All About Gym & Gym Memberships In Sg & Which Gym To Join? (Compiled)

[Guest Orion]

i used to be with fitness first for 3 years then quit lately. main reason is i find it unfair that i pay S$150 a month for membership yet so many others sign up in msia for RM200 (S$80), philippines and indonesia etc and come SG to gym. these are not pple here on holidays. they are mainly foreigners who work in SG but they sign up overseas cause its cheaper and FF allows international members to use the gym. u just gotta get a "passport" and u can even email overseas branches to get a renewed passport every 3 months, without having to fly back there. no wonder the clubs are getting more crowded and its only a handful of singapore members supporting these free-loaders!

[Guest Guest]

Most/least crowded gym/branch in Singapore?

 

Gym/branch with the most number of good-looking and/or hunky members?

 

Gym/branch with the most number of good-looking and/or hunky trainers?

[junxiang]

anyone know of any gym in Robertson Quay / mohd Sultan?

[Guest Guest]

anyone know of any gym in Robertson Quay / mohd Sultan?

 

anytime fitness valley point

[Guest Sport-coholic]

i used to be with fitness first for 3 years then quit lately. main reason is i find it unfair that i pay S$150 a month for membership yet so many others sign up in msia for RM200 (S$80), philippines and indonesia etc and come SG to gym. these are not pple here on holidays. they are mainly foreigners who work in SG but they sign up overseas cause its cheaper and FF allows international members to use the gym. u just gotta get a "passport" and u can even email overseas branches to get a renewed passport every 3 months, without having to fly back there. no wonder the clubs are getting more crowded and its only a handful of singapore members supporting these free-loaders!

I know of Singaporean who does it also, signed up with the branch in KL and use it in Singapore,

[alien]

I know of Singaporean who does it also, signed up with the branch in KL and use it in Singapore,

Fitness first allow tis? If really, then i presumme it wld be much cheaper to sign in msia than sg.

[Freezing Hand]

I would like to know which gym is better in Singapore?

Any gym to recommend,thanks.

[Guest Fatty]

Pure fitness

[Freezing Hand]

Is pure fitness in at Tampines area?

[hausanzai]

Fitness first allow tis? If really, then i presumme it wld be much cheaper to sign in msia than sg.

Yes FF allowed this. I am a local but i intentionally fly to kl and sign up at The gardens mall branch and my rate is rm232 per mth, joining fee rm120, so u see, they dont care as long as im paying them. Having said that, being "international" members i am limited to 30 visits to one branch

[Guest Guest]

Yes FF allowed this. I am a local but i intentionally fly to kl and sign up at The gardens mall branch and my rate is rm232 per mth, joining fee rm120, so u see, they dont care as long as im paying them. Having said that, being "international" members i am limited to 30 visits to one branch

30 visits per month? Would it be possible for me to go to different branches?

[hausanzai]

Thats per year, just to clarify. To maximise my benefits, i tried to go to different branches across singapore, there are 17 branches currently

[Den Yuan]

Dennis Gym.

[Guest Guest]

My first time going mega gym. Can i check for true fitness, do they provide towels?

And after using the towels, is there a place to drop them off or return them to the counters?

[Guest Sport-coholic]

And after using the towels, is there a place to drop them off or return them to the counters?

 

How is that important?

[firefight]

My first time going mega gym. Can i check for true fitness, do they provide towels?

And after using the towels, is there a place to drop them off or return them to the counters?

yes to both your questions

in tamp you can practise bb skills by lumping it up and throwing across the counterfront.

[Guest Guest]

I bring my own towel. All these towels, dunno how many million of men hv used before to wipe dry their feet or hair or dunno where.

[Aeropostle]

Which one of these do u prefer to sign up?

California fitness, fitness first, true fitness etc?

Why? Due to cheaper membership rates than the others? Convenience of location? Or other reasons? Just a survey. Thanks!

[hairy springroll]

Do a search many threads have the answers for your enquiries

[darkflame]

Anytime Fitness looks most flexible to me because you can even go at the most ungodly hours.

The issue is more of equipment availability for me.

[bluerunner]

I bring my own towel. All these towels, dunno how many million of men hv used before to wipe dry their feet or hair or dunno where.

When they send the towels to laundry, the towels will be washed w strong detergent and mostly prolly go through hot water treatment. Every thing will get killed there.

