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Matthew Holcombe
1 reviews on 1 places
I’ve been a member of this gym for 18 months now going regularly 3-5 times a week at different times. I consider myself a strength trainer who focuses in compound lifting.
This is an all around just okay gym that has a couple pros and many cons.
Pros:
It is kept very clean, serious kudos to the cleaning staff.
Most of the personal trainers are great, mostly because when I talk to them they actually care about teaching form and helping you grow rather than creating terrible programs that force you to spend more money on them.
There is a fair amount of cardio equipment. Even at its most peaked hours I see spare treadmills.
Decent selection of free weights and an okay layout.
Locker rooms do the bare minimum but are effective.
Cons:
Groups of high school kids run around rough housing and breaking equipment. They never get reprimanded because they are friends with some of the workers.
When equipment breaks, which there is always at least 3 pieces broken, it takes about a month for a repair. Over the summer I waited 9 weeks for the rear delt machine to get fixed. I laughed when a treadmill was placed in German / kilometers and it took about a month to find out how to fix it.
Most of the carabiners for the cables are broken or just missing all together.
There are only 2 dedicated bench press seats which means you will often have to wait 20 minutes to get to them.
Because there is so much cardio equipment spread out the strength areas are compacted with a lot of people standing around waiting for equipment.
Peak hours, 5p-8p on weekdays and most of the day on weekends, are a nightmare. Specifically with the school kids running around in packs of 5 and spending 45 minutes taking up machines.
The club manager is super dissociated from everything going on and I have found them often just blankly staring at people when they workout and it’s very uncomfortable.
Conclusion: if you go to the gym for some light cardio after work it’s fine. If you are just starting out at a gym for the first time and want a “cheapish” intro, it’s fine. If you want a wide range of equipment and space to really dial in and push yourself, look elsewhere.
Recently Blink raised the prices of their memberships and the personal trainer sessions to the point were I would no longer consider it commercial gym prices, memberships for this level shouldn’t be $30/month with so many hidden fees. I will be moving to the Club Fitness down the block soon once my trainer sessions are up. It’s double the price for five times the space and equipment. With way nicer locker rooms and showers. In my mind, worth it.
This is an all around just okay gym that has a couple pros and many cons.
Pros:
It is kept very clean, serious kudos to the cleaning staff.
Most of the personal trainers are great, mostly because when I talk to them they actually care about teaching form and helping you grow rather than creating terrible programs that force you to spend more money on them.
There is a fair amount of cardio equipment. Even at its most peaked hours I see spare treadmills.
Decent selection of free weights and an okay layout.
Locker rooms do the bare minimum but are effective.
Cons:
Groups of high school kids run around rough housing and breaking equipment. They never get reprimanded because they are friends with some of the workers.
When equipment breaks, which there is always at least 3 pieces broken, it takes about a month for a repair. Over the summer I waited 9 weeks for the rear delt machine to get fixed. I laughed when a treadmill was placed in German / kilometers and it took about a month to find out how to fix it.
Most of the carabiners for the cables are broken or just missing all together.
There are only 2 dedicated bench press seats which means you will often have to wait 20 minutes to get to them.
Because there is so much cardio equipment spread out the strength areas are compacted with a lot of people standing around waiting for equipment.
Peak hours, 5p-8p on weekdays and most of the day on weekends, are a nightmare. Specifically with the school kids running around in packs of 5 and spending 45 minutes taking up machines.
The club manager is super dissociated from everything going on and I have found them often just blankly staring at people when they workout and it’s very uncomfortable.
Conclusion: if you go to the gym for some light cardio after work it’s fine. If you are just starting out at a gym for the first time and want a “cheapish” intro, it’s fine. If you want a wide range of equipment and space to really dial in and push yourself, look elsewhere.
Recently Blink raised the prices of their memberships and the personal trainer sessions to the point were I would no longer consider it commercial gym prices, memberships for this level shouldn’t be $30/month with so many hidden fees. I will be moving to the Club Fitness down the block soon once my trainer sessions are up. It’s double the price for five times the space and equipment. With way nicer locker rooms and showers. In my mind, worth it.