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| - I apologize in advance for the long-windedness of this post. Please go to the last paragraph for a summary if you don't want details. The details are essentially for the management of this particular LA Fitness to evaluate and then act, if they see fit.
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I was visiting for two weeks and the 24-hour fitness in the area sucked BAD. So, I walked into this LA Fitness near where I was staying.
Stan was really cool and is a great asset to their sales team. That said, the only product they had for me was a one month membership at $75 (no additional initiation fee). The price was ALMOST unreasonable especially given the fact that ALL I do is treadmill and elliptical. But, I'll tell you, when you pay that much and you only have 2 weeks to use it, it is a REAL motivator to get your ass into the gym! The final tally came to 8-9 bucks per visit. Get a visitor plan in place, LA Fitness!
Their staff are friendly, courteous and professional and is the ONLY reason they got 3 stars and not 2. Their people are this gym's best asset. The facility is very clean; not always my home gym's condition...ugh. Another irritant that shows what a CA / 24 Hour wuss I am was they closed really early on weekends (8pm). But I get it: very capitalist, maximize the profit sweet spot and expand the hours if there's a market for it. Apparently in Laveen, there isn't a market for that.
Now the 'meh' part...and this is indicative of 24 Hour Fitness too: They just don't maintain the ellipticals well. Only one machine I tried in two weeks (and I used a different machine every visit in a desperate attempt to get a working one) took my heart rate. All of 'em...not one worked. So, even after "mastering" two new machine programs, they all ended up going into manual mode after exclaiming, "No heart rate found". So then you end up modifying the program to approximate what you were trying to achieve for that workout. It meant messing around with the settings 5-10 minutes into the workout: very hard to get into that hard-workout focus that is the "crack cocaine" of my routines when you're EFFing with the touchpad.
I invite the facility manager to workout on his/her own ellipticals and tell me if I exaggerate.
And the fact that you can't get a programmed workout longer than 30 minutes is a real irritant: I work out for 1-1.5 hrs normally. It is friggin' irritating to have to reprogram the same workout halfway through it. Their lawyers probably dictate this to avoid lawsuits. Well...you make us sign every friggin' liability release known to man when we sign-up so WTF? I'm a proud libertarian...if I give myself a heart attack from overdoing it, it was my choice and I'll die a happy and free man.
If you're in the Laveen area and do weights, racquetball or swimming I recommend this gym. And go see Stan...he's a great guy. But If all you do is "rent the machines" like I do: find another gym that maintains their machines; it'll be worth the extra miles.
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