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The first gym I joined in Toronto was Fitness One in Dufferin Mall. It was so gross.
Then I joined the 99 Sudbury and THAT gym was clean but a bit too small... but overall good. Didn't too much care for the resident dog; he looked like an angry pig. I like dogs, but not that one...not the ugly faced ones. Walked by the ugly dog every day and pretended like I didn't see him--except when the owners were around. I had to be a HUGE phoney when they were around and tell lies, like, "oh your dog is beautiful!" and "he's not hideous at all!"
THEN I moved and joined System Fitness (corporate special) and it wasn't just good; it was great. But unfortunately, we're coming full circle with my Toronto gym experiences and I'll tell you why.
The ambient stench of Fitness One still haunts me to this day. I smelt that same stank tonight when I walked into System Fitness. Like a punch in the face, I could smell the vaporized body sweat of the Hot Yoga class being let out. That is the absolute WORST time to go to this gym. It'd be less disturbing if it was a women's only class, maybe then I wouldn't gag when I saw a couple of big dutty men exiting the room. Knowing that I was inhaling their exertions; their vaporized sweat was just nasty. The fact that there are no windows in the gym is just nasty.
The Hot Yoga class makes the entire gym stink (moreso) and the pipes above sweat onto you, your ipod and/or your water bottle. EW. Another pet peeve of mine is that the cleaning lady has swept my feet TWICE while I was doing dead lifts. Like, COME ON. you coulda picked anywhere else in the gym to sweep!!! To make matters worse, all of the positive things I wrote in my original review were a non-factor tonight. Broken TVs, No wifi and the change rooms smell like old mop water was used; it wreaks nowadays. Blech.
Get it together, I feel like Fitness One's energy is seeping into this place. If I wanted to be a part of a ratchet gym I woulda signed up for Planet Fitness. $10/mth + close proximity to Dufferin mall will bring about only the highest form of ratchet and system appears to be going down that road...
Disappointed
3 stars
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