Sunday, February 22, 2009

How to Join a Big Gym for Little Money

This week my wife and I decided to give LA Fitness a try. One is being built just 2 miles from our home. We have been members at AnyTime Fitness for a year and a half now. When we joined, our work made the trip to AnyTime Fitness easy. Well, both work and life changed and now our old gym is about 15 minutes in the wrong direction. We toured another LA Fitness about 20 minutes from home to see if we would want to join. We were hoping to get a Grand Opening discount. Well, that particular location could not give it to us because they had been open for some time. Here is where you can save some money. Ask them to register you at a location that is offering some type of grand opening discount. Like most large fitness center chains, your membership at one, is good at all others. He simply took our information, faxed it to the new gym to be processed, and handed us our membership cards. The end result for our month-to-month membership saved us several hundred dollars over the course of the next two years. He said he actually processed a membership for a lady in Texas during his gym's grand opening special, saving her hundreds of dollars as well.

This weeks workout:
1) Stretch. You should be able to touch your toes by now.
2) Push ups. If you've been adding 1 a day, you should be able to do 54 by now.
3) Core exercises. Alternate between different types of core exercises to strengthen all your core muscles.
4) Cardio. Get up to at least a mile and a half without stopping this week.

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