{"id":3274,"date":"2010-06-16T00:36:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T06:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2010-07-03T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T05:36:36","slug":"gym-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Gun Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny is once again a gym member. She wants to get in better shape, and we decided that joining a gym would be worth it for her. She went gym shopping on Tuesday looking for a comfortable gym that offered good childcare, good class selection, and a reasonable prices. Here&#8217;s what she learned from the three gyms she visited in the Euless\/Colleyville area:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourfitness.com\/non_member_home.html\" target=\"_blank\">24 Hour Fitness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros:<\/strong> Cheapest of the three by far, childcare included with a fun-looking kids&#8217; area, great staff.<br \/>\n<strong>Cons:<\/strong> Equipment needed updating, comparatively small, class selection is limited so classes are generally very full, no kids in the pool, very much a traditional gym with lots of muscle-bound people and aggressive personal trainers<br \/>\n<strong>Overall:<\/strong> OK if no other options, but not really what Jenny was looking for<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafitness.com\/Pages\/NonMemberHome.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">LA Fitness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Bonus Fact: We belonged to LA Fitness for about a year when we lived in Fort Worth and really liked it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros:<\/strong> Very nice facility, 5 minutes from our house, good class selection, nice childcare workers, few kids<br \/>\n<strong>Cons:<\/strong> No kids in the pool, childcare very expensive, kids&#8217; area pretty small<br \/>\n<strong>Overall:<\/strong> Better for us than 24 Hour, but hard to swallow the expensive childcare<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clubs.lifetimefitness.com\" target=\"_blank\">Life Time Fitness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros:<\/strong> Facility is gorgeous and huge, great class selection, indoor AND outdoor pools with waterslides, kids are allowed in pools, great childcare at little extra cost, very family-oriented, free swim lessons for kids, some friends work out there<br \/>\n<strong>Cons:<\/strong> Most expensive of the three, much more than we&#8217;d originally planned on paying<br \/>\n<strong>Overall:<\/strong> She went with Life Time. It had so much to offer that Jenny thinks she will be motivated to go several times a week, including right after dropping Brenden off at preschool twice a week this fall. The boys will be able to swim year-round and to learn how for free. Life Time is more of a sports resort than a gym. Since it&#8217;s so kid-friendly, we hope that all three of them will have a good time up there, mostly in the morning while I&#8217;m asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny is once again a gym member. She wants to get in better shape, and we decided that joining a gym would be worth it for her. She went gym shopping on Tuesday looking for a comfortable gym that offered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=3274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}