Getting out of a gym contract if they dont replace equipment

[stargazer30]

Hi Guys,

I am a gym junkie. Go 4x a week+. I swapped gyms about 5 months ago. The new place is a premium health and fitness place. We are talking £60 per month for an adult and £130 a month for the family membership (what we have)

I have about 7 months left in the contract and I am about to put a complaint in to the head office. About 3 months ago one of the dumbbells broke, no big deal. Then about a month later the next size up broke too (Due to the folks who like to drop them after a set for added presence). Myself and a few others have been asking them since then to replace them. They did put up a notice just before xmas saying they were on order but since then it has been taken down and Santa didn't bring any new ones.

Going up a weight set on dumbbells is hard enough as it is a its a +4kg jump but going up 3 weight sets is meaning I can't progress on certain lifts. I tried using mixed weights each side and ended up with a minor injury.

I'm so fed up I'd rather just go back to my old gym now but I'm in contract. Do I have grounds to come out early? Google says if the gym removes equipment that was there when I started and fails to replace it I do. However it seems a bit of a stretch, not like they removed all the squat racks!

I wouldn't mind as such if wasn't such an expensive subscription either!

PS apologies if this is wrong forum.

[Regiment]

Not much help but £60 a month for a gym, I’d never consider anything close to that as that’s a complete joke of a price.

[downthepub]

Regiment said:

Not much help but £60 a month for a gym, I’d never consider anything close to that as that’s a complete joke of a price.

Pretty standard for a premium gym though.

[Joeguard1990]

You sound like a serious body builder.

In all seriousness you'd be better off not joining a health/fitness premium center and paying over the odds. Plenty of smaller cheaper gyms about that cater specifically for weight lifters.

You're paying extra money for all the health facilities and classes that you'll never use.

[Mandat]

What did the manager say, when you pointed out to them that the broken equipment has not been replaced yet?

[superman1175]

I've been in similar situations at my previous gym's, which have all been premium and a gentle nudge to the General Manager always did the trick. Failing that, I'd sit down with the memberships team/equipment manager and go through your concerns with them - try and pin them down on a date when they will replace, you never know, you may get some freebies out of them as a gesture of goodwill aswell and a date for replacing the broken equipment. As a general rule of thumb, wherever I've trained, there is generally a sign indicating when the broken piece of equipment will be replaced.

[sgtBerbatov]

Regiment said:

Not much help but £60 a month for a gym, I’d never consider anything close to that as that’s a complete joke of a price.

I thought that. Then I signed up to a gym membership for about the same price.

Lovely facilities, and no dheads like you get at PureGym or Bannantynes.

Worth it for that alone.

[matjk]

Who’s the contract with , because half the time it’s not a gym but a finance company , in effect you take out a loan that you choice to spend on a gym. They will chase for money on not care about gym issues , much the same as if you take out a bank loan and buy a car and it blows up, the bank don’t care, they want their payments . I’d check the paperwork it’s common practice, gyms aren’t set up to be money lenders

[TimmyMallett]

David Lloyd? If not, quit and go there. Price is similar and they replace a lot of their kit all the time.

[Burgmeister]

Cant you just cancel the direct debit and be done with it if they don't play ball?

[WinstonWolf]

sgtBerbatov said:

Regiment said:

Not much help but £60 a month for a gym, I’d never consider anything close to that as that’s a complete joke of a price.

I thought that. Then I signed up to a gym membership for about the same price.

Lovely facilities, and no dheads like you get at PureGym or Bannantynes.

Worth it for that alone.

"The Gym", £16.99 per month, rolling contract, more weights and machines than you can throw a stick at, open 24/7

[Granfondo]

Burgmeister said:

Cant you just cancel the direct debit and be done with it if they don't play ball?

No.

[WinstonWolf]

Granfondo said:

Burgmeister said:

Cant you just cancel the direct debit and be done with it if they don't play ball?

No.

You can with The Gym, that's how you end your contract. Most other gyms are a pain to cancel, that's why I don't use them

[sgtBerbatov]

WinstonWolf said:

sgtBerbatov said:

Regiment said:

Not much help but £60 a month for a gym, I’d never consider anything close to that as that’s a complete joke of a price.

I thought that. Then I signed up to a gym membership for about the same price.

Lovely facilities, and no dheads like you get at PureGym or Bannantynes.

Worth it for that alone.

"The Gym", £16.99 per month, rolling contract, more weights and machines than you can throw a stick at, open 24/7

And full of gobstes who love a bit of steroid abuse and throw the weights on to the floor. If it floats your boat then fine, I'd rather do my weight training without those idiots around me.

[WinstonWolf]

sgtBerbatov said:

WinstonWolf said:

sgtBerbatov said:

Regiment said:

Not much help but £60 a month for a gym, I’d never consider anything close to that as that’s a complete joke of a price.

I thought that. Then I signed up to a gym membership for about the same price.

Lovely facilities, and no dheads like you get at PureGym or Bannantynes.

Worth it for that alone.

"The Gym", £16.99 per month, rolling contract, more weights and machines than you can throw a stick at, open 24/7

And full of gobstes who love a bit of steroid abuse and throw the weights on to the floor. If it floats your boat then fine, I'd rather do my weight training without those idiots around me.

Mine's not, yours might be. Mine's also absolutely rammed with fit women

Other people don't really bother me in the gym, I just go there to lift heavy stuff.

The rolling contract works brilliantly for me as I switch from the gym to cycling in summer...

[hutchst]

t.b.f at around two quid a visit you're probably getting what you pay for.

[sgtBerbatov]

WinstonWolf said:

Mine's not, yours might be. Mine's also absolutely rammed with fit women

Are you 10?

[MrBarry123]

downthepub said:

Pretty standard for a premium gym though.

The last gym I was a member of cost me £90 per month and I know a few people in London who pay more than that.

[Chris Type R]

sgtBerbatov said:

Are you 10?

I think he's suggesting the ladies are....

[anonymous-user]

I can't help in terms of the contract, but throwing weights and not putting them back should result in an instant ban.