Life Time Fitness: Maryland Gym Excels

Maryland is a place where different cultures positively interact with one another, and a place where people are serious about the health and well being of themselves and their families. About two years ago, Columbia, Maryland, was thrilled about the grand opening of one of the fastest-growing health fitness centers in the United States. Life Time Fitness is a privately owned company founded by Bahram Akradi in 1992. Bahram Akradi is the club's majority owner.

Life Time Fitness centers do not operate like other health fitness clubs. They do not sell lifetime memberships. Instead, Life Time Fitness asks for an initiation fee of about $240 and a $49 monthly fee. Quite reasonable for the many benefits health clubbers get when joining.

When I visited the Columbia, Maryland, Life Time Fitness Center with my husband after it first opened in February two years ago, we were quite impressed by the quality of the place. As soon as we walked through the doors of Life Time Fitness we were greeted by a group of cheerful and helpful staff who readily went out of their way to sign us in quickly and get us going on our way. We were then escorted through the front lobby to membership services where our information was taken and a picture I.D. was given to us to be used for the lockers and the Life Time Fitness cafeteria.

Most people know how to workout but when it comes to the many different types of workout equipment, it can get a little dizzy trying to understand what machine to use for what muscle, even though the equipment is clearly displayed with directions for using them. That's where the helpful Life Time Fitness Trainers come in.
They are there to assist you with a complimentary tour and demonstration of how to properly use the equipment.
If further training is required, there is a small hourly fee for private training. We found the cost of training to be very low and hired someone to help us for the first month. There were no pressures to stay with our personal trainer past that time and if we were not comfortable with that personal trainer or his methods of exercise, we could at any time, change our trainer for another.