Yola comes out ahead here because you can get membership, class and contact pages live in one sitting, using a template already structured for a fitness business instead of a generic layout you'd have to adapt yourself. It has no real learning curve for a first-time site owner, and pricing starts at $9.95/mo. See current plans at yola.com/pricing.
Yes. Yola's forms are customizable, so you can set one to ask for a preferred class time, membership tier or trial date, and the inquiry lands in your inbox ready to follow up on. It won't process a completed sign-up and payment on its own, so plan to confirm details and take payment when you respond. See how the block works at the Forms block help article.
Wix is the stronger pick here. Its app market includes booking and scheduling tools built for recurring classes and membership billing, which Yola doesn't handle natively. If class bookings matter more to you than a fast setup, that trade-off is worth making. On Yola, the workaround is to add a booking link to a tool your gym already uses, such as Mindbody or Calendly, so sign-ups still reach your system. Compare the booking apps at wix.com.
Lead with a clear membership and pricing section, a photo gallery of the space, a short line on what makes your classes different, and a simple way to ask about a trial. Reviews help too, since most people check them before ever walking in. Yola's Gallery block and customizable forms cover the photo and inquiry side without extra setup.
The difference shows up in the details a generic builder leaves you to build yourself: pricing tables for memberships, a way to list class types, and a gallery built for a training space rather than a product shelf. A platform built with that in mind gets a gym-specific site live faster than a general-purpose one you'd have to adapt.
Yes, across most of these builders. Yola starts at $9.95/mo, GoDaddy at $9.99/mo, and both keep the entry price low enough for a new gym to commit without much risk. Wix, Squarespace and Duda sit higher, from $17.00/mo to $19.00/mo, which matters more once you're comparing on monthly cost alone. Check current pricing at squarespace.com.
More than most gym owners expect. Someone searching for a class near them is almost always doing it on their phone, often between other things, so a slow or cluttered mobile page loses them before they read a word about your classes. Yola's templates are mobile-optimized by default, and the editor lets you preview and adjust each page in mobile view before you publish. See how that works at the mobile editing help article.
Pick Yola if getting online fast and keeping the site simple to run matters more than deep customization or built-in class booking. You can have membership, class and contact pages live in one sitting, using templates already structured for a fitness business, while Wix and Squarespace both ask for more setup time in exchange for features like class booking or blogging that not every gym needs on day one.