I got fat, need a cheap gym fitness membership for NE Melbourne. Please help before I sloth myself to death

LNaughtyBoy on 14/11/2013 - 16:04

Hi Everyone.

I am after a cheap gym/fitness-centre in the Heidelberg-ish, Melbourne area.
I have searched online and on OzB but really haven't found any current bargains.

Prefer:

  1. a gym with fitness classes, but mainly doing machines and free weights but classes would be good also,
  2. I live at Viewbank, so anywhere between there and the CBD on the train line, or bike ride distance would be great,
  3. I can exercise outside of peak hours if necessary,
  4. a bargain would be ideal, no contracts month to month if possible is preferred,

If anyone can help that would be fantastic, lots of OzB-Good-Karma coming your way!

Cheers,

NB

Sports & Outdoors

Comments

  • Baghern on 14/11/2013 - 16:27

    bike, run, sit ups, incremental push ups, more than sufficient, unless your at 'biggest loser' stage, then you probably need professional help.

    With all things, there is nothing wrong with starting small, just make sure there are small increments.

  • BuyoTheCat on 14/11/2013 - 16:46
    +3

    A change of diet helps much more than exercise. I recommend healthy meals, in appropriate portions and simple exercise like running or skipping for cardio. The weight should start coming off, then you might decided that you want to get those muscles going and head to the gym.

    There are lots of healthy meal recipes on the internet. I favour quinoa based meals for as complex carbs, with veg and lean meat.
    Appropriate portion is not eating till you are full. If you can stick to this, some weight should come off.

    P.S. Do not click hungry jacks/KFC/McDonalds/pizza bagains
    P.P.S. post weekly photos

  • kingsville on 14/11/2013 - 16:59
    +1

    Ride to work!

    It is a beautiful ride along the yarra trail.
    You can start off easy by riding one way a few days a week and catching the train the other way.

    Works for me!

    • Kiz on 14/11/2013 - 17:03
      +1

      When it's sunny though of course!

      • Euphemistic on 15/11/2013 - 09:41

        If you only ride in fair weather you aren't really committed to the exercise thing and probably not committed to the weight loss thing either.

  • aerona on 14/11/2013 - 17:46
    +4

    Diet is more important then a gym membership.

  • c64 on 14/11/2013 - 19:13

    a brisk 3-5k walk in the afternoon will do wonders for your cardiovascular health. it's free! take your mp3 player to pass the time.

  • HADOUKEN on 14/11/2013 - 19:49
    +3

    If it helps, Gumtree search for gym membership transfers and narrow down to your area. You will find a bunch of people trying to get rid of their memberships at Anytime Fitness & Fitness First as well as a few others. Most of these wont have too long left on contracts i'd say less than 6 months and hopefully they will (or you can try negotiate it) pay for the transfer fee if applicable.

    Bear in mind you can search Australia wide for memberships for the bigger gyms mentioned above as they have gyms everywhere.

    I was going to do this for Fitness First a month ago as i found a really cheap one on Gumtree. Almost pulled the trigger on it until I was told by salesperson in Perth gym that they were axing the cheaper rates and raising everyone to normal rate (approx $21.95 week). A subsequent call to head office re-iterated this claim.

    Hope it helps anyway. Happy hunting.

  • NaughtyBoy on 15/11/2013 - 07:25

    Thanks HADOUKDEN for reading, understanding and answering my op.
    I guess people didn't understand from my op that I wanted a gym/fitness club membership.
    I will give gumtree a go as you suggested.
    Cheers.

  • dan76n on 29/11/2015 - 09:23

    Jogging and walking outdoors is a better option than a gym.
    It's free and its summer.
    Download Runkeeper or similar and use to track your exercise. Also the My fitness Pal app as it track calories.
    Target a 5km run. It may take a while but once you get there then focus on reducing time it takes.
    Also do push-ups and if you aren't too heavy get a chin-up bar from Kmart/bigW and use this.
    I suggest making a rule that you must do atleast one set of something each day minimum. This will build consistency.
    So if you get home and can't be bothered just do one set of push-ups or sit-ups or chin-ups before bed.
    This is bare minimum, obviously try and do 3 sets of any.
    Diet is the biggest key. If you eat crap now and start exercising then you will consume more crap.
    Start eating healthy now.
    My fitness pal is awesome.

    • pyramid on 29/11/2015 - 09:36

      For newbie , how much one should start walking? And then conver into running or start small run say 200mt n keep increasing it.

      • dan76n on 29/11/2015 - 11:36

        mark out a 5k track then walk for a few hundred meters to get warmed up then start jogging. Jog at a comfortable pace for as long as you can then walk briskly until recovered. Repeat until 5k's achieved then next time try jog for a little longer.
        There are a few apps out there that can help begin running. Look in App Store for "couch to 5k" apps, there's quite a few. Never used them so can't reccomend any in particular.i would suggest moving to Runkeepr/Strava or the likes once you get into jogging though.

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