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| Most experts agree that picking a gym that’s farther than 15 minutes from where you live reduces your chances of staying committed to exercise. But just because you are partially limited to what you can find in the local phone book, does not mean you can’t explore your options. |
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| Here are some of the best sources to help you choose when you are finally ready to put everything we have shown you to good use. |
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| www.24hourfitness.com |
| 24 Hour Fitness is the world’s largest privately owned fitness club chain, with over 3 million members worldwide. Their multisport exercise facilities are ideal for exercises of all levels. As their name implies, all of their 340 clubs located in 16 states and overseas are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
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| www.goldgym.com |
| Gold’s Gym, 3 million members worldwide and one of the most widely know gym chains, is the largest coed gym chains in the world, with more than 600 exercise facilities in 43 states and 25 countries. Once know as a bodybuilder’s gym for men they’ve broken that stereotype with their mix of state-of-art cardio equipment, more female friendly equipment, and group exercise classes including Spinning, Pilates, and Yoga. Serious bodybuilders still have a home at Gold’s though, with some of the best strength equipment and racks of free weights. |
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| www.healthclubs.com |
| IHRSA (International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association) has its own consumer website that lets you search for all of IHRSA’s member health clubs (6500+) in the Unites States, Canada and more than 67 countries. The site lets you hand pick a gym that has every amenity you’re looking for, including cycling, pools, massage and sauna, and about 20 other features. After that is shows you your gym with all of your gym options located on it. Other similar sites: www.gymlocator.com - www.healthclubdirectory.com |
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| www.mysportsclubs.com |
| They don’t have the strongest national presence however, step into any town sports international’s health club and you’ll wish they were. Their sports clubs network includes New York Sports Club, Boston Sports Club, Washington Sports Club and Philadelphia Sports Club make they the largest health club chain in the Northeast, with more than 135 health clubs and more than 350000 members. |
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| www.powerhousegym.com |
| This 30 year old gym establishment can be found in 300+ locations in 39 states nationwide and 15 countries worldwide, with over 1.2 million members. Both men and women gym users can enjoy rows and rows of dumbbells and mirrors and dozens of fitness classes, and high-tech strength training machines and equipment. |
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| www.worldgym.com |
| A legendary gym chain, World Gym facilities around the globe range in size between 9500 – 18000 square feet. Almost on fifth of their gyms are over-sized “supergyms”. Perfect for men and women of any fitness level, their gyms have everything from aerobics classes, tanning beds, private training, nutritional advisement, and hundred of pieces of strength training equipment to choose from. |
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