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(#34) They'll Do Almost Anything to Get You to Join
Like with any good sales pitch, your gym will tell you anything you want to hear. "You'll magically have a six pack in a couple weeks, you'll live forever, you can eat as many donuts as you want as long as you work with one of our personal trainers!" While exercising at the gym can change your physique and health for the better, gyms are nothing more than big businesses trying to make as much $$$ as possible. Be careful before you sign the dotted line because you could end up regretting it.
Source: Live Strong
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(#35) The Orientation Is a Ploy to Get You to Sign Up with a Trainer
Like a college orientation, a gym orientation can be overwhelming and exciting. To capitalize on that enthusiasm, many gyms offer a free orientation session or two with one of their trainers when you sign up. To reel you back in, the trainer will take you through a complex routine, then refuse to take notes so that you think you need their training long-term.
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(#13) Nothing in Life Is Free, Even a Free Trial Membership
Gym membership contracts are more deceptive than Spanx. In order to gain new members, most gyms offer free trial memberships. Sounds great, right? Not so fast. Most gyms trick members who think they're signing up for a free trial into paying for a full membership. In fact, gyms will even go so far as to have small print in their contracts that stipulate that if the member didn’t attend the gym at least 12 times within their one month free trial period, then they would automatically be entered into a multi-year full membership.
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(#16) Rethink That Monthly Membership
When acquiring a monthly gym membership, most people will be naive enough to believe that they'll go every day. More often than not, laziness overrules. If you only make it to the gym twice a week or so, you should rethink that monthly membership; you can end up paying 70% more than if you just bought one of those 10-visit passes. In a UC Berkeley study, it was found that the average gym member could save over $150 every six months with a pay-as-you-go system.
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(#14) Fancy Weight Machines Won't Do Much to Help You
Ever walked into your gym's weight room and been overwhelmed by all of the fancy weight machines? Fear not, you never have to embarrass yourself at one of these machines again because it turns out, they're not that great for you. Weight machines train individual muscles in isolation, while the rest of you sits completely inert. While that's all well and good for something like physical therapy, these machines don't create real-world strength.
Source: Men's Journal
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(#1) Get a Membership in the Summer, Not the Winter
We all make the same New Year's resolution: go to the gym, eat right, lose weight. Well since that resolution usually lasts for about a month, it's easy for gym memberships to sell the most during the month of January, making it nearly impossible to score a deal. Get a membership in the summertime, however, when only 6% of new memberships come in, and you'll definitely get a membership at a major discount.
Source: Fitbie
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More and more people are keen to manage gym memberships to urge themselves to exercise regularly. But you know how the gym works? Why does a fitness coach promise that you will have a perfect body after a month of exercise? Why exercise is so expensive but you can’t see any obvious results? What information should you know if you Want to sign up for membership?
Even if you talk to your coaches, gym employees, and yoga coaches, they will not tell you secrets about their works. The random tool lists 37 secrets that your gym never initiatively informs you when you apply for membership.
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