I'm a member at the Y paying around $30 a month to use the place once maybe twice a week. I'm looking to save money and there is a Lifestyle Family Fitness about 2 minutes from my house.

I call em up just trying to get basic rate information. They won't give it to me. They transfer me to a membership lady who has her hard core salesman face on and wants to get me into the gym right fucking now. Today. Can you come now. No, I can't.

I told her I was looking to save money over what I am paying now and she says her rates are comparable (though I swear one of you said you were paying $10 a month for this place) and could I come look at it today. I JUST TOLD YOU YOU VAPID CUNT THAT I CAN'T COME IN TODAY. So I set up an appointment for 5:30 tomorrow and I'm going to make this chick wish I never came in with the amount of time she is going to waste trying to sell their gym to me.

Unfortunately, there isn't a Planet Fitness close to me.

[Edited on April 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM. Reason : .]

4/18/2009 11:03:58 AM

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4/18/2009 11:05:23 AM

Ok.

4/18/2009 11:05:29 AM

stay away from peak fitness.

4/18/2009 11:09:33 AM

ugh, I hate the gym sales pitch bullcrap that comes along with joining a gym. I had to put up with that when I joined my current gym. At least here they were nowhere near as pushy as they were in Raleigh when I looked at gyms.

4/18/2009 11:10:09 AM

I paid $310 for a 15 month membership at Gold's. You just have to catch them when they are running special promotions like that.

and they let me break up the payments over 3 months.

[Edited on April 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM. Reason : a]

4/18/2009 11:11:41 AM

Lifestyle Family Fitness is around $50 per month, but I think you can get that knocked down by losing the isokinetic machine privileges.

You should try to find a Fitness 19. They are about $19 per month.

4/18/2009 11:14:32 AM

Is that why they're called Fitness 19?

4/18/2009 11:15:08 AM

LOL!

4/18/2009 11:16:00 AM

Hahah, actually it's $15.

4/18/2009 11:16:31 AM

DON'T STEAL MY FITNESS 19 THUNDER!

4/18/2009 11:17:30 AM

planet fitness is the 10 bucks a month no contract basic gym membership you are looking for.

4/18/2009 11:29:29 AM

Unfortunately, there isn't a Planet Fitness close to him.

4/18/2009 11:30:32 AM

Unfortunately, there isn't a Planet Fitness close to him.

4/18/2009 12:05:54 PM

This is just a financial point of order here, but I just don't see how those gyms can survive on $10 a month memberships.

4/18/2009 2:17:38 PM

I'm gonna make a new gym, its called FITNESS 18.
we give you just a good a workout as the fitness 19 folks but for 1 dollar less.

4/18/2009 2:23:28 PM

but what if someone opens a fitness 17?

4/18/2009 2:24:22 PM

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"I'm going to make this chick wish I never came in with the amount of time she is going to waste trying to sell their gym to me. "

she'll probably be cute and you'll succumb to her deal

4/18/2009 2:29:49 PM

I heard lifetime offers membership to students for $10 a month but you have to pay all of the application and start up fees.

4/18/2009 2:37:40 PM

May as well just get a treadmill that you can use as a clothing rack.

4/18/2009 3:22:04 PM

the sad thing is that working out won't cure your baldness.

4/18/2009 3:33:26 PM

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"she'll probably be cute and you'll succumb to her deal"

I'm not so sure my wife would go for that

"Hey babe, we're switching to Lifestyle...the cost is basically the same, but the membership chick was waaayyyy cuter than the people running the Y, you'll agree this is a good move, right?"

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"the sad thing is that working out won't cure your baldness."

The only reason I can think a dude to be saddened by the state of another dudes follicles is that he is an outright peter puffer but has some sort of a weird anti-bald fetish or something.

4/19/2009 9:39:02 AM

there's nothing weird about feeling sorry for someone who has gone to such great lengths to cover up their baldness.... Like that disastrous hair plug experience you posted about a few years ago. Ended up looking something like this, I believe (can't post the original since you deleted it):



No wonder you deleted your photo gallery

[Edited on April 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM. Reason : s]

4/19/2009 10:16:03 AM

fitness 19 ftw

there's one in cary on high house and one in raleigh on leesville

I have free week passes to the one in cary if you're interested

4/19/2009 10:28:56 AM

^^ The bald thing was a fresh new way to troll me...5 years ago when a few dozen folks here were trying to do it. You're shit is stale as fuck.

^ I'm not so encouraged to join a gym that can't be bothered to update their website

http://www.fitness19.com/membership.html

However, it is $15 a month for a basic membership?

4/19/2009 10:42:09 AM

about as stale as yours

4/19/2009 11:35:22 AM

I just spoke to someone on campus about two days ago who has a membership (the most basic level) to Lifestyle Family Fitness and he said he was paying $65 a month. From what I have been told, there is no such thing as $10-15 a month at that place.

I have been a member at various Gold's over the past couple of years. I have paid as much as $50 a month (Pleasant Valley) and as little as $27 a month (Wilmington, NC) but the current rate in Cary, where I train right now is $30 a month.

I also have a membership at Planet Fitness, because its open 24/7, allows guests and its the only thing near my parents. For those benefits its $20 a month everywhere in the US, for the basic membership its $10 a month everywhere in the US. PF is by and far, the cheapest gym you will run across.

On a final note, steer clear of the Peak Fitness gyms -- the owners are involved in some scandal last I heard. Plus, they are filing bankruptcy for the third or fourth time...

