Philosophy
Why FitSpace? FitSpace is a health and fitness club with a difference - the difference is you are not paying for 'fluffy towels', 'staff more interested in themselves than you' or 'a fancy expensive bar'. FitSpace is a health and fitness club, stripped down to the bare essentials, so you don't pay through the nose for your health and fitness!
Why FitSpace? Intelligent people know what they want and what 'great value for money' is, but don't like being overcharged for a basic service. FitSpace is honest in its approach - it is a basic service, but at a very low price. It is good basic health and fitness that anyone can afford, and if you wish to supplement it with some added service or programmes, you can, but it is your choice, (and it will still add up to less than most other health and fitness clubs basic price).
When
Historically, we have been told to visit a health and fitness club 2 to 3 times per week to make real difference. Now the Government is recommending 5 x 30 minutes moderate exercise a week (including all types of exercise, not just gym workouts, walking the dog, etc). The trouble is in our busy lifestyles, with all the best of intentions; it is not always possible to even go to your health and fitness centre once every week. If you were to be paying £40-80 a month (average private club) and only attend once per week, it would be costing you £10-20 a visit and you start to ask yourself how much value it really is. At FitSpace, at just £14-17 a month, even if you could only attend once a week, it would only be equivalent to a cup of coffee or a beer at a fancy place once a week, and on the old 2-3 times a week scenario, is only just over a pound a visit! Now that's the smart and cheap way to exercise.
Costs
By cutting out all the expensive bits of a health club, that few members ever use or get value from, we are able to offer a great club at an amazing price!
Less than a quarter of all members use the classes on a regular basis, and just over 10% use the swimming pool, but both these areas are expensive to build, maintain and operate - the result is all the members end up paying for these facilities that only a few use.
Most clubs require many back office staff to manage the multiple memberships and various collection methods every month as well as receptionists to meet and greet all members and ensure they are paid up members during long opening hours. All this requires a level of management staff to oversee the process, and more importantly dramatically increases the costs.
FitSpace uses smart IT systems to enable all members to join over the web, self swipe into the club, no cash handling, and advanced membership tracking systems to monitor members required, and massively reduced staff, so reduced expenditure which is passed on to the members in the lowest monthly fees of any health and fitness club in England.
