Cool little gym! Good peeps, like Courtney and the rest! Just need a water fountain though. read more

I worked out at Pride Fitness with a friend. I was surprised how much this 24-hr gym had to offer. The cardio room is separate with large individual fans for each treadmill. There are tvs as well as some other cardio equipment. The weight room had an array of Nautilus equipment and adequate amount of free weights. The facility appeared clean and I am told tanning is free with membership. I noticed a sign for personal training offered for an additional fee. If I lived in Elgin, I would likely join Pride Fitness. read more

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The Owner/Manager of Pride Fitness sent me a message, I shall now share that message with everyone... "I am sorry you felt that our facility was terriable. Unfortunately the member ship prices you posted and amount of equipment we have is false. I would also like to note that the equipment is brand new and that it is not being held together by duck tape. I would be more than happy to show you the facility and show you our price plans and what we offer our military, police, fire, and ems. I would like to sit down with you and see how we could get you to change your two star review into a four or five star review and would love to have you as a member to our family." HERE IS MY RESPONSE... I didn't find your facility "terriable," I found it TERRIBLE. If you're going to call me a "LIAR" by saying my review is false, the least you can do, is spell things correctly. You are right, the "Member Ship" price that I listed, is in fact, incorrect. I paid a one-time fee, on July 16, 2011, of $635 for the full year in advance, which, if you do the math, comes out to $52.91 a month. So, You're right, I didn't pay $50 for my monthly membership, I payed MORE. IF you've lowered your prices since my HONEST review, then, congratulations, because there's no way, on God's Green Earth, that I'd pay that much again, for such an inconvenient experience. There is NOTHING brand new about your equipment, unless you've upgraded your facility from when I made the review.. It may have been "brand new" when you bought it, but, in the year that I worked out in your tiny little gym(July 2011 to July 2012), I simply watched your equipment get older, and I watched your leather pads deteriorate. I did not observe a single upgrade, and in fact, I even watched one of your LCD TVs become broken, and it sat sadly on the wall displaying a blue screen, for WEEKS(at least two weeks), until you took it down, and hadn't replaced it for my entire last month that I was using your gym. If something as simple as a $200 20" LCD TV breaks down, it should be replaced immediately, not just taken off the wall, so we can simply stare at exposed cords. Call it a poor management issue, call it whatever you want, I will simply continue to call it, as I see it. Your "thigh master" machine indeed had DUCT(not duck) tape on the pads, as well as at least one other machine that I can remember. If you felt I was implying that ALL your equipment was being held together with duct tape, then, I allow me to clarify...SOME of your equipment was being held together with duct tape, certainly not ALL of it. Satisfied? Good. You didn't even address the fact that you don't have a single DRINKING FOUNTAIN, and you have only ONE WEIGHT BENCH in your facility, making it very difficult to work out when there's more than one person in your building, as we are now forced to share. Don't get me wrong, SHARING isn't the issue here, it's the incessant clearing of the weight bars, and resetting, for each and every repetition, when you're forced to share. You can't maintain a steady rhythm, which if you were to ask anyone serious about body building, or anyone serious about staying in shape, this is completely unsatisfactory. With your limited space, I feel it would be impossible to rectify this problem. Let's be clear about one thing...I have absolutely NOTHING to gain from posting a poor review. I do not intentionally post poor reviews, for the sake my own amusement. We owe it to each other, on Yelp, to be as brutally honest as possible, so we know what places to go to, and what places to avoid, like Pride Fitness. Several of my reviews are, in fact, 4 and 5 star reviews, which proves I am HONEST and ACCURATE when delivering my view of an establishment. NOTHING about my review was false. But I am happy that my review has peaked your interest, and hopefully you'll make an attempt in upgrading and improving your little gym. Once you do that, I'd be more than willing to accept a complimentary month to review your establishment again, and possibly earn my business back in the process. CHEERS! read more

They added several new cardio machines, each having their own little TV mounted on them.

Crowded equipment, lots of broken treadmills, no way of reporting problems, dirty floor exercise mats that need to be thrown away, lots of potential, they just don't seem to care. Give your customers a way to contact you . You're the only game in town. Don't act like it. read more

I just signed up for a membership and I absolutely love this gym. It's smaller than my old gym but has everything you could need. I love that there are separate rooms like the cardio room and the stretch room and the tanning beds are a nice plus. The machines are well cared for and clean. I am very happy with my choice to join pride read more

It is great for a small town. The equipment is nice and is the same as what you will find at the YMCA or any other club in Lawton. If you live in Elgin and don't have time to commute or work weird hours, this club is amazing. The staff is very friendly and they have helpful. The comment about the club being crowded, I go at 6am and at 8-9pm, every time I go it is not crowded and their staff is always sanitizing the equipment. So yes, I would recommend this gym to anyone, and they even have tanning beds. They are open 24hrs, as long as you have a pendant to get in. read more