PLANET FITNESS VS. ANYTIME FITNESS - WHICH IS BETTER??

what is going on everybody it's jaden and i'm back here with another youtube video just got home from the gym and i've been debating between anytime fitness and planet fitness for months now i have had both memberships cancel one and currently use the other both in my personal opinion have their pros and their cons and i'd like to give my opinion on both and maybe help someone make a decision on which membership is right for them in this video we're going to be going over equipment used in each gym memberships fees and my personal opinion so without further ado we're gonna go ahead and start off with some statistics for planet fitness okay so as you can see planet fitness offers two membership packages one membership package being classic and one membership package being the planet fitness black card membership now if i'm not mistaken i believe the classic membership is about ten dollars and the black card membership is about twenty while only paying ten dollars for a classic is still a good deal you will only get access to one club so the club that you sign up for that is your home gym you'll get fitness training that's free and free wi-fi for when you're in the gym now for the 20 black card membership there's actually quite a bit so you'll get access to your home club free training free wi-fi you can use any planet fitness in the world now this is very crucial because if you get the classic and let's say you're visiting a different city or you're anywhere else or even if you move you can't use it anywhere else it's going to be a little bit of a process to switch your home gym you can't just go to one planet fitness and then go to the other which in my opinion that's a that's a really big breaker when deciding gems another big one for the black card is you can bring a guest anytime you get tanning massage chairs hide your massage discounts on drinks and all that so there is quite a bit of perks that you get for an extra 10 a month that you don't get for the classic as well planet fitness is going to charge a 40 annual fee this is a one-time fee throughout the year which is going to go to the gym um keeping up with main maintenance different machines anything of that nature they're gonna use that forty dollars to help improve your experience at the gym now one of the things that i really like about planet fitness is usually they have i'd say you know a one dollar fee to join or it's a very very super low fee to get your membership and start going to the gym there's a lot of gyms out there that as soon as you come in there and tell them that you want a gym membership they're immediately gonna start asking for just all these different fees and you don't even know what's going on you haven't even got to work out yet you're already paying them 50 to 100 maybe even more depending on where you're going and where you're located well as you can see right here on this uh this first link up here one dollar down ten dollars a month and for the most part that is accurate i when i did start i really truly only paid one dollar to start um as as long as you're not breaking the contract p a lot of people get upset when they break the contract and then they owe money or they get caught into this just crappy situation and and as long as you're not doing that and you actually use your membership for the term you're fine in fact i was using my membership everything was good i even paid my you know my 40 annual fee something came down to it and i just personally wasn't enjoying the gym i wasn't enjoying the location of the city it was a long drive for me uh and i cancelled my membership and i didn't have to pay anything i just went to the front desk asked them if if there was any way that i could cancel my membership it was canceled within five minutes i was on my way and haven't been back since of course i recommend if you're going to be getting a membership or signing into a contract you read you ask questions that way you know exactly what you're getting yourself into financially and for the term lease now the information that you get out of me on this video is going to depend a lot on the workouts or i guess the goals that you have specifically in the gym planet fitness buildings tend to be very large and have a ton and i mean a ton of cardio equipment so if you're looking for weight loss or you're just looking to go in on the treadmill or do cardio planet fitness is very very good for that and especially for the price of a planet fitness membership if you're just looking to do cardio and very minimal weightlifting this in my opinion is the perfect deal for you because what you're seeing here in the picture with all of these treadmills some planet fitnesses are even multiple stories one two and three stories full of cardio equipment as you can see here multiple different types of cardio equipment and you can see that this is kind of spreading out into some weight lifting equipment and machines planet fitness is also a very good gym to kind of start weight lifting if you're a beginner there's a lot of machines that you can use a really scattered throughout everywhere some basic machines cables now obviously these are images off of google but i have been to planet fitness quite often myself and as you can see the weight rack this this is the general weight area so there's not very much the dumbbells