The Life Time Fitness waiver form is not a separate document you fill out and submit — it is written into the membership agreement itself, and you accept it electronically when you enroll online, through the Life Time mobile app, or in person at a club. The same package covers you and any minor dependents on your account, and it combines an assumption of risk, a release of liability, an indemnification promise, a binding arbitration clause, and an image-and-likeness release.1Life Time. Life Time Digital Membership Terms Below is what each piece actually commits you to, and the practical steps for getting through sign-up without surprises.
How You Sign It
If you are joining as a new member, the waiver appears as a sequence of agreement screens inside the enrollment flow. Your electronic signature is timestamped when you accept, and that is the submission — there is no PDF to print, mail, or hand in. Joining in person works the same way on a tablet or terminal at the front desk.
Have the following ready before you start:
- Your legal name as it appears on your ID, current address, phone number, and an emergency contact.
- For any minor dependents between 3 months and 25 years old, their date of birth and, if Life Time requests it, proof of cohabitation, guardianship, age, or residency. Add-on and service fees apply per dependent.2Life Time. Help and FAQs
Guests follow a separate path. An adult guest completes a guest registration at the club on each visit and must present a valid driver’s license or government-issued ID before access to the floor, pools, or courts opens up.3Life Time. Can I Bring a Guest to the Club? Name mismatches between your ID and your agreement are the most common cause of check-in delays, so make sure the two match before you submit.
Assumption of Risk and Release of Liability
The first substantive block of the agreement is the assumption of risk. You acknowledge that gym activity carries physical dangers — slips, falls, collisions, equipment malfunctions, loss or theft of personal property — and that possible injuries range from minor scrapes to catastrophic outcomes including paralysis, heart attack, stroke, and death.1Life Time. Life Time Digital Membership Terms The language also extends to emotional, economic, and property-related harm.
The sentence that gives the clause its legal weight is the one stating that these injuries may be caused “in whole or in part” by Life Time’s own negligence, and that you accept that risk anyway.1Life Time. Life Time Digital Membership Terms You are not just acknowledging inherent exercise risks; you are agreeing in advance that if the company is careless, you will not hold that against them.
The waiver of liability then puts that acceptance into a release. You release Life Time, its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from claims arising out of injury or property damage, and the release extends to your spouse, children, heirs, and legal representatives.4New Jersey Courts. Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division Docket No. A-3229-19 The property-damage portion is why the club is not responsible for items lost or stolen from lockers.
These clauses are not unlimited. In most states a signed waiver blocks claims for ordinary negligence but will not shield a business from gross negligence, reckless conduct, or intentional harm. New York law voids assumption-of-risk waivers for gyms, pools, and similar paid recreational facilities entirely. Courts generally require the waiver language to be clear and unambiguous, and several states require the word “negligence” to appear in the text.
The agreement also includes an indemnification clause: if your conduct at the club leads to a third-party claim against Life Time, you agree to cover the company’s losses, including attorney fees.5Life Time. Life Time Terms of Use
The Arbitration Clause and What It Does Not Cover
A separate section requires you to resolve disputes with Life Time through individual binding arbitration rather than a lawsuit, and you waive both your right to a jury trial and your right to join a class action.5Life Time. Life Time Terms of Use This is the clause that most members skim past.
Three categories of dispute are carved out:
- Either party can bring an individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitrating.
- Claims arising from physical bodily injury must be litigated in court, not arbitrated.
- Either party can seek a temporary restraining order or injunction from a court while an arbitration is pending.
The injury carve-out is the one worth noting. Billing fights, cancellation disputes, and similar commercial disagreements go to arbitration, but if you are physically hurt at the gym your claim still goes to a judge or jury.5Life Time. Life Time Terms of Use
Image and Likeness Release
By signing, you grant Life Time an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free right to use your image. If the club photographs or records you on the premises or at a club-sponsored event, it can use those images in marketing, on social media, in promotional displays, or for any other commercial purpose, without further notice, approval, or payment.6Life Time. Image and Likeness Release
The release covers photos, video, livestreams, audio, and derivative works, and Life Time can sublicense your likeness to third parties. You waive any right to inspect or approve the end use. The word “irrevocable” is the one to read twice: the release does not describe an opt-out mechanism or a revocation process once you have signed.6Life Time. Image and Likeness Release The same consent applies to any minor on your membership.
Signing for a Minor
Because minors cannot enter into contracts, a parent or legal guardian signs on their behalf. When you accept the membership agreement, you bind yourself and every minor dependent listed on your account to the assumption of risk, the liability release, and the image release.1Life Time. Life Time Digital Membership Terms
Age then governs what the child can do inside the club:
- At 11, a child may use the fitness floor and free-weight area only under direct supervision of a parent, legal guardian, or authorized adult.
- At 12 and 13, a child may use the fitness floor and free-weight area and attend group fitness classes independently.
If someone other than you — a grandparent, for example — will bring your child to the club, a separate Parent/Guardian Consent Form has to be on file first. You can submit it online or print it and drop it off at the sponsoring member’s home club, but it needs to be completed before the visit, not at the door.7Life Time. Guest and Club Policies
Health Representations You Are Making
The agreement does not require medical clearance, but it does ask you to represent that you are healthy enough to use the facility safely and that you are complying with any applicable government health directives. The club recommends consulting a physician and getting a physical before starting a new exercise program.7Life Time. Guest and Club Policies
You also agree to a set of communicable-illness rules. If you have symptoms of or known exposure to an infectious disease, you are required to leave the premises immediately. Exposed lesions or rashes have to be covered with waterproof adhesive bandages. Life Time reserves the right to restrict your access based on visible illness or infection risk, and the agreement states that the company cannot eliminate all risk of exposure to viruses or bacteria in a fitness environment.7Life Time. Guest and Club Policies Clicking through enrollment is your acknowledgment that you accept those terms.