Gyms in Mesquite

Mesquite gyms set their own rates, so national figures are the yardstick. Forbes Health, citing Statista, put the average monthly membership at $28.58 in 2021, with plans from about $10 to $300 a month. Fixr's January 2025 guide puts a basic gym at $15 to $40 a month and gyms with more advanced equipment at $50 to $100.

The monthly price is only part of the cost. Initiation fees, annual fees and long contract terms change what you'll pay, and they also decide how much protection Texas law gives you if the gym closes. More on prices sits in the Texas gym guide.

Texas calls most membership gyms "health spas" under the Health Spa Act: any business selling memberships for instruction in, or use of, an exercise program. The Act leaves out tax-exempt nonprofits, member-owned private clubs, studios that only teach dance or aerobics, rehab providers and school programs, so a gym in one of those groups may not show up in the registration search.

Mesquite gym registration lookup

• Search the Secretary of State's online health spa list. It shows whether the gym is registered and whether it has posted security.
• The SOS also posts a PDF list of registered locations, updated every Wednesday.
• Registration costs the gym $100 a year and covers one location, so a chain's other branch being registered doesn't cover the Mesquite one.
• The certificate must be posted where members can see it, and your contract must carry the registration number.

Security a Mesquite gym may have posted

Unless exempt, a gym posts $20,000 to $50,000 per location with the state, scaled to how much it holds in prepaid memberships, as a surety bond or certificate of deposit. That money is there for members who lose out if the gym closes. A gym can skip it if it never requires contracts over 31 days, prepayment, financing, automatic bank drafts or initiation fees, or if it qualifies as established. If your gym takes a bank draft and shows no security in the search, ask why.

Texas sets the shape of every covered gym contract. It can't run longer than three years, and a financed contract can't require payments for more than five. It has to state, in conspicuous 10-point type, your right to cancel within three business days and your rights if the gym closes or moves more than 10 miles.

Cancelling a Mesquite gym membership

• Change of mind: mail a written cancellation and proof of payment by certified mail to the gym's home office before midnight of the third business day after the contract date, and the full refund is due within 30 days.
• Closure or move: you can cancel and get unearned payments back if the gym closes without offering a site within 10 miles, moves more than 10 miles, or doesn't provide advertised services.
• Death or disability: a member who dies or becomes totally and permanently disabled, or their estate, can cancel for a refund of unearned payments.

A gym can't advertise that it's "bonded by the state", and a contract signed while the gym wasn't registered is void.

A gym must post notice inside and outside each entrance at least 30 days before it closes or relocates, and tell the Secretary of State, except after a fire, flood or act of God. Members then have 90 days from when the closure notice appears on the SOS website to claim against posted security, by mailing a copy of the contract and proof of payment by certified mail.

The SOS registers gyms but doesn't police how they do business, so billing or sales disputes go to the Attorney General's consumer protection line, (800) 621-0508. A Health Spa Act violation also counts as a deceptive trade practice, and members can't sign those protections away.

For other Mesquite services, see the Mesquite local services page, or compare gyms in Garland.