With so many health and fitness centers coming up in the nearby localities, you need to consider a few points before choosing a health and fitness center. The factors to be considered are -Convenient Location – For a successful fitness program, you need to select a center that is convenient to reach and one which has got ample parking space. If you have to spend most of your time trying to find a parking slot for your car, you might lose interest in going back to that fitness center.Try before finalizing – Most of the health and fitness centers usually are ready to give a trial membership or a day pass, before you enroll. Try the services of one or two centers and get the feel of the atmosphere in the gym. Try going to the fitness centers in the time slots that you usually prefer to workout and get a feel of how crowded is the place or how long is the wait time for a particular equipment. Try working out with few equipments and see how they are. If you can, try speaking to some of the fitness center members and find from their experiences.Find out, whether you get what you want – If you have children and need a facility where they can be left while you are working out, contact various health centers and find out from them if they have a facility where your children can be left. Once you narrow down to those centers with facility for childcare, make sure, you leave your children in the facility once and see if it is safe to leave your children there. If you are interested in taking up other activities like yoga or meditation, make sure that you take them once and see if you like them before signing up for the health and fitness center.Find out about the training staff – If you wish to get guidance from a trainer or even plan to hire a personal trainer, see to that you speak to the training staff and find out whether they can provide you the required assistance. See if the staff at the health and fitness center is friendly or easy to approach.Cost Factor – Before signing on the dotted line find out clearly about the membership fee and also find out if there are any hidden fees or any additional prices for using another centers facilities such as swimming pool or the locker service, etc. This should be the most important and the deciding factor before finalizing a health and fitness center. Also, check if they have any corporate discounts available and find out if you are eligible for it. Though boring, read the contract before signing, just to be on a safer side and to find out if there are any terms which you are not aware of.By keeping the above mentioned factors in mind before finalizing on a health center, you are sure to be satisfied with the services offered by them.