Golds Gym vs YMCA

[confidenceNsuccess]

Ok so i've been using my home gym for a long time but now i'm gonna get a gym membership very soon and i'm trying to figure out which one would be better, they both have there pros and cons because i live in a SMALL town so you tell me what you think..

YMCA:
Cost: 16.50 a month but you have to pay the 195$ before you join for the year(can't pay monthly)

Pros: Teen weight room(has decent amount of weights) 2 swimming pools, 2 Basketball courts, 2 racquetball courts, ping pong tables, lockers, hangout lounge.

Cons: The big gym you have to be 18+ and can't even go in with an adult so i have to use the teen gym. and the teen gym sucks ass. you have to pay 195$ all at once for the year.


Golds Gym:
Cost: 35$+ per month haven't looked into the payment plans much

Pros: Every single weight i could ever need, Nice basketball court, lockers/single showers, smoothie place, track around the inside

Cons: No pool, cost 35$+ per month.

[cro-cop-ftw]

i go to golds pretty good if i say so myself plus ymca's smell funny.

[confidenceNsuccess]

i go to golds pretty good if i say so myself plus ymca's smell funny.

i agree with you about it smelling weird.

[Alex_M.]

Ok so i've been using my home gym for a long time but now i'm gonna get a gym membership very soon and i'm trying to figure out which one would be better, they both have there pros and cons because i live in a SMALL town so you tell me what you think..

YMCA:
Cost: 16.50 a month but you have to pay the 195$ before you join for the year(can't pay monthly)

Pros: Teen weight room(has decent amount of weights) 2 swimming pools, 2 Basketball courts, 2 racquetball courts, ping pong tables, lockers, hangout lounge.

Cons: The big gym you have to be 18+ and can't even go in with an adult so i have to use the teen gym. and the teen gym sucks ass. you have to pay 195$ all at once for the year.


Golds Gym:
Cost: 35$+ per month haven't looked into the payment plans much

Pros: Every single weight i could ever need, Nice basketball court, lockers/single showers, smoothie place, track around the inside

Cons: No pool, cost 35$+ per month.

no point in going to the Y if you can't use the legit gym. IMHO get a gold's membership and then when you're 18 reconsider the y.

[confidenceNsuccess]

no point in going to the Y if you can't use the legit gym. IMHO get a gold's membership and then when you're 18 reconsider the y.

ima call them up today and get prices

[DaChubbyAzn]

Well YMCA has a basketball court right? and a swimming pool??

[confidenceNsuccess]

Well YMCA has a basketball court right? and a swimming pool??

yeah, golds gym has a basketball court also but no swimming pool

[Danger_Close]

I like my gold, we dont have a pool or a track tho, I Pay like 27 a month.

I dont like the YMCA, the one wounder here is way too small.

[cbark1357]

golds, that sucks is so expensive, my golds is 15 per month, granted theres no pool or track or b ball court and cardio stuff sucks hahaha....it works though, and gthen i have my college gym thats brand new with all my cardio and everything and b ball courts and a sick wieght room and i dont even pay for that haha

[DaChubbyAzn]

Swimming = Epic Cardio... Just sayin

[Starboardrwr223]

I went to Golds to lift one summer, it was great too. It had a pool, cardio room with a track for runners wrapped around it, a tennis court, the biggest weight room Ive ever seen, a sauna, basketball courts, etc. Very nice. Currently I go to the YMCA but I'm starting to question that since my school has a weight room that beats the **** out of it which saying something and its free 365 days of the year.

[CMoneyFreshh]

The Y is a bittch gym. Jus' Sayin'

You are going to encounter; old people, people that are disturbed by your loud noise, and people yelling at you for not wiping everything down.

[Starboardrwr223]

The Y is a bittch gym. Jus' Sayin'

You are going to encounter; old people, people that are disturbed by your loud noise, and people yelling at you for not wiping everything down.

Yeah....I'm not much of a sweater. Especially when I'm doing low reps so its not like I'm fricken' watering the bench. I can understand wiping things down if your sweating like crazy but really?...And yes I think the intensity at Golds gym is far higher than at the YMCA. At Gold's your going to see some pretty big dudes, personal trainers, etc. That know what there talking about which may be useful. At the YMCA the only people you see are kids your age, 40 year olds dads trying to run off there beer guts, old people hogging the Ergometer/treadmill, and maybe a soccer mom or two.

[TheSoldier]

just go to golds gym

alot of ppl from the Y are seniors and whatnot, they get mad if you drop weights and stuff

[crashXCI]

gold's FTW

i've found that more of the people in there are actually serious about working out than the people at other places i've been

[user87861311845]

I'd go to Gold's depending on your money situation.

If you don't have money to spend on it, then just join a smaller local gym until you're 18 or have a better job

[SteezyChr]

if someone didnt let me use the real gym, id be like ur a flaming homo gtfo, unless they were like hardcore bodybuilders or powerlifts, but if its some ***git ass 30 yr olds who are weaker then me first part goes.. Id definatly go to golds.

[user87861311845]

At the Y around here they have that same bull **** rule about the 18yo+ section, but my friends and I called **** it on that and went to the real gym. As long as you act mature, stay quiet, and look like you know what you're doing they don't care.

[B-Neva]

funny because I am actually in the midst of deciding whether I should stay at the YMCA or go to Gold's. They opened this Gold's in January and Im usin the 7 day free pass. I like gold's more because it's not as busy probably because it costs so much more and the area it's in. It has like every machine possible and multiple of everything. The things I notice about the Y is that it's more for the younger crowd like teens and everyone talks a lot in the gym. I go to gold's and there is no talking it's all silence with just music playing lol.

Your YMCA is $16.50? mine is $40 a month and that's with the student discount lol and gold's gym is I think $50+ a month.

[confidenceNsuccess]

funny because I am actually in the midst of deciding whether I should stay at the YMCA or go to Gold's. They opened this Gold's in January and Im usin the 7 day free pass. I like gold's more because it's not as busy probably because it costs so much more and the area it's in. It has like every machine possible and multiple of everything. The things I notice about the Y is that it's more for the younger crowd like teens and everyone talks a lot in the gym. I go to gold's and there is no talking it's all silence with just music playing lol.

Your YMCA is $16.50? mine is $40 a month and that's with the student discount lol and gold's gym is I think $50+ a month.

i just called and my golds is 40$/month, and if i was 18 it would cost me around the same for the ymca.. but i've decided i'm just going to break my bucks and spent the 40$ for quality equipment and nice basketball court.

[SWOLE_JEDI]

lulz my ymca is cool. 20 a month, you only have to be 16 to enter, bastetball court, outdoor and indoor swimming pull plus sauna.

they are so lax there tha i stopped paying for it and just started walking in and they dont say ****.

they also dont care how loud you drop the weights.

[DoomedByCurry]

TEEN GYM? lulz

i was able to use adult one when i was 15 or so

GOLDS is much better though, i switched to it a month ago

ymca is too crowded

[Caseyface]

I talked my membership fee down from 135 for starting + 40 a month to free / 20 a month.

edit - at golds, the Y sucks, they had no squat racks or DL platforms and their DB's go up to 60.

[fitzisboss]

Lifetime Fitness breh >

[confidenceNsuccess]

Lifetime Fitness breh >

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