When in doubt...

[kranberry4]

Update on the les mills... The class is called bodyflow, and they offer afternoon classes at the Y on Monday, tuesday and Wednesday. Per day fee to use the Y is $10. Otherwise, I can have a five day pass to use the facility, including attending fitness classes and using the pool, and the registration fee is fifty percent off until the end of august

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[silnith]

Do it! It’ll be fun!

[kranberry4]

The class I will do. The membership, perhaps not.

[attickah]

I've got a health club membership because while our building (and the facility at work) both have lots of machines & weights & stuff, neither one permits me access to a pool.

Some health insurance plans help cover the cost of a gym membership if you go X times a month--which makes a lower fixed monthly expense, for what that's worth.

[kranberry4]

Went today for a tour. Found out that the joiners fee may be waived or paid by my insurance, and they reimburse twenty dollars a month if I go at least twelve times in the month.

Hmmm, one question I forgot to ask was about taking the kids into the pool. She made it clear that on a single membership the kids could go to the kids room for up to two hours a day, but that family memebership was required to get the reduced rate for swimming lessons. But I didn't think to ask about taking them to the pool.

Monetarily, it only makes sense to join as a family if I am going to take the boys to swimming lessons there, and as an individual if I will use it more than once a week on average. Now if my family were considered to be me, mom and the boys that would be one thing. But since she has to have a separate membership we're just stuck.

Family membership:
12 mo @ 100 (80 if we go twelve times a month) is 1200 (960) plus 40 per kid per session of swim lessons

Individual membership:
12 mo @ 70 is 840 (600), nonmember swim lessons are 100 per kid per

[attickah]

Most clubs won't let the kids into the rest of the club (ie, not the "kids room" area) w/o either a) a guest pass or b) you paying something above and beyond your single membership.

I don't know that the club I go to (or some of the other ones downtown) actually have guest passes for folks who don't belong to the club. Or, I simply didn't know anyone who belonged to any of them, for it to be an option for me to go in on occasion w/o getting a membership myself. But then, I wanted to use the pool (rather than take a single specific class), so that may have been why I couldn't do what you're planning.

In your scenario, it sounds like doing the classes at a "drop-in" type attendance would be ideal between the cost & your schedule.

[kranberry4]

Turns out that the lady was mistaken. The ten dollar per class fee only applies if you are attending the class (or otherwise using the facility) as the guest of a member who has already used all their guest passes. So Michael recommends that I just try a regular yoga class at the club downtown, and I think I'll look into that before committing to anything.