Edgewater Fitness Center

This fitness center is located near by me. This was the first reason to chose it. Only for 1 month I worked with them and loved it. Especially their group classes are perfect. You can pick any class depends on your schedule. Instructor and other employees are very friendly.
I’m planning to go on!

It’s a nice neighborhood gym. I have been going here for few weeks. It has never been too crowded or too busy. I don’t like over crowded smelly gym. Here, there are usually few people and clean.
Also, they offer good group class program. I enjoy Cecelia Zheng’s Zumba. She is awesome instructor.

Best gym in the area! Always clean, not too busy (never have had to wait for a machine), staff is friendly and they offer some really fun group fitness classes like Zumba & Hoop Method. Free wifi too!

This is the best gym ever!
The facilities are always clean, and the machines are well-​maintained.
The staff is warm and helpful.
The workout environment is welcoming and never intimidating.
I’ve never felt comfortable working out at a gym, but when Edgewater Fitness moved into the neighborhood, I thought I’d give it a try. Thank goodness I did, because I now look forward to going to the gym!
Do yourself a favor and get a membership here!

I love this gym! I joined this gym when I first moved to this neighborhood and that time this gym was new. I started by attending different classes and each one of the instructors are super friendly, knowledgable, and helpful! All the classes are really great and push one to do his/​her best! Don’t shy away if you’re new at this whole thing, the instructors never make you feel like you suck (which I did in the beginning) and they will guide you based on your own pace and body type.
The staff is really friendly and the atmosphere is motivating and clean! AND they are constantly improving and adding new classes and weights/​machines/​equipments. Definitely worth the money, time and effort!

I’ve been going to Edgewater Fitness Center for 2 years now and I love it. All the staff is really friendly and helpful, the place is always clean, and they offer a ton of group fitness classes that are included in the membership. Price is affordable and you can’t beat the overall feel of the place. It really is your neighborhood gym where they actually care about their members.
This gym is by far the best.

Great gym, with friendly staff. The gym itself has everything you would need, and never crowded. The classes are very energetic, and will get you in the spirit, even if not a part of the class. It’s located in good area near cta train, restaurants, subway, and of course starbucks :)

I joined this gym a couple of weeks ago, and I’m in love. It’s a very tiny gym, but it’s never very busy when I’m there. Even at peak times, you can get on the machine you want with no problems. I don’t know about weekends because I’m only there in the morning. When I got a membership, I thought I would just run on the elliptical a few times a week, but their class schedule is incredible! They have a 30 minute core workout class on Mondays, zumba, hula hoop fitness, a cheerleading cardio class, candlelit yoga late on Wednesdays, boot camp, cardio barre, yogalaties, everything! I look forward to classes every week. The only thing I don’t like about the gym is that the machines don’t have their own televisions. There are only a few televisions spread out around the room. I’m VERY happy with my overall experience though.

Great gym I highly recommend it. been a member since they first opened and so far its been great experience.
The staff is super friendly and always happy to help the members, if you have any question regarding using the machines or how to do certain exercises the staffs always willing to guide you and teach you the proper forms and techniques.
The fitness classes are free which is amazing, the instructors are very knowledgeable and take into consideration that not everyone is an expert at taking these classes, they push the veterans harder and make sure the rookies are learning the proper forms and techniques.
I wish they had more machines for back and shoulder but do to limited space they wont be adding more machines but overall the gym has everything you need for your weight training, the fitness classes and the helpful staff is big a plus.
Definitely worth stopping by and doing a free trial.

I was happy to see that a fitness joint was about to open just down the street from my apartment. And the rates were really good. I went in and saw a nice, bright and shiny under-​construction space that was about to open in a few weeks and signed up for a year.
But yeah, bright and shiny! A welcome change from the usual… gray…gyms with their gray walls and gray equipment, making you feel like you’re in the Soviet Union at best, prison at worst.
So when the gym opened, I was so excited to walk in and find… that they painted the walls gray. The locker room: gray, with gray lockers. Gray equipment. Gray everything. Gray, gray, gray. *gag*
Okay, no problem, I’ll just tune it out and watch some videos on my phone while I excercise… except…that it’s hard to maneuver around the place because there’s too much equipment in too small a space. And I can’t hear what’s going on in the video because the instructor in the classroom feels the need to bust out some booming tunes with the volume cranked up to a level that would put Nigel Tufnel to shame. Really? You’re three feet from the speaker and you don’t think your students can hear it?
Well, might as well lift some weights… except they only have one set, meaning that the most popular weights are hardly available. :(
But yeah, overall, not happy with Edgewater Fitness. And the final straw that made me write this review: recently there was a promotion for free personal training once a week in August. Now… I’ve had personal training before, but this was in another state, so maybe the definition of «personal training» differs from state to state, but my previous experience with «personal training» went like this: I had an initial appointment with a trainer, who took a few minutes to talk to me and get a feel for what I wanted, what I was currently able to do, weigh me, measure me, basically know what I’m all about. He had me start with 20 minutes of cardio, then we went through a regimen of various exercises, weight lifting, and whatever else have you. He guided me on the way, telling me what I was doing wrong, what I was doing right, what I was doing too much of, what I was doing not enough of, and clearly demonstrated what I needed to do. He had me push myself but not strain myself. And this is how pretty much every session went.
Well, this «personal training» at EFC was… a boot camp class with a handful of exercisers, probably ten or so. I guess what made it «personal» training was you’d write down what you did and try to beat that record the next week. And with annoying music as a backdrop… ugggh…couldn’t hear a damn thing the instructor was saying because of the surprisingly resounding echo in such a small room (a room small enough that when we were doing our warmups a few of us ended up kicking each other because there wasn’t enough space) combined with the annoying «music» that was competing for her voice.
So I guess to anybody who couldn’t get into this «personal training» because the space filled up, on one hand I’d like to apologize for taking your place because I’m NOT going back, but on the other hand, you wouldn’t actually be getting personal training any way. Not only am I not returning for the «personal training,» but I’m not going back PERIOD, as I’ve found much more satisfying ways of getting back into shape than what this gym can offer. I know that that’s basically wasting money on another five months of my year-​long membership that I won’t use (and I’m not counting on a goodwill refund), but lesson learned.
Two stars for the positives:
— One star because the price is decent compared to most other health places, and
— Another star because the staff is very friendly.

This past winter, I was thrilled to see that a neighborhood gym was opening up a block from my home. (Previously, I had been a member of Cheetah. I thought Cheetah was a little over-​priced, and had somewhat older equipment.)
I’ve been a member of Edgewater Fitness since they opened their doors in mid-​January, working out approximately 4 or 5 times a week. I have to say that I LOVE this gym! The staff is very friendly and helpful.
The gym is reasonably priced and it has everything I need. It has plenty of treadmills, bicycles, ellipticals, free weights, benches, strength training equipment for every muscle group, and a separate room for classes and floor exercises. I’ve never had to wait in line for any of the equipment, ever.
I have only attended a few of the group fitness classes because I prefer to do my own workouts — but there are a lot of classes to choose from, and they are all included for free.