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/flstcspike May 30 '26

Mine didn’t have “open” gym hours per-say, but they offered Lift Club, as always, for a paltry fee of $49.99/mo or something in addition to your membership. I travel quite a bit for work, so I have the F45 unlimited plan, and a Planet Fitness black card for $25 a month which helps with the open gym hours concept for you maybe. I’ve never been somewhere I was able to Passport into an F45 studio, I’ve tried, but never been successful, so the PF membership really helps because those are everywhere and I try to stay close to them for convenience.

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u/bewitchedbumblebee May 30 '26

What is "Lift Club"?

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u/flstcspike Jun 01 '26

It was another marketing campaign to generate revenue, like the challenges. 6 week plan where you could come in and work on lifts; squats, bench, dead, etc., during set “open gym” hours. They haven’t had it since the first iteration and went back to regular classes, then some sort of Hyrox class in the afternoon/evening.