What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?
Discussion
I'm a Pure Gym member. I get to use all but two gyms in the chain for my membership (£45 per month) and all of the gyms have the same equipment, so I know if I happen to be in Cambridge or Nottingham they'll have a Ski Erg and a squat rack and something to do pullups and dips on. A proportion of their gyms are open 24 hours, too, which helps me get training in before work.
Animal said:
I'm a Pure Gym member. I get to use all but two gyms in the chain for my membership (£45 per month) and all of the gyms have the same equipment, so I know if I happen to be in Cambridge or Nottingham they'll have a Ski Erg and a squat rack and something to do pullups and dips on. A proportion of their gyms are open 24 hours, too, which helps me get training in before work.
On that basis, The Gym offers a multi-location, 24 hour, standardised approach for well under £15 p/m.What you get for £45 is simply the exclusion of the kind of people who want to pay <£15 a month for gym membership.
V8mate said:
On that basis, The Gym offers a multi-location, 24 hour, standardised approach for well under £15 p/m.
What you get for £45 is simply the exclusion of the kind of people who want to pay <£15 a month for gym membership.
Worth its weight in gold.What you get for £45 is simply the exclusion of the kind of people who want to pay <£15 a month for gym membership.
Is their a membership price for excluding people who use Bosu balls and talk about 'core strength' all day long? What about skinny guys curling for hours?
V8mate said:
On that basis, The Gym offers a multi-location, 24 hour, standardised approach for well under £15 p/m.
What you get for £45 is simply the exclusion of the kind of people who want to pay <£15 a month for gym membership.
Except it's not is it?What you get for £45 is simply the exclusion of the kind of people who want to pay <£15 a month for gym membership.
One Gym is £15, Two is £16-20 and every site is £30.
I didn't realise gyms are so expensive.
I go to my local school gym which costs 90 quid a year. It's got a load of machines, rowing machine, bikes, a power rack and 200kg of Olympic weights.
If I was paying 50 quid plus a month I think I'd be buying my own stuff to use at home. As it is, I can't justify spending money on a power rack and weights when I'm getting use of the local School's for £7.50 a month
Maybe that's my gym/fitness moan. My gym is so cheap it stops me setting up a home gym that I really really want....
I go to my local school gym which costs 90 quid a year. It's got a load of machines, rowing machine, bikes, a power rack and 200kg of Olympic weights.
If I was paying 50 quid plus a month I think I'd be buying my own stuff to use at home. As it is, I can't justify spending money on a power rack and weights when I'm getting use of the local School's for £7.50 a month
Maybe that's my gym/fitness moan. My gym is so cheap it stops me setting up a home gym that I really really want....
RTB said:
I didn't realise gyms are so expensive.
I go to my local school gym
thats why. if you can use them then school/university gyms are cheap. My gym is £25/month, it has it all but the only things I ever really use is the olympic rack, rowing machine, elliptical trainer and sometimes the 'machine' for leg raises. I go to my local school gym
While there is a 'TheGym' slightly closer to me for £18/month but they have no power racks and no barbell free weights so you won't be squatting or deadlifting at all.
I just signed up to Fitness4Less for £17.99 a month after a 5 year gym hiatus.
Went to the little induction session this morning and the facilities look alright, intro guy was friendly. It doesn't have as many facilities as my old Nuffield Gym which had towels, pool, steam and sauna but that was £54 a month when I was going 5 years ago and now it's £62.
I can't see anything missing from F4L except it's a bit busier. All the machines I used to use are there, they have the cable pully things and a good selection of free weights. My biggest problem is going to be pushing myself to go back and getting back into a good routine. I have spoken to a PT who's happy to help me build a plan and check in once a month to tweak it to keep me motivated but I'm wondering if I should do 1 session a week for the first month just to force myself to go.
Went to the little induction session this morning and the facilities look alright, intro guy was friendly. It doesn't have as many facilities as my old Nuffield Gym which had towels, pool, steam and sauna but that was £54 a month when I was going 5 years ago and now it's £62.
I can't see anything missing from F4L except it's a bit busier. All the machines I used to use are there, they have the cable pully things and a good selection of free weights. My biggest problem is going to be pushing myself to go back and getting back into a good routine. I have spoken to a PT who's happy to help me build a plan and check in once a month to tweak it to keep me motivated but I'm wondering if I should do 1 session a week for the first month just to force myself to go.
ambuletz said:
RTB said:
I didn't realise gyms are so expensive.
I go to my local school gym
thats why. if you can use them then school/university gyms are cheap. My gym is £25/month, it has it all but the only things I ever really use is the olympic rack, rowing machine, elliptical trainer and sometimes the 'machine' for leg raises. I go to my local school gym
While there is a 'TheGym' slightly closer to me for £18/month but they have no power racks and no barbell free weights so you won't be squatting or deadlifting at all.
I get this:
Power base Loughborough uni by Alex Mason, on Flickr
and this:
50 m pool
What do I win
?ETA: oh and access to many different classes. If I want.
Otispunkmeyer said:
My Uni gym is £33/mo
I get this:
Power base Loughborough uni by Alex Mason, on Flickr
and this:
50 m pool
What do I win?
ETA: oh and access to many different classes. If I want.
I get this:
Power base Loughborough uni by Alex Mason, on Flickrand this:
50 m pool
What do I win
?ETA: oh and access to many different classes. If I want.
and no-one on the lifting racks, that's criminal!
J4CKO said:
My last visit to my current gym tonight, membership ends tomorrow, going to be weird after a year of three times a week.
Starting at Total Fitness in Handforth Dean, anyone else go there ?
Not for years, but drive the bypass every week. In fact i'll be on it in 90 mins. Traffic's a nightmare at the moment where the new road joins at the Poynton/Bramhall roundabout.Starting at Total Fitness in Handforth Dean, anyone else go there ?
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