LA Fitness

This is by far the worst gym I’ve ever used. Today I ended my membership at this gym for the second time. I gave it a second chance, hoping they had improved on cleanliness as a result of the pandemic. I was mistaken. This is a filthy place with hair and random trash strewn about the locker rooms. Additionally, there are no rules to this gym. People show up in street clothes, pajamas, and barely their outfits. Very few people clean the machines after use. Many members leave huge duffle bags around on the main floor (accompanied by devices blasting music), which raises serious concerns about safety, especially since no one pays strict attention to who is entering the gym. In the age of mass shootings, this presents a huge risk. Lastly, for some reason, the gym is now half-filled with middle and high school kids. (Why any parent would let their child mingle with adults like this is beyond me, especially since gyms are known to be meat markets). It’s too much! Also, beware of the water fountains. They are disgusting cesspools of who knows what!

Unless you're an already buff dude with 200 pounds of muscle who never needs help from staff, this is not the gym for you. I hate this gym. And I'm somehow paying more for it. Let me walk you through a general workout. We'll start with a quick warmup on elliptical. That's fine. On to stretching. Wait, why is no one wearing a mask on the stretching mat? It says you can take off a mask only when actively working out, and I KNOW stretching isn't that exhausting. Maybe one of the staff will come over and... nope. They're way over at the check in desks, on their phones. Time for bench press. Now, I'm 120 pounds and can't warmup with the 45-pound bar, so I need to get the 30-pound straight bar from the rack...where is it? Not on the rack. No one's using it. I peer in the training room. No. Group fitness room? No. Other rooms? No. Basketball court? No. Stretching area? No. I go the guys at the desk, who are still on their phones. Oh, one of them picked up the gym phone to look busy. That's nice. The other gives me a blank look and asks me if I looked in all the places I have obviously looked. Cool. So I've wasted 15 minutes now, gotten all my day's steps in going back and forth, and I still can't warm up. Not a great bench workout, but moving on. Time for the cable row. Once again, I'm not a giant buff dude who can go from 55 pounds one set to 70 pounds when I'm ready to move up. I need some weight add-ons. You know, like they have at EVERY OTHER XSPORT GYM. But no, not here. They do not cater. So I improvise by finding a 5 or 10 pound weight from a squat rack... Well no. There are only 45 pound weights on those. A different machine then. It takes me 10 minutes to find one. Why? Because ALL I SEE ARE 45s. Yeah, the picture I took below? There are over FORTY 45s, six 5s, and zero 10 or 25 pound weight add-ons. NO ONE USES THAT MANY HEAVY WEIGHTS. I finally find a round 10 pound add-on to do my rows, and now it's time to get a 10 pound dumbbell for the next workout. SURELY that won't be a hitch right? Wrong. So so wrong. There are 2 sets of 10 pounds on the lifting rack. They are both missing. No one around me is using them. Because apparently people CANNOT PUT THE LIGHT WEIGHTS UP???? and of course the staff wouldn't enforce that or even do a quick clean up of weights that look unused. So no 10s. But I know there are lighter weights in the group fitness room because I use the 7.5 and 12.5 pound weights. I depend on those for my routine, so thank goodness for them. Wait, the bins are locked. Only the 15s are available. Okay. I go ask the infamous front desk. The guy with the keys...is on a break??? Are you KIDDING ME? How is there not a protocol to pass the keys to someone else during that? FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER he tells me that we can't have those bins unlocked from now on. They're only for groups doing their workouts. Which ones of the few you're offering, XSport? The Zumba class or the yoga class? Because THEY DON'T USE THE WEIGHTS. So there go my 7.5, 10, and 12.5 dumbbells. Which is nearly MY ENTIRE UPPER BODY AND ARM WORKOUT. And nearly every day is like this. TL;DR: you pay EXTRA for this place??? No. This location doesn't have the right equipment, staff at the front desk don't give a flying fish (although the guy who replaces the cleaning supplies and the manager who I don't see anymore are nice), and this place gives me a headache because I spend literally twice as much time there as I should because if stupid simple things. I actually hate this gym.

Update: Now can you monitor the loud, phone-talking members??????? It’s ridiculous! I can’t even enjoy my workout! 6 machines in one row “out of order.” Just one row alone, but there are more. No mats. Dirty water fountain. 2/6 out of order restroom stalls. Sigh.

Don’t waste your valuable time and money at this gym. The manager has an attitude problem and poorly trained staff. They won’t respect your membership, and will always find a way to make you pay more. I don’t recommend this gym at all!

There is no excuse why the court area should NOT be clean at 5:30-6am. I myself and a few others are here 4-5 times a week at this hour and maybe will walk into the court area once a month and see it completely clean. We all pay our membership to have a nice and well kept gym but to be walking into this day in and day out shows no responsibility on the staff and management at all. We have gone up to the front desk and asked to have it cleaned and all we hear is will tell management and no change has happened. I am posting this here and next step is to go to directly to corporate. Please make the court area some priority. #sad #xsportfail