For those that go to the gym, how much do you spend on your membership every month?
I’ve seen the cheapest around $19.95 for one like LA Fitness and up to $300 for specialty fitness gyms like yoga or Bar Method. Just curious what people pay on average.
I work at a gym so mines free. : )
Just under $40. That’s with a 15-month contract.
$20/month and something like $30 annual (don’t ask me why they do it this way). It’s definitely no frills, and maintenance is an issue for non-essentials like the TVs and the fans, but it’s clean, including the locker room and shower.
Roddy
$32/month at a SnapFitness location.
Basic cardio & weight equipment, open 24 hours a day, which works for me.
YMCA, family membership, ~$60 a month.
From a pure economic utility standpoint, it’s kind of a dumb expense for me, because:
a) “Family” consists of my wife and me, and she has never gone in the 3 years that we’ve had the membership
b) 90% of what I use the gym for is running or cross-training during the winter months, when it’s too cold to run outside. I might visit once a month, at the most, from April through October.
c) Private gym memberships are cheaper.
However:
a) I keep trying to encourage my wife to get more physically active, and having the family membership might help (though, it hasn’t so far)
b) I do like having the ability to go for a run (on the treadmill at the Y) when it’s pouring rain or disgustingly humid out
c) I like the fact that the Y does a lot of community outreach, especially with kids
d) The location is very convenient for me (3/4 of a mile from my house)
I work at an Air Force base, so I pay nothing. 
$25/mo. No frills gym, but clean and neat, has the equipment I want, one block from my apt.
$30 a month for 24 Hour Fitness. And if you quit, they give you prorated amount back! No troubles/hassles, etc. like other gyms.
$90, but this includes the kid membership for my 2 kids - lets them use the pool with me and go to the childcare while I work out. Just for me it would be about $70.
This is a fancy gym for this area, which makes it much more likely I’ll go 
No worries about remembering towels, hairdryer or locks (provides towels and hairdryers, each locker can be locked with your membership card), nice private showers, a cafe so that if I forget my water bottle or am starving…it’s right there. Also, all the classes are included. And there’s two indoor and two outdoor pools - one each for laps, one each for hanging out. And hot tubs indoor and out. The childcare is huge and well-staffed, with a indoor playground, small gym (basketball court gym, not cardio and weights gym!), computer area, etc.
Sometimes I think it’s a ridiculous expense, but I joined cheap gyms before and always lost motivation to go. At this one, I want to be there, as do my kids
I’m grandfathered into my parents family plan. $90/month for a family of 4 with basketball/raquetball courts and a pool. I had my own $1/day, 1 year contract membership when I didn’t live in the same metro area as my parents at a no-frills gym and it was like pulling teeth to go to that gym regularly. I’ve been spoiled in having courts and pool access for 13 of the 14 years of my gym-going life.
DeweyDecibel’s gym sounds like something I would pay for, even at $45-60/mo as a single guy (I’m guessing) but I would be hard pressed to pay for a $22/mo gym just for freeweights and an elliptical.
Speaking of grandfathering in Richmond, there’s a gym franchise that was just starting out 15ish years ago. As a special promotion, they offered family plans for $20/mo. Those that got in on the ground floor got to keep that rate. It went from a no-frills gym and grew to a YMCA-esque complex with courts, pool, rock climbing wall, etc. and the lucky bastards that got in at the $20/mo rate are making out like bandits.
$130 a month for two classes a week at the dojo, which counts as a gym for me.
$10/month at planet fitness. It is a good gym, all the cardio equipment have LCD TVs on them so I can watch the simpsons while I do my cardio. I’m happy with it.
$24.99/mo. at LA Fitness.
This is their cheapest membership, and doesn’t include frills like friend passes, or privileges at other locations. I can live without those.
My university offers inexpensive membership to the sports facilities to faculty and staff. If you se it X amount of times a yer, you get some or all of your money back. It’s free for students.
Did you have to put any money down?
Wow, they must have really changed. I had 24hr Fitness about 10 years ago and I had to pay a sign-up fee when I started and when I cancelled I had to pay a cancellation fee.
No.
They had a special when I got my membership - no initiation fees.
Wright Patt? EDW checking in. Also $0
$80 for a pretty nice gym- lots of classes, clean towels and nice locker room, and pools, steam rooms and saunas. The main draw was access to around a dozens locations in the city. They are are literally everywhere you look. It was a perfect fit when I was a super busy grad student who was always running between work, home, school, and events.