[Guest Guest]

Anytime Fitness looks most flexible to me because you can even go at the most ungodly hours.

The issue is more of equipment availability for me.

Wonder how much is the membership for anytime fitness now?

[Steve5380]

Yes FF allowed this. I am a local but i intentionally fly to kl and sign up at The gardens mall branch and my rate is rm232 per mth, joining fee rm120, so u see, they dont care as long as im paying them. Having said that, being "international" members i am limited to 30 visits to one branch

 

30 visits per year is a little more than twice a month. At this rate you won't build much muscle there...

But it is still better than those who get an expensive gym membership and never go there.

[hausanzai]

30 visits per year is a little more than twice a month. At this rate you won't build much muscle there...

But it is still better than those who get an expensive gym membership and never go there.

Yes indeed. When i say 30 visits per year, its for one branch, so since currently there are 17 branches across singapore, you can just visit different branches in each session, overall you wont hit 30 visits easily for entire year if all the branches are rotated equally

[Steve5380]

Yes indeed. When i say 30 visits per year, its for one branch, so since currently there are 17 branches across singapore, you can just visit different branches in each session, overall you wont hit 30 visits easily for entire year if all the branches are rotated equally

 

Oh I see, this is different!  And rotating among 17 different gyms can give 17 times more opportunities to find cute guys one wishes to have as workout buddies.

[Guest guest3]

Go to neighbourhood gyms. Pay per use. $2.50 only for each visit.

The membership kind of gyms just pander to our vanity and materialism. Pointless.

[twinkk]

I stopped my membership with Cali (too crowded and ppl are too sales pitchy) and am currently using Yo! Fit Pass for $180 per month (no contract). It's a membership pass to different fitness studios and healthy food places. So far, I like it because I am able to visit different studios and do different types of exercises. The healthy meals are also nice because one of their partners is Dosirak.. which I love and is near my office

[xboyhunk]

Yo! Fit at S$180 per month is more expensive than both Cali and FF!

[Steve5380]

I stopped my membership with Cali (too crowded and ppl are too sales pitchy) and am currently using Yo! Fit Pass for $180 per month (no contract). It's a membership pass to different fitness studios and healthy food places. So far, I like it because I am able to visit different studios and do different types of exercises. The healthy meals are also nice because one of their partners is Dosirak.. which I love and is near my office

 

Yo Fit Pass can be a good choice for a while to attend classes of different sports and types of exercises in an education process.

Once a choice of training discipline is found,  one can find much cheaper alternatives to the $180 per month.

I would not put much value in  the ten "healthy meals" per month.  It's better to buy healthy food and prepare one's own meals.

Edited November 21, 2015 by Steve5380

[Guest Hot Swimmer]

Does anyone ever consider to gym in sauna like keybox? I do that everytime i go.

Or gym in friend's private condo free?

[alien]

I stopped my membership with Cali (too crowded and ppl are too sales pitchy) and am currently using Yo! Fit Pass for $180 per month (no contract). It's a membership pass to different fitness studios and healthy food places. So far, I like it because I am able to visit different studios and do different types of exercises. The healthy meals are also nice because one of their partners is Dosirak.. which I love and is near my office

$180 per mth quite ex hor.

[bluerunner]

$180 per mth quite ex hor.

Quite? That's an understatement. It's very expensive to me!

[twinkk]

Quite? That's an understatement. It's very expensive to me!

 

$180 for 10 classes and 10 meals, so not just gym only. If just gym then yeah of course more ex.

[tex]

Does anyone ever consider to gym in sauna like keybox? I do that everytime i go.

Or gym in friend's private condo free?

Go to real gyms lah haha

[Den Yuan]

I heard that the big gyms like to hard sell. Is it true? Anyone of you are their victims?

[Guest Noob]

I am considering whether I should sign up for Fitness First or EnergyOne gym? To start off I am someone who has the build but is not buff. This means that I am neither too skinny nor fat. But just unfit and big. However, I have always wanted to train to become more buff. I used to go to the gym to do several simple work outs such as bicep curls, bench press, flys, and a few exercises to work out my triceps. After months of hitting the gym, I feel that I have not improved significantly and then I stopped going.

Firstly, I would like to ask if there is anything wrong with my gym regime? Do people normally go to the gym to do these exercises? I have a dumbbell at home and I can accomplish these exercises as well. Is there a need for a gym for me? To my understanding, probably hitting the gym serves more as a motivation for me because I will be forced to go? Is there other benefits of going to the gym?

