Picking a GYM
- PRO-ONE: Closest to home
- PRO-ONE: Locally owned by personal trainers
- PRO-ONE: One year contract allows sooner switching if I want to change.
- PRO-ONE: Has access to a pool
- PRO-ONE: Trainer asked to speak to my hospital nurses about my health.
- PRO-TWO: Two yeat contract locks out price increases longer.
- PRO-TWO: I know many people that belong
- PRO-TWO: Hotter Members I do not know
- PRO-TWO: Bigger space
- PRO-TWO: Moving closer to even larger place
- PRO-TWO: Multiple locations
- CON-ONE: Possibly undercapitalized
- CON-ONE: Still remodeling
- CON-TWO: Possibly having cash flow problems
- CON-TWO: Will have a lap pool in new location
- CON-TWO: New location has been delayed already
I am a heart patient. I have been working out at the hospital cardia rehab unit for about 5 months. I am ready to move outside that environment to a commercial gym, and eliminate some of the hassles associated with a small space with poor parking access. But it is not simply about space, money or convience. I need to make sure that my health comes first. I may choose to weight some of the pros and cons to help break the tie below. Some are clearly trivial, while others are not.
I will try to list pros and cons for gyms one and two in a way that will format nice. Score will be coputed with an aribtrary +1 for each pro and -1 for each one.
PRO-ONE +5
CON-ONE -2
Score-one = +3
PRO-TWO +6
CON-TWO -3
Score-two = +3
so it is not easy. I have decided the tie breaker will be the state of the down town location of TWO.
ONE is locally owned PROMATx
and TWO is the reginal franchise of Gold's Gym
I thought I would update this, since it was a process. I visited the down-town location, and it would have never been a decision to make, had it been in the first tour. I liked the downtown location so much, I paid a year in advance, and got the price break mentioned earlier. Since joining, the company dropped the Gold's name and is now known as Urban Active.