Anytime Fitness?

[mellowtigger]

Have any locals joined Anytime Fitness?  What's the monthly price?  I checked their website, but apparently they don't quote prices because of the usual advertisement/deal/bargain focus that I dislike so much in every gym.  Still, there's one of these places just a few blocks away, so I'd like to at least consider it.  What do you pay each month?

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[dodecadragon.livejournal.com]

Looks like you can try them out free for a week: http://www.anytimefitness.com/en-us/clubs/pass/276

I have a Bally's membership and pay $100 a year, but that's low because I joined a long time ago and my contract with them keeps them from raising rates more than a certain percentage a year. And then I usually pay for 3 years at a time. They also have a 7-day pass thing going on: http://www.ballyfitness.com/get-started/guest-pass/free-guest-pass.aspx

[pi3832.livejournal.com]

Months ago I looked into some gym memberships, and my experience was that they all cost about the same. I expect this is true in any given area. So, IMO, you can just call any gym and check their rates and assume any other gym will be about the same.

The real differentiators between gyms, IME, are things like showers, pools, classes, etc.

Just FYI, the local Anytime offered:

• 10 months - $300
• 6 months - $200
• Month-to-month - $40

Plus, a $50 joining fee, and $20 for your access key-card.

Why a gym and not just some home equipment? You can usually get home exercise equipment for pennies on the dollar in the classifieds, on Craig's List, etc.

[mellowtigger]

Yeah, at $40/month it does seem like buying (used) equipment would be the better choice. Problem is, the only place to put it is in the basement, and the basement is pretty much already full. :/

I'd much rather work out alone, though. I've experienced the mocking of gym rats, and I have no intention to repeating the experience. That's why Anytime interested me where other gyms wouldn't. I could visit them during the wee hours when their building would be empty.

The basement is a good choice, if I could find the right kind of cheap equipment and make space for it.

[dodecadragon.livejournal.com]

I have never witness mocking gym rats in all my years of going to Bally's, or the couple years each I spent at the YMCA or Lifetime Fitness, or even the community gym I visited in Hammond, IN with my buddy Thom. My experience is people are fairly respectful of the fact that everyone is there for pretty much the same reason, to get and/or stay fit.

I think Bally's is offering a membership for $20/mo. Not sure of the details. But there is one up on University and 73rd in Fridley, and it's a pretty good gym. But Bally's stopped being a 24 hr. club many years ago, and you need to bring your own towels and locks too.

[foeclan.livejournal.com]

There's already a weight bench and an exercise bike downstairs.

[foeclan.livejournal.com]

LA Fitness is $40/month. They really wanted me back after I canceled, so I'm in at $20/month, so some negotiation is clearly possible.

[mellowtigger]

$40/month makes it seem like buying (used) equipment would be better.

That whole "negotiation" thing is why I don't even want to talk to these people. I'd much rather have a price actually be something.

[pi3832.livejournal.com]

It's starting to sound like your best exercise options is cleaning out the basement. Strength training from lifting and carrying, aerobics from sweeping and dusting.