Secondly, I know that Fitness First is slightly more pricely but they hold classes which would be useful for someone like me who is unmotivated. However, sometimes I feel that the price might not be justified for I can go to EnergyOne to serve the same purpose if my work out regime is correct?

I would like to hear some advice from the experienced gym-goers. Still a green horn in the gymming scene.

[Guest Fatty]

Join fitness first and sign up a fitness with their trainers. They are hot.

[CamperBoy]

I am considering whether I should sign up for Fitness First or EnergyOne gym? To start off I am someone who has the build but is not buff. This means that I am neither too skinny nor fat. But just unfit and big. However, I have always wanted to train to become more buff. I used to go to the gym to do several simple work outs such as bicep curls, bench press, flys, and a few exercises to work out my triceps. After months of hitting the gym, I feel that I have not improved significantly and then I stopped going.

Firstly, I would like to ask if there is anything wrong with my gym regime? Do people normally go to the gym to do these exercises? I have a dumbbell at home and I can accomplish these exercises as well. Is there a need for a gym for me? To my understanding, probably hitting the gym serves more as a motivation for me because I will be forced to go? Is there other benefits of going to the gym?

Secondly, I know that Fitness First is slightly more pricely but they hold classes which would be useful for someone like me who is unmotivated. However, sometimes I feel that the price might not be justified for I can go to EnergyOne to serve the same purpose if my work out regime is correct?

I would like to hear some advice from the experienced gym-goers. Still a green horn in the gymming scene.

Don't understand the you having the build but not buff statement. Big but unfit. And not fat.

Anyway, If you got high body fats, good to reduce that first by cardio and diet.

If you want to maintain the "build" and grow bigger, then definitely your workout is not enough. You got lots to learn. Rather than paying money on expensive gym memberships, pay a decent trainer for the first few months. You can train at the community gyms. When you get the hang of things, then you can start working out on your own.

Alternatively, you can ask Prof Google and do a research.

[Steve5380]

Join fitness first and sign up a fitness with their trainers. They are hot.

 

This is probably the worst advice you can get, Noob,  so better ignore it.

[Steve5380]

I am considering whether I should sign up for Fitness First or EnergyOne gym? To start off I am someone who has the build but is not buff. This means that I am neither too skinny nor fat. But just unfit and big. However, I have always wanted to train to become more buff. I used to go to the gym to do several simple work outs such as bicep curls, bench press, flys, and a few exercises to work out my triceps. After months of hitting the gym, I feel that I have not improved significantly and then I stopped going.

Firstly, I would like to ask if there is anything wrong with my gym regime? Do people normally go to the gym to do these exercises? I have a dumbbell at home and I can accomplish these exercises as well. Is there a need for a gym for me? To my understanding, probably hitting the gym serves more as a motivation for me because I will be forced to go? Is there other benefits of going to the gym?

Secondly, I know that Fitness First is slightly more pricely but they hold classes which would be useful for someone like me who is unmotivated. However, sometimes I feel that the price might not be justified for I can go to EnergyOne to serve the same purpose if my work out regime is correct?

I would like to hear some advice from the experienced gym-goers. Still a green horn in the gymming scene.

 

Don't rush any membership with any gym.

 

You say you are unfit and big, and want to be buff.  

Your first course of action should be to work on your "BIG". 

This means, LOSE WEIGHT by eating less and/or eating good nutritious food that is not fattening.

Aerobics may help a little to lose weight, but any effort is better applied in weight lifting to get buff.

 

To become buff by gaining muscles, the only way is to work out with weights.

To do bicep curls, flies and exercises for triceps is A PITTANCE of weight training.

You need the basic exercises that build muscles:  squats, calf  and hamstring exercises for your lower body with HIGH weights (relative to your capacity),

and incline presses, shoulder presses and maybe bench presses for your upper body.

 

You can go far exercising with weights at home, improvising the "weights".  But this takes much more than "a dumbbell" !

The best is still to go to a commercial gym,  maybe with some classes with a trainer, but very few  (they are expensive).

Instead of a trainer, or after a trainer,  YOU need to become an expert in working out, reading books and the internet.

 

Finally, the results of workout don't come over months, but over YEARS.

