Fitness Connection

First of all, I have to say I don’t pay to go here, it’s free thanks to a deal with Morneau Shepell across the street. I like this gym a lot though! It’s got 2 levels, so it never feels crowded. The dumbbells go well past 100 pounds, so lots of room to improve ;) I like the upstairs cardio area as well, it’s got a lot of different machines and an open space to do body weight exercises. There’s also a boxing room, and multiple studios for classes. They also sell protein shakes which your choice of protein flavour, milk, and ingredients.
I’ve gone to their spin class, and their «body sculpt» class, and I’m not going to talk about the latter as all I remember is pain: P but the spin class is great! My favourite memory is the Halloween spin class where the instructor got up to do the thriller dance, and all I was thinking was «why don’t we just learn this for the whole hour!?»
My only negative would be it doesn’t seem well maintained. There has been a broken mirror, broken fountain and broken stairclimber machine for as long as I can remember. Also the dumbbells don’t often get put back properly which drives my ocd a bit crazy!

I bought a Groupon 10 pack for the classes. I went to Nancy’s yoga class on Sunday morning and Angelina’s yoga class on Tuesday noon hour. Nancy’s class is 1.5 hours and is a relaxing Yoga class. She also does breathing Yoga which is kind of a weird thing if you’re not used to it. Overall it’s a great way to spend a Sunday morning.
Angelina’s class is for the lunch crowd and runs 45 minutes. Easy to moderate Yoga which I enjoy.
Both instructors are excellent.
The downside is people coming in late for class are disruptive. If you’re 15 minutes late, don’t come in.

It’s clean and not too busy except for right after work. Even then you shouldn’t have too wait for long for a machine. The staff is friendly, too.

Signed up for 8 turf bootcamp sessions here via Groupon. So far, the experience has been great. I found the place to be very friendly (staff & members). The BC 1 hr sessions were led by Yvonne. She is very attentive, good w/​instructions, motivating and always ready to help us out. We get to do several stations (maybe 8?) and switch after a min, or do it over (2X ahh!!) then switch again. After the session… ur body will be on strike (in a good way). I would definitely give this place a try. my least station is lifting a 50 lbs pillow thing nicknamed ‘George’ whilst doing squats. The turf station was interesting though tiring after 15 secs in. But it was a great experience.
The change room was huge! It has several stalls for the bathroom, nice space for blow drying your hair (1 – 2 dryers), LOTS of lockers (bring your own combo lock) and they even had a steam room! I believe they might have had a whirlpool before but it’s no longer there. Very clean gym.
There were a lot of equipment & even though the gym was busy, it didn’t seem they ran out of machines to use. There was also a room for MMA/​kick boxing.

This gym is exceptionally tight in space but it does have everything you need. Its a clean gym if you compare it to something like Premier Fitness. They do have a kickboxing (boxing) room and upgraded treadmills. This has remained a hidden gym for me until recently.

it serves it’s purpose. the staff is friendly. the facilities are a bit dated; rusty locker bottoms, torn mats and benches, worn free-​weights. i do enjoy the shakes that they make.
it has a little bit of an older crowd, but that’s to be expected due to the location.
i enjoy working out here in the mornings because it’s close to my house. the gym is pretty open in the mornings, but it can get very busy after everyone gets off work.