Why is gym membership so expensive?

silverwhistle

hollydays wrote: »

Try hurdling over stair gates apparently,:D

But only if it's at the bottom of the stairs going up...

geerex

I pay £41 a month, I go 3 times a week. My local council run pool charges £4 simply for swimming.

I'm better off going to my gym, it's cheaper, and there's a higher standard of clientele. Simple.

brightonman123

I would get a bike, and/or season ticket to local swimming pool instead.


Use household objects for weight training, sit ups etc.

Loucien

I pay £10.99 a month for a no-frills gym (monthly contracts). No pool or sauna but I probably wouldn't use them anyway.

fozmcfc

I used to pay £70 corporate membership for David Lloyds, but it was a small gym, compared to some of theirs.


In the end it was a ridiculous amount of money, as I basically used the gym itself and rarely the swimming and sauna.


I went back to my local Fitspace, which was £10 a month (now £12), with a minimum 18 months contract, so even going for 3 months, would be cheaper.


It has what I need to train. As for not needing a gym, it is true you can lose weight without going, but I found I lost weight much more quickly, when I combined gym, with healthy eating, than not.


For some it is of course a social occasion as well, with a chance to meet up with friends and family, as well as partaking in classes.


I must say, I got addicted and enjoyed going. But after a few years, I now consider it more of a chore and a necessity to help me keep down my weight, rather than something I really enjoy doing.

Johnnytwostep

I'm glad my local gym costs me more than poor people can afford. Can you imagine having to train next to sweaty poor people in their cheap tracksuits, if they made it £10, £20 a month. No thank you.

The extra money is worth it

haras_nosirrah

I think it depends on how much you use it

I am currently trying to lose quite a lot of weight and am using the gym very regularly (mainly the classes rather than the treadmill)

We have family membership for me, my husband and my son for £75 a month.

In that we get access to 5 different centres including a new swimming pool with 3 different pools (the diving pool has a movable floor which can go down to 2 meters or up to 0.8 meters
over 300 classes a week, my sons swimming lessons, soft play, creche for my 2 year old if I want to go to a class etc

personally I go 5 days a week to various classes and the swimming pool. My son has his swimming lessons and we also go to the soft play at least once a week. When he is older he will also get half price holiday club. It is also nice to know that if we are home and getting bored or the weather is naff we can just pop down to the soft play or swimming pool to get out the house.

While it is expensive we aren't now doing the foreign holidays like we used to and essentially we use the gym as our entertainment day to day

szam_

Recently signed off the Council run gym and switched to Pure Gym. Council run one, outdated equipment, the pool at one of the main two had water quality so poor we got in and got back out again and left straight away. Also, classes are rare, and even when they are on, they are at times myself and my missus cannot make.

They have about 6 locations, so after moving a few miles away, tried the closest one to us, which was a small room with two rowing machines, two treadmills, a bike, and a tiny free weight area. It was so small I actually couldn't believe the were classing the place as a gym.

Pure Gym, half the price at £15.99 - yeah, no pool, but we're not bothered about that, loads of equipment and tonnes of different classes, and a "back-up" gym and no extra cost. Finding Pure Gym much better.

DCFC79

Look at The Gym to see if theres 1 near you. The 1 round here is £11 ( price may vary for other locations) a month with no contract and its open 24 hours a day.

Sharon87

I go to a 'Better Gym', my current membership is £20 a month, but my centre doesn't have a pool, but it has about 8 treadmills, 2 rowing machines, 8 cross trainers, 8 bikes and a couple of different other cardio equipment. And lots of weights and free weights.

Some of the other gyms in the same franchise are a bit more expensive, as they have a pool and other features.