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> While millennials like to workout, they're ditching gyms in favor of boutique, class-centric centers. "Millennials don't want to be tied down," Megan Smyth, the CEO of FitReserve, a service that lets members book boutique studio classes, told the New York Post. "It's a spontaneous demographic."

Ditching 24 hour gyms where you can go whenever you feel like in exchange for booking classes is "spontaneous"???

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My personal feelings tie it more to the enforced year long contracts than hour-to-hour flexibility.

Signing up for a Gym is a major financial commitment.

Not really you can find gyms as cheap as a monthly Netflix subscription or luxury gyms that cost more than my Internet and cable bill.

And no matter the monthly cost, they still try and get you into a year contract. That is the lack of flexibility. You can't go for a month and decide to switch gyms; you're tied to your choice for a year.

LA Fitness is month to month. However, they try very hard to convince you to get personal training, which is contract-based. Very sneaky.

That's never been the case for any gym I've ever belonged to.

In the US, Planet Fitness' membership is $100/year (there are others, such as WOW).

Hardly a major financial commitment.

For an inferior service such as PF's, it absolutely is a major commitment.

At this point it feels like they're stretching to tie stereotypical Millennial traits to dying industries.

Maybe it's about contracts? Do places like SoulCycle and CrossFit have annual fees or contracts?

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