Do wholesome gyms still exist in your area or are they becoming rare?

[SabinaV]

I recently checked out a new gym $200 a month with no walk ins.

Meanwhile, the local gym I usually go to charges only $18 a month or $6 per walk in. The service it's their specialty.

It got me thinking about how some gyms feel more community driven, where it's not just about business profit, but also about the people, the passion, and the love for the sport.

Sad to see some Gym's are only for business gain.

[Lesbologist]

I sacrificed half my living room...800 + 300 costs on the weight cage that has pully action... leg machine was like 3 to 4 hundred, treadmill, bike (that was my wife's choice)... A lot of fucking money. But did I really spend out the ass when ready made gyms charge that much?

I got all this shit on demand, no processs, and it's just mine... compare it to the price of renting and sharing that shit with others... makes sense right?

I don't get reported for looking at the hawt chick doing hip thrusts because... that bitch don't go to my gym and would get ignored while she grunts because I'm busy doing some shit.

[Lesbologist]

People spend more on cars that don't do shit for them... Price tag question.

[thund3rlight]

Where I live, gyms are really expensive, and people here consider those prices completely normal. Meanwhile, in a bigger city about 40km away, they charge around €30 a month. I’m paying €85 a month here, for example, with a one-year contract, because we don’t have any of the big fitness chains around here. Most of the gyms are more like privately owned businesses, and they charge pretty high monthly fees because of that.

Some gyms also offer a sauna and solarium, but those come at an extra cost on top of the monthly membership. And if you don’t commit to a one-year contract and choose something shorter, like 3–9 months, the monthly cost can easily be over €100.

[queenofcardio]

I would never pay that much for a gym membership. The run clubs and the CrossFit gyms feel more community drven. It's easy for me to walk in and feel welcome. Someone will show me around, and people seem more friendly there than at other big gyms like Planet Fitness.

[OneViewpoint]

All I know of in my area is the corporate national chains. I have zero interest in them. I have everything I need in my home gym and I can work out anytime I want with zero wait time for equipment and zero guys ogling women and zero women in spandex trying to use the gym as a dating app or going into full "Karen" mode because the wrong guy snuck a look at their camel toe. I do not need that people theater. And from what I hear, the management in those gyms can be bizarre. No noise or grunts. All but impossible to cancel a membership. No thanks.

[Jersey2]

My gym is a one off, not a chain. From the exterior it looks like a very serious gym where hardcore people go. It is huge inside with few people in it at a time and lots of equipment. It has lower lighting than most gyms. I know the owner now pretty well. We talk about business in general and have helped other business owners there who were in a legal fix in brands name. The gym was recommended to me by my Cardiologist as he went there and I had noted that he looked great.

They do a good business but because it is open so much and is huge, you wouldn’t know it. It is about money as it must stay in business and be successful but also helping people and community a bit. But the money comes first. They have very talented trainers who know their stuff and can help a whole lot with injuries.

[Levin]

I guess there are pretentious boutique types gyms.

I just don't see the point in them. I did a virtual tour of one and it didn't have what I needed. Namely, some gymnastic rings.

Pullups, dips, weighted pushups, inverted rows, squats and lunges at home. It's pretty much all you need.

I'd do deadlifts too, if my knees didn't hate them.

[SabinaV]

Did you manage to find a decent place?

[Billlewis]

Unlike in many other industries, it's usually better to work out at a smaller local gym than a national chain, both cost wise and in terms of overcrowding and long waits, etc. Companies like Bally's, for example will overbook their health clubs, plus you have to deal with the New Years resolution warriors that come stampeding back into the building every January and February each year.

[exitseven]

I belong to the local YMCA. It is a nice facility and not a real hardcore gym. I was thinking of going someplace else that would have more of a hardcore vibe. The hardcore place seemed pretty wholesome. a lot of high school and college athletes worked out there.

[NathanDavis]

as you just described them... yep, we got a few in the area

we even have one that combines both... just different entrances and parking lot, lol

[DonaldDarko]

The one at my apartment complex is small but it's good. I go at 2am or so when I wake up and can't sleep. Almost no one is ever there.

[SabinaV]

That's a good one on your end.

Appreciate that.

[Anonymous]

There are several types of gyms you have your powerlifting gyms which are usually expensive with a lot of hands on personal training, you have boxing gyms, then you have your bottom feeder bottom of the barrel run of the mill garbage like planet fitness and LA fitness which are next to useless especially planet fitness worst of the worst

[DryGermanGuy]

Who would pay 200$ a month for a damn gym membership?

[onmyradar]

Planet Fitness is about the only real place left that isn't out to rake you over the coals for money

[SabinaV]

It's not too bad at least.

Do you go?

[onmyradar]

I was going to Xsport when it was still a gym, because my buddy started it, Dan, So I was one of the first 200 members in the first gym. When I went out of town there were no Xsports in the area, so I went to planet fitness. Xsport was originally, The Pump Room Gym. It cycled through a few names like, Extreme fitness, and thats what the X in Xsport stood for, Extreme.

[Mark_Est]

Gyms went to shit once women were let in. separate gyms for male and females.

[zagor]

Wow; in my rather expensive area you can join a gym for $15/month. There used to be one that was $65/month but they went under.

But what do you mean by "wholesome"?

[Iron_Man]

There used to a lot like paradise gym, Iron Man gym not much anymore. Its a huge big companyy like LA fitness and planet fitness

[SabinaV]

It's a gem to be at a classic wholesome gym, usually the owner would be the kind who has the forte and it goes across for those who understand this.
From one to another.

Company Gym's are the worst.

[Iron_Man]

Yeah, they’re wholesome you get to know the owner. They’re always there and they’re more hard-core serious weight training going on not swimming pools and all these little yoga classes and bicycle classes and too many machines. Plus they even have a basketball court. It’s too much.

[SabinaV]

Usually the laid back Gym's are the good ones but of course it goes with checking first also.

Best to go for wholesome Gyms but it's a hole in the wall mostly not a fad Gym.

[Iron_Man]

The wholesome gyms with private owners are the best I’ve gone to them, but they don’t have them where I live in Miami hardly anymore

[SabinaV]

Tsk, how far do you have to travel?

[Iron_Man]

It takes me 15 to 20 minutes to get to the big company major gym LA fitness the one that I like I don’t see any mom And pop gyms around

[SabinaV]

That's alright too.

[Iron_Man]

It is the best gym in Miami that I’ve been to was like an NFL football gym.

[astlavista]

They still exist, but they definitely feel harder to find now.

[SabinaV]

It's usually those places that are a hole in the wall. Worthit.

[Abbycado]

I use the campus athletic center.

[SabinaV]

Make the most of it.

Out there most are ridiculous.

But you will still find a gem, a hole in the wall. You just have to know where to find it at least.

[MrChinaski]

You can use my garage for free.

[Paige2006]

I don't even know what a wholesome gym is

[wkhan_87]

Rare so much