Planet Fitness – New Rochelle

This gym has gotten progressively more and more disgusting. Their tanning beds smell like sweaty @ss. They don’t seem like they’re ever cleaned. But my biggest gripe about that is the rooms aren’t air conditioned! The rest of the gym is but the tanning rooms are purposely not. You feel like you want to die laying under hot bulbs in a room that’s already about 80 degrees. I’ve complained about this before but there’s no change. I’m canceling my membership, this place is a dump. Going to NY Sports Club up the block.

Love thus gym. The staff is so friendly and all the machines and floors are constantly being cleaned. The ONLY thing wrong with the place is the cleanliness of the showers. There’s always a ton of these nasty little fruit fly looking bugs in the shower and I’ve probably killed 20 of them and they’re all still stuck to the shower stall so it’s clear the showers are never being cleaned.

STOP letting the college sports teams work out there!!! They take up so many of the cardio and weight machines for way too long! And, since they decide to hop on the elliptical one at a time, if you try and go on one that’s near them, they basically tell you that it’s reserved. Ummmm no it’s not. Save the space for the PAYING customers and tell them to go back to the gym that their school pays for!!!

This is an average Planet Fitness. There are more cardio machines than I can ever imagine being used at once, so if cardio’s your thing this is definitely your place.
In typical Planet Fitness fashion, it’s not as good a situation if you’re trying to build muscle. They have lots of weight machines, some dumbbells, and a few pulleys and smith machines, but there’s nowhere to do deadlifts or unassisted squats or bench presses. When I worked out here I was also in constant fear of the ‘lunk alarm,’ which supposedly goes off if you throw weights around or generally act like a jerk. I never saw it go off, even when I or someone else occasionally dropped their weights. It’s annoying not to be able to do the big three compound exercises, and to generally be sort of ambiguously vilified for using weights at all, but honestly, for $ 10 a month it really isn’t that big of a deal.
The facilities were generally clean and the staff were nice enough. Be forewarned, though – when you cancel your membership, you have to do it in person or via a certified letter – you can’t do it online or over the phone.

Nice and clean with a good crowd. They have lots of cardio equipment and televisions. It would be nice to have a little bit more free weights. Best part is that its open 24hours… at night time you’ll have the whole gym to yourself…

I’ve been to several planet fitness locations in the area and this is probably the best. Very spacious, clean and practical in it’s set up. The 2 floor layout provides ample room, in case you want to do interval training or stretching between sets. Lots of natural light, which is refreshing if you don’t want to feel like you’re working out in a box. Locker rooms are generally clean, although the shower floor area seems to overflow at times. The machines are kept in good condition, with plenty to go around. Other members tend not to bother you and staff are helpful. Only reason it wasn’t 5 was because at times the music is pretty random, which can be distracting (as in you can hear it over your headphones lol), and the shower overflow remarks above. Otherwise, it’s a good deal for the money.

A surprisingly nice gym! Easy online signup, easy in-​person cancellation (I moved out of state). The gym is clean, and I’ve never seen so many treadmills before — never had to wait, rarely had anyone running next to me, either. With one exception, the front desk staff are like zombies, but then this is NY. Unfortunately, lots of guys dropping weights and making lots of grunting noises in the free weights area downstairs (which is way too small). Can’t beat the $ 10/​mo. price!

Love the atmosphere. spacious and clean. There are tanning beds, red light therapy and most of all, are the massage chairs. That room too has TVs where one can watch television while getting a back and leg massage, all at the same time — awesome!
At the welcome desk the staff is always helpful and ready to listen. The locker room is spacious and is never crowded — great place to get showered, dressed and ready for a day’s work after an early morning exercise.

