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Just had a letter from David Lloyd, gym membership increasing to £75 per month - I think this must be the most expensive gym in the area but also the only one that I can realistically get to before work.
I know others work with are at Virgin and pay around £45-50; seems reasonable if you're going 3 times a week.
£75 seems a hell of a lot to me - I'm paying £68 now but I think this is the straw that broke the camels back.
Got me wondering is this a lot and how much do others on here pay?
Whats a gym?
34squid a month, doesnt open early in the mornings though which is when i'm most motivated to exercise
David Lloyd are expensive and, in my experience of 3 of their clubs, declining in quality.
I was paying around £70 for my membership.
I've joined a 5* spa which is about 20 yards from my house. Realised that I get enough exercise on the mountain, don't need to waste time in a gym, much better to spend long winter nights relaxing in a spa 🙂
To put it in perspective, I pay £125 for the spa. So £70 for all the facilities you get at DL isn't too bad.
Wow, just wow. We've stopped now but me and my partner were paying £58/month for BOTH of us. (EDIT- This included use of pool/sauna/steam room too.) I wouldn't want to pay more than £40 unless I was there 5+ times/week
In my opinion you are already being robbed and they are seeing how far they can push you
Just my opinion mind
Matt
When I used to, £31/month local authority place
Open from 06:30 till 21:00
Its a place that allows me to eat sausage and bacon muffins 'every' morning if I give them an hours worth of sweat 3 times a week
£36 / month (min 3 month contract then no tie in)
Go three times per week at lunchtime. Certainly wouldn't pay any more than that.
£20.43 a month with all classes free (this is a university gym)
Peterfile - Definitely declining in quality!
£25 a month. Can use any of 5 gyms in Sheffield including Ponds Forge (international swimming complex) but the most convenient for me is the EIS (English Institute of Sport) one, where I occasionally see Jess Ennis.
I call that good value
I'm no snob so would happy to go to one of the 'dive' gyms close to home but none seem to open before 7am:(
That sounds like a fair exchange yoshimi 🙂
I remember Jeremy Vine doing a programme on gym membership costs. He worked out that every visit to the gym cost him almost £300
I can do PAYG too - £3.20/session
£9.99 a month 😀 I joined the local Pure Gym before it opened and got it at that rate for 12 month
I use it 4 times a week and for the money you cant knock it.
I wouldn't blink an eyer at £40 a month, would want something pretty good at £50 a month but now £75..........I'm outraged!
@ uplink, allthepies, tricky and ourkids - wish I lived near you
And its Chorley not Chelsea FFS
this is a true story about a local authority gym in the East end of Glasgow which my friend is a member of........
every night after having a run, my friend goes to the centre to use the sauna/steam room and pool.
every night a group of four or five middle aged women turn up, carrying a couple of plastic bags full of fish and chips from the local chippy.
they put the fish and chips in the sauna to keep them warm while they have a swim and then eat them on the patio furniture at the side of the pool once they done playing in the water.
no one ever complains, no one ever tells them off.
god bless glasgow, it's tolerance of everything and the commendable ingenuity of it's inhabitants 🙂
@ uplink, allthepies, tricky and ourkids - wish I lived near you
What's amazing is I get other benefits being a member of a university gym 😉
Apparently I have to go to the Hillsborough one for that 😐
£22 a month, local authority, in that I get gym, ALL classes, swimming, and racket sports at certain times. I probably got 5-6 times a week so most defiantely get my monies worth! Now friendly with staff there i've begun training with one of the female gym instructors who is an ex County swimmer! She has got my 400m time down by 2 minutes and all for free as she now has someone to train with! There is no WAY I would pay more than £40. Oh there is a sauna, steam room and small jacuzzi that I've used once.. maybe twice (tonight) as need a wee bit of relaxation after this evenings recovery swim. For £75 I would tell them to go whistle!!!
After a bit of research, it seems an independent gym in the town centre (less than a mile from my house) has just has just re-opened, had a £300k make-over and does 24hr access all at £28 per month - so long David Lloyd and your overweight, judgmental, middle-class tennis mums 😀
Wow look how much more PER month you have to spend on bike bits!
I will miss the pool tho, used to look nice as I sat in the jacuzzi
Munque - I think this is even cheaper than the local leisure centre, the y do have a pool but don't open till 7am which isn't much use
Peterfile - I cant quite get the imagined smell of fish and chips in a sauna out of my brain now - yuk!
South Down College PAYG gym = free induction and £2 per visit.
