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Gold's Gym

Gold's Gym

2.9
(57 reviews)
3.6 mi

I've trained at Meadowbrook and Planet Fitness, and I'm telling you right now -- Gold's Gym…read moreArboretum clears. Best gym I've been in so far. The weight area is stacked, plenty of racks, solid free weight selection, and the vibe is actually motivating. You walk in and want to lift heavy. No waiting around forever for equipment, no weird energy -- just people there to work. Only thing I miss is the hydro beds from Planet Fitness. Other than that? No comparison. This is the spot.

1 star - The only reason I still come to this Gold's Gym is convenience, because the overall…read moreexperience is disappointing. The biggest issue is that members constantly leave weights, bars, and other equipment wherever they finish using them, and it apparently just stays there until the next person picks it up and moves it to its new home. Re-racking weights and returning equipment should be the most basic rule in any gym, yet here it feels completely optional. Instead of being able to move through your workout, you will more often than not waste time searching for the equipment you need because someone else could not be bothered to put it back. What makes it worse is that this is not a hidden problem. There are signs throughout the gym reminding people to re-rack weights, but they do not seem to be enforced in any meaningful way. At that point, the signs are just decoration. I also regularly see personal trainers and membership coordinators standing around the front desk joking, talking, essentially socializing while the gym floor stays disorganized. There is nothing wrong with this, and morale does matter, but when there is clearly downtime, no clients to attend to, and the gym is that disorganized, that time would be better spent keeping the floor in order, returning misplaced equipment, and reinforcing the rules that are already posted. Then in the future they could reclaim that time instead of letting the same problem continue. For a paying member, it gets old fast. People join a gym to work out, not to spend part of every session cleaning up after strangers and hunting down bars, plates, or attachments that should already be where they belong. If you are considering joining, just know that the convenience of this location is doing a lot of heavy lifting, because management and basic gym etiquette are not.

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Midlothian Athletic Club

Midlothian Athletic Club

3.8
(34 reviews)
4.6 mi

This was our family gym for over a year and we had a great experience. For a family of 3, it was…read moreover $100/month and that included free child care while you're on the premises, tons of spin classes, barre, and other Les Mills classes. The equipment was nice and there's a locker room too. What drew us in was the proximity to our house and the water park. Our kid loves the water. The outdoor water park is pretty sweet, but sadly this past summer the slides were closed due to Covid. Two reasons for not giving 5 stars: -The place definitely needs maintenance. Any time you look up (mostly at the indoor poor), it looks like it's falling apart, has exposed insulation and is a bit questionable lol. The outdoor pool has a soft foam mat on part of it for kids and that's coming apart too. -The customer service is so so. The front staff is great and always greets us with a friendly face. There were just one or two encounters with membership that left me feeling like.. not great. Particularly when we called to terminate our membership. The original contract we signed was for 12 mo the and that *we* would let them know if we wanted to continue. Well the month before I called and for some reason or another, we had to pay for ANOTHER month because of the timing. The guy admitted it was his fault and he's been really busy, which I empathize with, but I just don't think it's really cool to admit your fault in not calling us, assuming we want to continue though we don't, and having to pay an extra hundo. Overall, the gym has great equipment and amenities for the value and I would definitely recommend this gym! We look forward to the summer and hopefully using the water park and slides :)

The website is false and misleading. Aging facility. There isn't an outdoor pool available…read more Management is very poor. Doubt it will be around much longer.

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acac Fitness & Wellness

acac Fitness & Wellness

2.9
(38 reviews)
5.6 mi

ACAC gyms are the bomb.com!…read more So this experience was kind of like going to CineBistro to watch a movie and then going to... a regular movie theatre. Once you go to CineBistro with the in-theatre dinner service, crafty cocktails, and comfy chairs, it ruins your moviegoing experience forever. You become a movie theatre snob, if you will. ACAC has the same effect... specifically the Short Pump location. I became a member about a year ago and ACAC Short Pump has been good to me ever since. The rooftop bar and pool, the floor to ceiling windows, the cafe, the sprawling classrooms! All of it is top of the line. I've always been curious about the Midlothian location, but when you live in the West End, traveling to that area is like going to Timbuktu. However, I happened to have a meeting in good ol' Midlo so I packed a gym bag and used it as an opportunity to ch ch check it out. When I first walked in I noticed how large and in charge the space was. I mean, it really was ginormous. But, it looked more like a giant warehouse with a bunch of machines than a health club, which is what Short Pump looks like. Also- I thought the basketball court inside the space was really cool until folks started playing and it got real loud. Real fast. That would be annoying to me if I'm just minding my business on the treadmill 3-4 days a week and I have to hear shoes squeaking and voices echoing. I digress. The one way that Midlothian beat Short Pump? The pools! They have amazing pools and an outdoor water park. Yes, Short Peezy has the rooftop pool, but these were so much bigger. In this case, bigger does = better. Another area that gave Midlothian major cool points? I left my favorite earrings on the stationary bike and didn't realize it until I was already in the car on my way home. I called the front desk and someone had already turned them in! I went to pick them up today and they were safe and sound in an envelope with my name on them. Thanks, Midlothian!

I have been a member for years and one of my favorite things about ACAC Midlothian has been the…read moregroup water classes, especially when they are in the outdoor pool. Unfortunately the facility's priority is the swim team. From late May through July the outdoor pools are used by the team morning afternoon and evening to accommodate families with different schedules. Even our weekly evening class that uses the deep well has been moved inside so the children who aren't on the swim team can play in the pool. Whenever I have brought this up with management they deny that swim team is their priority and say that we must share the pool. I don't think this is a fair statement since swim team has the pool 8-9 hours a day (not including meets)

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