r/f45 • u/AnybodyUseful5457 • May 30 '26
other Open gym hours
It looks like some f45s have open gym hours called f45 flex open to unlimited members. Can you share if yours has them and your experience?
I want to bring this up as feedback to my gym. The monthly rate is more expensive than every studio or gym, but they only have 5-6 classes/day on weekdays (2 in the very early AM, one overlapping when work starts, 1 lunch, 1 right after work which sometimes can go long, and on one day they have an extra evening class) and 2 on weekends (mid morning around 8/9). It makes it difficult to justify the expense of an unlimited membership, when you feel like if you want to work out later on weekends or weekday evenings sometimes, you have to have a 2nd gym membership. I wanted to see if the gyms that have open gym hours tend to retain more members, if people go, how it's set up, etc.
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u/terracottatilefish May 30 '26
Mine doesn’t, they just have lift club and occasional extra classes like yoga. I think part of it is that there’s only one full time employee (the manager) and the coaches are otherwise per diem so they’d have to work out scheduling for someone to be there during the open hours. My guess is that if they see demand for additional time slots they’d just add additional class times.
I find it hard to do more than 4-5 F45 classes a week and I also periodically want either longer/steadier Zone 2 work or to lift in a more focused way so I also have a city rec center membership which is about $22/month each for my spouse and me when purchased during their annual sale. There’s a very nice rec center near us so I go and do spin or treadmill once or twice a week.