Andy Merlin
February 26, 2018 21:49
I've been attending the Wellness Center for over 6 months now and at first enjoyed it greatly! But as the time went on, I'm now generally worried about it's patrons. I've been weight training & competing for close to half my life. I'm also a medical professional, like many of the patrons that come to this gym. To put this nicely, this gym has horrible hygiene practices AT LEAST in the weight areas. Since going there I have never seen anyone clean off either the mats, free weights or the cardio equipment. Equipment is gross to touch and smells of sweat. If you scratch the cardio equipment, you will pull off the caked on epithelial cells. I've have voiced my concerns to the staff multiple times and no one seems to hear me. I've expressed that it is important to clean the equipment throughout the day to prevent transfer between patrons. This is VERY common practices at other gyms but for some reason this gym that services medical professionals working with, either dangerous pathogens or patients with disease like the flu (worst season in a decade), doesn't seem to understand the importance of it. When I ask them why they don't clean the equipment throughout the day, they said they do it at night which only helps the first person of the day and that they don't want to "disturb" their patrons. Servicing everywhere from medical professionals to immunocompromised patients out of recovery, this seems counter intuitive and dangerous. Any gym model, just googled several, will tell you to clean equipment through the day to prevent the spread of disease. I can't afford to be sick, if I am I will be out of work for weeks till I'm completely noncontagious to keep my patients safe. This place is public hazard and needs to correct their cleaning protocol unless they want to put others at risk. I'm disappointed and will be seeking gym membership somewhere else.