Likes and dislikes of your gym.
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I go to a Pure Gym in Manchester, England
Likes:
The price (£19.99 a month with no contract, and you can "pause" your membership if you go away)
It's very clean
The staff are all nice and friendly
They have lots of spiffing new equipment, like sandbags and big heavy tires and other things I haven't yet used
It's very conveniently located for me (5-minute walk)
It's open 24/7
Dislikes:
It's cramped. When it's busy you can struggle to find a space where someone isn't already swinging and heaving something heavy around.
Inconsiderate idiots hogging machines and weights.
Inconsiderate idiots leavings plates and stuff all over the place (some of them are actually hard for me to lift. I'm not that strong.)0 -
Likes:
A squat rack - the only gym nearby that has one, not even the leisure centre has one
A sauna
I get a good deal as an NHS worker
Lots weights and plenty of different types
It's right next to Aldi - not sure if this is a good or bad thing, I always end up coming home with the fruit & veg of the week.
In spite of the morons who leave things lying around, some of the other patrons are really helpful and nice
Plenty of classes - all day and evening
Dislikes:
There are no small weights (less than 1.25kg) to build up on barbells. Going up 2.5kg a time is hard on the arms.
Only the one squat rack - but 2 smith cage thingies that are hardly ever used
Weights are never, ever put back. I have to schlep 25kg plates around to get to the squat rack in the first place, thanks for providing my warm up numbnuts!
The pool is ok for relaxing and cooling down in, but it's not deep or very cold and after a few laps it's uncomfortably warm if you really want to go for it.
Yoga classes only take place during office hours0 -
The only thing I dislike so far about my gym, is that there isn't a power rack or squat rack... nor is there Pulley system... But they have everything else that one could have a decent workout with.0
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Likes
- Free pizza
Is your gym a "judgement free zone" and does it look like Barney the dinosaur decorated?
Yes, yes it does. Fortunately I don't go there for the color of the equipment but how well they function!
I also like only having to pay $10/month. I think I'm lucky that this PF caters to a lot of marines so there's plenty of free weights, squat racks etc! I'll take it.0 -
Not gonna lie, that's absurdly high. Granted $50 a year is absurdly low, but $710 a year not including personal training?? That's nuts. Also, do you really need a personal trainer? Just a thought.
It's not bad at all, and a trainer is going to be a LOT more expensive. You're talking $59 a month which is nothing. However, a trainer worth their salt is going to be around that, more if they're busy, or have a private gym.
I think my trainer is about $400 a month, and I'm getting a steal of a deal, and my normal gym is $50 a month I think.
Wow, I guess I'm just not used to that. I don't know anybody who pays more than $30 a month max for a gym membership. Also, personal trainers are a good tool when you're just starting out, and coaches are a good tool if you're competing (body building, athletic competitions, etc), but once you know what you're doing in the gym, you honestly don't need a personal. trainer. The internet is so full of knowledge on lifting programs, nutrition, lifting form, etc that paying a trainer to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...0 -
The only thing I dislike so far about my gym, is that there isn't a power rack or squat rack... nor is there Pulley system... But they have everything else that one could have a decent workout with.
That would be a deal breaker for me. Can't do any sort of decent workout without a squat rack...0 -
Wow, I guess I'm just not used to that. I don't know anybody who pays more than $30 a month max for a gym membership. Also, personal trainers are a good tool when you're just starting out, and coaches are a good tool if you're competing (body building, athletic competitions, etc), but once you know what you're doing in the gym, you honestly don't need a personal. trainer. The internet is so full of knowledge on lifting programs, nutrition, lifting form, etc that paying a trainer to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...
As time continues, I think we'll see a good upward trend in gym costs. For me, my gym is the Y, which is a great facility around here, and I think my wife and I pay something like $70 for a family membership for her and I, which includes a discount from her job.
My strength coach though, considering what he's done for me over the summer, it makes sense for my goals. I'm actually training for some things, and not going into a gym to flail away. I think trainers are a good tool for a time, and a coach are a must have tool for a few, but by and large, most people just want to do what they want to do and aren't training for anything. So no point in added costs or tools/consultants.
