Decided to give Curves a try after a neighbor had been telling me how much she liked going there for over a year. The staff has been very friendly without any hard sell involved. I dropped by just to check it out and they told me about it without trying to sell it to me which made me very interested. Decided to join to start working out to join another harder gym or so I thought. Turns out if you work their circuit like they instruct you, one gets a very good cardio and strengthening workout in 30 minutes. When I am done, I am sweating and breathing hard with my HR max at 75 — 80%.