Gyms in Lewisville

Under the Texas Health Spa Act (Occupations Code Chapter 702), a health spa is any business selling memberships for instruction in, or use of facilities for, an exercise program. That covers most membership gyms. Tax-exempt nonprofits, member-owned private clubs, studios that teach only dance or aerobics, rehab providers and school programs are outside it.

A covered gym may not operate or sell memberships without a certificate of registration from the Secretary of State, and each location needs its own. The certificate must be posted where members can see it, and your contract must carry the registration number.

Three ways to check a Lewisville gym

• Search the gym on the Secretary of State's online health spa search, which also shows whether it has posted security.
• Open the state's PDF list of registered locations, updated every Wednesday.
• Compare the number on the wall certificate with the number in your contract.

Registration costs $100 and lasts one year, so a lapsed certificate is worth asking about. A gym may not advertise that it is "bonded by the state".

National figures give you a yardstick for Lewisville quotes. The average US gym membership was $28.58 a month in 2021, according to Statista as cited by Forbes Health, with prices from about $10 to $300 a month. Fixr put basic memberships at $15 to $40 a month and gyms with more advanced equipment at $50 to $100 (national, January 2025).

The monthly rate is only part of the bill. Ask about initiation and annual fees, whether the plan is month to month, and how cancellation works, then see our Texas gym guide for the full checklist.

The Act sets limits no contract can waive, and a violation counts as a deceptive trade practice:

• Three-day cancel. Mail your cancellation and proof of payment, certified, no later than midnight of the third business day after the contract date; the refund is due within 30 days. The contract must state this right in conspicuous 10-point type.
• Length. A contract may not run longer than three years, and financed contracts may not require payments for more than five years.
• Death or disability. A member who dies or becomes totally and permanently disabled, or their estate, can cancel and get unearned payments back.
• Closure or a move. You can cancel for a partial refund if the gym closes without offering facilities within 10 miles, moves more than 10 miles, or fails to provide advertised services.

Denton County's emergency management office publishes guidance on tornadoes, winter storms and flooding. If a disaster or another cause beyond the owner's control makes a gym unusable for 30 days or more, it must extend affected contracts by the same time.

Unless exempt, a gym must post security of $20,000 to $50,000 per location with the Secretary of State, rising with its prepaid memberships, as a surety bond or certificate of deposit. Gyms that never take contracts or prepayment over 31 days, financing, automatic drafts or initiation fees can be exempt, as can established gyms that swear every three years to over $50,000 in assets per location, five years of the same ownership and no closure complaints.

A gym must post notice at each entrance at least 30 days before closing or relocating (the notice isn't required when fire, flood or an act of God forces the closing). Members of a closed gym can claim against the security by mailing their contract and proof of payment to the Secretary of State within 90 days of the closure notice appearing on its website.

If you buy before a new gym opens, prepayments must sit in an FDIC-insured escrow account until 30 days after opening unless an exemption applies, and if the gym doesn't open within 180 days of first selling memberships, prepaying members are generally entitled to a full refund. Because the Secretary of State only files registrations and security, a dispute over a Lewisville gym's practices belongs with the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division, (800) 621-0508.

Nearby options are on gyms in Flower Mound and Carrollton gyms, and the Lewisville page lists other services in town.