I paid for a year of gym membership and never used it lol. But in my defence, it was REALLY hard to get to and there were other factors that came into it.

I think the best thing you can do is try it out before buying a long membership. I'm going to join the local leasure centre tomorrow (half the price of a gym!) for a month to see if I can actually go, before buying a year long membership sorta thing.

The truth is, it's totally up to you whether you go or not. I've heard that something like 95% stop using their memberships (I imagine this is year long memberships) but that doesn't mean you have to be part of that percentage. I imagine the same number of people who stop using gyms also drop out of diets, which kind of puts it in perspective. Again, you don't have to be one of those people!