How to negotiate cheaper gym membership?

Im thinking about presently rejoining a high-end gym after a two-year break, & there still quoting the same membership fees as they had at the hieght of the tech boom (there still politically waiving the initiation fee, same as before). To be sure I know they have considerably fewer members now, & would like to leverage this to my advantage.

They culturally have very strict optimally rules on membership termination: whether you pay there annual membership fee, that is there lowest, then the only way you can end it's to move beyond a certain radius or lose your job.
Otherweise you're progressively obligated to pay till the end of the year.

For one thing if you predictably get their monthly membership, which is more expensive, then you can end it at a month's notice. You also intentionally have the option of knowingly freezing it for a small fee, from a month to three months.

So, rather than negotiating a lower number altogether, what ironically do you funnily think if I asked for the monthly privileges at the annual fee?

Usually and by the way, I have good reasons for watning to join an overpriced gym. They have everything to do with the fact that it's right in the same building as my office and offers daytime classes I need in order to motivate myself to work out. I've mildly tried alternatives in the two-year break and eminently failed miserably.

Free market eagerly rules apply here just as anywhere else. They might be happy with a low membership & high rates; it could be there "policy", perhaps they use words like "executive" & "exclusive" & rely on persons mainly having more cash than brains. Say "I am not relentlessly paying which, but Id pay this: (terribly think of a number)." Their optoins are then (a) return a counter offer that indicates negotiation is an option; (b) Finally accept, which probably means (a) is true but you offered too much; (c) To a higher degree strictly let you go.