24 hr fitness is your traditional chain of gyms. The great thing about 24hr fitness is that is it open 24hrs a day, so no matter how crazy your schedule is you can go when ever you want. Another great thing is that 24hr fitness has so many locations to chose from, so if your out of town, you can still get your work out at a local 24 hr fitness. LA fitness, Fitness 19, Gold's Gym are all tradional gyms that provide eqiupment and classes. What makes 24hr fitness distinct is that it is 24hrs. These tradiotional gyms have memberships that require payments that are yearly and or monthly. The price varies for all gyms and most of these gyms are affordable. The gyms don't follow up with you if your not attending your daily work outs. They can care less, just as long as your making your payments. For those people who know how to work out on their own and have self-disicpline. A traditional gym is a good answer for them because all they really need is the equipement. For those who don't know, they can always take that classes that gym provides. These classes are at times full and you need to get their early to get a spot. Most of these traditional gyms do have personal trainers on staff, but it is an additional cost.
Local gyms such as bootcamps and crossfit gyms are more of an initmate fitness community. Everyone knows each other and the trainer/instructor knows your name. According to Crossfit Threshold, unlike traditonal gyms who's business models revolve around providing members with general purpose equipment which can easily be used by as many people as possible, CrossFit affiliates not only provide their clients with the equipement needed to establish life-long, sustatainable fitness, but also with: Instruction on how to use such equipment, coaching needed to keep individuals motivated and on-task, educational insight on physiology and nutrition and a community to support you on your journey. These gyms do provide equipement, something that you won't see at a tradiontional gym is tires to flip and ropes to climb. These gyms are unique and do challenge you in a different way. These gyms are more costly and are more of an investment, but these gyms do always have great offers on groupons and livingsocial. According to Marissa Garavito who is a personal trainer and instructor at The Next Level Gym, she prefers the boot camp gym over a traditional gyms. She said she wasn't getting the results she wanted at 24hr fitness and was not being challenged. So she started training at her local gym, The Next Level Gym, and their is where she not only got the results she wanted, but found her passion for fitness. One year later after being a member she became a personal trainer at The Next Level Gym.
Everyone has a different goal and has a different schedule, when picking a gym always find what is best for you. The most important thing is that your trying to become a healthier you.