Think of it as a change of life style that you want to pursue all the rest of your life. 

[onlylonely]

True fitness? Meets yr needs and budget?

[suckmegood]

True fitness? Meets yr needs and budget?

what is the current TF rates?

[Den Yuan]

I heard that the big gyms like to hard sell. Is it true? Anyone of you are their victims?

Nobody reply to my post.

[xydboy]

I am considering whether I should sign up for Fitness First or EnergyOne gym? To start off I am someone who has the build but is not buff. This means that I am neither too skinny nor fat. But just unfit and big. However, I have always wanted to train to become more buff. I used to go to the gym to do several simple work outs such as bicep curls, bench press, flys, and a few exercises to work out my triceps. After months of hitting the gym, I feel that I have not improved significantly and then I stopped going.

Firstly, I would like to ask if there is anything wrong with my gym regime? Do people normally go to the gym to do these exercises? I have a dumbbell at home and I can accomplish these exercises as well. Is there a need for a gym for me? To my understanding, probably hitting the gym serves more as a motivation for me because I will be forced to go? Is there other benefits of going to the gym?

Secondly, I know that Fitness First is slightly more pricely but they hold classes which would be useful for someone like me who is unmotivated. However, sometimes I feel that the price might not be justified for I can go to EnergyOne to serve the same purpose if my work out regime is correct?

I would like to hear some advice from the experienced gym-goers. Still a green horn in the gymming scene.

A gym is still a gym, whether is it fitnessfirst or energyone. Going to the gym is a good step in making that change, but ultimately you have to know what you want to achieve. The gyms hold group classes, but what kind are you looking at? The classes might not cater to your demands or the goals that you have in mind. Maybe what you could do is get a trial session. The trials will allow you to have a better understanding of what you are getting yourself into. And also, you need to change your regime a little, there are many more things you can do. If you keep doing those exercises without proper progressions and increments along the way, you will not be able to get better.

[SeannyShortcake]

A gym is still a gym, whether is it fitnessfirst or energyone. Going to the gym is a good step in making that change, but ultimately you have to know what you want to achieve. The gyms hold group classes, but what kind are you looking at? The classes might not cater to your demands or the goals that you have in mind. Maybe what you could do is get a trial session. The trials will allow you to have a better understanding of what you are getting yourself into. And also, you need to change your regime a little, there are many more things you can do. If you keep doing those exercises without proper progressions and increments along the way, you will not be able to get better.

 

Teach me how to buff,mister xyd.

 

I dotch noe the proper progressions :/

[Steve5380]

Nobody reply to my post.

 

Sorry.  You are absolutely right.

The big gyms care nearly exclusively for their bottom line (the money they make)

They will accept as many people are willing to join, even if they bust at their seams.

If more and more join, a point of equilibrium is reached where people start to be turned away because they are so full.

And finally they stay as full as people can tolerate, bringing in the optimum $$$.

There are always people who love the gyms as full as possible, to find as many cute bodies as possible.

 

Of course every small gym would love to become one of the big ones and make tons of money.

And they could be a good choice before they become inconveniently big.

[onlylonely]

what is the current TF rates?

My friend just signed up in oct. It was $69/mth for 2 years

[suckmegood]

My friend just signed up in oct. It was $69/mth for 2 years

oh. that's affordable. wonder what's the catch...

[Guest 72%dark]

To my understanding, probably hitting the gym serves more as a motivation for me because I will be forced to go?

When I first started gymming years ago, this was an important factor for me. I don't enjoy weight training, and generally speaking, doing something is always harder when you're just starting out, before you've made it a regular part of your lifestyle. If I train at home, there is always the temptation to cut it short when I feel bored or tired. But going to a gym itself supplies some motivation because you've paid for it, you've spent some time traveling there, you don't want to waste that time and money; once you're there it's easier to psych yourself up and push yourself to complete whatever regimen you've set yourself, with less risk of distraction.

The presence of other gymmers can also help to keep you from getting too complacent; when I see the kind of results that others are able to achieve, I usually try to turn it into motivation (rather than discouragement, though I admit I don't always succeed at this). And of course, if you like company, you could always try to find a workout buddy; the conventional wisdom is that people stand a better chance of sticking to new fitness regimes if they have friends with them to forcemotivate them to keep at it.

[boyishfit22]

Join FF cuz i there =X kidding XD....