How much do you pay for your gym membership?

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sooty61 said:

Yes they are members, but the same two individuals have been running Friday & Saturday ever since we have been members (8 years). About 4 years ago another member started Sunday afternoons and has been running it ever since. Friday/Saturday normally cover for each other and there are one or two who will step in for Sunday. It never falls to a random individual. The club also supplies the balls for these social evenings

I think you miss the point. If I join, I'd wait for maybe years before someone bothers, perhaps. Or this random individual will end up running it.

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sooty61 said:

Sorry, thought you meant Raynes Park was an option. Yes, if you go somewhere they didn't have an organised social then yes, someone has to start it

Ah, well, I guess the confusion is that it IS an option but it's not ideal as I'd come up the A3 and turn off at the worst possible time to be doing so. In the middle of the night, it's probably just as quick to get to Raynes Park as it is a couple of others!

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sooty61 said:

You would be surprised how far people come which is probably why it is so expensive. There are a couple of friends of ours (who don't attend the social tennis - just arranged matches) who come from Shepperton and Weybridge. Friday night is a bit more busy on the roads but we can travel the 5 miles there on a Saturday in 12-15 mins, joining the A3 at Tolworth.

You don't want to make a mistake with David Lloyd though, not only do you sign up for a year but when you decide you want to go you have to give 3 months notice, and apparently they rigorously enforce it.

Blimey. Isn't there a more local one to you? Cheam? Epsom?

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sooty61 said:

When we joined we were living a lot closer and moved a bit further away 3 years ago. Cheam and Epsom are closer but do not have indoor courts.

You might want to give them a call - I know Epsom has a bubble over two courts.

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WarnieV6GT said:

£48.50 at DL, cheapest one in the country I believe. Use it 2-4 times a week, feel comfortable there so will not leave unless they get greedy again like they did 4 years back and most left. Also helps that 3 more gym's are within 1/2 mile.

How the hell did you get it so cheap??

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amare32 said:

Puregym £10.99

Guess you also have tennis club membership.

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amare32 said:

Hoofy said:

amare32 said:

Puregym £10.99

Guess you also have tennis club membership.

Yep

I'm quite fortunate to have loads of free courts around Edinburgh to play all year round. Only time I play indoors is between November - Feb. Not a member of any
clubs as it's a bit biased towards people playing doubles.

There are free courts round here, too, but there are often chavs loitering about or playing tennis football or was it football tennis, or using the nets to bounce off, or setting fire to them. That's why I finally decided to join a club.

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amare32 said:

I often wonder if it's just UK kids who like to do this kind of thing burning nets at tennis courts or setting goals nets on fire at a football pitch.

Imagine these same kids were to pull down a basketball net in the middle of a popular court in downtown New York, I would imagine these little
a55holes would be eating a few stray bullets very quickly

Yeah, there are no repercussions in this country. Bored kids, innit.

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TheBALDpuma said:

I'm opening a gym this year. Weightlifting/Powerlfiting/Strongman gym, with really good quality (but old) weights and bars, with the intention of being a proper lifters gym.

Membership pricing is hard to set. Just looking at this thread, prices are all over the place.

It's not going to be fancy, so prices can't be too high.

We will be providing plenty of high level coaching, support, programming etc - basically you're gunna get a lot more help than normal gyms give.

Classes (All lifting classes, and Met Con)

Can't compete with the £10.99 a month as our membership will be too small.

Crossfit ( I dislike them, but we will be competing against them) seem to charge anywhere between £60 and £150 a month!

For a strongman gym, I've seen prices around £30-£50 a month and that seems reasonable if you're going to have lots of racks available plus incline leg press machines etc. Plus the piss taker rusty 1980s gym bike in the corner.

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Otispunkmeyer said:

Was paying £35 a month at what some might call a box gym. Its not a cross fit place though, its just an independent gym run out of an old warehouse. No CV or weights machines, its all free weights, climbing frames, tractor tyres, climbing ropes and slam ropes etc.

Its a cool place and its usually empty when I go. He does offer lots of classes and things (spinning, HIIT, Pole etc) which I guess you are paying for, use them or not. But in the end I have moved to one of these, I guess, "no frills" gyms that are popping up everywhere (we've had two in Lboro!).

