Hi - I do Bikram yoga, am a serious karate student and I belong to a rad gym with every mahcine/class/cardio opportunity under the sun, and I still joined Curves.

Even though I workout a lot, my weight still climed up. Curves is not "hip and young" like my gym, but Curves works. The machines are effective if you make them effective -- I see it everyday. It's not a scene. It is there to serve women who need to grasp metabolism and exercising with weights. I've lost 17.5 inches off my body in 8 weeks. It doesn't relpace my gym or other activities, it enhances them. I could lift at my gym, but it isn't constructed like Curves, so it would take me longer and I appreciate the convenience of the 30 minutes at Curves. I know women who've been doing Curves for well over a year and they're cut and happy.