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| - This location is in an obvious transition phase, unfortunately. Thanks to Alexis and Ryan for trying to keep things positive. But, I (and a number of other members) are not thrilled at all with how the transition is going so far. I've been at this location for the last 5 years, since it was a 24 Hour (up until LA took it a few months ago). I frequented the location 3-4 times a week for group classes for about 4 of those years straight, up until recently. It's been increasingly deserted, like a ghost town, since the take-over by LA recently (I don't think a remodel is what is needed, given the gym was packed just months ago). I only attend group classes and am glad they have kept with the superior content from Les Mills, but retiring Body Attack (when there are certified instructors who were already teaching in the very time slots we would attend regularly), and replacing it with a class people can take just about anywhere else (like finding a Starbucks on every corner) is quite a mystery. Lots of different (and sometimes confounding) reasons have been cited, but nothing terribly consistent nor convincing. Feels like a PR campaign for retiring classes wasn't intentionally crafted (or executed) so lots of head scratching and serious dissatisfaction for some of us. Hope the team isn't going to keep hacking away at classes that they must pay to license, in favor of improvised content by minimally trained class teachers that you can find at the "non-24" LA locations. I'd be a "fan" if they didn't retire the BA class, or if they'd come out with a consistently stated commitment to indefinitely retaining all other Les Mills classes, the corresponding instructors (who are unmatched) and the schedule.
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