LA Fitness

This club needs a big fat ZERO. Be careful about your contract, I stop using my membership because I obtained a personal trainer, they would not let me cancel my contract and they were still taking money from my account. I had to call corporate and nothing came from it, until after 3 months of fighting this I was able to cancel my contract and they provide horrible costumer service.

I’ve been going to this gym several times a week for about a year and a half now. It’s OK. They did a big renovation several months ago and lots of things on the floor are nicer — additional cardio equipment, benches in the locker room and nicer lockers. Unfortunately they didn’t replace the showers, which are old and dingy and never seem clean in a dark shower room, and they didn’t do anything about the cooling issue in the locker rooms. The temperature in the gym itself is always too hot for my taste, but the ladies locker room is like the tropics in July. Even if you take a cold shower you’ll be sweating with 5 minutes of getting out. All of the regulars have complained about this repeatedly and we just get told the cooling system is insufficient for the space. Well, don’t you have the power to change that? All of these people paying dues and it takes forever to get even small things like one piece of equipment repaired. I’ve been to at least four other L.A. Fitness locations in Atlanta and the only reason I continue my membership at Perimeter Pointe is it’s close proximity to my office. Needs work, for sure.
Oh yeah, and the smoothie bar is never open in the mornings. I’m there from 6:30am to just after 8am and I’ve never once seen it open, even though they advertise breakfast options.

I train at this gym 5 – 6 days a week, and every time I go in the people there are very friendly and quick to get you checked in. The staff goes out of their way to make sure you are taken care of. Fred and Dwayne gave me 2 cups of oatmeal before my training so I would have the necessary carbs I needed. It is people like them that will keep me returning to this gym instead of any other in the area. Also the gym is always clean and equipment in working order. Only thing that is missing is a dead lift bar. Very good gym and I recommend it to all of my friends.

I train here 5 – 6 days a week at different times a day. The place is always clean and very accommodating. It has all the equipment I need except a deadlift bar. Fred and Dwayne are very knowledgeable and helpful. I recommend this gym for its fair price and vast amount of equipment. 5 starts.

I’ve an avid LA Fitness gym hopper. From Atlantic Station, Brookhaven, Kennesaw, Lenox, Peachtree St, Tucker, Buford to Duluth I’ve out trained all their equipment. However, when it comes to customer service, equipment, classes and locker rooms the Perimeter location remains superior.
1) Customer Service: It’s a 15 minute drive from my house, but the service I receive here is worth every Kroger fuel point. When your pre-​workout kicks in you won’t be waiting longer than 3 secs to get checked in here (even if you’re behind the free trial idiots).
James and Fred are one stop sources of health and fitness knowledge. And no ladies, these PROFESSIONAL trainers are not here to hit on you unlike the creeps at the other locations. They genuinely care about your goals and ensure you’re using the equipment properly without any hard sales tactics.
2) Equipment: It’s all NEW! They’ve got Metal weights…’nuff said.
Obviously this place isn’t huge, but they’ve utilized their area efficiently. Besides the typical post work crowd around 5pm, you’re usually never waiting till the end of your workout for the squat racks. Plus people are nicer (and aesthetically pleasing) here so they’ll let you work in between sets!
If you’re nice to the staff they’re usually cool with you using the personal training zone!
3) Classes: Have you guys ever burned 800 calories dancing? Zumba with Danielle is that combination of death and fun. My friends have told me the body works is great here too! (I prefer Mariya at Brookhaven Saturdays at 9:45am :P)
4) Locker Rooms: I’m SO glad they redesigned this place. It looks and smells SO nice. Plus the lighting and mirrors are perfect for that post workout selfie we all know you’re secretly taking.
Definitely a great spot.

This club is interactive with raffle prizes and the classes they offer are wonderful.

I haven’t been to this location in a while. The’ve made some changes to the overall facility and upgraded some of the machines. It’s obvious A little more work can be done to bring it to the standards of the newer facilities, especially in the women’s bathroom. But overall it’s still a great place to get workout.

