Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation Amendment to Employment Agreement

Exhibit 10.1

Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation

Amendment to Employment Agreement

     THIS AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “Amendment”), dated as of September 14, 2006, is by and between Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation, a Delaware Corporation with its headquarters at 8700 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60631-3707 (hereinafter called “Bally”), and Marc Bassewitz (hereinafter called the “Executive”).

     WHEREAS, Bally and Executive have entered into that certain Employment Agreement dated as of January 1, 2005, which was amended on December 1, 2005 (the “Agreement”); and

     WHEREAS, Bally and Executive desire to further amend the Agreement on the terms and conditions described herein;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants and agreements of the parties herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1.

Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement.

2.		Subparagraph (c) of Section 4 of the Agreement is amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:
		Long-Term Incentive. The Executive shall be eligible to participate in any plan under which senior executives of the Company are eligible to receive equity compensation or other long-term incentive grants (each, a “LTIP”) as may be determined by the Board or duly authorized Committee of the Board.

3.

Except as amended hereby, the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, and as amended the same is hereby affirmed and ratified.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Amendment effective as of the date first written above.

Executive:		/s/ Marc D. Bassewitz
		Marc D. Bassewitz
Date:		September 14, 2006
Attest:		/s/ Marilyn Kanouse
Date:		September 14, 2006
Company:
By:		/s/ John W. Rogers, Jr.
		John W. Rogers, Jr., Chairperson, Compensation Committee
Date:		September 14, 2006
Attest:		/s/ Marilyn Kanouse
Date:		September 14, 2006
By:		/s/ Harold Morgan
		Harold Morgan, SVP, Chief Administrative Officer
Date:		September 14, 2006
Attest:		/s/ Marilyn Kanouse
Date:		September 14, 2006