How much do you pay for gym? What's the Max you would pay?

How much do you pay for gym? Whats the Max you would pay?

Although I prefer to play sport ie Soccer I find in my post university years I have no time to commit to training matches etc. Currently a Derrimut Gym member and I personally think it is the best value for money membership in Melbourne – $399 (as low at 199 with a promotion) .

Prior to that I was a member of anytime fitness Keilor Downs was paying around $650 but the bloke promised me a free 2 months at the end of my contact and didn’t honour it saying I was on a ‘good rate’ and that I would have to renew again personally I think $650 is expensive – $12.5 a week and I simply don’t want anything to do with a business that doesn’t honour its word. Lets put some perceptive I don’t think it is all anytime fitness just that moron owner.

Prior to that I was at Good life (originally Fenix) – At Fenix I was on $550 (started at $650 after 2 years got cheaper) for 14 months when good life took over they tried to bump it up to $700 which over 14months worked out to be ~13.5 a week. I main reason I left was they weren’t 24/7 at that time and closing at 8pm on a Friday and 1pm on public holidays was simply didnt suit me at the time – now they are 24/7 how much a membership is?

Prior to that I was at the local Taylors Lakes gym which I was a student rate at $550 (2005) – although it was a good gym it got super packed at 4pm-8pm and i eventually left because my friends joined Fenix and wanting to be social I followed (sheep style). It also was the same price as Fenix when my high school rate ended. – however Lakes had a pool (not a lap pool), Sauna and Spa

So some people have posted about gyms and I was thinking what do people think is a fair price?

There is a load of competition these days for your dollar however there is more than just money to consider and of course the actual gym itself is the ultimate deciding factor ie if it is clean, has a wide range of equipment, is 24/7, multiple locations etc

Me personally I think $10 per week on an annual membership maybe $15 per week on a casual is the most I’d pay and it would have to be decent however I know people on like $32+ a week memberships at gyms like Fitness First. Also there a women at my work that pay like $1200 a year going to fernwood (I guess you paying for the women only)

So what do you pay? can we get some transparency so other OzB can negotiate with there gyms for better rates?

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  • +2

    0 and 0

    • Where do you get free gym?

      • at home - if I could be so inclined

      • +1

        Pull ups at playgrounds, the only negative is the stares I get from moms.

        • +1

          I tried doing that. Does pull half-way ups count? :)

  • +2

    I got a opening deal with anytime 11.95pw, I never see the inside though

  • 0 and 10

  • +1

    Zero zero zero
    Gotta call emergency services if I ever go to the gym

  • +1

    Power rack + olympic weights + barbell and bench. Set me back over 1k but that initial investment will pay itself off within 2 years and it still has resale value

    • I got multi station home gym, dumbbell sets and barbell+bench.I can do workout at my convenience and longer term i will be ahead. I miss spa/sauna though. I pedal 20km/day 5 days a week in addition.

      • Yeh home gym for me works better and much more efficient. I no longer have to wait for equipment and deal with gym bros

  • TLDR; $12 a week

  • I pay $13 a week, I would pay more if I needed to for some reason.
    I know Fernwood can be around $22 a week, and fighting gyms can be $40+ because they include classes.

  • iron addicts nitro gym, $399 per year upfront, no joining fee, works out to be $7.70 a week.

    • $200 at 3% is $6. Prob add in another $9 in interest.

  • I pay $12.5 a week and think that's cheap. Max i'd pay is probably $65 a month though.

  • +1

    I guess it also depends on area/competition. Where I work, there's a Derrimut - I was a member there, but I was getting tired lining it up with my work.

    Where I live, there's the the small 24/7 gyms within walking distance, or I could drive ~20 minutes to go to a YMCA (pool/gym/spa/sauna). YMCA obviously has the pros of the extra facilities, but it's also a 40 minute return trip whereas I can jog to the other gyms as a warm up. Unfortunately, those gyms just have the same prices, so there's not much leeway with pricing.

    If I had a bit more space, though, I'd definitely do what Jason Genova does.

  • I pay a lot to keep fit at the moment.
    2x bootcamp + 1x yoga + 1x pole class= $65 per week.

  • Work gym $25/month. It's cheaper than your typical gyms but some other workplaces would cover the whole cost as an employee benefit. Max would be $60/month as that was the cost of my previous Anytime Fitness membership.

  • $100 per year 🙃 Max is probs $400-500

  • ~$30 per fortnight at Fitness First. I signed up when they were doing a family member promotion. It's great when I need to travel for work to a different city, their gyms are in CBD. There's also a gym at work but we are not authorised to use it >:|

  • $20 a week. casual rates.

  • Depends on the equipment. If they had the best equipment, I'd pay $50 per week no dramas.

    Think of all the people who spend that on coffee per week.

    • That's $2600 a year!!

      At that price i would expect
      - Clean (im talking 5-Star hotel clean) 100% of the time im walking toilets cleaned ever 30-60 mins from 6 am-12-pm
      - 2 Olympic Lap pools
      - Sauna (Large)
      - Spa (Large)
      - at least 4 multiples of every piece of gym equipment to work every part of the body
      - class (not that i'd use them but id expect it)
      - free tea/coffee breakfast (basic oats/weet bix etc)
      - Maned 24/7
      - Restaurant/Cafe open from 6am-11pm
      - Free towels and towel laundry
      - Free filtered water (Ice cold and room temp options)
      - Cardio room
      - Studio room
      - Boxing/MMA room
      - Climate control at 21c in Winter and 17c degrees in summer
      - At least 10 showers male and female bathrooms
      - Female bathrooms have hair drys
      - Male bathrooms have complementary colon
      - Broken equipment repaired within 3 business days
      - Foxtel/FTA/Netflix on all cardio screens - Bluetooth and wired connectivity

      Now i still wouldn't join a gym that costs 2.6k pa good luck to those who do but that is the level i'd expect! - I could see hardcore gym junkies/pro-athletes joining for the exclusivity factor but i really doubt it would be a profitable business anywhere outside of a handful of exclusive areas

      • Male bathrooms have complementary colon

        And hopefully cologne for all the smell the colon’s make.

  • I pay $0 but that's not fair to compare as it's subsidized.

    What would I pay? I agree with off peak charging being less and for that I would pay $7 per week. Peak rates should be higher and I would pay $10 per week although I wouldn't pay that as I can usually use the off peak hours.

    My mother pays $12.20 per week and is quite happy with that. It's subsidized as well and is restricted to Aquatic only. Full membership is $22.80 per week.

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