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Challenges

Get Schooled! Free Crunch Passes And Your 28-Day Master Class in Living Well

Two important items of note. First, today kicks off the Crunch Get Schooled Challenge! What is it? A 28-day master class in living well, consisting of four key feats:

1. 20 Workouts in 28 days
2. No Judgements (meditation meets radical self-acceptance)
3. 20 Healthy Meals in 28 Day
4. Group Fitness Sampler (8 new classes in 28 days)

Track it all on Social Workout 2.0. We're handing out free two-week passes to help you get started. And one lucky challenge completer wins a free year-long Crunch membership! Second item of note, today's NYC Groupon is a month of Crunch for $39. Add that month to your two week pass, and you've got a supremely happy/healthy start to your fall. 

Gym Deals

Worst Gym Contract Ever

The Office of Fair Trading in the UK has just filed proceedings against Ashbourne Management, a company which draws up membership agreements for gyms. Their truly horrifying gym contracts tie patrons to gyms for a minimum of three years, and you can't cancel. If you do, Ashbourne sends you a bill for the full amount for the entire three years. What's worse, according to numerous complaints, Ashbourne makes none of this clear when you sign up. My cell phone contract suddenly feels so friendly. 

Gym Deals

What It Feels Like to Get Caught Double-Dipping at Equinox

Free passes can get you pretty far in this town. Fellow gym-blogger Julie Neyman of "Buns of Steal" is attempting to work out all year at gyms around NYC without spending a cent, courtesy of day-passes, week-passes, whatever she can eke out of the promotional system. But she recently got busted by Equinox:

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