LA Fitness

Not getting any better at this particular LA Fitness. They’ve updated some of the equipment, but the service levels are still dismal. Broken machines and monitors, the parking system is awful, and the showers, don’t get me started. As part of a nationwide chain, I’d hope they’d be more concerned about their brand.

DO NOT SIGN UP for this location! WORST LA fitness ever!
— Horrible customer service: the front desk employees don’t do their job and are useless.
— Often, no paper towel on the floor or even bathrooms to wipe off equipments/​hands
— Machines are dirty, with no one cleaning up
— Bathrooms always dirty
— Bunch of Dumbbells and barbells missing
— No maintenance period

This gym is much sweatier and dirtier than it would be if management listened to our 2 simple requests: 1) increase the water pressure in the bathroom sinks so people can get their hands clean in less than five minutes, and 2) set the thermostat below the current 72 degrees (according to the front desk staff). As it stands there is no functional air conditioning and feces (literally) all over the equipment.

As many of the reviews says: DO NOT SIGN UP FOR PERSONAL TRAINING!!! DO NOT! They will tell you that you can buy out the agreement and will process it for you immediately. The truth is away far from this! I’ve been trying to cancel since one months! I went to the personal training manager (Tony)and he told that you should better than to come after this months but after that he told me he can’t do nothing for me so he will call the corporate and return to me! And of course he never did. Until I got charged for monthly «TRAINING», I called the corp I explained everything to them. They responded, «We will take care of it and we will call you in the next two days.» I waited, nothing happens, charged me again.
I called in today for the 6^th time, someone at the corporate responded and I was so angry and he basically says: «Oh sorry I can’t do nothing for you sir about past!!!
But my advice DO NOT GET INTO PERSONAL TRAINING! It will turn your life calling LA Fitness hundred times and you will lose money by that time. Which is no way they are going to refund you a penny! Get a personal training from outside the GYM. Basically my personal trainer was just writing down what exercises should I do! Everyone having a smartphone now and the app stores are full with the training courses that are exact same thing you will have from personal training program at LA Fitness! Be smart, save your money. Don’t get into the hock!

The Hollywood blvd la fitness is actually closer to my house, but after starting a new job that shares the same parking lot as this location– this will now be my primary gym as of today. I personally love it compared to the Hollywood location. The classes are less crowded & the machines all have tv monitors on them which I haven’t seen since my [super high-​tech] college gym! The kickbox cardio and body works plus instructor, Doretta, was great. How she sticks through back to back classes, I don’t know. But she motivated myself and other peers to stick through as well. Definitely my favorite LA fitness location. :)

Great location-​everything else is either meh or really sucks. They have a personal training area that is off limits to other guests, which is fine except they moved some equipment in there and don’t have duplicates in the regular area. When I asked about it I was told to use something else. «Nothing else is commensurate,» I replied and asked if they could get duplicates. She said she would look into it, which, after two months, I realize was code for «no.»
The equipment is adequate. The vibes are bad.

You definitely get what you pay for here. If you’re hitting the gym Mon — Wed you just have to expect it to be obnoxiously crowded. The corner designated for only the trainers is ridiculous, since there are never more than 1 – 2 people in there. The gym is crowded as fuck, let’s get it together.
I love the sauna, I’ve only had one sour experience there with some guy legitimately washing his junk in front of everyone sitting there. Bizarre, but this city is a melting pot and you see a little bit of everything here.
Bathrooms could be attended better. Numerous times I’ve had no poet towels and see the garbage overflowing.
There’s no towels, which sucks. I only live a few blocks away so I run there, but people seem to hate the parking system. 50c per trip, lol. Just raise the fucking dues a few bucks.
Bottom line, you could do worse for $ 30/​month, suck it up or pay some crazy monthly premium for a top of the line establishment.

I guess you get what you pay for here. It was already a rather low quality gym when I joined but at least then it was serviceable. Recently they put in this spray tan beach monstrosity. Now the trainers have cordoned off a huge area in the already crowded weight room. They have hoarded a bunch of the equipment and refuse to share.
What a joke this place is. The staff are standoffish and boring. The trainers are lethargic and not exactly an example of what one’s fitness goals should be. I have always been the type that only needs weights and basic cardio equipment. No bells and whistles. Now I am considering paying one of these other gyms a bloated monthly payment so I can avoid staring down the barrel of mediocrity first thing in he morning.

