These terms cover memberships, bookings, the gym and this website. By creating an account, buying a plan, booking a class or session, or using the gym, you agree to them. If anything is unclear, ask us.
Who we are
Life Advance Fitness ("LAF," "we," "us") is an independent gym and training studio at 436 State Avenue, Emmaus, PA 18049, owned by Vincient (Vince) Wimberly Jr.
Your account
- You need an account to book classes, buy a plan or use member features. A free account is enough to book a drop-in class.
- If you’re under 18, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you.
- You can sign up with an email and password, or with Google. Accounts run on Memberstack.
- Give us accurate information and keep it up to date.
- One person per account. Keep your login private. You're responsible for what happens under your account, so tell us right away if someone else uses it.
- We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms.
Memberships and billing
Current prices are on the Membership and Online pages and shown at checkout before you pay.
- Free account: Workout of the Day, community check-ins and member spotlights, and booking classes at the drop-in price, at no charge.
- Gym membership: $25 a month. Includes key fob access, early entry to classes and events, member class prices, class packs and monthly class plans, free online workouts and an LAF training tee.
- Personal-training client rate: the gym membership at $20 a month, for active personal-training clients of LAF trainers.
- VIP online: $39 a month, added to a gym membership (so $64 a month at the general rate). Adds the full online library, demo videos and Ask the Expert.
Paid plans renew automatically each month. Stripe processes the payments and charges your payment method on each renewal date until you cancel.
Cancel any time. Log in and choose Manage plan and billing on your dashboard, or Manage in My classes for a class plan. It opens Stripe’s customer portal, where you can cancel or update your card. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you’ve already paid for, and you won’t be charged again.
Refunds: class packs and class plans aren’t refundable (see below). If you think a membership charge is wrong, contact us and we’ll sort it out.
Price changes: If your plan’s price changes, we’ll tell you before the new price takes effect, so you can cancel first if you want to.
Failed payments: If a payment fails, we may pause your plan's benefits, including fob access, until it's paid.
Classes, packs and personal training
Classes (B.E.L.L.S, P.U.S.H, P.U.L.L and B.O.X.N), class packs and monthly class plans are booked and paid on this website, and Stripe processes the payments. Personal training and consultations are booked through Calendly.
- Prices: anyone with an account can book a class at the drop-in price. Gym members pay $5 less per class, and only gym members can buy class packs and monthly class plans.
- Booking window: classes open for booking 14 days ahead.
- Class packs: each class in a pack is for the class it was bought for, and a pack expires 60 days after you buy it. Unused classes don’t carry over, can’t be used for another class or by another account, and aren’t refundable.
- Monthly class plans (B.O.X.N Bronze, Silver and Gold) renew every month and load that month’s classes: 4, 8 or 12. Unused classes don’t roll over. Cancel any time from Manage in My classes, and the plan runs to the end of the month you’ve paid for.
- Waiting lists: when a class is full, up to 3 people can join its waiting list. If a spot opens, the first person waiting gets it held for 2 hours to book.
- Personal training starts with an inquiry or a free consultation. Package and payment terms are agreed with your trainer.
Cancellations and no-shows: cancel at least 2 hours before a class and it goes back on your LAF account as a credit for that class, however you paid. A later cancellation or a no-show uses up the class. There’s no extra fee.
We may change class times, swap instructors or cancel a class. If we cancel, everyone booked gets a credit for that class back on their account.
Gym access and key fobs
Gym members get a key fob that opens the gym during the hours it isn't staffed. Qualified LAF staff issue fobs in person.
- Your fob is for you only. Don't lend it, copy it, or let anyone in behind you.
- During unstaffed hours, nobody from LAF is there to help. Train within your ability, and skip lifts that need a spotter if you don't have one.
- Follow the gym rules posted at LAF and any instructions from our staff.
- In an emergency, call 911.
- If your fob is lost or stolen, tell us right away so we can turn it off. A replacement fob may carry a fee.
- We may turn off a fob when a membership ends, when a payment fails, or when someone breaks these terms or the gym rules.
Your health and the risks of exercise
Exercise carries real risks, whether you're in a class, with a trainer or on your own. They include strains, sprains, falls, injuries from equipment and, in rare cases, heart problems or other serious injury.
- Check with your doctor before you start a new exercise program, especially if you're pregnant or have a heart condition, high blood pressure, a past injury or another health concern.
- Tell your trainer or instructor about any condition or injury that could affect your training.
- Stop and get help if you feel pain, dizziness or chest pain, or if you're short of breath.
- Use equipment as it's meant to be used, and ask if you're not sure how.
By taking part, you understand these risks and choose to accept them. Our trainers and online content give fitness guidance, not medical advice.
You may also need to sign LAF’s liability waiver at the gym, which applies alongside these terms.
As far as Pennsylvania law allows, LAF isn't responsible for injuries or losses that come from the ordinary risks of exercise.
Check-ins and other content you share
Members can post a check-in, a short note about a session, on the community board. A check-in shows the member’s name and profile photo. Check-ins from gym and VIP members go up right away; check-ins from free accounts go up once Vince approves them.
- You keep ownership of what you post.
- Use a profile photo of yourself, or one you have the right to share.
- When you post a check-in, you give LAF permission to show it on our website, including the community board. We won’t use it anywhere else without asking you first. You can ask us to take it down at any time.
- No nudity, hateful or harassing content, ads, or anything illegal.
- We may decline any check-in, or remove one later.
Text messages
If you opt in, Life Advance Fitness will text you about classes, schedule changes and reminders, plus the occasional review request. Message frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to any text to opt out, or HELP for help, or call us at 484-273-2156. You don’t have to opt in to join or to buy anything. Carriers aren’t liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Our privacy policy explains how we handle your number.
Acceptable use
When you use the site, the chat or the gym, please don't:
- share your login, or let someone else use your account or plan;
- try to get around payments, membership checks or security;
- copy, scrape or bulk-download content, or use bots;
- upload viruses or harmful code;
- harass, threaten or impersonate anyone, including staff and other members;
- use LAF for anything illegal.
Online content
Our workouts, videos, tips, Ask the Expert answers and other online content belong to LAF or the people who made them. Your account or plan lets you use the content it includes for your own training while it's active. Don't resell, republish, record, share or redistribute it, or use it to coach other people.
Ask the Expert answers are general fitness information, not medical advice.
Services we rely on
These outside services help us run LAF: Webflow (website, forms and class booking), Memberstack (accounts), Stripe (payments and billing), Calendly (personal-training bookings), Google (sign-in and analytics) and LeadConnector (website chat). When you use them through our site, their own terms and privacy policies apply too. We aren't responsible for their outages or errors, but we'll help you sort out any problem with an LAF purchase.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We'll post each new version here with a new effective date, and if a change affects a paid plan, we'll email members before it takes effect. If you keep using LAF after a change, you accept the updated terms.
Pennsylvania law
Pennsylvania law governs these terms. Disputes will be handled in the state or federal courts serving Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
Contact us
- Life Advance Fitness
- 436 State Avenue, Emmaus, PA 18049
- Phone: 484-273-2156
- Message: our contact form
- Website: www.lifeadvancefitness.com