How to Cancel LA Fitness Membership (2026)

The mailed route is the one LA Fitness documents most clearly, and it is the one that leaves you with proof. The same process covers Esporta Fitness, which is run by the same company.

1. Find your billing date and count back five business days. That postmark deadline is the whole game — everything else is paperwork.
2. Get the cancellation form from your online account or a club, and fill it in completely. A membership number and the name on the account save a round trip.
3. Mail it to LA Fitness, P.O. Box 54170, Irvine, CA 92619. LA Fitness recommends registered or certified mail and keeping a record for your files; the postmark is what proves you made the deadline.
4. Or cancel in person at a club, or through your online account if the option appears there. Depending on the state you enrolled in, email cancellation may also be accepted — the club can tell you whether yours is one.
5. Keep the receipt and the copy. If a charge lands after your cancellation should have taken effect, LA Fitness's own policy is that a billing inside the five-day window gets refunded, and the postmark receipt is what makes that a two-minute conversation.
6. Cancel personal training separately. Training packages are a different agreement from the gym membership and ending one does not end the other.

Partly. LA Fitness lists canceling through your online account as an option alongside canceling in person and by mail, and says email cancellation may be available depending on the state you enrolled in. The mailed form is still the route its member-services pages describe in the most detail, and it is the one with an unambiguous timestamp.

If you enrolled online in New York or California, state law requires an online way out, and it is reasonable to insist on one. Everywhere else, if the account page does not show a cancel option, use certified mail rather than a phone call — a call leaves you nothing to show later.

LA Fitness's month-to-month memberships do not carry an exit fee; the cost of getting it wrong is one more month's dues, which is exactly what the postmark rule exists to prevent.

Esporta Fitness memberships follow the same operator and the same mailed-notice process. If you hold both an LA Fitness and an Esporta membership, they are two contracts and need two cancellations.

Two things decide what a gym has to let you do, and only one of them is settled. The federal rule most people have heard of is not in force: the FTC's click-to-cancel rule, which would have required canceling to be as simple as signing up, was thrown out in full by the Eighth Circuit on July 8, 2025, weeks before compliance was due. The FTC reopened the rulemaking with an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in March 2026 and took comments until April 13, 2026; no replacement rule exists yet. The agency still sues over hard-to-cancel subscriptions under ROSCA and Section 5 of the FTC Act, so this is not a free-for-all — but there is no federal cancel button to point at today.

State law is where the real rights are. In New York, General Business Law § 624 lets you cancel any health-club contract within three business days of signing, with no penalty, and requires every dollar back within ten business days. It also gives you an exit later: a doctor-certified disability lasting more than three months, a move of more than 25 miles from any club the chain operates, or the club no longer providing what it sold you. Death releases the estate. Separately, § 527-a says that if you signed up online, you have to be able to cancel online — that is the law the Attorney General used against Equinox in May 2025.

California runs on the same idea with different numbers: Civil Code § 1812.85 requires a five-day cooling-off period on health-studio contracts, refunds are pro-rated to what you actually used, and the disability, death, and 25-mile relocation outs are all there. Since July 1, 2025, AB 2863 has required businesses to offer cancellation through the same channel you signed up in.

Most other states have their own health-club statute with a similar cooling-off window and similar medical and relocation exits. Look yours up before you accept a no at the front desk. This is general information, not legal advice.

If the problem is that you are not going often enough to justify the dues, ask the club about a lower tier before you leave: single-club access is cheaper than multi-club, and it is a change rather than a cancellation, so no notice period applies.

If you are moving on for price, take a number with you. We publish what every gym in New York City actually charges — the monthly, the signup fees, and the all-in cost that combines them.

In New York, the closest equivalents on price are Planet Fitness, PureGym and Crunch Fitness. If you train sporadically, day passes usually beats a membership outright, and it is worth checking whether FSA or HSA money can cover part of the cost.