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| - Like so many gyms, Anytime really exists to get you to purchase the personal training. They give you a free session (which was really a pretty brief, weak session), and then try to get you to sign up for personalized training. I can't afford personalized training. Hell, I can barely afford the monthly membership. Before I had the meeting about the personalized training, they were really happy to see me every time I walked in. Someone from the staff made sure to come say hi to me every time I worked out. About a week later, after they ran their spiel and I turned them down, it was like I turned into a ghost.
I'm not complaining; I'm glad they don't bother me anymore, but they shut down hardcore. I see the staff talk to some of the people there, but most of us just go about our sessions as if they can't see us. I've been a member for close to two years now. Not one staff member has even said so much as hello to me since I turned down their services. I'm okay with that, like I said, but it's going to get interesting in a month and a half when my membership needs to be renewed. I wonder if they're going to pretend to be my best friends again.
I can usually get an elliptical, treadmill, or exercise bike when I go in. I can usually lift on some of the nautilus-type equipment too, but free weight area is usually choked with "gym guys" and I can only handle so much barbed-wire tattoos on biceps and the lingering stench of Axe body spray before I start to vomit. I love lifting with free weights, and to their credit--the gym guys who lift are serious about it. They're just not guys I want to share space with while I lift. I had enough of those guys in the weight rooms in high school and college.
Overall, it's not Prairie Athletic. I had a membership there for almost three years, but I wanted something that had less children running around. I like Anytime. It's decent. I like the fact that there are so many outlets. There are three Anytimes within two miles of where I work, so I can go bust a few lifts on days when I have early and late meetings. I like the 24-hour aspect. Some days, it's nice to go in at 11:00 pm and lift with no gym guys there.
Will I renew my membership? I don't know. Right now, I'm leaning toward going back to Prairie Athletic, just because they have a sauna. And I miss the sauna. Other than the staff forgetting that I exist, I have nothing hateful to say about Anytime. You know what you're getting when you go in there.
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