We have a brand new Gold's Gym opening this week 5 miles from me and I really want to go check it out but was worried it might be too high. 29$ is awesome but I don't know if they are that low around here (northern CA). Let's cross our fingers they will be in the mid 30's cause that's about what I am willing to pay. It's a 2 story building with the whole upstairs dedicated to aerobic with tv's which ROCK's and they have 4 aerobic rooms with classes they offer. Wish I had a workout partner though makes things funner.

I agree with Silver Plum about 24 hr fitness. I get a great deal with them through work but everytime I have gone they are all stuck up and it's more like a meat market with really rude employee's!!

Don't forget that contrary to popular belief, you can haggle with them. They can retroactively give you deals that they have already offered and there's always the "get ready for summer" type things. There's also limited memberships, +1 memberships... just be persistent!

I am totally into haggeling but they are so damn persistant it's annoying, I dfeel like I need back-up. I went a couple months back to a gym to check it out and they kept giving me this "this deal ends today it wont be valid tomorrow" kind of thing trying to make you think you have to sign up right then. I don't like that, I want to test the gym out for a week and make sure I like it and then get the same deal after that week. I was thinking of showing up with the 24hr Fitness deal that I am offered through work and see if they will match it. What do you think; will they go for it? I mean 24hr has the same amenities its just not brand new. 24 hr is willing to give me no enrollment fee's, no processing fee's (what is that anyway? another word for rip off) and 34$ for the sport package. I thought that was a good deal but 24hr is kind of inconvenient and like I said I don't care for the clientele.

Pep talk me so I can go in there rev'd up and not get bullied!!! I really want to join I know it is the only way I will get this weight off!!

Thanks Junebug!

Yeah...exactly the reason I've quit going to the on-campus gym. It's all skinny sorority types who wear makeup to work out - who the **** does that? Seriously? - and grunting, heaving frat boys ripping the heck out of themselves in order to see who's biggest.

So, I'm working out at home. DDR is my main, I've also just got a bellydance fitness DVD that I want to try - I took a bellydance class my first quarter at college and LOVED it, I haven't been ballsy enough to do it again but I really want to. This is as close as I can get for now.

I've been having a difficult time finding my motivation lately, too. Having plateaued over the past three or four weeks...well, it's really demoralizing when the scale doesn't move for so long.

Anyway, welcome to 3FC, and good luck! Feel free to PM anytime - it seems like we're in really similar situations, I'm in a long-distance relationship too right now - see you around!

I would love to PM how do you do that on here? We do sound like we're in the same boat and we're near eachother...I'm in Sac and love SC...Capitola is my favorite place to go in the summer. I would like to pick your brain about the site too.

For PMs, click on the person's name who you want to send a message to, (where it appears above the display pic), and select 'send private message to...'. That'll take you to the right place :)