Gym membership

Do you have one? How much do you pay? I am normally a workout at home kinda gal, but I am also a big cheapo. I am thinking of joining just for the classes.

[SoonerTexan]

You can buy a 24 hour fitness year long membership--comes out to about $19/month

I am going to look into it more, the cheapest gym around here is about $45.00/month not including joining fees.

[radwife]

I have LA fitness for $39/mo. I really only go for the classes. For me, it's much more fun to work out that way. My husband's membership is at Bally's for cheaper, but I didn't like their class options.

We belong to the YMCA for $50 a month with no sign up fee. It's super close to our house and has a pool for laps, that was our big thing. I have been going to a 6:15am pilates class for the last week and a half and I love it, and their is no extra charge for classes.

[MarissaNicole]

The main reason I belong to the gym is for the classes - it just seems to be the easiest way for me to get consistent exercise. I get bored easily and I find that the classes keep me entertained and keep me going. In med school I signed a 2 year contract with Gold's and it amounted to about $22/month... the gym wasn't that nice but the price was super reasonable considering they offer classes. Right now DH and I belong to the gym associated with his residency program and it is $58 a month for both of us. It's more expensive but its a really nice gym. We get a discount because DH is a resident (I think its more like $120/couple per month). See if your husbands program gets a discount with any of the local gyms, it may be an "employee benefit" of being a resident at the hospital.

[oceanchild]

I'm another person who does better with classes than working out on my own. I just use the gym at my office, which is $25/month (+ $3 more if I ever get off the waitlist for a permanent locker). It's not the nicest place on earth, but it's super convenient, and I like the class options.

Definitely check if the university has a gym that spouses can use, and if your health insurance offers any discounts.

[houseelf]

I just joined the local women's running club. $30 a year to ensure that someone is waiting for me. Sad, but I need this in my life to motivate me.

[OrionGrad]

We go to 24 Hour (just because it's the closest) and the cost is around $24/month for each of us. I think our initiation fee was only about $10 each.

[Auspicious]

We just started at the Y. $60/mo individual membership for me includes child care for the kids. I get a $20 rebate through our health insurance for every month I show up 12 days. Join fee was $75.

During residency we belonged to a gym that was $55 for my husband with hospital-employee discount, $45 for me as the secondary adult, and childcare started out free but then they started charging $40/family/month.A significant expense for us, but we did go a lot and did love it there.

Color me surprised at how inexpensive everyone else's gyms are.

[McPants]

I belong to the university gym. The membership fee is approximately $15 per year and you pay $3.50 per session.

[diggitydot]

DH and I both belong to the one that's affiliated with his hospital's sports medicine institute. Free for DH, about $19/month for me. Includes all classes free, free trainers, pool, etc.

I hate the gym, though. With the intensities of a million suns. My idea of fun is not waiting for 86 y/o gramps to casually lift his 6 reps of 15 lbs and BS with his buddies while resting for 10 minutes on the machine between reps. I would probably enjoy it more if no one was there. I like to go at odd hours to avoid either the geriatric crowd who's there for social hour, or the super young kids from the local university who are in ridiculous shape and use this for... social hour.

[Thirteen]

DH pays $19.50, I pay $50 (ouch!) -- we belong to 24 Hour Fitness and I love it.

I feel you, diggitydot. My 24 Hour Fitness pool and whirlpool has, of late, become the Jersey Shore-esque bathhouse o' sin. You know what? I just want to swim laps... not be splashed in the face and have you run into me. Or be catcalled by the locker room.
Can you report these shenanigans to a manager? I've thought about it more than once, myself.

[DCJenn]

I pay $100/month for the gym- all classes are included but my trainer is extra. I go to a really nice gym though- quite literally they have everything you could imagine for equipment and free babysitting at most of them (the downtown one doesn't have a kid area because it's too small but there's another not too far) and the locker rooms are fully stocked with everything a girl might need.

Jenn

I pay about $69 or $79/month for me +3 kids, plus $25/class for my pilates reformer class. All other classes are included, but I've found the class+the threat of losing the $ is worth it.