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Bally Fitness
Since many of us do not have the space or the money for a home fitness
set up, we join a gym. There are many to choose from and it just
depends on what?s available in your area. Most of the fitness
facilities, like Bally Total Fitness, or Bally Fitness, offer weight
machines, free weights, stair steppers, treadmills, elliptical
trainers, stationary bikes, group classes, and personal training, among
other things. You can buy bottled water, work out clothing,
accessories, purchase tanning minutes, and sit in the sauna or hot tub.
Many folks go just to socialize or to check out everyone else, and some
really are there to get a good work out. I am in the latter group, I
don't care what I look like, if my shorts match my shirt, or if my pony
tail is messy. I'm all sweaty anyway and I'm not there to get a date!
In spite of having
all these amenities, many facilities, even Bally Fitness, are not open
at convenient hours, they don't have enough equipment, they are too
small and crowded, they don't clean their equipment or keep it in good
repair, and bacteria abounds in the saunas and showers. This is not
typical of all health clubs, but it is very realistic. On occasion I
have brought my own hand sanitizer to use immediately after using a
piece of equipment because the bottle of disinfectant provided was
empty or so diluted that there was nothing but water in it anyway. I
have gone to aerobic classes and the instructor came late or not at
all, and then if she did show up, was rude to the class because she
looked like an idiot. If this is the way it is, I'll just to stick to
walking around the neighborhood and my Buns of Steel tapes.
Currently, there is
a group of people, primarily in California, filing action against Bally
Fitness for false misrepresentation of their services, not honoring
their contract, and generally poor business practices. Many of these
people were in the military and called to active duty. They were told
if they supplied the appropriate paperwork they would be freed from
their Bally Fitness contract with no further obligation. This was
obviously not correct, and these people came back from overseas to find
that they their accounts had been sold to collection agencies and there
were judgments against them. How?s that for customer service? Wow.
Better make sure you read all the fine print and ask about all the
different situations you think may never come up, just in case.
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A Healthy Dose of Good Advice
