24 Hour Fitness

My frustration with the crowds and ridiculous «turf» continues. With the overall space and number of machine drastically reduced, rank and file compete for both with a higher percentage than most places of members who have apparently never heard about something called «gym etiquette», i.e. don’t hog the machines. I have started to simply leave rather than complete a workout with so many obstacles. The turf is a terrible idea, terribly executed. I e-​mailed their headquaters with my concerns, but, of course, have heard nothing. It is heartening to read that so many other members are as pissed off as I am, and for the same reasons.

Not liking the lack of space now they have added the special training area, also not as clean as it could be… ring around the edge of the pool needs a good pumice job and just looking up (while I’m doing sit ups) at the speakers and exposed pipes in the ceiling with their inch of dust bunnies starts my allergies (prob psychological but hey) Generally cleanish considering the number of people going thru here. My husband adores the spin class though.

Like most, I was ok with all the little eccentricities of this gym. The guys taking themselves way too seriously, the crowd, the lack of attention to cleanliness, the people who enjoy dancing in the dry sauna when it’s packed, the lack of squat racks, the homeless. You see, to me, it was like a toned down version of Venice Beach. I didn’t even mind when I found out a guy died in the steam room.
However, since they installed their mini football field, they’ve condensed an over crowded gym turning it into a ridiculously crowded gym and members are agro.
Despite the cramped conditions, one self-​absorbed losers set up a workout station on one of the 3 ab machines adding two 45 plates, kettle bells and Dumbbells at 6PM and then proceeded to squat it for 30+ minutes.
I worked around the guy, but I came to the end of my workout and needed in. I asked him if I could get a set in, he said no, he was doing his «routine.» I said yea, but you’ve been doing your routine for 30 minutes and it’s time to let someone else use the machine. He stonewalled me, so I commented, «what a dick», because that to me is the very definition of a dick.
He then lunged at me in a fit of roid rage and gave me a pretty severe push. «You don’t know me fool!» So I went to the manager, and this guy threatened the manager saying that the manager had no right to confront him. Intimidated, the manager apologized to him. Seriously.
The guy left, I asked the manager what happened, he said he’ll mark it on his membership the next time he comes in. I’m like, the next time? You didn’t get his name? He said no, the guy was too upset. So it’s clear now that it’s ok to batter your fellow gym patrons should you deem it necessary.
Last straw. Time to go. 24 Hour Fitness is not only filthy, crowded, mismanaged and over priced, it’s also turned into a prison yard. Go at your own risk.
PS: upon researching its violent history, come to find out Chris Brown assaulted someone there. That’s the caliber of clientele at the NoHo 24 Hour Fitness.

Have some new bogus rule that guest passes can only be used Monday through Friday 8 – 6. Not shown on there website or anything. The staff wouldn’t accommodate to let me use a guest pass for one day as I’ll be signing up for a membership tomorrow. Really horrible customer service.

Awesome club. 10 times cleaner than Hollywood. Open hours are really 24 not like others.

What type of gym has 2 squat racks?! The bathrooms are disgusting. Management was ridiculously rude. And when I attempted to cancel because I moved to a place without a 24 hours, staff were exceptionally unhelpful.
I gave up on going to the NoHo gym and committed to the drive to Burbank. They have a true powerlifting rack. Also, there are less self-​taking bros in Burbank.

The staff at this place is great. They’re always really nice. They get my 5 stars. The company as a whole sucks. I give them 1 star.
It’s 2016 and these cheap dip shits can’t provide WIFI. Really? Losers. They lied about the monthly fee and lied again about the annual fee. I was quoted 29 a month. Then they lied about the annual fee for my wife who I added to my membership. I called the bank and disputed the charges so we’ll see what happens but I highly recommend dishing out the extra money for a private gym. There’s a nice one in West LA for 80 bucks. It’s pricey but well worth the extra money. FYI — That football field in the middle of the gym is really stupid. What were they thinking? haha. Seriously. So dumb. You can get the same workout running at the park with your dog.

You’d think now that they’re charging more for the circuit training the offer they’d shape up their act but still no. Why are there never towels? Why would I pay an additional $ 50/​month to use floor space I’ve been able to use for years? $ 50 is more than I pay for the top tier membership.

I’ve been coming to this gym for 3 years and overall I have had an awesome experience!
But today for the first time in all the fitness clubs I have been at (15 years) this is the first time a front desk employee has been rude to me. I asked for a towel, she rolled her eyes, gave it to me, i smiled to say thank you, she ignored me, rolled her eyes again and turned her back to me… This girl has got to check her negative disposition out the door before she comes into work. She has brown hair, brown eyes, 5’7-ish, hair just past shoulders and about 160 (I guess…) I think she is part Mexican but not sure.

