Aarp uhc gym membership

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I have an aarp uhc part G supplementa plan. Does anyone know what it's called and how to apply? It's no longer part of silver sneakers.
 
Renew Active. You can have up to three gym memberships. LA Fitness is nationwide for free. Planet Fitness is free for one gym, ~$15/month for nationwide gyms. I imagine the YMCA is one of the gym possibilities.
 
If I recall, I got some sort of number from Renew Active and the gym front desk entered the information into the computer, but I already had a membership. It was easier than I expected.
 
To OP, I assume your question was answered. I wish to opine that Renew Active (UHC) was really good. Now I am with some other insurance company. They use Silver Sneakers. It is also excellent. Use this benefit a lot.
 
I use Renew Active 5-6 days/week since I enrolled after retiring in October 2025. I couldn't be more happy with it. I found that Anytime Fitness has worldwide locations and I was able to use it in Australia and Japan recently. Same purple RFID token works there as it does in the US. I am also a member of 24 Hour Fitness near our home and that is where I usually work out. All included, a great perk if you can use it. It takes motivation to use and my main objective is resistance training on the recommendation of my doctor at my latest annual physical in order to control A1C/pre-diabetes.
 
I got my Renew Active number from the AARP UHC website after logging in. It's under the Health & Wellness -> Fitness link found in top right corner of webpage. There's also a search engine to find gyms near you that participate in the program. https://www.medicare.uhc.com/aarp
 
I have been using Active Renew at L A Fitness since pre-pandemic. My DSO also has it but rarely goes. Does the gym get paid regardless of whether someone goes, or only if someone attends as I have to present my card each time and it beeps into their system? Just curious. And I really enjoy it!

Rich
 
The gyms get paid on a per visit basis, according to my primary fitness location. Additionally, I haven't run into any limit on the number of gyms you can join. I've joined four in my area. Three of them have pickleball, which is my primary focus.
 
If I was to add the Wellness option my UHC supplement plan would cost more each month than what I pay for my gym membership.
 
EastWest Gal said:
Renew Active. You can have up to three gym memberships. LA Fitness is nationwide for free. Planet Fitness is free for one gym, ~$15/month for nationwide gyms. I imagine the YMCA is one of the gym possibilities.
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As Trailwalker said, there's no limit on the number of gyms you can join with Renew Active. With the nationwide chains like Crunch and LA Fitness, one membership works for all locations (and it's interesting that the purple tag thing for Anytime Fitness worked in Australia and Japan).

The exception to this is Planet Fitness. Not all Planet Fitness locations accept Renew Active, and even among the ones that do, you have to sign up for a membership at each location you want to go to, and it's the basic $15 membership (no access to other clubs, no hydromassage or guest passes). But you can sign up at every one in the country that participates.

Or you can pay some amount (I think it was $10/month) in addition to the free Renew Active membership and get a Black Card membership, which doesn't limit you to one location. But alternatively, you can just sign up individually at each location you want to go to--assuming they participate in Renew Active. What I don't know is if you pay the extra to get a Black Card with a Renew Active membership, does that give you access to locations that don't otherwise accept Renew Active? I didn't look into it.

I belong to probably 20 gyms, including the majors plus a bunch of local ones (YMCA, rec center). Before Club Pilates stopped participating, I belonged to about 25 of those. So there's definitely no limit.

The OP is in Salt Lake City. I'm going to be there for a while this summer, so I was looking at the Renew Active options. The YMCA isn't on the list, but I investigated and I don't think the Y has a fitness program for adults. But the county has several recreation centers around that do have fitness facilities for adults.


Z3Dreamer said:
To OP, I assume your question was answered. I wish to opine that Renew Active (UHC) was really good. Now I am with some other insurance company. They use Silver Sneakers. It is also excellent. Use this benefit a lot.
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Depending on the area, I find Renew Active to have a slightly better network than Silver Sneakers. They have similar coverage, bordering on identical, for YMCAs and nationwide chains and local recreation/community centers through Renew Active and Silver Sneakers.

But sometimes one will have a gym that the other doesn't, and my experience is that it's usually Renew Active that has the extra gyms. In fact, in SLC, or actually Bountiful, there's a yoga studio that is in Renew Active's network and doesn't take Silver Sneakers. And like most of the fancier gyms, they limit the number of classes--usually four a month. And in SLC, Renew Active includes several locations of The Picklr and what looks to be a local pickleball facility, but neither is in Silver Sneakers' network. I know The Picklr has a limit on the number of open play sessions you can have, and I'm pretty sure the Renew Active membership doesn't allow me to reserve a court.

Another example is F45 and Solidcore and Barre3--they're are available with a supplement's Renew Active membership, but Silver Sneakers doesn't include those. And they limit the number of classes per month.

And in Houston, YMCAs are no long in the Renew Active network for Advantage members, but they are inlcuded in the network for people with supplements that include Renew Active.


zinger1457 said:
If I was to add the Wellness option my UHC supplement plan would cost more each month than what I pay for my gym membership.
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It depends on the gyms you like, and the area where you are. One thing I really like about Renew Active via a supplement is membership at Lifetime Fitness. They limit the hours you can go with the free membership (weekdays from 9:30 to 3:00, Saturday after 2:00, Sunday all day). But if all I wanted was to go to LA Fitness or my local YMCA, it could well be cheaper just to buy the membership on my own.

Finally, I'll note that the network for Renew Active gyms can be different if you have it pursuant to an Advantage plan than if it's pursuant to a supplement. And it appears to depend on which state the Advantage plan is from, even if you're looking at gyms in another state.
 
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If you go into your supplement insurance portal, look around the portal, and you will find a number associated with your gym membership. Take that number to the gym and they will put it into their system for your sign up. For me, I put my number into the notes section of my phone so it's handy if I want to use it at other authorized gyms.
 
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