I was having a good morning Saturday And decided to. Workout again from a long layoff of 8 months. Kinda ruined my morning after encountering a moody staff infront desk.
The blonde at the front desk will make you the bad vibes. I asked for my keytag number or membership id number and it took her forever without any consideration. She will just give you the bad vibes!
Sorry Mrs trump it took a while writing this review. Atleast I have the guts to apologize unlike with your attitude.
Anyway other than that all other staffs were very nice and very courteous. I have many friends who workout here and I will be sure to let them know my experience and will try to convince them to move to other gym.
My advice to this gym. If ever you are going to hire staff or a manager especially be sure to hire the right person
Don’t ever hire a POMPOUS person because it represents your club.
Cancelled my membership today and will make sure to spread the word.
I signed up for a whole year and I just used the gym 4 times coming from a long lay off this is what I experienced. NEVER AGAIN LA FITNESS
Goodbye

Dings:
1. You have to pay to park. Only $.50. But then why pay at all? Just up the dues by a couple bucks. No justification for this unnecessary inconvenience.
2. Ellipticals are old school. No incline adjustment.
3. Weights aren’t round.
4. Only 1 straight chin up/​pull up bar that I could find. But plenty of the silly, angled kinds if you like those.
5. Only 1 power cage and 2 squat racks.
6. There aren’t curtains on the showers. Seriously? Are we animals? Are we not men?
7. Packed in the mornings.
Shines:
1. Good for running. Treadmills are new. Track is empty.
2. Epic sauna.
Verdict:
Typical commercial gym. Fine for exercising. No good for training.

One of the best things about my new membership with LA Ftiness is the access to a free personal training consultation. I was paired with Charles and I’m so glad that I got him. I have to admit, at first I was very skeptical. The gym is usually a time where I don’t like to interact with anyone. However, the 45 min session was extremely helpful. I learned a lot about my approach toward fitness and what I had to change and improve on to become my best healthy self.
Charles was very patient, helpful, and straight forward. I felt very comfortable and trusted that he knew what he was doing, especially since I had never done weights before. He gave me a sneak peak of some of the strength training workouts and circuits that he would normally provide during a training session and definitely taught me some techniques/​new moves that I wasn’t aware of. To be honest, if I had the ability, I would definitely commit to a long term package. However, if you have ability to commit to personal training, and are REALLY looking to change, I would highly recommend Charles. He was genuine, very professional, and a great motivator.

I signed up to LA Fitness for one reason, because they have lap pools. I am not one for a huge corporate gym, but they have something that I’d like to use to get my exercise. An awesome friend of mine mentioned swimming and I enjoy swimming, so I was like — Rock on! I’ll swim as my form of exercise! I came by, parked in the WRONG parking lot, which sucked because it cost me $ 9 to park rather than $ 0.50! Lesson learned on that. It was my first experience at LA Fitness and the staff was super sweet. They needed to take my picture so the sweet gal that works there totally used her charm on me and finally got me to take my pic (I’m not one for pics). Then they told me where to go. I changed in he locker room and swimming I went! The pool isn’t that big, it can probably handle about 8 people MAX swimming at the same time. I personally think there was Way too much chlorine in there, but I assume they do that on purpose to assure the pool stays clean. After about 5 laps I realized how out of shape I am (I haven’t exercised in 4yrs!). So I did a total of about 9 laps and I was done… I thought I was dying, lol. I rinsed myself down, changed and went my way.
Again, I am not one for working out and this review is not based on the workout facility, it’s strictly on locker room and swimming. I don’t like running, crazy workouts, P90X in your face go mad work outs. Swimming is my thing and LA Fitness set me up with a great deal. I look forward to seeing how the other facilities are. This one was pretty nice/​decent. I would come back and swim here again. It’s quiet, relaxing, and you get your workout done without interruptions.

8 days after the robbery I was finally able to view security footage from the car park. (Thank you Jordan for arranging).
I also received a call from Peter (a District Operations Leader), who initially acted concerned although I could tell my frustrations in turn frustrated him.
If this had of been addressed correctly I would have gladly stayed on as a gym member however as a result I did cancel my membership and will be taking my business to another gym elsewhere.
I will continue to reach out to corporate until my situation is addressed, I do strongly believe this company needs to look into safety measurements for clients and staff alike.
Since this happened I have learned of multiple people this has happened to in this area all with the same frustration — that there was no system in place to protect nor assist them in a time of need, nor are they receiving a response when trying to reach out for help.
Sorry LA Fitness — if I had of known that this is how clients are treated I would never have become a member in the first place.

