I wonder if a lot of people who sign up in January quit not just because the enthusiasm has gone but maybe they get fed up with the packed gym and they all cancel each other out

hmm...maybe. i wouldn't assume that ALL of those people don't exercise any other time. like i said, i look like i'm a resolution member. but i exercise all year round but in the summer, i give up the membership because it costs so stinkin much and i have other active things to do. then come winter we wait for the free joining. our gym has a $250 joining fee. that is a HUGE chunk of money. we went in december and joined for free. we did the same thing with the ymca last year. now of course, if you sign up in January and leave in February...that probably isn't what you are doing. :lol:

I know a lot of people that kill their memberships in the summer because they're outside all the time. I know we don't go as frequently for that reason, but we still hand on to it.

But they usually continue it in the fall.

Ours is $95. I didn't want to hang on to that. :lol: At this new place we can put it on hold instead of dropping it, which is nice. So in October we could go back without paying the $250. We may stay through the summer though so we can weight train. Not sure yet, we'll have to see how things go, what we're doing, how much renovation we're doing on the house (we have another huge project to do, ugh) and whatever else.

I think that's what our gym does- allows people to pause it. I'm not sure, though. It's a nice option to have, that's for sure!

The gym here has the new years resolution crowd combined with the new to the school and the big shiny recreation center crowd. The abs class over flow room, over flowed! I decided to skip the abs class on T/Th and deal with the MWF crowd until it calms down in there!

But crowded as it might get, they can't stop me!