I like this location far more than the one in the BX I like 5 mins away from. lol. Well worth the 20 min drive! Rarely crowded, often clean, get in, work out, go home. Works for me.

honestly this is the best PF i seen thus far closest to the bronx. Also its huge on the inside

THE MOST DISHONEST BUSINESS IN TOWN. Whether or not they are worth the meager $ 10 monthly fee is unimportant, because they are crooks. My daughter was told she had to go IN PERSON to cancel her membership before leaving for college. She did so. A few weeks later her bank account was charged $ 10. When I called I was told she had not cancelled early enough (although it was just a few days after being charged for the prior month.) After a frustrating 20 minutes on the phone I decided to let it slide for $ 10 and reconfirmed that the account should be closed. I just discovered they charged her account again in September and then $ 29 in October!!! The person I just spoke with agreed that the original cancellation had not been put through properly, AGREED it was their fault, AGREED the person I spoke to in August also FAILED to do his job. Still, he REFUSED to credit back illegal, erroneous charges. DO NOT JOIN THIS GYM — THEY’LL CHARGE YOU FOR LIFE. I dread to think how much time I’m now going to have to waste to get this corrected and finally closed. GOOD RIDDANCE PLANET FITNESS.

What a horrible place, I went to join because I wanted to buy my cousin a membership and I wanted to pay in full for the membership and they refused to allow me to join because they wanted access to my checking account in order to join. I offered to give my credit card and or cash and they refused it and I must say that the employees were just not very nice. But then again is a $ 10.00 a month place. Won’t be back for sure. Went to NYSC a block away and joined.
BTW giving them access to your checking account will allow then to charge as they please and your rights are limited and time based. Do NOT!

However, there are two Fox channels (Fox News and Fox 5) on the various TV’s, but no MSNBC. I tried to submit suggestion to add some balance, but they said it is uniform in all the gyms in New York. I hope the management will change this. This is after all New York, not Texas.

This gym used to be great now its a dump, the employees dont care about anything. There is never any paper or soap in the bathrooms, the closed the baraber shop which gave free hair cuts. They have a hudge lunk alarm that they dont use when all the idiot guys who think there jacked but are really not always drop the weights. When i tell the employees they say that the lunk alarm dosent work but they will tell the manager to tell them meanwhile i never see a manager. Also your nervous your going to get robbed or raped when you walk in cause of all people hanging out on the steps.

Hello All
This may apply to you or not. I have been a member of planet fitness for more than 7yrs. I have attended many gyms and my attire is the same. Am African American and my attire is a head tie, gym clothes, sneakers, iPod or iPhone and head set. At the New Rochelle Planet Fitness. I was not allowed to enter because my head was tied with a scarf. I was told I couldn’t enter the club. Now keep in mind that I have been attending this club since Nov 2011 and was never told that it’s not allowed. I even signed up to this club with the same attire and worked out right after signing up and wasn’t told anything for several months. Called Mgr, DM (no phone call from him was received, emailed and called him) and headquarters and was told that’s the policy because they are trying to keep the standard up. Are you kidding me, there is so much more they need to address to be able to keep the standard up. So ladies if you like to go to the gym like that BEWARE.

I agree with the first review that this is the cleanest PF I have ever seen. It is huge, tons of cardio and a decent set of machines. Everything is new and, for me, works just fine. I want to get in shape and then stay in shape and don’t need to «bodybuild» so machines and cardio are fine. I love going early mornings when hardly anyone is there, so the 24-​hour thing is fantastic. I have to be at work in the city by 8:30 and if I can’t get to a gym by 5 – 5:30, I’ll never make it on time so this works perfectly for me. I used to go to Pelham Bay because it was on the way to work but they weren’t open early enough and always had to go at night when it was jammed. Hated it. Staff was great there, though, very cheerful and welcoming and helpful. I hope New Rochelle has lots of customers and will keep these hours!!! I did not expect staff to be wandering around, that’s not what this club is about, you are definitely on your own. it was being cleaned when I was there this morning. Not interested in nitpicking about machines and free weights and where things are placed. In this day and age, for $ 10 a month, people shouldn’t be complaining about anything (except for cleanliness).

