Lifetime Fitness in Reston

[Anonymous]

Looks like a nice club especially for families with young children. How much is the family membership? I'd like to get an idea about the membership fee before calling them to inquire so that I don't have to deal with their sales associates constantly calling me.

[Anonymous]

There's already an extensive thread on this.

[Anonymous]

It's nice but expensive. They never stop selling you junk like heart monitors. Add in a couple training sessions and it's easy to get up over $1000 per month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like a nice club especially for families with young children. How much is the family membership? I'd like to get an idea about the membership fee before calling them to inquire so that I don't have to deal with their sales associates constantly calling me.

Couple of months ago, a family of four - kids are 10 and 7 - were paying around $ 400/month for basic membership..

[Anonymous]

I just signed up at Lifetime in Fairfax - membership is $150 for the parents, and $30 for each additional kid. Our family of 5 is paying around $250 per month for basic membership.

[Anonymous]

In addition to being too expensive, Lifetime in Reston has the lowest level of services of the Lifetimes.

Most of the clubs are 24x7, Reston closes at 12:00

They just eliminated child care. Gone. If you want to bring kids you have to join their academy which is $40-90 per kid per month. Even the $30 per month clubs have some child care.

Probably a function of the low membership, they have the weakest schedule of classes of all the Lifetimes. They can't keep them full.

At least it's not crowded.

[Anonymous]

They need new management there that understands the local market.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's nice but expensive. They never stop selling you junk like heart monitors. Add in a couple training sessions and it's easy to get up over $1000 per month.

I'm a member at the Dulles Lifetime and with that have access to Reston. I pay $160/mo including my 2 children and spouse.

I've been at Lifftime since 2009 and I have NEVER had someone approach me to sell me anything. If I wanted to buy something I would simply talk to a trainer. I love all their free classes. I do not pay for personal training and have never been offered it.

I use Reston on my lunch hour and find the facilities incredible. However, I'm inclined to have an expensive gym membership, since between my DH and I we are at the gym 10xs a week-plus we take the kids on weekends. I also have signed the kids up for free Rock Climbing and Sports Clinics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In addition to being too expensive, Lifetime in Reston has the lowest level of services of the Lifetimes.

Most of the clubs are 24x7, Reston closes at 12:00

They just eliminated child care. Gone. If you want to bring kids you have to join their academy which is $40-90 per kid per month. Even the $30 per month clubs have some child care.

Probably a function of the low membership, they have the weakest schedule of classes of all the Lifetimes. They can't keep them full.

At least it's not crowded.

It will be a slow roll. I joined Dulles when it first opened. Steadily membership has grown. During peak times it can be way too crowded for me. 5 years ago that place was a ghost town. Now at peak hours, quite often I can't get on the leg press and the stretching matts are ALL gone. So annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's nice but expensive. They never stop selling you junk like heart monitors. Add in a couple training sessions and it's easy to get up over $1000 per month.

I'm a member at the Dulles Lifetime and with that have access to Reston. I pay $160/mo including my 2 children and spouse.

I've been at Lifftime since 2009 and I have NEVER had someone approach me to sell me anything. If I wanted to buy something I would simply talk to a trainer. I love all their free classes. I do not pay for personal training and have never been offered it.

I use Reston on my lunch hour and find the facilities incredible. However, I'm inclined to have an expensive gym membership, since between my DH and I we are at the gym 10xs a week-plus we take the kids on weekends. I also have signed the kids up for free Rock Climbing and Sports Clinics.

We were at Dulles since it opened. We loved it. We switched to Reston since it's blocks from where we lived and justified the additional cost in savings on toll roads. We are also gym rats and are comfortable with a premium membership though I do feel like it's overpriced.

With Dulles as your home club, if I understand the rules they put in place this weekend, your kids are no longer welcome at Reston. At a club twice as expensive as any other in the area, that sucks.

[Anonymous]

They have two levels of membership - diamond and onyx. I am an onyx member and pay $114 for myself plus a 9 yo and a 5yo, but I joined as a former member and they were giving me a "good deal." I don't know what a person who walks in in off the street pays. PP above who said they eliminated childcare doesn't know what he/she's talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have two levels of membership - diamond and onyx. I am an onyx member and pay $114 for myself plus a 9 yo and a 5yo, but I joined as a former member and they were giving me a "good deal." I don't know what a person who walks in in off the street pays. PP above who said they eliminated childcare doesn't know what he/she's talking about.

I'm an onyx member at 136 for a couple. I was diamond at $220 until I found about onyx. It's identical as far as I can tell. Our kids were 6 per month in Sterling but the Reston "Academy" is 40.

I think what PP is talking about is that they don't have child care per se any more, it's the "Reston Kids Academy". If you're a member and your home club is Reston you can drop off your kids no problem. But if you're a member at Chantilly, FFX, or Sterling you can't. There was quite a scene there on Saturday when a Chantilly person's kid got turned away.

I agree it's a incredible facility but not managed well.

[Anonymous]

They need to figure out how not to annoy their members so much, but I hope it survives. It's a nice gym and really close to our house. I don't know though, they are struggling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have two levels of membership - diamond and onyx. I am an onyx member and pay $114 for myself plus a 9 yo and a 5yo, but I joined as a former member and they were giving me a "good deal." I don't know what a person who walks in in off the street pays. PP above who said they eliminated childcare doesn't know what he/she's talking about.

I'm an onyx member at 136 for a couple. I was diamond at $220 until I found about onyx. It's identical as far as I can tell. Our kids were 6 per month in Sterling but the Reston "Academy" is 40.

I think what PP is talking about is that they don't have child care per se any more, it's the "Reston Kids Academy". If you're a member and your home club is Reston you can drop off your kids no problem. But if you're a member at Chantilly, FFX, or Sterling you can't. There was quite a scene there on Saturday when a Chantilly person's kid got turned away.

I agree it's a incredible facility but not managed well.

That's correct. For Reston members the lowest level is the "land" academy ~40 per month, 3 hours a day including the basic classes. No 2 hour child care option is available anymore and they are charging for the more popular "advanced" classes. Members from other clubs have no available options for child care.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe they don't have childcare included with the membership there! We usually go to Centreville but I was
thinking it would be fun to check out Reston.

You would think a fancier club would have better amenities, not worse. that doesn't make sense!