Golds Gym Peoria AZ Almost KIlled Me!!!
I give Golds Gym 1 star only because it has a nice facility.
WARNING!!! My friend Bette joined this Golds Gym in Peoria AZ. She is 53, 180 pounds and wanted to get into shape and lose weight. Heck, we all want to look good. Bette signed up for a year membership and a Professional Trainer named Jason.
I week later, 2 training sessions, Bette is in the ER with Rhabo, which basically can kill you. Seems Jason, a certified ACE Trainer (from a community college) overworked her to such a degree by using wrong weights and training techniques that she ended up with Rhabo causing highly elevated kidney and liver toxins. This could have killed her. Bette was told by the Trainers she was at fitness level of a 75 yr old (computer program said that) and yet Jason had her doing leg crunches at 90 pounds to start. It gets worse with how badly he weighted her training with no consideration on her health, level of sedimentary history etc. This is not a professional! And records...none..we actually watched him fill out the form with what he did at his desk while we spoke with the manager.
When Bette tried to cancel membership due to this illness, she was told it would cost her 100 dollars to cancel and they would not return the $200 she paid which included training. Now, that is a bad problem...we could have requested they pay the $2000 ER bill as well. We suggested the trainer pay the 100 and return her fees but no...the contract will not allow that. This is caring for your client! NO WAY. We will be pursuing this to highest levels as we fear this inadequate training placed on someone else like Bette can cause severe harm.