Let me start out by saying, this is probably the nicest Planet Fitness I’ve been to.
A little history on this place, this used to be a Bally’s that has been transformed into a PF. The Bally’s ran too hot-​unless corporate intervened, the staff tended to keep the temperature close to 80 in the winter. Heck, I remember getting upset and shouting at the manager «IT IS THE MIDDLE OF JUNE. WHY IS THE HEAT AND NOT THE AIR CONDITIONING ON?» It was dirty, and crime infested (lockers were very commonly broken into, men would do things with each other in the sauna).
This business is new. There’ve been no reports of break-​ins yet to my knowledge, but it hasn’t been open that long. Of course, Planet Fitness doesn’t believe in Saunas-​as I call it the «Liability Free Zone”-so don’t expect that to still be functional (although they by and large still exist). Gone is the juice bar (which is confusing to me; it was a very nice add-​on to Bally’s, the smoothies were in fact top notch and while a bit pricy, they were on par with smoothies elsewhere-​I find it hard to believe they weren’t profitable). But the idea of healthy, tasty food is contrary to PF’s corporate model and former Bally’s users were complaining to me (yes, we recognize each other) that there’s no protein to be found anywhere (but they did say it was good that the juicers weren’t there).
First, let’s go with what’s done right. This gym has the most comfortable climate out of any gym I’ve been to, ever. It sticks around 70 °F according to the monitors on the walls, and the unit is highly efficient (I already knew this from the Bally days, in which the people running the gym were outright lying). There is a very efficient use of space; the old manager’s office is now a free haircut salon, the old sale’s manager’s offices/​trainers’ officers are now tanning booths and massage chairs, the old training area is red light therapy. The gym is clean, and you’ll never have to wait for a cardio machine-​there are 50 treadmills alone, not counting the lifefitness ellipticals and the cybex arch trainers. All the equipment appears to be brand new.
I was disturbed today by something I noticed: None of the employees were up in the workout area unless giving a tour, and no one was cleaning (and I was there for over two hours). The gym for now is clean, but I question how long that will remain. Now, the manager was in Yonkers and I will say that when she managed Yonkers, the staff did (including her) clean the facilities as needed. Hopefully this will happen here, too.
Second, the machines for weights are all Lifefitness, with a few exceptions. This is very bad though. A friend of mine who has trouble doing a specific machine in Yonkers tried this in New Rochelle at the maximum weight and found it way too easy. As did I, and I spoke to him about it-​and this led to some embarrassment for me as a woman thought we were hitting on her by bragging about the weight we could do, unaware that we were indeed unhappy that the quality of the machine wasn’t to par and we shouldn’t be able to do the weight it said we were doing. So be the case with gyms, but certain machines have no value if you’re already in shape and trying to maintain-you’re better off with a thigh master (never thought I’d say that about anything).
Third, the placement of the free weights is a little bit schizophrenic. In my view, it would make more sense for the 30 minute workout to be on the ground floor (so people can get in and out quickly) but instead, there’s free weights down there (and some more upstairs). These probably should all be with the rather limited weights that currently exist in the gym and not on their own. If you want to do the express workout, you have to walk to the most remote part of the gym, which would frankly make the most sense as the freeweight area since it is next to the current weights as is. Furthermore, I cite that this is the «Liability Free Zone”-there are no barbels here. PF has been disbanding them slowly from gyms that currently have them. They are not set up in Yonkers (though I have heard from the staff they have some) and they were recently pulled from others. This gym certainly has the room for them, yet is only using Smith Machines. I actually fail to see why a Smith Machine is seen as less of a «Lunk» toy than a barbell setup, since you could probably load more onto it anyway with less risk of injury. Still, the premise exists: PF will go to great lengths to make sure you can’t get into the shape you want to get into, just the shape where no one will judge you. And restricting barbells is an overall dumb thing to do because all you end up doing in the end is restricting the flexibility of motion that your members can use for… no benefit that I can see, other than probably saving on insurance.
So to end, this is probably the nicest PF around-​for cardio. Yonkers has better weights. If this gym is maintained adequately I will bump up the stars.