What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

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TheJimi

24,860 posts

242 months

Thursday 6th February 2020
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I baulk at £100 pcm for a gym membership, never mind £350!


ashleyman

6,962 posts

98 months

Thursday 6th February 2020
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gregs656 said:
Is it an Equinox or something? £350 a month is a wedge. Makes the discounted price fairly attractive.
It's not an Equinox but it's at that level. The work option is the best option of the 3 in terms of price & location. I'm just finding it hard to justify ONE HUNDRED POUNDS a month on a gym membership. My last one was £18.

Pvapour

8,981 posts

252 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Cheaper you go in london the busier it gets (wife works in london) id gladly pay £100 mth for quieter and less of the problems listed on here.

Its funny, people will gladly pay 300mth on a pcp for their car (and some allot more) but this is your health and increases your lifespan, london, most are there for one reason, all the costs reflects this..

ORD

18,086 posts

126 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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It’s less than £25 per week. If you go three times that’s £8 per visit. If you go four times it’s £6.

Gym memberships only sound expensive because people typically don’t go.

BenjiS

3,706 posts

90 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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ashleyman said:
It's not an Equinox but it's at that level. The work option is the best option of the 3 in terms of price & location. I'm just finding it hard to justify ONE HUNDRED POUNDS a month on a gym membership. My last one was £18.
£1200 a year buys a lot of equipment to use at home.

TheJimi

24,860 posts

242 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Pvapour said:
Cheaper you go in london the busier it gets (wife works in london) id gladly pay £100 mth for quieter and less of the problems listed on here.

Its funny, people will gladly pay 300mth on a pcp for their car (and some allot more) but this is your health and increases your lifespan, london, most are there for one reason, all the costs reflects this..
Aye, well, not for the first time, I find myself glad that I don't live there smile


Edit: want a wider brush and a deeper bucket of tar?


Edited by TheJimi on Friday 7th February 09:58

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Just looked at equinox, I like that kind of luxury, but you'd have to be simple to pay 350 a month...probably biggrin

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Halb said:
Just looked at equinox, I like that kind of luxury, but you'd have to be simple to pay 350 a month...probably biggrin
Shucks! They don't have one in Bristol. frown

lemmingjames

7,433 posts

203 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Halb said:
Just looked at equinox, I like that kind of luxury, but you'd have to be simple to pay 350 a month...probably biggrin
You could imagine the type of East European and Brazilian call girls that attend laugh

Ive paid £120 for Gymbox pcm but then went to lunch and afterwork classes + gym use so was worth while when i add it all up to go locally;
Gym = 40ish (think its less but lets roll with it)
Thai boxing = £10 a session or think its 70 pcm
Yoga = 50-100 at a yoga studio (my gym doesnt offer this as a class)

So when you look at it, 120 isnt too bad plus deals can be had

£1000 wouldnt really buy you alot of decent equipment for the home, even second hand.

popeyewhite

19,621 posts

119 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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ashleyman said:
Plus it would mean the wife would need to eat later or I'd need to go to the gym after dinner. Neither ideal.
Could you shorten your lunch break and leave work a bit earlier? Get home, change, go to gym, make dinner only, say, 30 mins later?

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Or just leave the wife?


gainz man, gainz!

Jim on the hill

5,072 posts

189 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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lemmingjames said:
Halb said:
Just looked at equinox, I like that kind of luxury, but you'd have to be simple to pay 350 a month...probably biggrin
You could imagine the type of East European and Brazilian call girls that attend laugh

Ive paid £120 for Gymbox pcm but then went to lunch and afterwork classes + gym use so was worth while when i add it all up to go locally;
Gym = 40ish (think its less but lets roll with it)
Thai boxing = £10 a session or think its 70 pcm
Yoga = 50-100 at a yoga studio (my gym doesnt offer this as a class)

So when you look at it, 120 isnt too bad plus deals can be had

£1000 wouldnt really buy you alot of decent equipment for the home, even second hand.
Beg to differ, I've spent under a grand (just) and put in a squat rack, bench, full length punch bag, pull up bars and over half a tonne of Olympic weights.

Trap Bar, two barbells, dumbbells, tricep bar, ez bar all Olympic.

Got a load of bands and matted areas and a speed bag to put up.

Not the right solution for everyone but works for me.


Edit to add all second hand bar the punch bag and speed bat

Edited by Jim on the hill on Friday 7th February 10:47

lemmingjames

7,433 posts

203 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Jim on the hill said:
Beg to differ, I've spent under a grand (just) and put in a squat rack, bench, full length punch bag, pull up bars and over half a tonne of Olympic weights.

Trap Bar, two barbells, dumbbells, tricep bar, ez bar all Olympic.

Got a load of bands and matted areas and a speed bag to put up.

Not the right solution for everyone but works for me.
what are your bars rated to? how much do your dumbs and plates go up to? did you buy this over a year or in one go?

quick look on google - 200kg of mixed plates circa £400
Multi-rack thing from £450
£850 already
A decent bar that wont bend is £150+

Edited by lemmingjames on Friday 7th February 10:56

ashleyman

6,962 posts

98 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Home gym isn’t an option as I have nowhere to put it all.

Jim on the hill

5,072 posts

189 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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lemmingjames said:
Jim on the hill said:
Beg to differ, I've spent under a grand (just) and put in a squat rack, bench, full length punch bag, pull up bars and over half a tonne of Olympic weights.

Trap Bar, two barbells, dumbbells, tricep bar, ez bar all Olympic.

Got a load of bands and matted areas and a speed bag to put up.

Not the right solution for everyone but works for me.
what are your bars rated to? how much do your dumbs and plates go up to? did you buy this over a year or in one go?

quick look on google - 200kg of mixed plates circa £400
Multi-rack thing from £450
£850 already
A decent bar that wont bend is £150+

Edited by lemmingjames on Friday 7th February 10:56
Upgraded as and when needed, probably would have been cheaper in a job lot.

I picked up 200kg of Marcy weights and the bars for £200! Met a bloke who had it all the in the back of the Range Rover. Smallish bloke and he mentioned it was his son's who's outgrown it. I was a little confused how you could outgrow Olympic stuff turns out he was on team GB and had been banned from working out on his own due to the weights he was now lifting. Was rather surprised!

Right place right time of course but that's generally how second hand stuff works if you aren't an idiot. Like I said it won't fit everyone as alot of people like going to a gym for many reasons. I like old school strength and boxing training so I'm easy.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Auctions are a great place to get kit. I've seen whole DB sets up to 40odd kg go for a ton.

Centurion07

10,381 posts

246 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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Jim on the hill said:
I was a little confused how you could outgrow Olympic stuff turns out he was on team GB and had been banned from working out on his own due to the weights he was now lifting. Was rather surprised!
As excuses go, that's a pretty good one. rofl

272BHP

4,960 posts

235 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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I often walk past Goldman Sachs and from street level you can see into the gym - I presume it is part of the bank.

Facilities look fantastic - but even at 7am in the morning it is super busy.

gregs656

10,816 posts

180 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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ashleyman said:
Home gym isn’t an option as I have nowhere to put it all.
Pay the £100/month and be done with it.

If it gets you into a genuinely decent gym it’s worth it, and your other options don’t sound brilliant to me.

ashleyman

6,962 posts

98 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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I went for the private members club @ £100.

Just the best option of the bunch. The other thing that swayed it was if my employment is terminated for whatever reason then it’s auto cancelled so absolutely no risk of having to find cash for an expensive gym membership.