re: How do CrossFit gyms justify their membership prices?

My wife did it for about a year. She enjoyed the group aspect of it. I admit the group dynamic can be good for some people. I prefer a home gym. I eventually built a nice enough home gym that she decided to just work out at home. If you have a place to put it you can build I hell of a home gym in no time for $200 a month. I am not hating on Crossfit but our local chapter is not a good advertisement. You cannot out Crossfit a bad diet and it shows. I also have concerns with Crossfit once you get to a certain age. I had a friend who loved Crossfit in his 30's but in his 40's he stayed hurt when doing their workouts.

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I just moved to Midlothian, TX for work and the nature of my job is fairly sedentary in regards to physical activity and exertion. I’m 30 and weigh 185 lbs, but I can see my metabolism slowing down and couple that with the nature of my job, I would like to head that off and get more active. I think CrossFit would be good for me.

I emailed the gym about their membership fees and they emailed back that it’s $199 a month and $189 a month if you’re a veteran, or police, ems, firefighter, etc.

I just didn’t even bother emailing back, that seems crazy to me. Is that normal?

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Do you need others to motivate you while exercising?
Do you want others cheering you on while working out?
Are you trying to be the best at exercising?
Or are you ok with working out alone?
Do you need personal training or "coaching"?
What are your goals?
Do you want to just stay in shape, get stronger, be more powerful, etc.

To answer you question, yes $199 a month is stupid and I would laugh at them and walk away. There is nothing they are offering that you cant research on your own and find on the interwebs. It is truly all about what do you want. Pay to play or do the work/research yourself? Personally, I feel you would be better served catching the membership at AF and developing your own program based off of research dependent on your goals.

**Full disclosure: I am biased against crossfit.**

ETA: Just for the one butt hurt crossfitter who down voted.

The class environment creates a little competitive atmosphere which helps you push harder in the workouts.

I can lift all day with the best of them, but when it comes to pushing myself cardiovascularly, I struggle because I find it extremely boring.

The HIIT style workouts are awesome.

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Full disclosure: I am biased against crossfit.**

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I would have never guessed

Unfortunately, CrossFit is expensive. You can only have so many members to differ the costs. You have to pay the coaches, CrossFit itself, high rent, etc. The costs add up when you can only support 75-100 members. Due to class sizes and space, you can’t have the same amount of members as traditional gyms.

It’s for some people and it’s not for others. I would never shite on someone’s choice to better themselves because I don’t believe in the methodology, etc. It sure beats not doing anything. CrossFit gets a shitty name because despite raising the fees provides very little support or quality control to weed out 40% of the gyms which are shitty.