DO I REALLY NEED TWO GYM MEMBERSHIPS?
Ron Saetermoe
Come on Ron, are you telling me I really need two gym memberships? I get it, really. You already have a gym membership – probably to 24 Hour Fitness or Bally’s or one of the high-end clubs like Renaissance. Guess what, so do I. Absurd? I think not.
When I moved to California in 1984 I joined Family Fitness Center in Costa Mesa. They changed names to 24 Hour Fitness some time after that. Anyway, when I joined I paid an initiation fee (no initiation fees or contracts here at Triathica) and my monthly fee was . . . $5.00 per month and was locked in for life!
So my base fee to 24 Hour Fitness is $5.00 a month. I don’t know too many other people that have a fee that low. Since then I’ve upgraded to “Sport” for another $10.00 per month and then again to “Super Sport” for another $20.00 per month, so now I’m paying $40.00 a month at the Agasai Super Sport in Laguna Niguel (about ½ mile from my home). A very nice club.
I’m not planning on giving up my membership there, ever. At some point I may downgrade it again, but I really enjoy how close my club is to home and the fact that they’ve got a nice five-lane swimming pool available 24 hours.
I’m not giving mine up and I wouldn’t expect you to either. You may share the same reasons as me or have your own. For example, we don’t have a lot of the equipment that the large clubs have like stair climbers or ellipticals. Most of our current members have other gym memberships although if you’re planning on “training like a triathlete” you really don’t need another one. Here’s why:
1. Our Endless Pool allows you to get a great workout without having to know how to flip turn. Your workout will more closely resemble an open-water swim.
2. Our spin bikes allow you to train with “watts.” We’ve talked about the benefits of training with watts before in this newsletter. It’s a more scientific way to train and if you’ve never been to one of our “sweat fest” spin workouts you’re really missing something.
3. Our CompuTrainers allow you to train with watts, on your own bike. This tool is used by many of the top triathletes in the world. We’ve got six of them here that allow you to ride an actual Ironman course or compete against one to five friends.
4. Triathica has two certified coaches to assist you. We sell personal training specifically tailored to your triathlon aspirations too, but much of our assistance and guidance is free.
24 Hour Fitness doesn’t have it, Bally’s doesn’t have it, even the $150.00 a month gyms don’t have it. And for a limited time, our membership deal is $180.00 for six full months of membership (October 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010). That’s $30.00 a month!
We’re fanatical about the sport here and want to give you the tools you need to complete your first race or your 100th race.
Cheers!
