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| - The Good:
* You'll be motivated to work out and eat right.
* Some of the trainers are really cool. Some of them.
* A large number of the participants are strongly focused on their goals, whether it be to prevent or get out of obesity, diabetes, risk of other diseases, or simply want to get their health back in control.
* Classes in the AM or PM.
The Bad:
* Overpriced for the level of personal attention / quality of advice you get.
* If you don't follow the Real 90 exact, they reprimand you like you're an employee, or someone foolish enough to sign a $600 contract.
* Dirty. While it's covered with a roof, consider it an outdoor gym: there's dirt and dust on the floor, weights, benches, you, me.
* Hard concrete flooring, which means that all the stress from jumping and doing other such exercises will be returned right back into your joints and you're likely to get repeatedly injured because of this.
* Having to record everything you eat, the exercises you do, posting to Facebook, etc while in the Real 90 program gets tedious and redundant.
* Limited number of resistance exercise machines means you'll probably need a concurrent membership in a better-equipped gym.
* The UNLV cheerleaders train here and some of them dress like they're serving cocktails at a strip club. A huge distraction which the gym didn't want to do anything about, and inappropriate to say the least given that the majority of participants here are battling health problems and don't otherwise need the distraction of these immature attention whores.
The biggest problem with this gym is also a reflection of the fitness industry in general: the trainers here, as far as I can tell, have no real credentials to give advice on health. Nobody here has a masters or PhD in any physical health science, let alone is a licensed dietician. On the other hand, after speaking with a few licensed dieticians outside of Real Results, a lot of the advice they give you here is both unscientific and downright wrong. Some examples of this include telling people to avoid dairy, separating "primary" vegetables from "secondary," discouraging the consumption of fruits which are perfectly healthy for you and recommended as part of a regular diet, avoiding whole-grain bread, etc. They may have found some studies on this but it's advice that's not widely accepted by actual professionals who are licensed and have the academic background to give advice on the matter.
But let me give you a sneak-peak of the "Real 90" program: they give you advice which is not personally catered to your specific health condition, click "Like" on Facebook to whatever you post without giving you any specific feedback, try to make you feel bad if you don't follow their unscientific, impersonal dieting program which they have no qualifications for giving you in the first place, and subject you to all the problems listed above. If this sounds good to you, you should definitely sign up here. If not, there are dozens of training centers around town.
The before and after pictures you see do not guarantee that you'll get the same results, but they won't say this to you. At first, they told me not to worry about it. But towards the end of the program, when it was obvious that I wouldn't reach the same potential as other members, the response changed to "everyone's different," even though I did follow their instructions. However, I couldn't attend the last three weeks and they refused to refund me for those three weeks, which is why you shouldn't commit to a contract here: you're almost guaranteed to get injured.
Also, I never received an invite to take the program's final assessment.
As a final note, I'll wish everyone the best of luck in their journey to fitness. It's worth it. But I'd also warn you to watch out for gyms like this one, and finally say that UNLV offers free nutrition workshops to anyone who's interested in getting reliable advice. Your insurance provider may offer nutritional counseling as part of your coverage as well.
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2/20/17 Update:
Branden C, who I'm going to assume is Branden Collinsworth - one of the owners here - actually sent me a private message saying the following:
"Objectivity and honesty go a long way. The majority of your post is a lie. Integrity clearly is not a value of yours. Our culture at Real Results is better off without clients like you."
So what I take from this response is that if you're not satisfied with the service here, you're automatically a liar, have no integrity, and they in no way want to offer you a consolation let alone even discuss your disappointment.
Buyer beware.
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