Alli is an amazing trainer, she really listens to what you want to accomplish and pushes you to…read moreachieve those goals in a safe and healthy environment. She is fun to work with keeping workouts tough but fun at the same time. She is always conscientious of how you are feeling both physically and mentally. Highly recommend her!!!

Laura Bender is considered one of Missoula's "Best" Personal Trainers. She is a Master Trainer…read morethrough the Cooper Institute and is also a Chopra certified yoga and meditation teacher and success coach. You will find Laura to be a warm and loving human being who will help YOU with a training schedule that is just right for you. Her monthly community meditations are powerful and help make Missoula, the last best place on earth. Give her a call, she will resonate with you. Judy Helm Wright, author and Pet Grief Coach and one of Laura's regulars.

From the owner: Laura is a Master Personal Trainer with over 30 years experience.She is well known for her ability…read moreto create personal mind/body fitness sessions thar create amazing bodies and emotionally intelligent minds. Laura is has the most effective lower body programs in her town, which is why she is highly sought after by local and national celebrities. After studying extensively with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Laura started adding mindfulness and yoga to her personal sessions and in 2012 created Montana's first yoga/meditation program for youth inmates in the Missoula Youth Detention Center. You can train with Laura at home or in her studio.

I almost don't want to post this because MUST is such a hidden gem. This is, by far, the best gym I…read morehave ever been to (and I have been to a lot of gyms + workout classes). - The facilities are super clean; everyone wipes down equipment and machines after they use them. - There is a ton of space and they cap membership meaning you have room to roam, don't have to wait to use equipment, and don't feel self-conscious if you want to be in a spot by yourself doing your thang. - The team is welcoming, friendly, and dedicated. You feel like you're part of a community when you go here. - Everyone is focusing on their own workouts and there's no pretentious/competitive vibes. I was visiting from out of town and wanted to get back into shape. The MUST team was really accommodating doing personal training sessions with me on a short timeline and I really appreciated it. My intake and sessions were with Chris and he was the absolute best. He consistently offered me helpful tips to improve my form and stay motivated. I only wish I could take this gym and everyone with it back to my hometown.

I was totally spoiled with my gym where I used to live and thought I'd never find another 24 hour…read moreoption with a bazillion racks and free weights. I moved to Missoula and checked out MUST and well, it was even BETTER than my old awesome gym because there were tires to flip, working bathrooms, filtered water and a cool area for stretching. Plus the aforementioned racks. No wait for a squat rack in the morning. Then the quarantine hit and the owner was cool enough to let us borrow equipment to stay in shape. It is cool that he did something for us, when his being closed was 100% not his fault. And FWIW, it is a very clean gym. If your idea of a gym is a place one goes to lift heavy things, MUST will not disappoint.

Staff was prompt and attentive. I told them I was traveling in town and they gave me all of the…read moretemporary membership options then helped me find the one that fit my stay in town the best. Without trying to talk me into a full membership. Some gyms will try even though you tell them you don't live here. The equipment was very clean and in great shape. All the gym participants were reracking their weights and cleaning the equipment. Everyone was very friendly and courteous. The gym utilizes spray bottles and rags instead the stupid tubs of disposable wipes. Much less waste and easier to clean the equipment with. I did not see any broken equipment in the facility. There is a great selection of Cardio Equipment to include a Jacob's Ladder!! Not the largest gym but plenty of room to get your training completed. The smoothie bar's selection was reasonably priced, packed with what is useful and not much else. Will be dropping by the facility again on my future visits to Hamilton!!!!

The facility is quite good, and most of the staff DO seem quite nice. I think it'd be a great place…read moreto work out on your own. However, the environment is very toxic to anyone new attempting to go in groups. I recently finally got my underweight much younger brother to go to the gym, and began teaching him basic barbell lifts with a pretty standard Starting Strength method. In the middle of a squat rep that my young brother did incorrectly (which I responded to by instructing him to rack the weight so we could the problem - excessive forward leaning), a man at the next rack began interjecting uninvited advice that he should "look up" since, according to him, "you're doing it wrong!". Not only is the.. "suggestion" inefficient form, as it prompts a more vertical back angle as has been heavily discussed in the strength training community (very notably by Mark Rippetoe), but the man interjecting the uninvited advice repeatedly and arrogantly stated "you're welcome", as if I should be thanking him for his demeaning demands. It turns out, because the man happened to be in a relationship with the owner (who was also present), even though not a trainer himself, it was my young brother and I who were chastised by the owner, insisting that we "keep [all manner of coaching] to [our]selves", but the arrogant, inefficient, and uninvited interjections of her boyfriend (himself not a trainer, apparently) were perfectly acceptable. This double standard on the part of the owner was very unprofessional, showing a blatant emotion-based favoritism and bias. The experience was very disheartening for my much younger brother, who was hoping for (and had expected, by my assurance) an accepting environment. Instead, he was put off from working out, and commented on how he personally felt unwelcome. Any gym is bound to have some opinionated people who give incorrect or harmful advice directed at those who never asked for it... but having that be hypocritically defended by the owner (who also insists we restrict the advice that was actually asked for) is just unacceptable. I cannot speak to the quality of the certified trainers there, but can say that the owner herself has little to no effort invested in keeping her business professional instead of personal. Uninvited advice that directly contradicts the expertise of trainers FAR more accredited than any you could find here in a valley in western Montana is not a good thing for anyone. And any place that accepts this (as long as you're dating the owner), but insists everyone else adhere to different and more strict rules is not a place you should want to be training.