This place was ok from 6am to 8am but now that they pushed every machine to make space for their new trendy training, not only the promiscuity between each machine is even worse but you have to deal with loud cheap electronic music and screaming trainers.
Update: now that it’s a mess starting at 6am, it’s even worse at rush hours or during the weekend. Promiscuity, lack of material, filthiness of the place… It’s getting impossible to have a nice relaxing workout.
If I was not living right next to it, I would have left already…

Worse vibe people in Jay’s spin class. There’s an instructor lady who places towels in the first and second row. Making impossible to get a front bike. I taken many x classes but this class it’s like a back to high school vibe. If you are new, everyone, I mean EVERYONE is not welcoming.

Always overcrowded, lack of equipment needed for the size of this gym they only 2 flat bench, 3 pulldown station. must be joke. It’s clean I give it that. unless you come in nonpeak hours or you’re here for the classes. you can’t get a good workout.

Here’s how to ABSOLUTELY RUIN an already horribly dirty and overcrowded gym:
1) Take away at least 25% of the gym floor and install some PIECE OF SHIT football field to serve less than 1% of the gym members (and try to make a quick buck by charging to use it.)
2) BLAST the absolute worst, circuit-​boy style «dance» music (think 150 BPM Cher remixes) starting at 6AM from this new TREND workout area (out of a shitty distorted boombox.) Make sure members CANNOT escape the music no matter were they are in the gym. Throw in a few Korn songs from 1997 to diversify the playlist. Be certain members feel the musical equivalent of 2 dicks being poked into their ears for the full extent of their workout (well, their new sub-​par workout, since their normal workout is no longer possible.)
3) REMOVE the best machines machines from an already super overcrowded gym, thus making it even harder to actually work out, again to serve the 15 people that want to join this piece of shit new football field workout, pushing a fake tire down a fake football field as they are blasted with high energy dance music at 6:48 AM.
The manager here needs to be FIRED and never ever work in fitness again. I used to enjoy working out here now I literally want to kill myself every time I come in. I find it extremely hard to concentrate and execute my workouts now. AllI want to do is leave and escape this fucking music. You can tell there’s a really bad mood in the gym now. You are literally raped by shitty music without a choice and it’s more crowded than ever. And again, they removed like 4 of my favorite machines and left the crappy, older versions instead… and some don’t even have an alternative now. My workout has been extremely disrupted and not in any positive way.
Let’s not even get into their extremely unethical billing practices… like finding out they charge you double on certain months and claim a yearly membership fee. Of course, they do not mention this when you sign up. They also treat you like dirt after you sign-​up.
****Any good reviews of this gym are FAKE.****
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Not great to begin with. But now they took 20% of the floor space to put in a fad workout that you have to pay to use. Its comical. Cancelling tomorrow.

Not worth. Some of the worst staff, overcrowded, lockers are shabby, the list could go on.
I was using the free trial and, it being packed, I had to ask to work in with someone to use the squat rack. The dude told me that it was bad to squat at parallel (which isn’t even remotely low) which was what his PT told him. I tried to ignore this albeit it was not an easy task.
What irked me the most, however, was the manager. The stumpy and unpleasant Indian manager was incredibly rude to me. I told him I was just trying the gym out, but the whole time he would just try to make me feel bad and coerce me into joining. Like, he literally took away 15 minutes of my precious lifting time to give me some Aspen-​timeshare-​esque presentation on why I was killing them by not signing my life away to some gym before trying it out. I told him I was going to school and then he told me that if I can just use my uni’s gym that I should stop wasting 24hours time with the trial because «people pay 50 bucks a day just to go there».
And I never went back. If you live in North Hollywood, just go to golds where people know what they’re doing and you can even meet famous bodybuilders like Rich Piana. Also it’s like half the price monthly and their staff are really cool.

