New Life Time Middletown/Red Bank Will Open Sometime Before April

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — What's the latest with the Life Time coming to Middletown/Red Bank?

For those who don't know, Life Time-Middletown is the $40 million, three-story luxury fitness club currently under construction on Half Mile Road/Schulz Drive, right by the entrance to the Garden State Parkway.

Construction is entering the home stretch, and the club is on track to open in the first quarter of 2024 (before April), a Life Time spokeswoman told Patch in January.

Life Time is also opening a virtual co-working space directly across the street from the gym, called Life Time Work (331 Newman Springs Road, One River Center Building 3, Red Bank, NJ 07701).

Life Time Work in Middletown will open next Wednesday, Jan. 24, said the company spokeswoman. Take a tour of what their co-working space will look like.

The Life Time Middletown will have (some of this is new, and has changed since last year):

• 3 indoor pools
• 2 outdoor pools
• No basketball court
• 6 indoor Pickleball courts and Pickleball lounge
• Wine and liquor lounge

It will also have yoga and Pilates studios and a cafe serving smoothies, healthy grain bowls, sandwiches and snacks.

The starting membership price is $249/month (plus enrollment fees), but membership dues will likely increase as the club gets closer to opening.

What The Middletown Life Time Health Club Will Be Like (March 2023)

At Life Time Work, you can rent the space on either a yearly or month-to-month basis; there are private offices, meeting spaces, WiFi and printing. The Life Time Work lounge membership pricing starts at $429/month, with membership to the health club included.

You can rent a whole private office, or just a single desk. Membership to the gym is not always included in Life Time Work membership; it depends which package members sign up for.

Life Time spokeswoman Natalie Bushaw said the company had the idea to add co-working space after they noticed more and more members bringing their laptops to the gym, and working from there.

"This is a great market," she previously said, referring to the greater Middletown area, including Holmdel, Rumson, Little Silver and Marlboro/Colts Neck.

Last March, this Patch reporter was invited by Life Time to tour their Montvale location, where we expected to see lots of super-fit women in yoga pants and bankers jogging on treadmills.

While there's nothing wrong with yoga moms or bankers, what surprised us most was how many kids were running about: Life Time markets itself as a health club for families and this appeared true. Moms and dads were dashing their kids in for swim lessons, and children ages 6-10 could be seen lining up for basketball. Life Time also runs its Ultimate Hoops basketball league for kids and adults, with a range of teams for all ability levels.

Lots of people were inside the club, ranging from teenagers to older adults in their 70s and 80s. Life Time had a healthy vibe. In the summers, their outdoor pools turn into sort of a beach club.