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5 Effective Ways To Cut Expensive Fitness Membership Costs

gym membership tipsGetting in shape, maintaining your health, and reaching physical fitness goals won’t be easy, but it is something we all need to do if we want to look and feel our best now and in the future. Unfortunately, most adults lack the knowledge and tools needed to see to their own fitness needs. We don’t even know how to set realistic goals, much less reach them – saying you want to lose 20 pounds is a lot easier than figuring out how to get there. But there are options that can offer the help you need, and joining a gym is a great way to gain access to the equipment, classes, and even personal trainers that will get you to your goals. The only real caveat is that a fitness club membership can cost you a pretty penny. Of course, there are ways to cut costs and still enjoy the advantages associated with joining a gym. Here are just a few ways to get fit without unduly taxing your wallet in the process.

Wait for sign-up specials. If you’ve found the gym you’re interested in joining, it might be wise to wait until the location nearest you holds some kind of promotion for new member sign-up. Most gyms do this periodically as a way to increase their membership, and you could enjoy benefits ranging from having the signing fee waved, to getting a discounted monthly rate for a set period of time, to extras like free personal training sessions, just for example. So it’s worth your while to wait a while.

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Cutting Cost And Cutting Fat – How To Get A Discounted Gym Membership

Getting Fit—It’s one of the major new year’s resolutions most American’s have added on their list of things they’d like to achieve in 2012. But getting into shape doesn’t come cheap. Unless you already have a nifty home-gym installed in a spare room, you’ll most likely need to get a gym membership. But after all of the fees are accrued, you can end up spending a wide sum of cash just to get that slim waste. But luckily there are a few ways you may be able to cut back on gym membership prices to get the body you want. To learn how, read the few tips below.

Learn to be A Negotiator. One of the easiest ways to get a gym rep to give you a membership price within your budget is to simply ask for it. Don’t say—”I only want to pay $20 a month,” rather tell them that another gym offered you a gym membership for a much lower price. They may call your bluff altogether in which case you’ll want to shop around for a more affordable gym anyway; but they may give you your asking price or keep the original price but compensate you in some other way—for example, you may pay a reduced enrollment fee or get to add on another member (like a friend or family member) at a really cheap rate. But since technically the year is new, hopefully you’ll find a gym that is already offering a phenomenal New Year’s Special—some have been seen as low as $10 a month.

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