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| - The first time I thought it was pretty good, I went at peak time between 5-7. The only problem I found was you could not get near the free weights, it was all young males who were hogging the benches and using them right in front of the mirrors and posing. There are not many women in the weight rooms, sometimes the rooms are completely full of young males with not one woman. I find that some of the equipment is not as clean as I originally thought, with hair and god knows what else in the crevices. The showers are not that clean either, the walls look like they need to be spray washed with disinfectant.
Their ellipticals are the kind that your foot is flexed in a toe up position and puts a lot of strain of your achilles tendons, all but three of their machines are the same kind. I wish gyms would have more of a variety. They do have other very good weight machines, and have two or three of the same thing, but when it's crowded you have to keep walking all over the place and up multiple staircases to find what you need.
They do have a nice "quiet room" with a wall to wall thick mat and a beautiful top floor track that is outside with nice gardens.
The deal breaker for me is that there are a lot of 8-10 year olds and teenagers running around from the basketball courts and hanging around on the stairs and making noise and coming into the weight rooms. The deafening, continual squeaking from running shoes from the basketball games really gets to you after a while and makes it hard to concentrate on your workout. It seems the entire facility is geared towards these sort of low rent Toronto Housing types of young males, so the atmosphere is not enjoyable. I was in the change room and someone lost the keys to their locker and just started swearing and shouting at the attendant to open the locker door. This is the kind of people who use the place.
Beware! every Saturday night between 7-11, it's free for teenagers at both locations. And in the winter they tell me that there can be over 200 teens in these places. The atmosphere is not pleasant and neither is the noise or the smell.
I worked out there for a few months, and then left, I noticed that my lock was completely bent, but not broken. You know what that means....I was lucky. So there are people watching you and when you leave to work out, they are armed with tools to get your stuff. How do you bend an entire lock?
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