How much do you pay for your gym membership?

[Hoofy]

Do you think you get value for money?

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Du1point8 said:

£44 a month, central London gym with swimming pool.

No one ever there and its like its my own private swimming pool most days I use it.

I think its good value.

That does sound good.

I visited a DLL with tennis courts. Everything was £109 (about £80 without the tennis). I'm not interested in the classes, the cardio machines or the pool. I think the salesman died on his feet today as he trotted out his standard spiel to amaze. I struggle to see how anyone can be paying £80 for the pool, gym and classes tbh. Ok, it's only £20 a week but compared to Nuffield with similar kit at £60 and smaller gyms without a pool going for much cheaper rates (eg 20 a month), I'm unconvinced it's value for money. I'm trying to convince myself it's worth it.

Also, loads of kids running around made it feel the opposite of exclusive. It was like a Harvester on a Sunday afternoon.

Edited by Hoofy on Monday 14th December 01:15

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dave_s13 said:

I'm starting to struggle with being in a seemingly constant state of "doms" though. Getting old u think.

The doms isn't in the same place, though, is it? So you get to rest one muscle group while training another? If you're always aching but it moves around, that's normal. You get used to it.

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dave_s13 said:

Hoofy said:

dave_s13 said:

I'm starting to struggle with being in a seemingly constant state of "doms" though. Getting old u think.

The doms isn't in the same place, though, is it? So you get to rest one muscle group while training another? If you're always aching but it moves around, that's normal. You get used to it.

Yeah, it varies. Deffo worse after the heavy strength based session vs more cardio/metabolic stuff. Been doing it for a couple of years now and it never feels easy, ever. I suppose that's the whole point really!

DOMS isn't the point (neither is sweating) but improving your overall physical ability (and possibly appearance) is. DOMS is a side effect of that training and you just have to accept it. Joint pain or other sharp pain is a signal to take it easy, though.

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I've concluded gym life is not for me. It's back day today and I could use the trial membership, but I can't be arsed to go. I'd rather just train at home. Ironically, I have zero motivation to go to the gym, which is one of the things the salesman said the gym is good for.



(And before you ask, I will finish my training unable to do a single further rep and wake up tomorrow with back and lat pump.)

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hashtag said:

£0.00

I used to work for a couple of the bigger chains. Both fitness Managers held the same opinion that a 2 hour dog walk was better than a similar time spent in the gym!

Depends on your goals. And if you walked the dog up Everest or not.

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None of you belong to DLL then?

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GT03ROB said:

Hoofy said:

None of you belong to DLL then?

Yip, thats my 150/month

Ah, £75 each didn't seem as bad. I was quoted £109pm including court use.

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TurboHatchback said:

I pay yearly, last time it was £299 I think so ~£25 a month. That's a council leisure centre (but a nice one) and includes pool, morning squash courts, golf course, classes (if one was into that sort of thing) and various other stuff, pretty good value IMO.

Hoofy said:

hashtag said:

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I used to work for a couple of the bigger chains. Both fitness Managers held the same opinion that a 2 hour dog walk was better than a similar time spent in the gym!

Depends on your goals. And if you walked the dog up Everest or not.

And what you do while you're in the gym. I intend to get bigger and stronger so neither dog walking nor treadmills are going to be of much use to me.

Exactly. I can only think the fitness managers quoted above are only thinking about weight loss and probably food avoidance.

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okgo said:

Hoofy said:

Do you think you get value for money?

£45 and no because in two years I've only ever used the shower after cycling to work, I've never been in the gym - despite that, they still say "have a good workout" every time - silly.

Surely there must be a cheaper way of getting a shower.

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GT03ROB said:

Hoofy said:

GT03ROB said:

Hoofy said:

None of you belong to DLL then?

Yip, thats my 150/month

Ah, £75 each didn't seem as bad. I was quoted £109pm including court use.

I seem to recall you pay a lot more for the 1st membership, so a single may well be around what you quote, but do it as a couple & it works out better.

I'm not sure getting a girlfriend is going to save me money in the long run.

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okgo said:

Hoofy said:

Surely there must be a cheaper way of getting a shower.

I've yet to find one - its ok I don't pay £220 a month on trains so I can stomach the cost.

I guess that makes sense. Don't the have other facilities you could use eg hydropool or similar to chill out in after a hard day at work? Mind you, I'm trying to convince myself that I'd use that but I have access to it for the next 2 weeks and can't even be arsed to go to use that.

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Foliage said:

That was my exact take on it, I was willing to spend up to £200 a month for gym membership and wanted somewhere with a pool, steam, classes and sport massage facilities. But when I visited, at the time that id be using the facilities, this 'exclusive' gym had unsupervised 5-6yos running around, mothers screaming at their children etc etc. When I explained to the chap trying to sell it to me that it didn't seem very exclusive, that the facilities didn't appear very well maintained, it was clearly understaffed and that the café shouldn't really be serving pie and chips, I was asked to leave...

Banned from a DLL. I shall have to try to match that after my 14 day trial is up.

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popeyewhite said:

Mine works out at £1.60 a visit.

I think you win this.

Mind you up until October, I had full use of a decent gym without charge because I did one class there.

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johnwilliams77 said:

Hoofy said:

I think you win this.

Mind you up until October, I had full use of a decent gym without charge because I did one class there.

No, free wins.

Oh yes, sod! How??

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R8VXF said:

I have a home gym so no monthly membership fess

ETA: links to pictures:

https://www.instagram.com/p/lAkvjzLcvc/

https://www.instagram.com/p/eR_pCOrchS/

Edited by R8VXF on Wednesday 16th December 09:39

Impressive that you have a decent cable machine in your home!

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okgo said:

To be fair my work gives us free access to Virgin Active (tier 1 clubs) - BUT its too far to walk from the office to shower so I opted to pay £45 a month to save a 10 min walk

You could cycle...

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johnwilliams77 said:

Hoofy said:

Oh yes, sod! How??

There is one in the office which is free to use and there is one in another club, also free to use.

Towels are free to use in the office too.

Sod!

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popeyewhite said:

Hoofy said:

johnwilliams77 said:

Hoofy said:

Oh yes, sod! How??

There is one in the office which is free to use and there is one in another club, also free to use.

Towels are free to use in the office too.

Sod!

Could of sworn the title was something like 'how much do you pay for your gym membership'...

Hoofy - don't you train at home, HSPUs and other bodyweight exercises? Think that might make you the winner if you're allowed to drift from thread relevance. No membership, No equipment needed.

I have barbells, dumbbells and kettlebells, too.

I just wouldn't mind free access to a gym with more weights. And fixed dumbbells because I'm lazy.

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R8VXF said:

Hoofy said:

And fixed dumbbells because I'm lazy.

I am thinking of changing the dumbbell setup I have behind my rack for a full set of fixed ones sometime soon

They're damned expensive!