Article Link Why Fitness Classes Are Making You Go Broke

[JackieB]

Originally Posted by yogapam

It's a lot of $, and not something I would ever do, but better spent on fitness than other possible vices or addictions!

I would rather spend the $ on fitness than a night out on the town...or shopping.

[TinierTina]

Originally Posted by yogapam

You are jumping to conclusions here big time. My YTT was around $1000 and I live in a rural area where classes are not expensive. The most I paid on a multi class card is around $11/class. I have a home practice and I go to the occasional yoga class at the fitness center where I am a member and swim regularly. My membership there is $55/month and, being a member, the yoga classes are $5.50/class.

Man, from where I sit I thought you lived in Hawaii ... and maybe you get to take from Gilad, too; when the guy in town.

I don't get around much. Of course, it's all here (so goes that other cliché). The cheapest (non-free, non-trial, non-exhibition) class was I paid $6 to $8 on a donation class (she'd look at me jaundiced eyed, if I didn't pay that much, because she kept lighting candles in there and talking to me about The Heart of Yoga before and after class) oh, allow me to add that the class was Freeform Yoga (not unlike Erich Schiffman's Freedom Style yoga, and I supplied my own moves as did each and everybody else in the class... so that should count for another $7 in cash equivalents...) and her class in a nearby Park was a mandatory $5 spot. Studio that sponsored the donation class was Facebook and email bombing me about joining (membership ... mmm hmm) for a while. The most I paid on a class (a.k.a. "workshop") in conscious dance, was $20. It will be well over a year since I ventured out of this place to take any live classes.

I am a Type 2 diabetic. It is never recommended that we exercise alone. I had not yet been diagnosed at the time I took the (UNSUPERVISED) Freeform Yoga class. Some young woman doing headstand without the adequate control was giggled at by the nervous teacher when she fell out of the pose with a loud "thud" ... [I noticed she did not pay a dime and did not get to relate to the teacher at all ... and as far as I remember, never returned ... ]


In any case, I feel I paid instructors for what I wanted when I wanted, and leave it at that.

[yogapam]

Originally Posted by TinierTina

Man, from where I sit I thought you lived in Hawaii ... and maybe you get to take from Gilad, too; when the guy in town.

I don't live in Hawaii, as much as I love it there. I live in Canada. Again, you like to jump to conclusions.....

[yogapam]

Originally Posted by JackieB

I would rather spend the $ on fitness than a night out on the town...or shopping.

Yep, me too Jackie! Fitness & activity are just what I do on a daily basis. It's part of my life and it doesn't cost me a fortune.

[TinierTina]

Originally Posted by yogapam

I don't live in Hawaii, as much as I love it there. I live in Canada. Again, you like to jump to conclusions.....

I NEEED the cardio, even with bad knees.

[So even with bad knees, I feint jumping, and I swap pendulums for some of the other things ...]

[JackieB]

Originally Posted by TinierTina

I NEEED the cardio, even with bad knees.

[So even with bad knees, I feint jumping, and I swap pendulums for some of the other things ...]

LOL...maybe your cardio should be "jumping to conclusions"!!!

Sorry....I couldn't resist.

[TinierTina]

Originally Posted by JackieB

LOL...maybe your cardio should be "jumping to conclusions"!!!

Sorry....I couldn't resist.

I was way ahead of you on that one. Jumping to conclusions implied "cardio" ... to fill in the blanks is begging the joke ...

[TinierTina]

Aside from which, I can't begin to imagine what Gilad would charge if he held a workshop in New York City. Would there be a waiting list?

How do these things even work?

[yogapam]

Originally Posted by JackieB

LOL...maybe your cardio should be "jumping to conclusions"!!!

Sorry....I couldn't resist.

Ha ha, couldn't have said it better myself, high five Jackie!

[Nuggie's Auntie]

Originally Posted by JackieB

I would rather spend the $ on fitness than a night out on the town...or shopping.

Yes, that's how I feel, too! My cousin lives in NYC, has a good job and can afford to take boutique classes. She still doesn't spend nearly what these women in the article spend, but part of it is the social aspect--she'll meet up with friends for a class, they'll get a drink or a bite after, or just turn in after the class. The boutique studios know this, of course, and capitalize on it--offering fun themed classes at peak times to turn fitness into social event.

It is true that people have their priorities. Spending $40 on drinks in NYC takes 20 minutes! Why not spend that for an hour-long workout you enjoy with or without a friend, if you can afford it? It's just not the only way to get to get in a good workout, and like anything, it's disconcerting to have people spending so far beyond their means.