24 Hour Fitness

Smaller than average 24hr fitness location. However has most of the essential basic necessities (e.g., treadmill, elliptical, weight, GroupX classes). I only wish bathrooms/​lockers area was kept to higher degree of cleanliness.

I don’t have a true ‘home’ gym… I enjoy bouncing around the South OC because different gyms have different exercise equipment. However, I do find myself visiting this gym semi-​frequently. It’s really small. I love that it’s so close to the 5 freeway off La Paz. In fact, on sunny days, you get a nice view of beautiful landscape, hills, and houses that make up Mission Viejo. However, I rarely workout during the day because of the crowd factor and I’m very fortunate to be in a position where I can go at night –when there’s 1… maybe at most 3 people. The night crew is way kick back and at all these gyms –you get to shoot the $h!+ and form genuine connection with them and the other locals. Good energy all around at this place.

The only reason I come to this class are for the bodypump class with Alison and the PiYo Strength class with Lauren and Holly G. The group x room is big, plenty of equipment and space. However, the club itself is very sad, run down, neglected and dirty. There is always equipment that doesn’t work, the staff does not care, and the bathrooms are always filthy and stink! This gym badly needs updating and a deep cleaning.

This is my home gym that I have been going to forever! The new staff is fantastic and I appreciate the changes that slowly have been taking place and improving this older gym. Keep up the good work!

Don’t know how they can call themselves 24 hour Fitness when they don’t open until 6:00 a.m. I just moved to the area and now I can’t work out before work because this location has such limited hours. I went on June 28 at 5:45. And the idiot man working in the club was too stupid and rude to even acknowledge me and let me know they didn’t open until 6. My old neighborhood had two locations that were open 24 hours. No stars for this location.

DUMP… I’ve been telling them for months there’s a gas leak in the restrooms. Either that or their sewage system is messed. It’s quite clear that 24 hour fitness is in bad financial straits because of the neglect of their clubs and it’s obvious that they no longer draw the crowds they once had working out there.

I haven’t had a 24 hour pass in over a year, and I came here yesterday to check out the PiYo class with a friend. We had filled out the online 3-​day guest pass, and after working with the gentleman at the front desk he said I was good to because we were attending the 5:30pm class.
We got into the group exercise room and started to setup our spot and start stretching. The same guy who checked me in had come back to grab me again per his managers instructions. The class started at 5:30pm and I was pulled at 5:20pm and I had to sit while the manager was helping someone else. The manager didn’t finish with his client for another 10 minutes.
It might just be me, but a sales person with good customer service wouldn’t have a potential new customer sit and wait for 10 minutes after they just spent 10 minutes to get checked in with a guest pass, but rather would have allowed me to attend the class, and meet with the manager after. The manager finally finished with his first client, and at this point it was 5:30pm.
The manager asked me about my gym situation, and I said I was uneasy about a new membership because the fees were close to $ 30/​month + initiation + first/​last months due, but that I was there to check out the class. The manager was immediately defensive. He abruptly asked me why I thought they would let me use the guest pass if I didn’t immediately plan on buying a membership, and told me it would be $ 20 day fee to use the facilities. What the hell? WHAT’S THE POINT OF THE GUEST PASS THEN?
THIS WAS HONESTLY THE RUDEST MANAGER I’VE EVER ENCOUNTERED.
I should’ve immediately left after the way he made me feel and the way he spoke down to me. I’m guessing he must be behind on his sales quota because he was such a rude, unprofessional, awful person. If someone’s hesitant on a new membership it’s your job to sell the person on a new membership instead of SCORNING and BELITTLING them. This experience will stay with me forever, and I warn new members who are considering signing up at this location.
The managers name is Stephen, and hopefully upper management will deal with him appropriately. He sucks. I will NEVER return to your facility again.

Don’t bother if you are a serious lifter. This is an Active level gym and it shows. The weight area is about the size of a stamp. Too many sweaty people cramped into a small room during rush hour. It gets annoying very quickly. I was in the area and wanted to check this place out. I quit my workout after 5 mins and drove back to my usual Sport level 24 Hour.

Management at this gym has decided to charge members for group x zumba classes. To participate in class you are required to pay $ 1 to reserve a space. The attraction of 24 hour fitness is that you have full access to the facilities and activities. This is no longer true at the Laguna Hills facility.

