I’ve been working out a lot recently and really enjoying it. Unfortunately, there comes a lot of unforeseen expenses that comes with a new hobby (like working out). For me, that expense is mainly the variety of classes I’ve been enjoying:
LA Fitness – $20/month. This is my main gym membership and I use it now for the weights more than the classes. However, I’ve started taking bootcamp and yoga classes so I’m definitely using that feature as well.
LA Fitness, personal trainer – $120/month. I’ll be losing this expense after February. You can read about my experiences here.
Zumba class – $35/10 classes (or ~$14/month). My favorite instructor teacher Zumba at a private studio so I followed her from LA Fitness to there. Classes are once a week so it works out to only about $14/month. Totally worth it.
Spin class – $35/5 classes. This was a Groupon offer, again with my Zumba instructor so I bought it. I have only 1 class left and then I have to decide what to do. I’m loving it though but if I buy a 10 class package, it’s $125. I’m not sure I want to spend that – it works out to about $30/month (classes once a week).
If I decide to keep up with the spin class, once I’m done with the personal trainer, I’ll be paying about $64/month for all the fitness things I love. I know LA Fitness offers Zumba and Spin classes but I go for the instructor – she’s amazing and inspires me to keep working hard. For that reason, I think it’s worth the extra money.
What fitness finances do you have?
Michelle says:
We just bought a home gym and treadmill and spent a little less than $2,000. So expensive!
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Peter says:
I used to go to LA fitness and had a personal trainer. In all honesty, it was mostly worthless. I learned some new routines and it got me to the gym. But after a while I felt like the trainer just didn’t care and ran me through the same routines. This was my experience with 3 or 4 different trainers over the course of a year. I was spending roughly the same as you, 30 for membership (less 20 paid by insurance if I made it 12 times a month. Which I did maybe 3 months in a year) plus the 120$ for training.
After a year of that BS I needed a change. That’s when I discovered Crossfit. It has changed the way I feel about going to the gym. I’ve been doing it for about 6 months, and started at 3 times a week. Now most weeks I’m at the gym 6 days a week, and I am still loving it. I can’t imagine going to LA 6 times a week, I would go insane. I spend $165 a month on an unlimited membership and its worth every penny.
Sounds like you want to drop your personal training. Consider spending that money and trying crossfit, having a cleaner doesn’t make the most financial sense.
YPFinances says:
This is great advice – thanks for stopping by Peter! I’ve only tried Crossfit once and it was before I was working out consistently so I couldn’t keep up at all. I’d love to try it again though; I have friends who do it and love it. The monthly expenses is a lot though so I feel like I could only do that if I cut out most other fitness costs – something I may think about doing in the future.
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