I know it's this sub's favorite whipping boy but... I love PF. I've never had a membership at any other gym. Let me crunch some numbers for you. $20/mo for me and my wife TOTAL. That's $10/mo/person. So already, we're at a roughly $60/mo savings for the two of us vs Golds, and as much as $100-120/mo savings vs some more exclusive gyms. Free showers. Free Pizza one day (and hams demand the good kind, not that Dominos shit) Free Bagels one day (also always the good New York deli kind, not the Dunkin Doughnuts abominations). So here's how it plays out: Since I'm not a repulsive and/or lazy piece of shit, I can eat Pizza and Bagels each once a month and not have it impact my health at all. So I eat like 2 slices for dinner and one bagel for breakfast when they're offered. Figure eating at home I probably spend about $2.00-$5.00/meal (I'm a man well over 6' tall, eat about 2600 cals/day to maintain with my exercise level). I go to the gym at zero dark thirty. No fatty gets up early, that's work, which they hate. Also as a bonus, the entire place is cleaned overnight, so the bathrooms, etc. are spotless when we arrive. My wife and I work out with a bunch of absolutely shredded shitlords and shitladies for 60-90 minutes from 4:45-6ish. There's not one goddamn fat in the entire place, even the girl and guy that work the desk for the graveyard on weekdays are smoking hot. It probably helps though that I live in a very, very expensive community. Most rich people that are under 50 are determined and motivated enough to not baloon up past very mild dadbod-food baby level. Leave without seeing a single ham. If we both eat both of the "free" meals at PF, we pay for our entire membership for that month in free food. If we take our daily shower there and dress for work, which we do, it probably saves us another $20-30/mo easily, as the shower is the single biggest part of the sewer bill at any house. Every day of my life, I subsidize fats. I subsidize them when I fly because they fly for the same price as me. I subsidize them when I pay my health insurance, because they get sick and die sooner than me. I subsidize them when my buildings need to have accommodations for their weak knees and huge asses and tiny, crushed lungs. That's why I go to PF: Because there, they sure as shit subsidize me. I consume far, far more of that gym's resources than they have ever collected from me. And I love it.