Twice a week personal training is 8 sessions a month. That's $875 per month. Divided by 8 it is slightly less $110 per hour. A good personal trainer can easily charge $110 per hour, including facilities charges.
Spending money on personal trainers allows you and your wife not to look like tubs of lard by mid thirties which in turns solves a boat load of very expensive problems in your forties and fifties. It is difficult to "change the world" with high blood pressure and diabetes.
I don't think he was asking for a breakdown of what goes into the cost - I think the point is that most reasonable people would conclude that $1,000+/month spent on personal training very much qualifies as extravagant spending.
Twice a week personal training is 8 sessions a month. That's $875 per month. Divided by 8 it is slightly less $110 per hour. A good personal trainer can easily charge $110 per hour, including facilities charges.
Spending money on personal trainers allows you and your wife not to look like tubs of lard by mid thirties which in turns solves a boat load of very expensive problems in your forties and fifties. It is difficult to "change the world" with high blood pressure and diabetes.