Planet Fitness – Billerica

Good gym for beginners. You may want a more serious gym if you are hard core.
Domenic

Just joined for the $ 10 a month.
I go in at 5:30am and there are not that many people there. Plenty of space to spread out on the treadmills and not be right next to someone if you don’t want to be.
I do with they would but better signs for people to wipe off the equipment when done.
I also wish that they would clean the Female locker room floor better. 2^nd day going in early and the floors have stuff on them… like they have not been done in a week. I wear flip flops in the shower until I know if they clean it every day.

Love this Billerica location! It has new equipment, and is set up very nicely!
EQUIPMENT: Tons and tons of cardio equipment — nice! Dumbbells, Curl Bars, etc = all good. Flat benches for Dumbbells = yes, but no flat benches for straight bar benching (as is similar with other PF’s) — only the Smith machines. Decent leg equipment, etc. Machines are fairly new, and if they break, they are fixed quickly (much faster than in most gyms!).
TEMPERATURE: This location (Billerica) has a GIANT ceiling fan over each area of cardio equipment. It is VERY NICE when one is trying to do a hard workout! The temp is always at a workout-​friendly 67 to 68 degrees = again — NICE!
STAFF: They all seem nice & friendly — no issues here. They installed a new bar code scanner for the key tags, but won’t let the members swipe themselves in = they ask for your keys/​key-​card, and have to swipe it in themselves (this is annoying, but they said that it is a rule that the employees swipe the members cards in, so that they are forced to greet the customers — annoying, as I just want to swipe and get to my workout quickly)…
LOCKER ROOM: Great shape — two TV’s in the men’s locker room. No issues at all!
PRICES: Can’t be beat! $ 10/​month for a single location, and $ 20/​month to be able to go to any PF location. And with the $ 20 membership, you can bring a guest for free, whenever you go. A+!
Overall, it is a great gym, and a nice temp for working out hard, especially cardio. That’s it for now!

I like this Planet Fitness! Everyone is always very friendly! I’ve never been here when it’s super crowded like anoter person wrote. OR when it smells.??
Tanning beds are always pretty powerful, tooIt’s also great that it’s right in a shopping mall so it’s very convenient if you need to grab some groceries after!

I have only been to this location on my lunch break but it’s always clean never crowded. I like the different options it has such as the 12 minute ab room and 30 minute full body workout. It’s got a ton of cardio equipment which is awesome because I hate waiting around to get on a treadmill.

Very modern and clean, with pretty much every type of weight machine you could want, as well as PLENTY of cardio machines (i.e. treadmills, ellipticals, etc.).
I would have given PF three stars due to the lack of a squat rack and the fact that they push that stupid «Lunk Alert» idea on everyone, claiming that anyone who grunts or drops weights doesn’t belong in their gym (I thought this was about no judgments, Planet Fitness?), but you simply can’t beat the price. Ten dollars a month! Doesn’t get much cheaper than that.
They are also severely lacking in amenities (no tissues, no towels, only one water bubbler, etc.) but again, it’s $ 10 a month, so you can’t really complain about anything.

The price is right, but that is it. It is insanely crowded every time I go, and it smells terrible.

Terrible customer service. There were a couple of their branches bought by Rocket Fitness. You identification could be lost in the transaction and they don’t care and won’t tell you when they will make the switch. They won’t compensate your loss if you were not able to go to another location. I was billed for over half year during the time I was not able to access the gym because they couldn’t locate me in their system. Manager Ashley was especially a bad representative.

