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    5.0 (1 review)
    Closed 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Activate Sterling

    Activate Sterling

    4.9(17 reviews)
    1.5 mi
    Free parking
    Walk-ins welcome

    This place is great. Our staff came here to celebrate and have fun together. After breaking up in…read moreteams and trying out the rooms, we had such a blast. I should have brought a change of clothes because we were sweating! I like how each room has different styles of games. And that the games do get harder on different levels. This is a fun place for friends, coworkers, and families!

    If you've ever wanted to feel like you're inside a real-life video game like Wreck It Ralph,…read moreActivate is the place. I've been to Level 99, so it's comparable where there's multiple rooms and activities and you work together to finish the game. Here, you can do competitive games against your group, which makes things more interesting. Theres about 10-15 rooms and each room has different activities to choose from and levels. Unlike Level99, the directions here make sense when you get the hints. As soon as these doors open, within seconds, we were sprinting between glowing rooms trying to beat puzzles, dodge lasers, and slap light panels like our lives depended on it. The concept is basically part escape room, part laser tag, part interactive arcade, except you are the controller. And yes... you will sweat. Each room has a different challenge, and the games ramp up in difficulty so it gets weirdly competitive (especially when everyone's scores are tracked on the wristbands). One minute you're carefully solving a puzzle and the next minute you're hopping across light-up floors like it's an adult version of "the floor is lava." A few notes from the field: * Free lockers to store your belongings. * Bring a water bottle! * Wear athletic clothes and sneakers. This is not a cute-boots/sandals activity. * It's way more physical than expected--in a fun way. * Eat AFTER you come, especially if it's a date night. You don't want to see anything coming up during the activities. What I loved most is that it's fast-paced and replayable. You can bounce between rooms, try different difficulty levels, and keep chasing a higher score. It's perfect for groups, birthdays, team outings, or honestly just blowing off steam. Bottom line: it's chaotic, active, and ridiculously fun. Also in comparison to Level 99, it's not as busy and we don't have to wait outside rooms for long. Would I go back? 100%. My competitive side refuses to accept my current score.

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    Activate Sterling
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    Worldgate Athletic Club & Spa - The first desk on the left is for personal training, the main front desk is on the right

    Worldgate Athletic Club & Spa

    3.4(22 reviews)
    4.5 mi

    World Gate has been my main gym for at least 3 years now. It's not the cheapest gym I could go to…read morebut for all the facilities and options offered plus the proximity to me, I cannot find another. The membership price is reasonable considering all of the facilities. However, it's not reasonable if you don't use all the facilities! Sometimes, I feel like I'm paying for some stuff I'm never interested in using - like the racketball rooms, the spa, yoga classes, dance classes, etc. There's another gym that's like 2 minutes away from me and costs like 50% of World Gate but they don't have a sauna which is essential to me. The facilities that I use regularly are the weight room, the sauna, and showers. I do like having the ability to swim sometimes if I want to. World Gate has a lot of options. I don't enjoy the price I'm paying but I also do not see another gym with all my non-essentials at a better price so I continue to go here. What's missing though is the actual cold plunges - not cryotherapy chairs. If they can manage that, I'd not be complaining about my membership price. I'd have everything I need.

    Staff is friendly but several of the machines downstairs including all six of the stairmasters have…read morebeen not working and rather than fixing the problem they put it aside. I enjoyed playing basketball but now pickleball is taking over half the gym everyday and the entire gym every other day which is very stupid and inconsiderate considering the tennis courts are rarely being used when pickleball is in the gym. The main pickleball instructor is also very unfriendly and always insanely rude whenever asking us to leave. Please move pickleball OUT of the gym or you will be loosing lots of business.

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    Worldgate Athletic Club & Spa
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    Life Time - Welcome to the Club

    Life Time

    2.9(178 reviews)
    6.8 mi

    This club has gone downhill. The place is filthy. It's rare you get a hello when you walk in the…read moredoor (the very dirty door). The pool cafe is only open a few hours a day. The instructors are good, but people overall are not friendly. We are stuck with them due to Kids Club, but I have joined another gym for myself personally.

    Life Time isn't horrible, but recently I have been noticing some very annoying things…read more 1. The basketball court was completely removed, which I was highly looking forward to using after getting my membership. Turns out it was replaced with a pickleball court. The thing that bothers me is the fact that half of the basketball court area was already a pickleball court, and they probably only replaced everything to make more money off pickleball lessons and stuff. 2. Things haven't been changing in a positive way. Like I said before, the basketball court was removed purely as an extension of the already existing pickleball court. Also, some of the gym equipment is pretty outdated and not getting fixed. Furthermore, the staff really don't care about members and just completely listen to the people who are ruining the experience for others, and getting people kicked out of a spot they were already in. The staff also tend to listen to the older person without understanding whats really going on. 3. Most of the Life Time membership is really just giving you access to more purchases instead of owning up to their slogan, "Healthier way of life." The whole Life Time experience really just seems to be a cash grab instead of what it promises.

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    Life Time - Another example of the same message over the years despite several complaints.  BROKEN!

    Another example of the same message over the years despite several complaints. BROKEN!

    Life Time - The message "Will be back shortly.  Will reboot in one second" has been the message on the lifecycle machines for over 3 years.

    The message "Will be back shortly. Will reboot in one second" has been the message on the lifecycle machines for over 3 years.

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    Onelife Fitness - Sterling

    Onelife Fitness - Sterling

    2.9(38 reviews)
    1.4 mi

    Staff are welcoming upon entrance…read more I like the layout, one level. The machines are a little too close to each other, but relatively easy to find. The machines are on the older side, but still in working condition and well maintained. The lobby is oddly large, almost wasted space, not sure if there's a reason for this. The locker room is large and well maintained. They offer different classes which is always a plus. Plenty of parking available, shared by neighboring businesses.

    The staff here are weirdly impersonal compared to other locations and other gyms I go to in…read moregeneral. They are always just sitting or standing behind desks and never look up or acknowledge anyone. I actually tried signing up here a couple years ago and sat in the waiting area for 20 minutes but no one would come talk to me so I gave myself a tour. That led me to go elsewhere. However, I recently joined the new OneLife in Ashburn so I have access to this location and have tried it a few times. Walking into this OneLife is like going into an alternate universe. I have been to four other locations in Virginia and Maryland, all of which are spacious, clean and have modern equipment. However, this Sterling location is cramped, messy, and the equipment is so worn out. Many machines have handles falling off of them, or benches are tough to adjust, that kind of thing. Personally, I will only go here if I have another reason to be next to it, and otherwise will just go to the Ashburn location.

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    Onelife Fitness - Sterling
    Onelife Fitness - Sterling

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