We all do it (even if some of us don’t admit to it)–the new year begins, and we swear we’re going to eat healthier and work out regularly. And sometimes we do, and often we don’t. But if you are dedicated to getting into better shape–a noble endeavor, always–you’ve only got another day or two to take advantage of some truly great deals that’ll keep your wallet fat while you get lean.
Gym membership? Call the local gym of your choice and ask about deals. Two nationwide chains–24 Hour Fitness and Bally Total Fitness–both have really great membership deals right now that expire in a couple of days.
24 Hour Fitness offers a $9.95 sign-up fee (forget about those ridiculous $100-plus “initiation fees!”) and plans from $26.99 to $29.99 a month with no long-term contract.
The deal at Bally’s is even better–no sign-up fee whatsoever, and the same $29.99 a month with no long-term contract. Both gyms offer the $29 plan that gives you access to every club in their network, so you get some flexibility on where you work out.
Prefer to work out at home? Check out the specials at Target this week, because they’ve got great deals on their fitness equipment–and workout clothes and diet dinners and meal replacement bars and just about anything else you might want to help motivate you into keeping up the new routine.
The Wii Fit Plus bundle is $99 this week, or go old school with dumbbells (2 for $7) and workout DVDs ($10 each). Their Champion workout separates are $10 each, too.
If you want a little extra help whipping your diet into shape for the new year, Weight Watchers is offering free sign-up right now, and you can choose their program with local meetings or stick with a virtual group by following the program online.
If you want the maximum amount of help and prefer your meals planned out for you so you can concentrate on other areas of your fitness routine, even NutriSystem is going gangbusters with a sale right now. With their Jump Start program, you get 2 weeks of food free when you buy 4 weeks–and that works out to a really reasonable $50 per week for six weeks–in fact, that’s SO reasonable that I’m even considering giving that a try. Six weeks is a great head start to get anybody motivated on a new fitness program, and that’s a price most of us can afford.
You can certainly do all of these things without joining a gym or having your food delivered to you–but the convenience is really nice, and they’re all offering killer deals to take advantage of all those shaky new year’s resolutions. Most of the deals will end by the end of this month, so don’t let the savings slip away along with those resolutions.