I wish I could rate zero stars. The club itself may be fine; but they will not let me cancel my membership. They have given me the runaround for weeks. I can’t cancel over the phone or via email. I was told I could do it in person and when I went in, I was told to come back in a week. Then I asked to see my contract and they said I was not allowed to see it.
NOT ALLOWED to see a contract. NOT ALLOWED.
The woman helping me, who I’m sure is a decent person, provided me with a FAKE name when I asked who I was speaking with.
As of now I am stuck paying with no way to cancel. What a crummy way to treat a 3 year plus customer. I hope customers see this review and decide to not support LA FITNESS anymore. I hope LA FITNESS sees this review and allows me to terminate my membership.
Cowards and crooks. What a disappointment. I’m being held up by LA FITNESS.

I love my LA Fitness membership that allows me to gym-​hop. My favorite gym locations tend to be the newer and larger gyms which can get busy, so in bad traffic, sometimes you need to compromise and just head to the closest one.
I was in deep in Perimeter during rush hour on a Friday afternoon, so I knew that it would be unreasonable to drive to Brookhaven in the limited time I had to workout.
This location is not cute. It smells musty, especially the women’s locker room bathroom and showers smell terrible. There was no cycle class going on Friday afternoon at 5:30 as most locations I have been to do. I showed up around 5:45, a little late, hoping to catch the last 30 – 45 minutes, but the cycle room was dark and empty. I ended up making up my own workout.
From what I have used in the past, the free weights and machines are useable, although I never got the hang of where the machines were, it seems like they’re randomly placed. The cardio machines are all located in the front of the gym.
Overall, this is definitely a closer gym to me than any other location, but the equipment and quality is impetus for me to explore farther and newer gym locations.

The man at the front counter was a total ass to me and my friend. Nothing in here is organized. It smells so horrible in here. I didn’t like the experience at all.

I come to this location at least a few times a week to workout. The parking area is jam-​packed since it’s next to a bunch of stores so I usually have to park a few stores down on weekday nights. It’s not of one the nicer LA Fitness clubs in the area. All the equipment is old and many seem to go out of order week in and week out. The actual weight plates are the rubber ones and are slowly wearing apart so they are hard to grip if you want to use them for shoulder shrugs or walking lunges. The bathrooms are also old and the lockers are breaking apart with many of the doors not able to completely close.
This location has a few long strips of cardio equipment but you are going to have wait on a treadmill during primetime hours which at this club seems to be between 5:30 — 7:30 at night Monday thru Thursday. The cardio equipment is located right in between the machines and training area since the club is all on 1 floor. It is also the same case for the free weight section in which you will have to weight on benches both in front of the free weights and chest benches. I have timed my workout to start around 5 and move away from the free weight area and over to the machines by the time it starts getting crowded.
You can always find a pick-​up basketball game going on during the weekdays. It is usually the same crowd and between 10 – 15 people generally so not overly crowded. The nice thing about their basketball court is they actually have a mini-​court to the side with a full goal so you can warm up without interrupting a game that is in progress. The downside is the main court gets cut off on the 3 point line on the corners so they play a lot of 4 on 4 at this club as opposed to the standard 5 on 5. The group classes also have a lot of variety and seem to attract a lot of people but I don’t participate in those.
The plus side is that this club location is about to go into renovation in a few weeks so hopefully that will make the overall club fresher and cleaner. That means for the clubs nearby, be wary of even more crowded workout areas during February-​March while this club is closed for renovations. If you just need a workout spot, then this location is fine since it has all the usual equipment but don’t expect much more than that.

You can get in and out quickly. No wait on machines simple layout! The equipment is old but clean!

Rusty, moldy, decrepit. Go to another location.

The staff is rude and disrespectful. They seem to want to cause problems and tell you no rather than find solutions.

