For the year that has just begun, fitness centers all throughout the United States have decided to decrease the fees for new and current members and even for former ones, probably counting on Americans’ New Year’s resolutions to lose weight.

In Los Angeles, for example, the upscale SportsClub has recently invited members who had at some point given up going to the gym to return, without requiring them to pay the one-time initiation fee that amounts to at least $600 and also no membership dues for two months.

Summing up, it makes for savings of at least $330, which even when it comes to one’s health, is not quite to be taken lightly.

Other clubs in LA are offering some good deals, as well, including Bally Total Fitness that is giving away two-week free guest passes, even though it has recently filed for bankruptcy, Curves, which entices with a one month free, then 50% off the monthly membership fee offer, Gold’s Gym that needs no enrollment fee and L.A. boxing, which promises a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Joe Moore, chief executive of the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association, a fitness trade group, stated that gyms were grasping the impact the economic climate had on Americans and that they were slashing their prices in order to help both members and the clubs themselves get through the financial crisis.

Furthermore, Moore recommended that people review their benefits online and also have a staff member of the club walk them through what they were being offered, so as to better understand and weigh up the pros and cons of their membership.