4/19/2009 11:46:49 AM

I just stopped by the Fitness 19 near here and was quoted $26 per month for my wife and I with $80 in processing fees. So, I'll probably go with them.

^ Are you sure you're not thinking of Lifetime at $65 a month, because I don't see any way at all that Lifestyle can charge those kind of rates with the facilities they have.

4/19/2009 2:17:58 PM

Lifestyle Family Fitness is only $29.99/month IF you switch from another gym (otherwise the lowest is <$40/month)...currently there is NO enrollment fee and only a nominal $20 processing fee

the one at the Cary location is only really busy from about 6-7ish in the afternoon so if you can manage to come earlier in the day or outside that time you'll never have to wait for anything

[Edited on April 19, 2009 at 5:10 PM. Reason : ]

4/19/2009 5:09:42 PM

I checked out Fitness 19 yesterday and it meets my needs.

4/21/2009 8:35:37 AM

Go for a walk or a jog around your neighborhood. It's free and you don't have to wait to get to a gym to do it.

4/21/2009 8:42:05 AM

That would be great if I didn't already do that...in addition to mountain biking and road biking and swimming.

I tried the run around the neighborhood lift heavy objects that I found thing but neighbors kept coming after me with their shotguns so I am looking for a gym now.

4/21/2009 8:54:10 AM

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"This is just a financial point of order here, but I just don't see how those gyms can survive on $10 a month memberships."

me either, but planet fitness has been there for a while now, and they have free pizza on the first monday night of each month

i ♥ planet fitness

4/21/2009 8:58:15 AM

Fitness 19 is barebones. A small set of lockers, small changing rooms, and toilets. It looked to me they were paying a rather young looking kid to keep an eye on the front desk and clean machines and another older looking girl seem to be employed there as well.

Let's call it about $1500 each on ellipticals, maybe similar or cheaper on treadmills and cycles. Then you got all the machines which are probably in a similar vein and then the free weights. So, I'm thinking there are maybe 100 different pieces of equipment in there at that $1500 average and you're talking 150k for the equipment. Then you have the cost to lease the building and small payroll costs.

A loan for 150k is around 1000 a month at current rates. Building lease is probably in the $500-1000 range, and payroll is probably at that level as well.

At fitness 19, he quoted me $13 each for my wife and I. So he'd need about 250 people joined to come close to covering costs. I saw probably 70 people in there in the hour I was there yesterday.

4/21/2009 9:29:38 AM

i got a haircut yesterday and the lady called me old man cause of all the gray ILL NEVER TROLL AGAIN

4/21/2009 11:41:52 AM

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"This is just a financial point of order here, but I just don't see how those gyms can survive on $10 a month memberships."

Because they:
1. Have thousands of members who never use the gym yet don't drop it because it's only $10 per month and they might get back into it one day.
2. Don't own their equipment. It's leased. Thereby having a very low startup cost and keeping their operating costs almost static on a month-to-month basis.

It makes for a pretty simple equation. If their operating costs are $20,000 a month and they have 4,000 people paying $10 a month for membership they're going to stay open. If the gym gets way overcrowded they can open a new location to relieve the overcrowding and bring in more business.

Heck, I'm one of those people. I use Planet Fitness about 4 times per month even though I work out 4-6 times per week elsewhere. At $2.50 per use I don't mind keeping it. It's close enough for me to walk up there, do some cardio, grab some groceries at HT, and walk home if I choose to. I like that convenience.

4/21/2009 12:13:35 PM

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"and they have free pizza on the first monday night of each month "

even though that seems counterproductive,


nice

4/21/2009 12:23:01 PM

lol, I've been in there and decided to do some extra cardio in exchange for a couple of slices of pizza; so it doesn't have to be counterproductive. If nothing else, at least you're in the gym versus the guy who is sitting on his sofa eating pizza.

4/21/2009 12:35:38 PM

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"even though that seems counterproductive,"

I can see why they'd want to fatten up their general membership. They might not come back if they stay skinny long enough.

4/21/2009 12:41:22 PM

^ That's representative of a very unhealthy way to look at food.

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"In a study published in the October issue of the journal Appetite, Fischler and Rozin surveyed 1,281 French, American, Japanese and Flemish people about their attitudes toward food. Participants were asked how much they worried about food and the healthiness of their diet, whether they bought low-fat and other diet foods and how much importance they placed on food as a positive force in life. Americans, it turned out, were much more likely than the French to worry about what they eat, buy diet foods and still think of themselves as unhealthy eaters. The French and Belgians were at the other extreme, thinking about food as mainly a great pleasure, and feeling fine about how healthy their diet was. In word association tests, given "chocolate cake," the French would say "celebration," and Americans, "guilt." Given "heavy cream," the French said "whipped," while the Americans responded "unhealthy." Says Rozin, "The French are more inclined to think of food as something you eat and experience, and the Americans are thinking about some sort of chemicals that are getting into your body." "

http://archive.salon.com/travel/food/feature/2000/02/04/paradox/print.html

Imagine Pizza = Cake in this context. One could look at the pizza as a free source of fuel, not to be overdone. One could look at the pizza as a reward, or celebration, for meeting their fitness goals over the past month. The pizza may even be a reward for working hard on that single day. Or one could look at the pizza and say it is gluttonous and dangerous as you seem to be doing. The simple fact is that most of us will eat some pizza at some point in the next month or two and it's not going to kill us or have any notable effect on our fitness goals as long as we do so in moderation. Making it out to be the devil is reinforcing an unhealthy way of looking at food.

4/21/2009 12:57:20 PM