Great staff and excellent space. I love the group exercise classes and they have a good number of them at a variety of times. Easy to get to and the staff is friendly and helpful. I recently needed something removed from my membership and Steven, the manager, took care of the item immediately and processed a quick refund. No pressure to keep additional options!

I am glad this gym is close to home. It is smaller facility but it is cleaner than San juan Capistrano 24 hr Fitness.

This is my regular gym but I am growing tired of the broken equipment which includes the AC recently. So I have had to go to another alternative gym so that I can workout. When machines break, they sit there for weeks at a time before being repaired.
Staff is always friendly.
But honestly, it needs a huge makeover. Time to get with the times and get some new equipment in and great AC.

The gym is alright and it’s walking distance for me, but who closes at 9pm on a weekend?

I go here ALOT so I am very familiar with this location.
Seems like too many treadmills are broken and is an ongoing issue. Not the end of the world but a bummer.
Anyone else bugged by the weird guy who «stretches» in his short shorts in the aisle behind the ellipticals for half hour? Everyone has to go around him. just weird.

I got a good workout in yesterday at this gym. Don’t be fooled by the outside. This is an older gym with older equipment. I’m not saying it’s bad — it’s just, well, old.
Open floor plan, lots of cardio equipment available and plenty of machines with a few newer ones sprinkled in. 4 benching stations which is uncommon to see at most 24’s, but the free weight area needs to be expanded. There was barely any room and people were on top of each other trying to get to their dumbells.
Overall, I’d give this gym good marks for the amount of equipment, but it definitely needs some updating.

As for «Active» 24 Hour Fitness gyms in the Mission Viejo area, I would recommend this gym. It’s off the 5 freeway, and there is a ton of parking available. There are a lot of cardio machines (if you’re into that sort of thing), a lot of machines (if you’re into that sort of thing), & a decent weight room. They only have 1 power rack — it’s elevated and kind of awkward, but it’ll get the job done. & there is only 1 squat rack. They have a ton of benches, which you’ll only have to wait for on Mondays (go figure), and a decent dumbbell selection. There are sufficient warm-​up & stretch areas. For an «Active» gym, it’s not bad.
My biggest gripe about this gym was the locker room. EVERY SINGLE TIME I went to the restroom (in the yearlong period that I went there), the restroom smelled like mildew. It was disgusting.

Love the early morning classes at this gym. Outside of that it is your pretty standard gym. Nothing fancy about this place. The class room needs more heavy weights and the showers need a little work.

Place is clean. They have a big studio which is all i really need. I liked how inside the studio they have open weights (new, rubber so they’re cleaner vs the old metal ones, and they have a variety of pounds which is awesome for slowly building up the extra pounds) you can use, which is perfect for my usual work out routine. I haven’t see the place super crowded here which is nice too. And the view from outside is really pretty, so seeing that after working out is a really refreshing thing. Staff are friendly, and haven’t encountered any creepers or total judemental meat heads here which is another plus. Only down side so far is that they don’t have my favorite calf building weight machine :(

Out of all the 24 hour fitness locations in the area — besides the Super Sport — this one is my very favorite. The only thing that it is missing is a pool.
The free weights area is very big and I can spread out. The cardio section is HUGE
I always find extra room to hide out in the room where the classes are held. The staff is nice. I also like that they have similar machines as the super sport.

It’s a gym, what more can be said besides it’s *supposed* to be good for you?! Actually, torture is more of the appropriate word for a gym in my book. But, I still work out like a mad woman and come for only a few things: the treadmill, the elliptical and some select few weight machines. But I do have a few points about this gym…
*It’s HUGE for just an Active gym (the smallest of the 24 Hour chain). You’ll have to see it to believe me.
*This location has the most treadmills that I have ever seen at an Active – sweet for the after work rush. Has the most free weights and weight machines ever. Love it.
*Clean. Clean Clean. Thank you cleaning staff.
*My only gripe is: Why is the locker room shoved in the corner on the opposite side of the gym as the front door? I really don’t like having to lug my gym bag and purse through the rows of cardio when all I want to do is change. Sorry in advance to all the people trying to get their run on that I hit with my massive bag as I’m going to the locker room.
Overall, it’s a gym. Get in, get out and get on with your life. Happy torture, I mean workout, people!