Christine S.
My experience
They offer a free introductory class that covers basic movements and high level Pilates terminology and positioning such as how to put your feet on a bar, how to lift your back in to a bridge and how to move on the reformer. You graduate to the front admin desk after about 30 mins to get the high level membership fees/dues and are provided with a super easy sign-up process. To sign up you're handed a tablet with a digital contract on it and told to sign at two places with a red X by 'touching' it with your finger or digital pen. Then you give them your credit card and wait for them to email you your signed contract. In the contract agreement you sign it covers a 3 month financial obligation you agreed to as well as the required steps you need to do in order to cancel your membership. There's an early $100 buy out plan if you want to cancel early or you can stay for the full 3 months and avoid the cancellation fee. In either case before you can cancel you must provide 30 days written notice by registered mail or delivered in person. If you give them notice too late and your 30 days roll over in to the next monthly billing period then you will be expected to pay for another month in addition to the month you already cancelled in. As a fulltime member you will have unlimited access to view dozens of classes through their phone app; however many classes you wish to participate in may require booking in advance. If you forget and/or miss a class, you will be charged with a $20 no-show and/or late cancellation fee. The room where the classes are held is sub-divided in to twin sized bed areas where each member is surrounded by an assortment of fitness items. Next to you will be your spring loaded chair, your vertical spring board and your reformer, that's the large spring loaded sliding bed that most members have paid to lie down on. It has an adjustable vinyl/foam filled head rest with fixed vinyl/foam filled shoulder blocks and vinyl straps for your hands/feet. At the foot of the bed is where your springs hook in with an adjustable vinyl/foam filled footbar. When you arrive for your class you should be early enough to avoid a late fee. You will wait in a lobby or open area until the previous class ends and you're allowed to file in and claim a reformer. The class format consists of doing 5-6 repetitions of different exercises as directed by an instructor over the course of 50ish mins. At the end of class you're expected to clean all the equipment you used and then file out for the next class to start. Over the course of your stay with ClubPilates you may see and speak with members who have been with the club for years and love the club culture, health benefits and boutique fitness in general. However, in my experience most of the members I saw and spoke with were short term and had either just joined like I had or were leaving like I did. It’s not a club for everyone, and it’s not a club for no one. It sits somewhere in the middle—and for some, it may be just the right fit. For me, although it was an interesting experience, it wasn’t ultimately the right match.