are very limited um what you're seeing right here is probably going to be almost exactly what it's like at most planet fitnesses in the us so if you're looking to go in and pump some iron or lift heavy weights this is really not gonna be it and a very important thing to note down for some people is that planet fitness does not use regular bench press or squat racks or whatever the case is all of their machines right here are going to be smith machines in my opinion there is nothing wrong with smith machines they're very good to work out with especially for beginners or if you don't have a spotter with you that day some people do not like them at all so i figured it's a very valid point to make that planet fitness only has these now moving on to anytime fitness it's going to be a little bit difficult for me to give you accurate pricing as this varies state by state however anytime fitness is the gym that i currently go to so i'm gonna just give you the information on my membership at anytime fitness i had the option to do a one-year membership paying 40 a month or i had the option to do a two-month membership paying 30 a month i went with the two-year membership just because i know i was going to be working out for the long run and it would lower my monthly payment a little bit my two year membership has ended i ended a few months ago they're allowing me to do month-to-month just because i really don't want to sign another contract i don't know if i want to stay there or whatnot so my monthly payment did bump up to forty dollars which really isn't an issue for me if it keeps me out of signing another contract i'm fine with it okay so here instead of it being one dollars like at planet fitness we're going to have about a 50 initiation fee that's going to be when you're setting up your membership along with that the one-time key fee about another 35 and cancellation fee see this says zero dollars i mean obviously this is gonna depend on where you're at but in most cases with anytime fitness if you decide to cancel early the fee that you're gonna have to pay is whatever is not paid off yet on your membership so if you're paying 30 a month and you have six months left you know do the math 30 times 60 that's going to equal your cancellation fee that's how it was in my instance anyways it might be different they might have changed it or it just might vary state state city city i'm not real sure they have some other options for membership depending if you're going one person two people uh you have the option to do a yearly membership as well so you don't have to worry about monthly payments i believe if you do the yearly it is going to yeah if if you do the yearly your initiation fee is going to go up just a little bit not entirely sure why but i guess that's the case now i've been to a lot of different anytime fitness locations and the majority of them are pretty different on the inside so one pro is they're going to have a lot of machines depending on the location you go they might have newer machines some cool high-tech stuff that really hits different aspects of the muscles along with that anytime fitness is going to have a very high selection of dumbbells that go up pretty high really as high as you will need them to go they'll go anytime fitness is going to have bench presses they're going to have squat racks uh they're they're going to have a lot of stuff to choose from along with that anytime fitness is going to have quite a bit of cardio machinery as well here's another photo of some cardio machines they're really both going to have the same stuff planet fitness is going to have a lot more cardio machines and it's a very very large place um planet fitness is also going to have the smith machine instead of squat racks and bench presses anytime fitness is going to have a mix of both anytime fitness is going to have smith machines they're going to have bench presses squat racks they're going to have cardio machines the same weight lifting machines that planet fitness is going to have anytime fitness just tends to be a little bit smaller obviously this depends where you go but in my personal uh experience planet fitness has been huge anytime fitness has been a little bit crowded at times so like i said i currently go to anytime fitness but in my opinion planet fitness with the black membership is the way to go you really get the best of both worlds you get all the cardio machines all the weightlifting machines it's not a crowded gym because it's so big you have the smith machine so you can still do squats you can still do bench press you can do all that on top of it you get tanning you get massages you can go to any planet fitness in the united states or in the world really and this is all for twenty dollars so i think when i get around to it i'll probably end up canceling my anytime fitness membership and going back to planet fitness because after the research i've done and my experience at both i think planet fitness is the better deal as always everyone i appreciate you watching if you enjoyed this video please give me a thumbs up if you're new here consider subscribing and you know your boy jaden he's out peace

Channel: JayyDizzy

Views: 26,195

Keywords: gym, anytime fitness, planet fitness, workout, beginners, membership, tips

Id: W1nknmbiKLo

Length: 10min 41sec (641 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 14 2021