Jetts 24 Hour Fitness

I like Jetts 24 Hour Fitness gyms. I continue to go there and it’s quite sufficient for my needs, though I will not deny I wish these gyms offered more equipment in a larger space. Having stated that, it is comparable to the reasonable weekly rate I pay as opposed to the more ostentatious Les Mills and City Fitness on Queen Street.
Jetts Gym does have the convenience of allowing you to use any of their branch facilities throughout New Zealand and Australia with no addition charges, something the other Auckland gyms don’t allow you to do unless you pay a higher contract fee. Their gym equipment is the same in both quantity and purpose at most of their facilities. However due to the limited gear, this places a bit of frustration for an avid gym member at peak-​hours when certain, more relaxed members occupy the machines during their lengthy rest periods while texting on their phones or actually monitoring their Facebook postings. This isn’t, of course, appropriate, yet these members have no clear courtesy or regard for those waiting on them to clear the exercise equipment. No wonder they continue looking the way they do with no ostensible physical difference or improvement.
The other policy of Jetts I am still miffed about is their mandatory orientation for all new members. Sure, it only happens once, but I can’t get over it! Seemingly it doesn’t matter if you’re a long-​time, seasoned gym veteran. The redundancy of being shown how to use certain gym pieces is actually quite insulting — almost belittling — considering that I have been working-​out longer than some of the training staff. Perhaps Jetts’ staff should place more emphasis on members who just sit around, take-​up space with equipment while scrolling on their phones (during their 5 – 7 minute resting periods between sets), as others wander aimlessly not knowing what they’re doing with the equipment and at the gym. Perhaps they weren’t paying attention during the orientation.
Another aspect of the orientation is introducing Jetts Question Red Book. Here you can write your thoughts or questions to the Jetts staff. However, whenever I have written into the book, my inquiries go unanswered or the page is usually torn out. I find this quite annoying, but I’ve come to accept any concern by a member will seemingly go on deaf ears. But I’m not about to fret over this since, quite honestly, I just want to get my work-​outs in. Should something happen drastically that I don’t approve of at Jetts, I will simply go elsewhere like I have done so with other gyms.
For what is offered at Jetts, the avid gym-​user certainly has to make the best with the gear available. I still see my gains and am comfortable with Jetts. Of course, I do my best to not come at «peak hours» but sometimes life’s other things get in the way. But in comparison to the pretentious air of Les Mills or the costly weekly rates of the YMCA, Jetts Gym is a fair, clean, good gym to be a member of.