Gym membership cost cutting

PM

if you have diabeties, blood pressure, or obesity (dont know about other medical conditions.) you can get the prescription thing talked about.

This means the gym is then cheaper depending on your area. I asked my Doc and he said its called fitness for life and then went in saw the nurse who filed in form in 2mins with my name, address, etc and thats it. Now I have to wait for them to contact me!

JoeyEmma

ALL the clubs do one calendar months notice to quit, so you have to put your notice in around 1st of month.

Also, Fitness First charge £5 for a lost card. Their cards also lock the lockers, which mean you don't have to faff around with £1 coins.

When this article is redone can they put in that Fitness First will give you discount if you work for the NHS? It saves me £5 a month and makes it much cheaper than taking out separate insurance

Sola

I'm currently with Virgin Active in the City (Moorgate). Paid £40 to join and now £83/month on a rolling membership (not a 12 month contract which would be £77/month). It's quite a lot of money, but it's a superb gym with a 25m pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steamroom, boxing ring, whole rows of cardio machines, 2 weights and machines sections, huge range of classes, free towels and toiletries, and as I'm going 6 days a week it works out to £3.33/session. Open 6.30am - 10.30pm Mon-Fri and 9am-6pm Sat/Sun. I tried the local council gym which was just horrible and also an independent one called Slim Jim's which was pretty manky too.

Men's Health magazine currently has a card inside for a 3-day trial of LA Fitness but I didn't look to see if there were any restrictions.

spannie1000

The attached link offers some deals you can't get through clubs themselves, such as weekend membership at Dragons (LA Fitness) for only £18.99 per month. I used this as a negotiating tool at my local LA Fitness to downgrade my membership and got a weekend deal direct with them, but they took some pushing as they at first said they wouldn't offer this deal, until I pointed out to them that I would give notice and buy online, giving them less commission direct as the site is sure to take a cut.... They buckled in the end!

There may be some other deals local to others hidden in here.

http://www.thegymwebsite.co.uk/news/index.asp

Anna

bluefroguk

Bupa is currently doing a promotion where if you join them they will give you off-peak Fitness First membership free.

This is only available though the refer a friend scheme, so if you're interested send me a private message (as I'm currently a Bupa member).

All you need to do is ram the excesses up to reduce the premiums to get cheap membership.

Last year - I got my Bupa/Fitness First membership for £14 from Bupa (compared to £35 from Fitness First directly) It then cost £10 extra a month to upgrade to peak FF membership. So £24 compared to £35 from Fitness First diretly - bargain!

Note: The deal with Bupa is if i refer someone to Bupa then both of us will get off-peak FF membership each

Droid_2

I quit David Lloyd in October after they decided to abandon all their corporate discounts and up the prices (note their notice period is 3 months + partial month). They didn't seem interested in trying to keep me as a regular (6-year) member.

By chance I went to look round the local JJB when they had a special deal on - no joining fee, and a free bike if you paid a year in advance.
I know that paying upfront isn't for everyone but it suited me. So the cost is now £36 instead of £50+ and I have a shiny new bike.

catstar_2

Hope this is the right way to post an offer to share. i just signed up at www.thegymwebsite.co.uk/health and got a free months trial, the search for gyms is rubbish, i put in my town and it said it had nothing but i found it in the list which you can scroll down through. You have to put a credit card so hopefully its ok... (I put a credit card that i ve cancelled anyway and it didnt seem to notice) it gives you a voucher to print off. Saw it in Dare Mag which is the freebie from Superdrug i think.

Agent_99

I joined David Lloyd (Bristol) a couple of days ago and I didn't realise until I got home that the joining fee was £15.00!
The monthly membership is £52.50 (off peak) - so looks like I managed to get a bargain without even noticing :rotfl:

Tracy_E_A

£52.50 a month :eek: Wow thats a lot. I work in a small gym and we dont charge joining fees and dont do long term contracts and the lowest rate we do is £25 for oaps.

Agent_99

Tracy_E_A wrote: »

£52.50 a month :eek: Wow thats a lot. I work in a small gym and we dont charge joining fees and dont do long term contracts and the lowest rate we do is £25 for oaps.

I knew David Lloyd isn't cheap, but i'm really pleased with the joining fee - it's usually way more!