Gyms in Midland

Fixr's January 2025 national survey puts basic gyms at $15 to $40 a month and gyms with more advanced equipment at $50 to $100. An older benchmark, Statista's 2021 figure cited by Forbes Health, put the average at $28.58 a month, with prices from about $10 to $300. Compare the total cost of each Midland contract: monthly fee, initiation fee, annual fee and the length you commit to. The Texas gyms guide covers contract types.

Texas caps how long you can be locked in: a contract can't run more than three years, and a financed one can't require payments for more than five.

The three-day gym cancellation window

Mail written notice by certified mail by midnight of the third business day after the contract date, and the gym owes a full refund. The contract has to spell this right out in conspicuous 10-point type, along with your rights if the gym closes or moves more than 10 miles.

Later gym cancellation rights

• If the gym closes and offers nothing within 10 miles, moves more than 10 miles away, or stops providing advertised services, you can cancel for a partial refund.
• If you die or become totally and permanently disabled, you or your estate can cancel and recover unearned payments.
• If the gym is unusable for 30 days or more for reasons outside the owner's control, your contract must be extended by that time.

The gym has to post a notice inside and outside each entrance at least 30 days before closing or moving, and tell the Secretary of State, unless fire, flood or another act of God forces the closure.

Most membership gyms are "health spas" under Texas law and need a Secretary of State certificate of registration for each location before selling memberships. The online health spa search shows whether a gym is registered and whether it has posted security; the Secretary of State also posts a weekly PDF list every Wednesday. The certificate must hang where members can see it, and its number belongs in your contract. A contract signed while the seller was unregistered is void.

Nonprofits, member-owned private clubs, dance-only or aerobics-only studios and rehab providers aren't covered, so a dance-only studio may not show up at all.

Gym security and closures

Unless exempt, each location posts $20,000 to $50,000 with the Secretary of State, as a bond or certificate of deposit, scaled to its prepaid memberships. Gyms with no contracts or prepayment over 31 days, financing, automatic drafts or initiation fees can be exempt. If a registered gym closes, members can claim against that 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.

A gym selling memberships before opening must keep the money in an FDIC-insured escrow account until 30 days after it opens, unless exempt. If it hasn't opened within 180 days of first sales, or closes within 30 days, prepaying members are generally owed a full refund.

Because the Secretary of State's job ends at registration, take a dispute over sales or refunds to the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division, (800) 621-0508. A Health Spa Act violation is a deceptive trade practice, and you can't sign those protections away. Gyms also may not misrepresent staff qualifications or likely fitness results.

For more on the city, see the Midland city guide. Compare gyms in Odessa, and for other health care see Midland dentists.