Horrible, Horrible, HORRIBLE!!! I moved to Georgia over 15 years ago and became a member at this gym due to as everyone close proximity from home and work to be told every year by the management staff they will be doing a gym makeover (new equipment, redesign, etc) to only see them repaint the same rusty cracked ceilings and walls every spring. NOBODY HAS AN ANSWER as to why the owners of this location are just sitting on their members dues and not putting the VERY MUCH NEEDED residuals back into this gym located at Mt Vernon in Dunwoody.
What a disgust, if you go into the locker rooms you will see, locker door one after another hanging off the hinges broken, the peww-​wee, eww… my-​God filth in their bathrooms, look up in the bathroom hallways and you will see more holes and major rust spots in the ceilings as well as the tarnished wood rotting underneath your bottom and all broken up in the dry sauna rooms. WHO ON THE CITY COUNCIL BOARD IN DUNWOODY CONTINUES TO LET THIS PLACE OPERATE? You call or email their headquarters in California to try and get somebody on it, see when these much anticipated upgrades are going to take place (NEVER), but low and behold, hmmmm you seem to can never get through, oh I get it now, ONLY YOUR MONTHLY PAYMENTS ARE GLADLY ACCEPTED. Where are the health and saftey board commissions? The sanitation you see around this place has to be within violations.
Lastly I only gave LA Funkness — Dunwoody, I mean Fitness? ONE STAR because it would not let me choose not selecting any.
Skip this place twice, its needs to go, $ 35 a month for what??? I think not.

I have used this gym over the past year but have become disgusted with their management. I used to come in 2 – 3 times a week with my own training plan until one day they approached me to get a «free» training session.
What they were really trying to get me to sign up for was thei almost $ 4,000 52 week training «program» with «professional» results.
WHAT A JOKE.
This facility is the most horribly kept up gym I have ever seen with roaches and mold in the showers. I hardly see ANYONE cleaning the machines, let alone the showers and the staff is changing all the time so that is NOT a good sign.
Take your money elsewhere and think twice before stepping foot in here.

First time here at this location. It’s located off Abernathy/​Perimeter Center & Mount Vernon. I used to work in this area but never attended this LA Fitness or know bout the area much. What led me back here is Oscar’s Zumba class. Oscar used to teach at the LA Fitness Peachtree Corners but stopped and only teaches on weekends. Dunwoody just happens to be one of them. Honestly, I completely forgotten about it until I read Deby L’s reviews and tips about how much she likes Oscar that made me realize I do miss him and wanted to attend his class.
The studio is bigger than most I’ve seen, there are actually two doors to get inside it. I like that there are two fans blowing in the studio. Oscar’s class is jam pack! I would only come back for his class if I didn’t get my morning workout. I prefer to workout early in the morning and his class is at noon.
The gym reminds me of Peachtree Corners, it’s an older gym and the lockers are so old school. The bathrooms were nasty. I ain’t gonna lie, I judge a gym by the bathrooms, if they keep it clean. I’ve only had this problem so far at Dunwoody & Tocco Hills.
I will only come back for Oscar’s class and not care for the bathroom!

