Fit Club

I began training at Fit Club ⁹⁄₂₀₁₀ and so as I enter into my 6^th year as a member, let’s just say my entire life has been impacted by walking through Fit Clubs door.
If you are not where you want to be physically, if you are not happy with your body, if your mindset is full of self doubt and lack of confidence regarding exercise/​diet. I urge you to come take a free class and check it out. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

It’s a serious CrossFit place (some national competitors train there), but it’s also a good place to learn CrossFit. I joined less than a year ago, and didn’t know how to do most things at the time. I have found the instruction to be thorough, encouraging and courteous.
Months later, I’m better than I was, and that’s saying something, for someone with a couple of decades of weight training under her belt.
It’s also worth noting that it’s an environment where it’s okay to scale workouts. If you can’t perform a particular workout, the coaches will have lots of okay options for you to try.
They have a kiddie program too. It develops healthy habits and attitudes towards fitness, and I appreciate that, as a parent.

Best gym I’ve ever attended. Quality training, active community (lots of bbq and hanging out after workouts) and all of the mean girls/​guys have long since left for other gyms (yay!). Tons of fun, hard work and great times.

Fitclub and Crossfit have changed my life. I have cystic fibrosis, a chronic and debilitating disease of the lungs and stomach. After a recent hospital stay I felt weak and discouraged. Deciding to try to work on my strength and fitness I reached out to Fitclub. I was nervous and intimated, sure that I would not be able to keep up and perform. I was so pleasantly surprised! The instructors made modifications to fit my level and challenges. The people in my classes are supportive and encouraging. The atmosphere is motivating and fun. Watching the progress of my fellow newbies as well as the the awesome hard work of the serious trainers is always inspirational. The best part is I’ve gained weight, feel stronger, and have improved lung function. FitClub is changing my life and I love it.

UPDATE!!!
The gym has moved, about a year ago and a lot has changed.
Parking, which was just about everyone’s biggest head ache has been solved! There are so many spaces you can literally teach a drivers ed class and not worry about hitting any parked cars. So that is awesome!
There is so much space within the gym its unheard of! It used to be an old warehouse for Lazarus back in the day so its big and open. There are a good amount of Olympic Lifting platforms, 9ish I think. From what I heard (could be false) when the rig was put up, it was the largest in the world. According to whom no idea, but I do remember hearing that. There is ample space to fit a class of 30 or as little as 4.
The gym has cookouts during the warmer days-​BYOB and BYOM (Bring your own meat)
A down side to this awesome place is… the bathroom. There is 1 toilet. No showers. Luckily I go to the gym and then head home.

I have been looking into starting crossfit for a while when I Unilocaled this place and saw good reviews. I figured it was close to home and I could give it a shot. I wish I would’ve just started somewhere else.
The first few days I thought I was doing well and getting in a good workout which I enjoyed but I also wanted to be in an atmosphere where people were friendly and, I just wasn’t getting that here.
The class sizes are so large it’s hard to know what’s going on. The instructors were jerks and they tried to charge me money for not even being there.
During the month of On-​Ramp I had a small surgery which made me miss 2 classes. I paid the extra $ 30 for a make-​up and when I asked when I’d be able to make up said class I was told to pretend that we were never having the conversation. That’s when I decided I was not going to sign up and continue. I never signed any paperwork or agreements yet, they tried charging me for the next month until I put a stop to that.
All in all I feel like this gym is just trying to get money and not worry about anything else but themselves.

I have to preface this review with the fact that I attended a single on-​ramp (beginner) session. I limped out of the gym, totally worn out. And I’m man enough to admit that I couldn’t even complete the session.
The gym is great. Very spartan with only the equipment you’ll need to get fit and strong. No rows of aerobic machines here to keep you isolated. The class was very communal and interactive. The trainers were very nice and very interested. They even contacted me after my session to check up on me.
That said, Fit Club is just not for me. I felt ground down and it just wasn’t fun. Perhaps I don’t fit the profile of the typical masochistic Crossfit-​er…
Still looking for something between my Pilates studio and Fit Club in Columbus…

Feel. The. Burn!
On the night before Thanksgiving — and any night really — I felt the need to write a motivating review from my experience at Fit Club.
If you’re looking to start a program that whips you into shape — and fast — look no further.
I would consider myself being in moderate shape, but a workout session here was sobering. All people are welcome, although you can tell almost immediately who the regulars are.
There are a few different options offered here at varied times of the day. Cross Fit (!!INTENSE!!), martial arts and yoga. For a little over a hundred dollars a month you can enjoy an unlimited number of small classes that suit your fitness needs. The good thing is they’re big enough to feed off the energy of your classmates, but small enough to get individualized attention.
This is definitely not your plushy gym. More of a man’s-man gym actually — the bathroom made that really clear. It’s your bare-​boned workout facility that’s been erected in a former upper level of a small warehouse. Not gonna lie — it looks shady. But what you find inside is for those who are serious about beefing up their athleticism.