Gyms in Frisco

Nationally, Fixr puts a basic membership at $15 to $40 a month and gyms with more advanced equipment at $50 to $100 a month (January 2025). Forbes Health, citing Statista, gives a 2021 US average of $28.58 a month, with prices from about $10 to $300.

Compare the monthly rate with what else the contract adds: initiation fees, annual fees, and whether payment is by automatic bank draft. Those terms also decide whether the gym has to post security with the state. Ask a Frisco gym to put every fee in writing, and see the Texas gyms guide for more on pricing and contracts.

Under the Texas Health Spa Act, most membership gyms are health spas. They may not operate or sell memberships without a certificate of registration from the Texas Secretary of State, and each location needs its own. Registration costs $100 and lasts a year. The certificate must be posted at the location, and the registration number must appear in your contract.

Frisco gym registration and security lookup

The Secretary of State's online health spa search shows whether a gym is registered and whether it has posted security, and a PDF list of registered locations is updated every Wednesday. Unless exempt, a gym must post $20,000 to $50,000 of security per location, held for members who lose money if it closes. The amount rises with prepaid memberships.

A gym can be exempt from security if it never requires contracts or prepayment over 31 days, financing, automatic bank drafts or initiation fees. Established gyms can also qualify by swearing every three years to assets over $50,000 per location and five years under substantially the same ownership.

Studios the act doesn't cover

The act excludes tax-exempt nonprofits, member-owned private clubs, studios that teach only dance or aerobics, rehab providers and school programs. If you join one of those, the state registration and security rules don't apply.

• Three days to cancel. A certified-mail cancellation with proof of payment, sent to the gym's home office before midnight of the third business day, gets a full refund. The contract must state this right in conspicuous 10-point type.
• Length limits. A contract may not run longer than three years, and financed contracts may not require payments for more than five.
• Closure or move. If the gym closes without offering facilities within 10 miles, moves more than 10 miles, or fails to provide advertised services, you can cancel and recover unearned payments.
• Death or disability. A member who dies or becomes totally and permanently disabled, or the estate, can cancel and get unearned payments back.

A gym must post notice inside and outside each entrance at least 30 days before closing or moving, except after a fire, flood or act of God. If it closes, members can claim against its security by mailing their contract and proof of payment to the Secretary of State within 90 days of the closure notice appearing on the SOS website.

A gym that sells memberships before opening must hold the prepayments in an FDIC-insured escrow account until 30 days after it opens, unless it qualifies for an exemption. If it doesn't open within 180 days of first selling memberships, or doesn't stay open 30 days, prepaying members are generally entitled to a full refund. Ask a presale gym where your money is held.

Storms can close a gym too. Denton County's Office of Emergency Management publishes guidance for tornadoes and winter storms, and if a gym is unusable for 30 days or more because of something beyond the owner's control, it must extend affected members' contracts by the same time.

For a dispute over a Frisco gym's sales or billing, call the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division at (800) 621-0508; the Secretary of State only handles registration and security. For more options, compare gyms in Allen or gyms in Prosper, and see the Frisco city page.