I joined this PF two months ago, and I really like it! It takes me about 12 minutes to get there from Bedford (when there’s no traffic), and I love that I can pop into Market Basket afterwards to pick up groceries.
It is extremely clean. The floors and surfaces are always pristine, and there’s no bad «gym smell» anywhere in the place, even when it’s crowded at lunch or after work. Even when I’ve been in there for peak times, there’s always a cardio machine available. The locker room is clean, there are lots of TVs so I can watch World Cup or the Red Sox while sweating it out, and the staff members are pleasant to deal with. And the reason why I joined this gym instead of the PF in Burlington is that they’re open 24 hours. Crazy, but I love to work out late at night as I’m a chronic insomniac. I hope they continue to keep these hours.
For $ 15 a month (I pay extra so I don’t have to deal with a contract), the variety of weight machines and free weights is good. I have a couple of wishes, like more lower-​weight dumbbells (they have just one each of the 3-​lb, 5-​lb. and 7.5 lb. weights) and more mirror space for free weights. It gets really crowded there around lunch/​after work, so I save my free weights for off hours.
Another tip: if you’re the type of person afraid to join a gym because you feel like everyone will be staring at you, this is the gym for you. I have seen just about every age, shape, and weight here and no one stands out. It might not be the gym for someone who’s training for a fitness competition, but for everyone else? I think it’s a good choice for the price. (Personally, I love seeing people of all ages and shapes working out. My attitude is «Good for them! Keep it up! You rock!» No negative thoughts whatsoever – and I suspect most people think a lot like I do.) :)

love planet fitness, this gym is super clean there are plenty of machines even at its busiest times. Staff is very knowledgable and friendly. As a beginner gym go-​er its sometimes intimidating asking «how do i do this» or «what does this machine do?» but the staff is so helpful i wouldn’t mind asking anyone for help.
MY ONLY COMPLAINT: PARKING! the parking is absolutely horrible due to Burlington coat factory/​job lots/​market basket. theres never any good parking and cars tend to fly through the parking lot making night exits from the gym terrifying

This is a great gymn! There are plenty of machines, the trainers are intelligent, pleasant, and great at what they do. My husband and I are seniors and I just convinced my husband to join. We’re out of shape so the non-​judgemental part really matters. The Tootsie Rolls help. Seriously, tho, the staff is great, the gymn is clean and the environment is pleasant. What more could you ask for?

I went to this gym because it’s cheap and close to my place of work. I’m very disappointed with the lack of equipment. There are no medicine balls, yoga balls, foam rollers, or kettle bells, etc. I’m also disappointed in the brand’s attitude toward working out. Planet Fitness makes beginners feel comfortable at the expense of fitness enthusiasts. Of course everyone should feel comfortable working out, and that should mean everyone. Why can’t someone working hard grunt every now and then? It seems silly that they can’t.

I love this place. It suits my needs, isn’t too far from my place, is very inexpensive, and has (for some strange reason) a bowl of tootsie rolls at the front desk; which, no one looks at me funny when I hoard exactly 4 every single time i leave (for my 4 year old, who will count them out). For this reason, she give me no fight about leaving her as long as I come back with the goods.
I don’t understand why anyone has a problem with the place not having towels, etc, it says in the mission statement that PF keeps costs down by leaving out the stuff we could do for ourselves: arrange childcare, bring towels, etc. ((Kanye shrug))
I love the place. Large, clean, there are so many frigging machines that if it ever got busy I’d likely faint from confusion. The women’s room is always clean and strangely/​awesomely law and order is always playing on the TVs in there… that I will not denounce.
In any event, if you live in the area and really want to work that donkey bum down to a nice demure bump (my goal) go here. Duh.

I just switched to Billerica from the Burlington PF. This is a much nicer place. Excellent and friendly staff. Very roomy and clean locker room with TVs. Good variety of machines for fitness. Open stretching area. Free and working WiFi (great for watching TV over internet on aerobic machines). Tanning beds are decent. Massage chairs with TV is nice added bonus. They always seem to be cleaning, which is great. Some have griped about the lack of significant weight for bodybuilding. There’s about 6 to 8 benches for weight lifting and there is plenty of weight for most people. This is Planet FITNESS, not Planet BODYBUILDING. If someone wants bodybuilding, there’s Pro-​Fitness (with the bodybuilder logo) just down the road. The showers in the men’s room are private rather than cattle showers. I can’t believe someone whined about no shampoo. Please! LOL. For $ 10 a month, go buy some at the $ 1 store across the parking lot.
I would have given 4.5 stars, but it’s not an option. Here’s the scoop why I didn’t give 5 stars: Several of the Life Fitness Elliptical machines seem to have broken audio. Either just 1 ear works, or no audio or the iPod connector doesn’t work. It would be nice to have tanning booths instead of beds. The TVs in the first half are way too close to the elliptical and treadmill machines. Kind of get a stiff neck after 30 mins.
I’ve never seen it be too busy there. I’ve always been able to find a machine or have the one I want open up in a moment. Even the customers there seem more friendly. Overall, I definitely recommend it.