Part of the reason is the venue. An old warehouse/mill is cool, but in winter its absolutely Baltic and I am talking you want some good gloves on if you intend to hold a bar or something. Its that cold. No good if you like training in shorts and vest. In summer you get the opposite as the glass/tin roof just keeps the heat in and it becomes an unbearable sweat box.

saving £15, and whilst its got more mainstream gym stuff in it they do still have power racks, squat racks and platforms to use and usable changing rooms and its a nice temperature and its actually well lit (warehouse place had funky disco lighting and some LED spots, but for the most part was dark and dingy looking).

I do miss it being empty though and not full of dunder heads who waltz round looking in the mirror all the time, only doing chest and biceps and leaving plates scattershot around the gym .

Good value though I think, whilst everything is all new and shiny anyway. No contracts at either, its just stop paying when you want to stop going. Its not that the first place was bad value at £35, he had a lot of unique equipment in there, but in the end for what I am doing I can do it cheaper elsewhere and not feel like I'm working out in a cave on the side of Mt Everest.

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Wednesday 6th January 12:13

For winter, it sounds ideal. You can wear warm clothes and as you get hotter, take layers off. Summer sounds like it sucks. The guy should put in a/c or industrial fans. It's a bit like that at some of the places I climb (basically warehouses kitted out with climbing walls) but they do use industrial fans which helps. (It's only on the hottest days of the year that I don't climb as the fans are good but not that good.)

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wazztie16 said:

A bit OT, but this thread is probably a good place to ask as any.

I'm currently part of a gym group, £25 pm, gym, swim and classes all included at I think 6 different venues, although not each has everything.

I only ever use the venue near work, and even then very rarely for the gym, and practically never for swimming.

However for £30 pm I could move to a gym near home (and then have another close by), but that £30 only includes gym, nothing else.

Do I switch?

I never have the get up and go to gym after work, and can't before as early starts. Having 2 near home seems like it would suit me better.

What would you do?

What should I do?

I read that as:
you are now a member of a gym you only do classes at and never use the actual gym.
you want to join a gym that doesn't have classes and only a gym.

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wazztie16 said:

Hoofy said:

wazztie16 said:

A bit OT, but this thread is probably a good place to ask as any.

I'm currently part of a gym group, £25 pm, gym, swim and classes all included at I think 6 different venues, although not each has everything.

I only ever use the venue near work, and even then very rarely for the gym, and practically never for swimming.

However for £30 pm I could move to a gym near home (and then have another close by), but that £30 only includes gym, nothing else.

Do I switch?

I never have the get up and go to gym after work, and can't before as early starts. Having 2 near home seems like it would suit me better.

What would you do?

What should I do?

I read that as:
you are now a member of a gym you only do classes at and never use the actual gym.
you want to join a gym that doesn't have classes and only a gym.

Reading it back it does read like that, I have only stepped into the class room once, and that was on the induction. I just use the gym. And swim once in a blue moon.

Right, so basically 95% of the time you only use a gym. I'd have it nearer to home.
1) After work, you have a quick snack, drive/commute to gym (time to digest), then train then fall out and 5 minutes you're home
2) You can train on your days off
3) You can train at the weekend
4) You might make friends with people in your locale (if you feel so inclined).

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272BHP said:

Any other David Lloyd members? how much are you paying?

I am paying 80 pound a month on a corporate rate just for the sheer convenience as it is close to my home. Never use any of the classes, swimming pool or racquets.

Racquet stuff will cost another £25-30.

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vanordinaire said:

I'm building a gym as part of my new house, it will probably cost me around £25000 extra on the housebuild costs so if I get 25 years use out of it, that's about £85 per month. Well worth it when I know I don't need to share the sauna or showers and never need to wipe someone else's sweat off the equipment and I get to choose my own music.

Pretty much why I prefer training at home.

And you will probably end up selling it for more (as a part of the house).

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I found a solution. Bit of a drive but it's a tennis academy with a shedload of indoor courts and outdoor courts (about 20 in total?) plus drop-in coaching and play sessions for £15 a time. I'll only be able to go once a week so don't mind paying £60 a month including coaching!