To take your comment though...that paying a lawyer to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...that paying a doctor to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...that paying an architect to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...that paying a teacher to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...0 -
Lifetime Fitness - the one and only thing I didn't like was that the pool wasn't truly Olympic size. I liked everything else about that place. It was fantastic, the staff was excellent and worth every penny. But I moved.
Planet Fitness - the only thing I liked was that it was close to me. I really hated that place and quit gyms. Wasn't worth $1 to me.
The only way I'd go back to a gym would be for Lifetime Fitness (or similar) to open here.
Now I just use my pool, mostly.0 -
Likes:
It's free
It's in the basement
It's the old Nautilus corp world HQ building so all the stuff is top of the line gym stuff, including the treadclimber, that they left us
It's usually empty
It has a powerlifting platform and rubber weights I can drop
Dislike:
Bring your own music..headphones annoy me during a good workout
no boxes for jumping.0 -
Not gonna lie, that's absurdly high. Granted $50 a year is absurdly low, but $710 a year not including personal training?? That's nuts. Also, do you really need a personal trainer? Just a thought.
It's not bad at all, and a trainer is going to be a LOT more expensive. You're talking $59 a month which is nothing. However, a trainer worth their salt is going to be around that, more if they're busy, or have a private gym.
I think my trainer is about $400 a month, and I'm getting a steal of a deal, and my normal gym is $50 a month I think.
Wow, I guess I'm just not used to that. I don't know anybody who pays more than $30 a month max for a gym membership. Also, personal trainers are a good tool when you're just starting out, and coaches are a good tool if you're competing (body building, athletic competitions, etc), but once you know what you're doing in the gym, you honestly don't need a personal. trainer. The internet is so full of knowledge on lifting programs, nutrition, lifting form, etc that paying a trainer to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...
Good grief I pay $160/month! lol $150/month for crossfit and i found a regular gym for $10/month so I can throw in some extra cardio. Most of our "standard" gyms are on average $60-$80/month though. Oh how I wish it was $30/month max! :sad:0 -
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YMCA.
Likes:
Locker room is clean.
Towel service.
Soap in showers.
Showers have a ton of water pressure.
Hot tub, sauna.
Lots of weights and benches.
Track.
Pool.
Lessons for my kids. I get first dibs on lesson bookings because I'm a member.
It's cold in the work out area. So nice when you're sweating like mad.
Dislikes:
So many old guys everywhere in the locker room.
Hot tub and sauna are not co-ed.
Power racks are used by doofs that do things like calf raises.
Life Fitness ellipticals are impossible to get heart rate up on.
Very, very few hot chicks.0 -
To take your comment though...that paying a lawyer to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...that paying a doctor to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...that paying an architect to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...that paying a teacher to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...
Lol, you're gonna compare the knowledge and experience provided by a personal trainer to the knowledge and experience provided by a lawyer, doctor, architect, or teacher? That's laughable and I'm sure you knew that before you wrote it. I cannot successfully defend myself in court, or successfully diagnose personal health problems, or design a building, or learn as well in a classroom than I can on my own with relatively little research into the subjects. On the contrary, I can do relatively little research into strength training and successfully train. Those 4 subjects are unbelievably more complex than training for personal strength or aesthetics. As I said, it's great for those who believe that it is worth the cost to have a personal trainer whether it be because they don't know what they're doing starting out or they believe they need to pay someone to push them because they can't push themselves, but please don't make absurd comparisons...0 -
Not gonna lie, that's absurdly high. Granted $50 a year is absurdly low, but $710 a year not including personal training?? That's nuts. Also, do you really need a personal trainer? Just a thought.
It's not bad at all, and a trainer is going to be a LOT more expensive. You're talking $59 a month which is nothing. However, a trainer worth their salt is going to be around that, more if they're busy, or have a private gym.
I think my trainer is about $400 a month, and I'm getting a steal of a deal, and my normal gym is $50 a month I think.
Wow, I guess I'm just not used to that. I don't know anybody who pays more than $30 a month max for a gym membership. Also, personal trainers are a good tool when you're just starting out, and coaches are a good tool if you're competing (body building, athletic competitions, etc), but once you know what you're doing in the gym, you honestly don't need a personal. trainer. The internet is so full of knowledge on lifting programs, nutrition, lifting form, etc that paying a trainer to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...
