Without gyms, people would resort to outdated fitness techniques such as swimming and pushing Model Ts up slight inclines. Celebrate contemporary fitness with today's Groupon: for $25, you get a two-week membership, a 30-minute personal-training session, and a 25-minute sports massage at Quest Fitness (a $195.50 total value) in Kennebunk.

Quest Fitness boasts a spacious, 20,000-square-foot facility equipped with group classes, massage therapists, and personal trainers prepared to whip burgeoning fitness fanatics into shape. A two-week Quest Fitness membership (a $118 value) grants members access to rows of cardio machines, including bikes, treadmills, and elliptical machines, and a four-lane salt-water pool. Health hunters can attend a variety of fitness classes chosen from a schedule of more than 50 sessions per week, such as Body Combat sessions, which combine karate, boxing, tai chi, and kickboxing, as well as the Aqua Aerobics class, an aquatic workout where swimmers float, swim, and cannonball their way to physical fitness. Achieve a more targeted workout with a 30-minute one-on-one personal-training session (a $37.50 value), during which an experienced trainer will wake up lethargic muscles just in time for the annual interoffice strongman competition.

Gym-goers can relax with a 25-minute, muscle-melting sports massage (a $40 value), which can help shorten recovery time and reduce muscle soreness. Afterwards enjoy body-pampering amenities, such as access to the stress-releasing sauna and unlimited towel service.