I’ve had an LA Fitness membership since the early 2000s — I don’t remember the exact date. I was originally an Australian Body Works member on a corporate rate (at less than $ 12 a month back then it was the best deal in town) — I don’t remember if this location stared as an ABW but seem to recall that it opened as an LAF — in either case I’ve been working out at this location much longer than Unilocal!has been around. I remember how new all the equipment, dressing rooms, etc. were in the beginning. As with anything, time has taken its toll a bit and while this location isn’t in perfect condition, the management does a fairly good job at keeping up with paint, repairs and the reconditioning of faulty equipment.
Positives:
The weight room is fairly well laid out with most of the equipment in rows relative to the stress of the body part being worked. There’s also enough circuit training equipment to get a general workout in if you’re short on time.
The group classes seem to be both well attended and well directed.
The location is well staffed with personal trainers if you need the extra direction and push to get your workout in.
There’s a decent variety of cardio equipment.
The location has a pool, a sauna and a decent number of racquetball courts.
Negatives:
This location is super busy during prime time which can impact your workout.
The location is on the smaller side (call it «medium» compared to other «super» clubs) — and always seems to run out of treadmills. It can also be difficult to get into the spin classes and there are times that you’ll be waiting for a weight bench.
Parking can be a bitch — the lot is shared by all the surrounding businesses and there’s some overflow from the MARTA parking deck. I’ve actually given up and driven to another location due to the lack of spaces anywhere close to the gym.
In general, the club is showing its age, especially in the bathroom and locker rooms (doors missing latches, dirty locker interiors, etc.). I think the staff does a decent job cleaning the place, but time does rob everything of newness/​freshness and this location is well established.
The TV selection is pretty bad — it’s either Faux News, CNBC, CNN or bad TV talk shows (Dr Phil seems to be on all the time). I do tend to spend my time listening to NPR while on the treadmill, so it’s not entirely negative. Around election time they showed MSNBC instead of CNBC so there was a bit of balance to Faux News (you at least got both extremes of the political discussion) — the fallacy of CNBC — unless you’re a broker you generally don’t care about the discussion of individual stocks — trends and the specific investments are all that are important to you. Anyway, I’ve written more about the TV than anything else and it’s of the least importance — typical, right?
In summary, this location is a bit dated and super busy — please go somewhere else (kidding here, but no I guess I’m not). I workout after work 3 – 5 times a week at this location (on the weekend I hit the location on Jimmy Carter/​Peachtree Ind). At times there are just too many people so adjust your visits accordingly — off times or early mornings are best — if you can’t find parking within 10 rows of the entry then it’s going to be too full to get a decent workout anyway.

Sign up was fairly easy. I didn’t have to do much but then I knew what I was looking for.
CLASSES are what i come to the gym for. I never hit the machines nor the weights, so I am solely reviewing for the classes. I’ve been to zumba and to Body Works with Abs. The classroom is great here. It’s big, spacious, full of lights and fans, and the mirror helps keeps everyone’s form in check.
I wish there were more zumba classes, but the other classes offered are fairly good so I’m happy with this gym. I may have to upgrade to other locations too, but I’m not fond of the pricing so it won’t be for awhile, if at all.

I actually really liked this 24-​hour fitness… umm, I mean, LA fitness location.
Seriously though, I don’t know if there’s any 24-​hour fitness in the Atlanta area. But walking into this gym was like walking into an older version of 24-​hour fitness. It had the different color coded benches and machines. Also, the benches and the machines that they use are the same brands with what you would normally find at a 24-​hour fitness and not an LA fitness.
Anyway, enough about all that. This LA fitness had pretty much everything that LA fitness has to offer. Baskeball court, swimming pool, free weights, machines, LOTS of cardio equipment. I only came here in the morning so it was never packed and I never had to deal with the salespeople so I have nothing good or bad to say about them.
One thing that I have to mention though. I was in Atlanta area for vacation when I used this gym. And as such, I didn’t have my LA fitness tag that’s attached to my car key which I’d left at home. However, no biggie. I gave them my phone number, showed my ID and voila! I’m in. No issues on that. Unlike another LA fitness that I’d gone to in Chicago area.
One similarity between this LA fitness with the others that I noticed? During off-​peak hours, there was barely anybody working there. So, your dumbbells were all over the floor, your bars were all over the floor. Nobody to pick them up and re-​rack them. Obviously this also said something about the quality of the people that came to work out here earlier in the morning (I’d like to assume that the mess was not from the night before).
Another thing that I noticed during my two days here that I don’t really see at any other LA fitness that I’d been to? There were HOT girls. Like seriously. TWO DAYS I was there, I must have seen like eight or nine hot girls. IN THE MORNING! Woo. I wish the LA fitness by my place in Houston had girls like that. Thanks ladies, you were very nice to look at.