. It was a bit of a gamble, but it was a 24H Fitness at the time and I was hoping they wouldn’t go under. They almost did but just got bought out by World Gym…which honored my contract.
So I have been going for free for a long time.
I really shuld stop complaining about all the weird shit I see in my gym I guess.