Good grief I pay $160/month! lol $150/month for crossfit and i found a regular gym for $10/month so I can throw in some extra cardio. Most of our "standard" gyms are on average $60-$80/month though. Oh how I wish it was $30/month max! :sad:
Well Crossfit is ridiculously overpriced, everybody knows that. I'll never understand why people will pay that much...0 -
Likes: open 24
can go to any other branch all the states
it is air conditioned
clean
less than 400 a year
Dislikes: (only at the one I got to that these dislikes pertain too other gyms in the same chain are better)
owner
no classes
needs to be a little bigger
owner needs to check equipment and add air to exercise balls (the one has so little air in that it goes down about a foot just
pushing on it)
only one trainer at this gym who I don't feel comfortable working with so don't0 -
Club 16
Likes:
- It's $15/month & it's actually Canadian owned
- Clean
- They're partnered with She's Fit so the ladies section is actually fantastic
- All the cardio machines have built-in TV/Internet
- Lots of free classes
- Great atmosphere
Dislikes:
- The took away the free chocolate milk machine
- It's about 30 minute drive from my house - but less than 10 minutes from work, so I guess it's a good deal on days I work
- No pool
- Closes around 9pm
- Weight room full of creepy & intimidating bros (but the ladies section does have a good selection of weights)0 -
Likes
Open 24 hours
Locations all over the US
Pool
Basketball court
Large assortment of free weights
Low cost, I bought a lifetime membership that is $100 per year about 10 years ago. They don't offer it anymore, but I'm set
Dislikes
Messy people, leave weights and their crap every where
only 1 power cage, usually I have to wait for some bro to finish up his curls
fungus, got athletes foot twice
Disgusting things happen in bathroom
Putting up with old men naked shaving in the sink
Watching people doing exercises in a dumb way that can hurt themselves, gave up along time ago on correcting them
Locker Room too small and crowded
Hex plates instead of round plates, this makes deadlifts difficult since they like to move around
I have a large weight selection and bench at home, but no power rack. I workout at lunch and hit the gym, shower, then back to work. On weekends, I prefer to workout at home, unless squatting, then it's off the gym for the power rack.0 -
Likes: (It's a no-nonsense, old school body builder's gym.)
Ample free weights, olympic bars a-plenty
2 squat racks
Friendly staff
Quirky patrons
Never crowded
Has free parking (rare)
Inexpensive for Los Angeles
Dislikes:
No air-conditioning
Limited/old cardio equipment
Smells like chalk and armpits0 -
likes
lots of new CV equipment
clean
nice people
towel service
lots of various classes
weight room is organized and kept after (people do rerack)
are attentive to member issues
dislikes
expensive and we subsidize all the people with a million kids
not open Sundays in the summer only after school starts in the fall
make changes to equipment without consulting membership0 -
YMCA
Likes:
Lots of free weights
A nice new cable machine
Tons of classes available (at least 15 per day mon-friday)
Nice staff
pool
Dislikes:
only 1 squat rack and if you have to use it in the evening it is taken over by the power lifters (who are cool but train for a long time and it's hard to work in when they are squatting 5 plates LOL)
not enough women who heavy lift. Most hang out at the CV equipment and light weight high rep classes
limited classes on the weekend0 -
Not gonna lie, that's absurdly high. Granted $50 a year is absurdly low, but $710 a year not including personal training?? That's nuts. Also, do you really need a personal trainer? Just a thought.
It's not bad at all, and a trainer is going to be a LOT more expensive. You're talking $59 a month which is nothing. However, a trainer worth their salt is going to be around that, more if they're busy, or have a private gym.
I think my trainer is about $400 a month, and I'm getting a steal of a deal, and my normal gym is $50 a month I think.
Wow, I guess I'm just not used to that. I don't know anybody who pays more than $30 a month max for a gym membership. Also, personal trainers are a good tool when you're just starting out, and coaches are a good tool if you're competing (body building, athletic competitions, etc), but once you know what you're doing in the gym, you honestly don't need a personal. trainer. The internet is so full of knowledge on lifting programs, nutrition, lifting form, etc that paying a trainer to tell you what you can learn for free is a waste of money in my opinion, but to each their own...