This one is one of my favorite LA Fitness locations but not the favorite. I loved it before the renovation.
It is spacious (3 stories) gym. The locker rooms, pools, and cardio machines are on the first floor. The second floor is not really a floor, but the balcony all around the perimeter. It is made as a track. The third and main floor accommodates free weights, variety of machines and room for classes.
Before the renovation it was a hardcore gym, that they showed in the famous Schwarzenegger movie «Pumping Iron». Just brutal machines, rubber floors, raw metal discs and meatheads all over the place. Yeah, it was a bit dirty, yeah, it was unappealing for people who likes shiny clubs like Equinox. But it had a soul.
Now, when they remodeled, it’s a nice clean gym, with lots of space and machines. But it’s missing the atmosphere and since it looks so nice it got flooded with people. It’s just crowded all the time.

This review is specifically for Mitchell’s personal training. Mitch does an excellent job with communicating and working with you to reach your goals. He took plenty of time to understand my fitness and nutrition background and work with me on improving my weaknesses.
He made sure to take my injuries into account and work around them, ensuring I had correct form as to not injure myself any more. Even though I’m a very experienced exerciser I couldn’t believe how much Mitch challenged me and how sore I was the next couple of days! I would definitely recommend him as a personal trainer

Some quick comments:
Crowded — gym is always packed during peak times (before or after work hours). I understand most gyms will be busy but there are definitely times where there are no machines/​weights anywhere.
Cleanliness — male locker room is pretty gross.
Parking — having to pay $.50 to workout is annoying.
Outdated — I tried to cancel my membership and they give you 2 options: (1) come in to the gym during manager’s hours of 9 – 5. I work so that makes it extremely tough. (2) print out a form and mail it in snail-​mail. I don’t get how there isn’t an electronic method. It’s 2016.

Club on Bundy tricked me when purchasing my package. Told me I would have access to «all club». It’s simply not true. There are a few clubs you can not go to & had this knowledge been given I would not have gone with LA Fitness. I was new to LA and had not settled on what location I would be living in, so access everywhere was a detailed need I shared and they simply lied to me anyways making the deal sound great.
Reality is, I would need to pay a lot more for all access to all gyms. I walked into a gym near Beverly Hills for a workout after work and was embarrassed when I was told I don’t have access to that gym.
Just remember they are in sales. People in sales just want to make commission and go home. They could care less about you.
I am still stuck in contract and once out, I will never go to this gym again. Not cool.

Well, apparently I’m not the first one here to gripe about the parking at this location… it really does suck to pay $.50 each time you come to work out. Even locations where parking is more at a premium (LA Fitness across from LACMA) seem to have their act together and don’t charge for parking. No gym (not even Equinox) that charges me for parking will ever get more than a two star review from me, because it’s just unacceptable.
I don’t care how you have to do it (raise rates, take lower profit, etc) LA Fitness, but you should NEVER inconvenience your members by expecting them to pay for parking. And you especially shouldn’t expect them to bring exact change either. I want a hassle-​free experience when I get there, and for that I’m willing to pay more or drive a little further for my workout.
Get your act together. Several people here have already complained about parking, and you have less than a three star review as a business after more than 200 reviews. Clearly, someone is asleep at the wheel or just doesn’t care enough to do anything about it.

This gym just gets worse and worse; I feel like the bathrooms are alway dirty, the pool looks like a toilet bowl, and the staff is always rude. The trainers hog equipment they’re not even using and then throw a fit when you ask if you can use a bench when they have multiple, none of which are being used.
The cherry is that you have to pay for parking. If you don’t have change, the staff will tell you to go to the gas station up the street. If the machine eats your money, they want you to deal with it! I’m sorry, go speak the the parking attendant? Do I call your isp when your internet goes out? I’m not your effing business partner!
Fix your crap business LA fitness!

I want to preface this review by saying I have had La Fitness since 2004 (when they were Ballys). This was my first time visiting this location.
They do have a lot of key amenities…¼ running track, all cardio, and all weights. Clean equipment from what I saw and cold water fountains (key). But I’m sorry guys, I shouldn’t have to pay for parking. Better yet, I don’t WANT to pay for parking.
I know each facility is different and this area is HIGHLY congested and one of those areas that profits on parking, but I just can’t. Doesn’t matter if it’s 50 cents or $ 1…
I’m sure LA Fitness is trying to offset their costs, or maybe even leasing the lot… but after paying membership fees of $ 2,500 over the past 10 years… I’ve earned free parking. Clearly I’m wrong.
Sorry guys for the bad review.