In my opinion you are already being robbed and they are seeing how far they can push you
yep, this ^^^^
I paid £30 a month for fitness first. It was good until the boxing coach left, then I couldn't be bothered any more. Spent maybe £150 and built a home gym. Its just a bench, barbell, dumbbells, punch bag and a mat on the floor, but mixed with running and cycling to work I'm fitter than I've ever been.
I pay £31 a month, gym is next door to my office so handy for post work session, I can also use any of their clubs outside of London as part of my membership, handy as they have another club 5 minutes from my girlfriends house.
£33 a month for LA Fitness. Really nice gym - fairly new machines in the cardio and weights areas, small but clean pool, sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, squash courts and lots of classes. I think the chain can be a bit hit and miss though, some of their gyms are supposed to be horrible and cancelling membership can be a bit of a pain. Need to go more really, only tend to go once or twice a week.
200 quid a year, student, boo ya 😀
One of the reasons why I like running so much - no £75 fees to pay. Makes me laugh when I see a line of people on the treadmills in gyms.
All the fancy gym equipment isn't what makes you better, Rocky proved that against that giant Russian... Eye of the tiger guys, get out and carry a log around a park.
Run to the gym, turn round and run back.
Think of the cost saving and fitness gain. 8)
We pay £85 a month for a joint membership. It's at a country club and spa less than a mile from our house. It's really nice and very often not too busy, there is a really nice outdoor pool which we use everyday when it's sunny. The gym equipment is new and the staff are chirpy and helpful.
Before that we were members of Hilton double tree at £40 a month but they kept increasing the price each month. It got to £50 and I said it's too much. The facilities were new but never seemed clean, for that money I would expect it to be clean. I've been a member of University gyms and authority ones which were cheaper, I'd pay £50 a month for the gym I'm at now as it offers more than standard facilities and it's all things we use regularly. What David Lloyd are charging I would tell them to eff off, loads of gyms about. I hear they are rubbish to work for too.
£12 a month for unlimited use, can't complain really. Wouldn't pay much more. No pool or sauna or anything though.
Im a member at DL Chorley too.
When we looked at it we decided to go for at based on the fact it is less than 5 minutes from our house. We figured that even though its more expensive it works out price/visit cheaper as we use it so much.
If you go just to use the weights/treadmill it is a lot for that but when you take into account all the classes, the pool stuff and the way the gym staff personalise your workout to what you want to get out and will refresh it whenever you want it isnt too bad.
Plus when its proper minging weather in the winter spinning keeps me ticking over nicely! Guess what im saying is that im happy to spend what effectively the price of a couple nights out a month for that.....
Blimey, I just use dumbbells at home, if you saved up a years membership you could get yourself a pretty decent home setup (providing you have the room, of course)
£800 a year for the smell of someone else's sweat? If I wanted that I could just go to the corner shop. I assume the recession hasn't bit yet.
£55 / month - could drop it to about £45 if I signed back up for a contract - but can't be bothered. Greens Cambridge.
Was £30 a month, local council gym. Choice of 3 gyms, 2 pools, classes etc.
Quit now tho.
Spending between 50 to 100 a month on the bike, thats my gym. Swimming pool is attached to a deserted beach at the bottom of a cliff, open all hours (Atlantic Ocean).
I was a member of fitness first approx £35 didn't use it enough as I only realistically go at lunch hours and it was too far from work. There is a DL 5 mins walk from work but I just can't justify £70odd a month...
£30 a month, small village gym, includes classes and time working out plans with trainers.
2-3 times a week, well worth it for me
currently 30 quid a month for gym and pool in chelsea
about to get better gym and pool at UCL for £20 a month when i move jobs 🙂
BMF
£31 a month for up to 4 sessions a week (I manage 2-3).
Minimal overheads - outside in all weathers.
Paid yearly but would have worked out at something like £125 a month for a family membership. Expires on Friday.
Family has not attended as promised. Will wait and see how long before they notice their cards have stopped working!
All the fancy gym equipment isn't what makes you better, Rocky proved that against that giant Russian... Eye of the tiger guys, get out and [s]carry a log around a park[/s] use steroids.
FTFY
£2 every 4 weeks, gotta love being a coop staff member
the gym group - bristol - £10.99 per month
pretty good open 24hrs but pretty busy.
That's crazy money. Duncan Hammertimes is only £40 a month and is really well equipped. Have got a roider gym a few doors down from me that do £15 off peak but it's the home gym for me.
Pay £126 joint membership a month, including kids at a health and country club, does'nt include the golf though. Massive gym, 20m pool, sauna, steam room, jaccuzi, more classes to shake a stick at, 2 bars childrens play area outside, wii, xbox area, creche ( which the wife loves £3.50ph)has been a godsend. Been members for about 10 years now, probably use it 2-3 times a week the misses goes every day, so think we get value for money. Open 6am til 10.30 most days.
bought a decent squat rack and bench for my garage, and a pull up bar, thats all i need. i can now workout whenever i like and at no cost.
