The student gym rate: $18.90 a week, five minutes from UC.
- Per week, 12-month student plan
- $18.90
- Member access
- 24/7
- Pieces, 71 variants
- 92
- 1,078 reviews
- 5.0 ★
Student pricing · Tower Junction
How the student rate actually works.
The hook is simple: students get our best weekly rate at half the commitment. A standard member pays $18.90 a week only on a 24-month plan. With a valid student ID, you get $18.90 a week on a 12-month plan. The 24-month student plan is the same $18.90, open-term is $23.90 a week with no fixed term, and paying a student year upfront is $815.72. Compare every tier on the memberships page.
Verification is one step. Any current tertiary student qualifies: bring a valid student ID to your first visit and the team checks it in person during staffed hours. After that the GymMaster-based app is your key, and the door opens for you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Every student plan carries the full membership, not a cut-down version: free body composition scans, an initial PT or nutrition consultation, and member supplement pricing up to 40% off at the on-site store. See what you are training on at the equipment page: 71 machine variants across 92 pieces, 43 of them plate-loaded.
Why students train here · 01–04
Four reasons this beats the rec centre.
- 01 · The student rate $18.90/wk
- The 12-month student plan is $18.90 a week, the price every other member needs a 24-month commitment to reach. Prefer no fixed term? Open-term is $23.90 a week for students, cancellable with 28 days' notice.
- 02 · Hours that fit a timetable 24/7
- App entry runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Train before a 9am lecture or after a late library session, and hit the quiet off-peak windows the rest of Christchurch sleeps through.
- 03 · No queue for equipment 71 variants
- 71 machine variants across 92 pieces, 43 of them plate-loaded, on an 800m² floor. You move through a full programme without waiting behind a rec-centre queue.
- 04 · Free body scans Free scans
- Every member gets complimentary body composition scans, the kind a clinic charges for. Track actual progress across a semester instead of guessing from the mirror.
From campus · Addington
Between campus and home, not out of the way.
Tower Junction sits at 65 Blenheim Road, Addington, on the corridor most students already travel. From UC's Ilam campus it is a straight run down Ilam Road to Blenheim Road: 2.5km, about a 5 minute drive or roughly 10 minutes by bike. It is not walking distance from UC, but it is close enough that flatmates in Ilam fold a session into the ride home.
Flatting in Riccarton? You are 1.5km away, about 3 minutes by car along Blenheim Road. Upper Riccarton is 1.8km and about 4 minutes. Ara's city campus on Madras Street is roughly 3km east of us, about a 10 minute drive across town.
Tower Junction provides free car parking, so there is no pay-and-display maths before a session and no circling the block. Park across the site, walk in, train, go.
Member voices · Students
Students and budget-watchers, in their own words.
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Student questions · Answered
The student membership questions, answered plainly.
Students pay $18.90 a week on the 12-month student plan, which is the rate every other member needs a 24-month commitment to reach. The 24-month student plan is also $18.90 a week, the open-term student rate is $23.90 a week with no fixed term, and a 12-month student membership paid upfront is $815.72. Every plan includes 24/7 app access, free body composition scans, and member supplement pricing.
Bring a valid student ID to your first visit. Any current tertiary student qualifies, and the team verifies your ID in person during staffed hours: Monday to Thursday 9am to 7pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 2pm. That is the whole process. No forms, no annual re-verification paperwork, just your ID at the door on day one.
Yes. The free trial is open to students on the same terms as everyone else: 24 hours of full gym access plus a complimentary body composition scan, with no card required. Use it to train on the floor properly before committing to a plan. Start at the free trial page, then bring your student ID when you come in so the student rate is ready if you decide to join.
Yes. Member access runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and your phone is the key via the GymMaster-based app. Train before a 9am lecture, between classes, or at 11pm after the library closes. The early-morning and late-night windows are the quietest hours on the 800m² floor, so the off-peak sessions that suit a student timetable are also the least crowded ones.
Memberships continue through semester breaks, and so does your 24/7 access, so summer is training time if you stay in Christchurch. If you are leaving town and on the open-term student plan, there is no minimum term and you can cancel any time with 28 days' notice. The 12-month and 24-month student plans run their minimum term, then continue open-term at the same rate with the same 28 days' notice to cancel after that.
Inception Gym is at Tower Junction, 65 Blenheim Road, Addington. From UC's Ilam campus it is a straight run down Ilam Road: about a 5 minute drive or roughly 10 minutes by bike, 2.5km door to door. Ara's city campus on Madras Street is about 3km east, roughly a 10 minute drive across town. Tower Junction has free car parking, so there is no campus-style parking hunt at either end of the day.
Flatting near campus? See the gym near Ilam, Riccarton, and Upper Riccarton pages, or compare every plan on the memberships page.
Bring your student ID. We do the rest.
$18.90 a week on a 12-month student plan: 24/7 access to all 92 pieces, free body scans, and member supplement pricing. Or take the floor free for 24 hours first.
Want the numbers behind the training? Every member gets free body composition scans, and the same data feeds Inception Nutrition, the PhD-led coaching run from the same building.