Dax McMillan
April 18, 2018 02:49
I ran a Golds gym for many years. I was an athlete for many years. I was a personal trainer for many years. I'm now a consultant to over 600 athletes/fitness enthusiasts nationwide, including professional and Olympic athletes. And this gym is the most crappy gym with the most delusional out of shape fat personal trainers, I have ever witnessed. For the most part, the trainers are highly overweight and out of shape. The female trainers are simply fat and are "training" people who are in better shape than the personal trainers are. But there is no "training" taking place with these trainers. They simply walk over to a machine and tell their client to use the machine while the trainers stand there and merely count. So basically the fat trainers are just fat repetition counters. And the trainers give the most horrible nutritional advice. I have watched dozens of people actually get fat with the trainers who are telling their clients to "bulk up" first in order to get lean and strong. They use chemicals and the worst toxic supplements I have ever seen. And they're constantly walking around drinking chemical filled sugary energy drinks while giving nutritional advice to people who are in better shape than the trainers are. It's so unbelievable, yet... this is what you can expect to see at LA Fitness. But this also might explain why the turnover rate of employees is so drastically high.
The cardio machines are constantly broken and out of service.
The group classes are lackluster at best and are canceled without notice quite frequently.
The free weights go missing almost every day.
There are NO surveillance cameras in the gym and staff and gym members can get away with anything they want without any accountability.
And the regional manager Darren Wylee has absolutely horrible "Little Man" syndrome. He's a young kid, a child; and his entire staff openly has made fun of him on many levels speaking to fitness members about what a horrible and petty human being and what a childish boss he is. They speak about how he has the emotional instability of a child and will lash out at people based on his consistent irrational behavior. He has even lashed out at LA Fitness members if they do not cower down to his pseudo-authority. And the way LA Fitness has set up their business model gives Darren Wylee as a District Manager full authority to do anything he pleases without any reason or without any substantial, rational, or logical justifications which I guarantee will absolutely cause a lawsuit real soon. He's a mental midget and a liar. Yet tries to convey to the public that anyone who exposes him... is a liar.
I've tolerated this basement gym without windows, with a filthy pool, with filthy locker rooms, with broken machines, with overweight and embarrassing "personal trainers", with fat and rude female "personal trainers", with a lying and spineless, weak minded District Manager who causes more problems than he helps.... for far too long.
I would highly recommend never using this gym or any LA Fitness gym unless you seriously want the bottom of the corporate gym barrel. This place is an absolute deplorable joke and is a complete waste of money.
And though there aren't many horrible reviews on this Facebook page about LA Fitness... I know dozens upon dozens of people who have simply left and abandon even attempting to review the gym on here. They just cut their loses and move on never to return. But this facility has had PLENTY of complaints throughout the community as being an absolute joke.
I will absolutely go out of my way to expose this pathetic company everyday, for as long as they are in business. I hope you avoid the headache and simply go to an actual good company for your fitness needs.
This gym is an embarrassment to even attempt to be a part of. Time to move on.