Mediocre… Can’t expect much for the 10 $/​month I pay. No towels! no exercise balls. What kind of a fitness center doesn’t even have a weighing machine? The place gets overcrowded on the weekdays and you might endup waiting to use weights or the benches.

Nice and clean gym. Great hours…24/7. Friendly staff.

I recently upgraded to the Planet Fitness Black card so that I could go to the Billerica PF in addition to my ‘home’ gym PF in Burlington.
I was blown away by this P.F.!! Bright, lots of machines available, nothing was broken. The locker room was immaculate, and there are several toilets, changing rooms and showers.
Plenty of paper towels and sanitizing spray bottles, and none of the trash cans were overflowing. Lots of staff walking around in case you need help. I do not use tanning beds so did not bother to even look at them. Nice sitting area in the front section if you want to meet with someone.
I got a tour from a very nice lady at the front desk, and I did the Express Workout which was in a separate area. As promised, I finished in plenty of time (I was on my lunch hour) and figure I got a somewhat decent burn going.
I read the reviews online, and went with the expectation of it being ho-​hum, but I really liked the brightness, the large tvs, the tv in the locker room (!) and THE A/​C ROCKED!!!
I mix up my gym visits with Bikram yoga, home elliptical, and outdoor jogging, so I am not looking for huge amounts of weights to throw around. This gym is perfect for me. Nicely done, Planet Fitness, Billerica!

This gym is decent. I do have some good and bad things to say about it…
The good: Plenty of cardio machines. That’s one thing I absolutely love about this gym, and PF’s in general. Their pricing structure is awesome: $ 20/​$ 10 per month ($ 20 if you’d like to bring a guest free, have the option of going to other PF’s, and get bottled water for a buck). They have a very modern facility, equipped with heat/​AC, new machines, and they even have tanning beds. And finally, I really love that it’s a 24 hour facility. I can go any day, any time of the week, and that is a huge deciding factor.
The bad: Planet Fitness strongly caters to average Joe’s. If you’re looking for a gym that has freeweight bench presses, dumbell weights that go above 75 pounds, barbells above 60 pounds, or even a damn PREACHER CURL seat… then this is unfortunately not the place for you. PF’s in general lack these machines, and quite frankly it’s extremely disappointing and takes away from what could be a great gym. How can you not provide simple things, such as barbells above 60 lbs, and olympic bar for deadlifting, or the preacher curl seat, my ultimate gripe?
The other thing about this gym is that stupid lunk alarm. Planet Fitness strongly prides itself for not being a gym that doesn’t discriminate anybody, but that’s far from the truth. They discriminate those that «grunt» or «look like lunks». This should be a gym for everyone, including veteran bodybuilders and people who may accidentally drop the weights every now and then or grunt once in a while. Give me a break. And «pizza Mondays»? What the hell is the purpose of having a gym if you’re gonna serve pizza, dumbass? And finally, I’d ask that PF put soap in the showers. I had a bad experience taking a shower here thinking there would be soap, and I was forced to shower with shampoo):
So there you have it. If you’re looking to lose weight and save money, perfect. If you’re looking to make some muscle gains, it’s great at first, but you’ll be disappointed further down the road…

I was pleasently surprised. I am so happy they are here and not needing to use pro fitness any more! Remember it is a no frills gym. Great amount a free weights with no crowds, the front desk staff is awesome. They could train other businesses on how to act with members. No blasting rap music either. Working out is what you put in to it,. A very cool old fashion gym with all the newer ways to work out. From the free personal trainers, to the 30 minute work out area, to the open24 hours, why is eveyone not a member? It is not because of price. Stop reading this and go work out.lol.

Found the water fountains near the front desk next to the drink machines. I also noticed rooms near the front that contain some sort of machines which could be tanning machines.
So far, there are a decent amount of gym goers, especially during the weekday evenings.