Your turn to help me –
After successfully quitting 24 Hour Fitness, I joined Burn Fitness — and had to brag about the best eco perk: Balcony parking for my townie!
I bike down Arizona, make a left into the alley between Third St. Promenade and 4th, then roll my townie into the freight elevator and to get up to the gym on the fourth floor. Now, while I work out, my townie takes in the view of Third Street Promenade along with her bicycle friends.
Where do you put your bike when you go to the gym?
my bike is my gym :D
Comment by Righteous Metal Broad — November 11, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
I generally lock to the bike rack outside. Did you consider joining the Y? How does Burn compare to 24 hour fitness price-wise and amenity-wise? My wife is looking to dump 24 Hour Fitness, and since we’re moving to SM at the end of the month, she’ll likely be considering options similar to yours.
Comment by Don Hosek — November 11, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
I did consider the Y, but I’m really not a fan of “family” gyms due to my not being a huge fan of having kids running around while I’m trying to work out. Did you see that Sex & the City episode when it’s kids day at her gym? The Y may not be as bad as I imagine, but the fact that it markets itself as “family friendly” kinda made me cross it off my list.
Burn Fitness costs $79 a month if you sign up for a year — less if you sign up for more time, more if you sign up for less time. In contrast, 24 Hour Fitness was a steal at something like $24 a month. HOWEVER! You really get what you pay for. At Burn Fitness I get a spacious, never-too-crowded gym with treadmills that have individual TVs, towel service, nice clean showers, spacious lockers, blow dryers, balcony bike parking, etc. etc.
At 24 Hour Fitness I was constantly dealing with lines at cardio machines where a few were always “out of service,” NO showers, changing rooms that often also had “out of service” signs on them because the light kept going out, treadmills that made scary noises, less-than-clean equipment, nickel-and-diming for towel use, no bike parking (even the meters near the gym would always be taken up, so I’d lock my bike at the city parking lot 1.5 blocks up), etc.
Comment by Siel — November 11, 2008 @ 9:55 pm
The bike isn’t used for training. I do the weight lifting at home. The swimming pool isn’t a safe ride. Ohio is getting cold.
Comment by David Rice — November 12, 2008 @ 7:25 am
One of the reasons I ride a bike is so I don’t have to go to gym. I round things out at home with a yogo mat, pull up bar, small weights, and an exercise ball. I hate gym environments.
Comment by Gary Kavanagh — November 12, 2008 @ 8:25 am
your bike is so cute!!!
hilly SF♥ is my hardcore gym LOL (ditto-RighteousMB!)
well when I got to the ‘gym’ is for Yoga at the Y, there’s a bike rack adjacent to the entrance and there’s always staff by the door, so it’s super safe.
.xo /meli
Comment by meli — November 13, 2008 @ 10:39 am
When I had a membership at the SM Y, I rarely saw kids there, although that may have also been a function of going there in the morning between biking to work and working (combine some weights with a shower and change of clothes). Towel service cost extra ($.25/towel), but you had the option of getting a permanent locker which was very nice.
I watched an episode of Sex and the City once. An awful lot of city, not so much sex.
Comment by Don Hosek — November 13, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
David — Sorry you have to live in Ohio — It was in the 80s here today.
Gary — I had actually quit my gym membership because I decided to run outside, but my knee started hurting due to lack of weight training. I also work at home, so it’s prolly good for me to get out and socialize at the gym a bit — especially as I don’t have room for any workout equipment beyond a yoga mat at home.
Thanks meli!
Don — Which dud episode did you watch? In any case, the city is sexy –
Comment by Siel — November 17, 2008 @ 9:44 pm