John S
October 25, 2017 12:38
The reviews are too good for this place. Overall, it's good but it doesn't deserve an average of 5-stars for reasons other than structure. I admit I'm biased toward large gyms or gym chains for the impersonal membership experience. I want to be in and out without issue and without having to listen to other people's conversations, which are less than beneficial most of the time. This is a tightly packaged gym with enough features to stand out for a small gym. It's really the baseline quiet ambience that is easily disturbed by some loud people that makes me dislike this place a lot of the time.
Pros: very clean, all of the equipment is relatively NEW/clean, two deadlift platforms, two power racks, pretty decent variety of weight machines, full dual pulldown/dual row cable complex. many new/matching bumper plates
Cons: only the basic cable machines, small enough to make you uncomfortable and unable to avoid annoying members (for example, a guy who seriously puts his portable speaker on the ground and BLASTS music out loud and staff does nothing about this), and having to be in a small gym with dudes who swagger (not an issue in bigger gyms, which I don't mind it so much then, but this place puts you in closer proximity)
I really like what the gym owner's vision has put out so far. I think she does a lot of things right if not everything with the resources and space she has but the size really makes the type of crowd that currently makes up this place less tolerable to me. I hope the gym is able to expand to a bigger location because I would not hesitate to rejoin then.