I know haemorrhaging money round these here parts isn't out of the ordinary, but some of the prices being paid to burn a few calories have actually shocked me.
I used to be a member of JJB in Newcastle. 35 quid a month, but my employers paid half of that. the gym was over subscribed, so you had to stand around half the time you were there, waiting for steroid abusing doormen to finish on the machines. The small pool was a joke. 5 strokes and you'd be at the other end, thats if there wasn't an OAP aqua aerobics sessions in there.
cancelled membership. cycle to work, run twice a week, use a resistance band along with press ups sit ups, dips on stairs etc. I really have no need for a gym.
£80 per year to paddle at my club (kayaking) plus the bikes and a vegetarian diet mean I don't have a need, or time for the gym. Oh and I climb a bit too.
I strongly believe in complimentary activities instead of simulated machinery. Kayaking and MTB go very well together!
Wow, £75x13 (paid 4 weekly) is £975 thats a fair few bits for your bike or like sadexpunk says a decent squat rack/smith machine and preacher bench and you dont need all the other crap they fill "hi-tech" gyms with
Blimey, I just use dumbbells at home, if you saved up a years membership you could get yourself a pretty decent home setup (providing you have the room, of course)
+1
Always makes me giggle when i run past a posh gym by me, i'm out in the fresh air and the peeps inside are doing the same thing on a treadmill and paying for it...
just gone up to £12/ month. but its salary sacrifice so comes down to closer to £10 with the added tax savings 🙂
got a pool and pretty well stocked gym too. only classes that i have no interest are included though.
£34 per month, all classes included, as many as you can handle. Im there on average 5 days per week.
The last gym I was at was £16 per month, it's down to £12 and is always HEAVING.
I used to pay £40 a month and train 3-4 times a week
Then we had a kid, and decided we couldn't afford the gym fees or the time, so I dug out my old Scott Impulse for exercise purposes.
In the 7 years since, this money/time saving scheme has involved
Guess RB1 (since sold)
Merlin Malt 1 (since sold)
Ribble winter bike (since sold)
Ribble winter frame in a smaller size (since sold)
Cotic Soul (now on it's second build)
Santa Cruz Blur frame (since sold)
Spesh Roubaix
Ribble winter bike with compact geometry (since sold)
Kona Dew
Plus assorted accessories, spare parts and clothing
Gym membership was a bargain......
And I'm riding about 10-12 hors a week, most of it commuting though
I'm with Bannatynes and it's about £45 a month. I go to about 6 classes a week (spinning/weights/core stability) so rarely need to use the cardio/weight machines. I reckon it's worth the money as I would rather do an hour long spin class followed by an hour long weights class that get out and ride if it's dark and pouring with rain outside.
About £48 a month for Virgin Active for me.
Mines £80'a month but my work pay half of that. Thats cheap to what my personal trainer costs!!! Still get out and ride and run inthe mornings before work mind you.
Always makes me giggle when i run past a posh gym by me, i'm out in the fresh air and the peeps inside are doing the same thing on a treadmill and paying for it...
Thing is, they might just be doing a warm up/down after doing a weight session. They might not feel safe running in the streets or have injuries that only allows short runs on a treadmill....or a myriad of other reasons that has brought them to the gym.
The bottom line is at least they have got off their ass, and those of us who have decided to take a different route to fitness shouldn't act aloof or think we are somehow better.
they put the fish and chips in the sauna to keep them warm while they have a swim and then eat them on the patio furniture at the side of the pool once they done playing in the water.
Pure genius!
Crispo- you're not the guy with a trek strapped to the top of your car early mornings are you?
Well, membership cancelled- the nice membership lady rang me up and said she'd looked at my activity and as I was always there early mornings only then I could go off peak for a bargaintastic £59 per month.... I declined.
Thing is, I do enjoy going, never bother with cardio although have recently as recovering from injury and couldn't physically sit on the bike.
I think gyms do have a place, bit as I only really use the kettlebells and free weights and don't use, pool, sauna etc just can't justify £75.
Not sure I wanna post this, but my gym 'should' cost £133 a month (www.stokepark.com) plus £30 for the racquets membership (which the wife had). However, they're a client of mine so I get a corporate deal.
Expensive, but do lots of business there so it pays for itself many times over.
Does make you an awful snob though - not happy in changing rooms now without a deep pile carpet!!!