I became a member of this club in the first week that it opened. At first it was always kept clean and the membership was manageable for a couple years. Then, the staff and management seemed to have given up. Used towels are always on the locker room floor, the towel bin is rarely emptied, urinals and toilets are often broken or unusable, showers without shower heads, homeless sleeping in the gym, dirty water in the pool, broken workout machines that take a week or longer to fix.
This is an expensive gym compared to most, and they should be maintaining the space and equipment to be respectful to paying members. Recently, they installed a gigantic green mat to offer other options for working out. To do this, they removed all the workout machines and clustered them in a tiny area. It’s now claustrophobic, and intensely smelly due to many sweaty people confined to a small area. The odor is disgusting to the point that a member had tied a bandana over her nose, and I’d wished that I had bandana in that moment.
Now people are bumping into one another to get to a machine. When I complained to one of the employees, he sympathized, but said there’s nothing they can do about the odor. And I told him that they had already done something about the odor by maintaining space between workout machines so that body odor wasn’t offensive. His response was simple that they’re doing everything they can to offer members more options — but if it offends current members they should be mindful of this. The new green mat they laid down had only two people working out on it. Whereas, in the new workout machine area, there were 20 people packed into half that space of the green mat area.
I have to think that this kind of short-​sighted policy starts at the very top. I’m a business owner, and if my executives made these kinds of decisions, I would come down very hard on them for their inability to provide the best workout experience. I’m sure many of them would be fired. This gym is just a block from my office, so at the moment, convenience trumps mismanagement. If another modern gym opens up, they’ll have my business.

God I hate this Place!!!
So packed with people, the maximum capacity is 167 and I’m sure there are at least double than that! The looker room is disgusting! None of the employees help put the free weights back on the rack so in order to find the right one you have to walk around the gym for 15 min.
You can’t plan a normal workout because all the machines are always taken. I seems like people go to this gym in order to text and not work out. A person can sit on a machine for 20 min and just be on his phone for the entire time!
The water cooler has been broken since I started going there 6 month ago.
The only reason I’m going there is because my gym buddy lives right across from the gym and won’t switch.
The right terms to use with this gym are: Shitshow and Clusterfuck
If there is a better gym around that area, for the love of god, please, let me know.

Just check the pics if you want to see the usual and current state of the men’s locker room Think they’d have fewer staff pressuring people into signing up and just ONE person dedicated to ensuring the locker room is tidy, sanitary, clean and not a total sh*t hole ²⁴⁄₇ — apparently not nice staff members but owners and management are d-​bags. Party on Wayne

I hadn’t been to the NoHo location in a few years and found myself back there this past weekend.
The reviews will surely scare you off, but I honestly find it to be a fine location. Hollywood Super Sport is my home gym and I’m not currently on an All Club membership but used to be. I’ve only really visited Sherman Oaks, NoHo and Hollywood and this location doesn’t fall beneath the other two in any way that I can see.
Parking is super easy, located right off of Chandler with direct walk up access to the front door. 3 Hour validation is provided which is surely a nice amount for a solid workout.
The club itself has a very open and spacious feel to it. I’ve used a few pieces of cardio equipment here without any issues, broken machines or wait lines.
I did dip into the ladies locker room which also appeared to be fine. I’m not one to use a locker room, sauna, pool or that sort of stuff at a 24 Hour but I will use the restroom if needed and this area of the appeared fine as well.
What stood out the most this weekend, was the age demographic — younger crowd on a Saturday afternoon/​early evening, which I appreciated. It felt fresh and youthful and most everyone I saw appeared fit and healthy, which is exactly what you want to see at a place such as the gym.
I did bring a towel with me, just in case after reading some of the reviews.
The front desk staff are always friendly.
All in all this location isn’t as sketch as you may think a North Hollywood location could be.
Located in the Arts district NoHo is a fine club to visit.

I have come here numerous times to join up — but this is not the early days — when 24 Hour Fitness had amazing deals for the newcomer. For one; 24 Hour Fitness is now 3 or 4 different types of clubs — from the Basic Club — which is what we all joined so many years ago — to the «Sport» club, which offers a little more (or rather — it offers not to take away facilities that used to be at all the cluns like a pool and a hot tub) — and then there are the «SUPER-​SPORTS» which this one is.
The SUPER-​SPORTS offer everything that the Basic club USED TO OFFER — including a pool and spa and sauna and steam room, as well as scales, free weights, towel service, and personal attention from trainers.
When I first joined the Basic Club as a lifetime member (cost me a grand) I got all of this anyway (except for the towel service). Now I have to drive our to Riverside to find a 24 Hour Fitness that is still a Basic Club.
So — this club wants many hundreds of extra dollars per year to do the upgrade.
But for me — and most of the Locals here in NoHo, our apartment buildings have gyms and spas and a pool.
But if you have the money and you like the Fitness scene — this is a good club.
just remember — while you are sweating you butt off working out here, and drinking protein shakes —-
—- the owners of the 24 Hour Fitness Corporation as sitting fat and happy on their yachts, eating bacon and drinking milkshakes.