Monthly costs

I pay about £70 a month for my gym membership - which is a lot, especially as I could get a full gym membership for about £40 a month inc swimming. But it has an outdoor pool, is open pretty much every hour I could want to go and I really enjoy it.

I would say though that my gym membership includes Pilates etc - it has 14 pilates classes a week, plus 12 yoga and 6 yoga/pilates mix so it might be worth trying a local gym membership and seeing if you like any of their instructors - as that might enable you to just pay a fixed fee for as many classes as you want - obviously v dependent on class timing too!

I really like that smoking analogy - it definitely costs a lot less than that!

Technically, I pay nothing at all. However, we turned one room of our house into a ‘gym’ so there was some cost involved in that. I also hike, run and cycle and I dread to think what I’ve spent on the gear I use.

I get a lot of use out of it all though. My late father used to talk about cost vs hours of entertainment. So I think if you pay £££ for a gym membership but use it really frequently and really enjoy it, then it’s worth it.

£15 a month, including free classes 😁

£39 a month for peloton
Covers the bike classes, strength, yoga, stretching, walks/runs, meditation....

I have been doing Pilates for twenty years with the same instructor, so I've opted for a weekly in person class @£10 plus an off-peak Village Gym membership @£44 as I'm now retired. The membership is cheaper because I joined the gym about six years ago and my fees were fixed. Current Off Peak membership is £51 and Peak £69. I do about eight gym classes a week, Step, Legs, bums and tums, aquarobics, Tabata and Pilates, even though it is at a much lower level than my other class.

I paid about £400 for the year for my gym membership which gives me access to all the gyms in my local area.

£32 is excessive for one face to face class a week. Can you not find a gym (I know mine does as I do them) that offers pilates classes? Part of my membership includes the classes so I can do as many as I want (I currently do three alongside other classes)

£171 for a gym with a lovely spa, outdoor pool, unlimited classes including reformer Pilates. I get my money worth and spend alit of time there

I pay £48/week for two hour long zoom personal training sessions, which is cheap - normally it's £50/hour and up for PT around here.

How do you decide what is reasonable and what is OTT for your own health and pleasure? Would it help to consider what you can afford and what else you might do with that money?

For the record, my DH is not very well so our opportunities to travel and have holidays etc are dramatically reduced.

Some of the money we no longer use on holidays etc I now use on myself, for a weekly 121 yoga lesson plus a health club membership of an amazing health club which is an absolute luxury. I redo the yoga myself throughout the week and am also a member of several walking groups and target 10k steps outdoors daily.

All treats for me and completely calorie free.

£66 for a gym membership, swim and spin mainly, some money on cycling outside

I look on it as an investment on my body and that hopefully it'll pay off long term to leave me with a comfortable body to live in. I figure if I smoked it would be costing me £10 a packet and £35 per week if I smoked 10 each day.

£89 per month for gym membership plus £4 per class for neighbours outdoor weekly class.

£45 for high street gym membership that happens to include a weekly specialist class in my main thing (calisthenics), £50pcm for PT (weekly but I share with training partner, we only pay if it happens), £5 most weeks for Saturday park bootcamp.

I used to pay about £65 for high street gym membership, and at another time 2/3 classes a week at 8 quid a pop.

Do any of your local gyms have decent Pilates, OP, so you could get it included? I'd never have thought my little local small chain gym would have this class.

I have membership to a CrossFit gym which is 4 classes a week for £85 - sounds pricey but I rarely miss a class so works out as £5.30ish per class which I think is reasonable

£15/month for gym here.

I don't pay anything but I guess that isn't helpful. I walk about 30 to 40 miles a week, run twice a week and do about 20 minutes of exercises at home every day.

£140 for gym membership incl classes, gym, spa, pools. Sounds a lot but before joining I spent at least £100 a month on yoga without pool/spa/gym/other classes.

Yoga is £12 a go here - in the north.

Currently paying very roughly £40ish per month for the gym, £16 for a couple of fitness apps which I do use (but probably not enough) , and another £28 for weekly online sessions with a trainer I like working with - that is for this month only but I'd be happy to continue. I pay upfront so I dont have to think about it again.

i ended up gradually escalating my spend during lockdown when the gyms were closed, so now £90 per month seems perfectly normal - and that is still not close to the cost of some exclusive gym memberships. But i will probably drop one of the apps at renewal time now that the gyms are open.

I think it depends what the value is to you? If you love your pilates trainer, that is probably worth a lot. Can you try out the gym subscription for a few months and cancel if you dont like it?