24 Hour Fitness

Despair, but there is hope. First of all, I should let you know I come from an extensive fitness realm. I have worked in many environments and have been in worse (a certain high profile university weight room). Trust me, that environment was far worse!! Yuck! Just thinking about it.

When I walk in to ANY 24 Hour FItness, I have no energy donated, in other words, there is nothing about the gym, trainers, or members that give me the excitement to workout, it is alllll me. Which, for me is easy, but for most, I believe is hard. Most people have to talk themselves into getting 4 workouts a week, most people, but I would love to see that these people are so inspired to workout because they KNOW they are in a motivating environment, somthing LANCE did not quite get right.

I will rate your 24 hour gyms:

The north Gym on 183: 3.5

The south Gym on W. Cannon: 2

The NE Gym on 41st: 3.7

The ONLY other 24 hour I experienced, Boulder, CO: 4

Why did I give Co a 4 star? Go there, feel the enery, experience the professional trainers (unlike ANY trainers I have seen in Austin), customer service, a WONDERFUL CLEAN steam room (hot is an understatement), and equipment that actually (HA) works!!!

What do you know, all you need to do as a higher management employee in Austin is to go to Boulder and experience that environment (not perfect, but heads above Austin)

Not critically motivated, just frustrated. =)…

Time to be fair to this place. The gym is not that crowded. I used to go from 5:30 ‘til 7 or so, in worse hours than many other reviewers stated and I always found equipment available. And their equipment is quite diverse. Yes, many times I found equipment being used but there were always other equipments to use meanwhile and the other gym members were always nice about sharing the equipment. The music is loud and I liked it, but other than that I found no reason to describe the environment as frat-party style. I always found parking available as well.

No, I didn’t see the gym staff cleaning the equipment, a few times the gym members after use. No, the whole place is not very clean. But it’s not such a big deal either. Other much more highly ranked gyms (and far more expensive) like CrossFit have worse facilities, especially their new one in Burnet Rd that rather looks like Mexican car-repair business, and nobody seems to mind at all. This is the main reason why I write this review, to balance the injustice from all former cry babies that have written plain pathetic and disgusting reviews of this gym and its staff.

Finally, the staff does try to sell personal training and can be annoying, but all you have to do is to be a bit firm. Besides, their quite approach to selling PT makes it better for you because you are less likely to buy it. Other gyms have far more efficient ways to vacuum your wallet, again like CF. All in all I felt great by going to this gym after being a CF member. Later on I changed it for Gold’s Gym just because they have facility closer to my home and work, as well as some other advantages. Anyways, I recommend this place.…

Workers there: brothers. I am a 50ish black woman who joined the gym in CA and then transferred here to Texas. I am not a cougar and just only like friendly service. The only extra friendly worker is the young Asian. The brothers working there turn their heads to avoid acknowledgement. Come on guys, I do not want you--just a friendly hello is expected.…