Good grief I pay $160/month! lol $150/month for crossfit and i found a regular gym for $10/month so I can throw in some extra cardio. Most of our "standard" gyms are on average $60-$80/month though. Oh how I wish it was $30/month max! :sad:
Well Crossfit is ridiculously overpriced, everybody knows that. I'll never understand why people will pay that much...
No, not everyone knows that.
While the CrossFit gym here is cheaper, it is still more than the traditional gym (to add to a previous post, I am not in NYC and $60 a month is the lower end here unless you buy a year membership). My husband does Crossfit. He has also gone the traditional route. If you breakdown how much he pays per day at the gym vs crossfit, Crossfit works out to be cheaper. At least he gets his money worth. A cheap gym membership is useless if you don't use it.
Crossfit gyms have a much lower client base which means they can't always offer the same prices.
To each their own. It may not be worth it to everyone, but we all have things we are willing to spend a bit more money on. For some, that happens to be Crossfit.
My gym
Pros
Cheaper
There is a pool
Cons
No parking lot, downtown parking can be a pain
Small and I find the equipment crowded together0 -
yes since they put in the new cable machine they pushed everything together. It wasn't as bad before0
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Mine is free! It is at my office! I workout during my lunch hour and sneak in a few classes at night. A great perk of the job!!!0
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Likes
half rack/platform combos + 1 regular power cage
bumper plates
extra bars
every machine in existence I think
24/7
pools, saunas, hot tubs
waterslide
Dislikes
I have to really stretch to find a dislike but,
soap dispensers in the shower are always empty
no more green machine smoothie
they are way too wound up about organic foods and clean eating
the construction of the credit union in the next lot is an accident waiting to happen because they can't be bothered to use signs.0 -
The Likes:
- the atmosphere - people are really cool, there's no judging, they come in all shapes, sizes and ages
- the location (3 blocks away from my house)
- it's one big open space (I used to go to a gym in an older building where the machines were divided in 'rooms')
- and it's cheap for what it offers (all sorts of classes and good quality machines)
- they open at 6am, which is absolutely perfect for me and my crazy busy schedule
The Dislikes:
- I'd like a second squat cage...0 -
Pure Gym, UK
Likes:
cheap (£17.99 a month)
can go to a secondary gym branch for an extra £1 a month, which is ideal for me as I currently I live between two locations and there are Pure Gym branches a 10 minute walk away from both
free classes
24 hours
lots of equipment
down to earth atmosphere
no separate "ladies" weights area
Dislikes:
- the layout of one of the branches I go to is a bit weird, with too much cardio equipment and only a very small classes studio and not enough space for using kettlebells/TRX etc
- hard to book some classes (particularly spin)
- the showers: highly annoying push-button ones that never run for long enough. I understand that the company wants to save money and water, but it would be nice to get more than a nanosecond of water on each push
- the usual gripe about people hogging kettlebells/dumbells/plates and not putting them away properly0 -
My gym is my local YMCA ... n I friggin HATE that people stand around or use the machines to sit on to talk. Workout or GET OUT!!!!
And I hate that some don't clean the machines after they use them. GROSS
Besides that I like everything else.0 -
likes
plenty of classes (yoga)
pool
locker rooms
free weights
several locations (including a women's gym)
24/7
jacuzzi
sauna
basketball court
dislikes
no bands
no lacrosse balls
need more squat racks ( only two)0 -
there's too many people in it.
otherwise good0 -
I do my weights at home because we have a power cage in our own modest gym, complete with barbells, dumbbells, growing selection of weights, bench etc.
I literally only use my local gym for classes and I've not even looked at the gym equipment.
Likes:
Small and friendly
Good variety of classes across daytime and evening
Various really reasonable pricing options (gym only, 4 months classes, 8 monthly class, gym and classes, PAYG etc)
PT's know what they are doing and have a real variety in backgrounds and what they specialize in
Really positive 'can-do' type of attitude on whatever you want to achieve
Dislikes:
I'd never shower there (!!), but then I am a bit OCD about things like that, it's straight home to shower
No pool
Parking is a bit limited, it's occasionally been more of a case of 'car abandonment' than parking.0
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