{"id":432012,"date":"2026-01-23T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:41:09","slug":"waiting-a-few-weeks-can-save-hundreds-over-a-year-how-to-pay-less-for-your-gym-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432012\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Waiting a few weeks can save hundreds over a year\u2019: How to pay less for your gym membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Skipping the January marketing ploys and waiting until gym footfall decreases can be a good way to get a better deal \u2013 and the best membership plan is the one you will use consistently\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It's difficult to get value for money during the January gym rush. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c3b3a4fd-ed80-4ef3-981f-4f6e438c9b6b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">It&#8217;s difficult to get value for money during the January gym rush. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If there\u2019s a marketing ploy to be used, chances are a gym has used it. January is peak gym membership time and with so many gyms battling for business around the country, they will generally use every trick in the book to get your attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, despite the surge in gym membership in January, it may not be the best time to get the best deal, and also there are many ways to pay less for your gym membership \u2013 you just need to know how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skipping the January marketing ploys and waiting until gym footfall decreases can be a good way to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,63,538,137,226077],"class_list":{"0":"post-432012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-switch-save"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}