Planet Fitness – El Paso – Joe Battle

I am unfortunately a planet fitness member, I say unfortunate because the name planet fitness has such a horrible rep. Sure, they offer pizza and bagel days. And the majority of people that go there couldn’t figure out the difference between a bicep and a hamstring. But as long as you don’t mind waiting every now and again for a machine, it’s not all bad. Only issue I have is they have very little free weights. Only Dumbbells. So I can’t do deadlifts of anything like that. They have smith machines so you and kind of do bench and squat. But it’s just not the same. Never heard the link alarm go off there, but I’m sure it happeneds. For a gym that claims to be judgement free, there is sure a lot of judging. I wouldn’t personally utilize their «personal trainers» because they seem to weigh a hundred pounds soaking wet with little or no muscle. All around, it’s worth the 10 bucks a month. There 24 hours a day minus Sunday.

Hey, it works for me. I just need a place to use a treadmill, as I prefer to lift weights at home. There are always plenty of machines available.
The place is super clean, and the staff is friendly and helpful, at least in my experience.
I have only two issues that keep me from giving 5 stars. They need to be open later on weekends. I understand that they probably don’t need to be 24 hours on weekends, but 7:00 is a bit early for me, as I usually work. 10:00 would be better. ²⁴⁄₇ would be best.
The other issue is the iPhone hookups on the machines. Almost everyone with an iPhone has at least the 5 nowadays. Upgrade to the lightning connector so we can use it!

I am not sure why people are so hard on this place. I like this gym, it gets the job done and for people like me (shy gym rats) it’s nice to know that there are no links around judging us. I do not like how they pass out pizza as it can be detrimental to a diet or training but then again every one needs a cheat meal:-) great place to go and get your sweat on and not worry about a thing!

Planet fitness is exactly what it advertises to be, not a gym.
For $ 10 a month, you get all the basics of the gym and get a workout before work, or after.
With their monthly pizza giveaways every first Monday of the month, they are encouraging everyone to be «average joes».
Oh and don’t forget the bagel Tuesdays on every second Tuesday of the month.
There is no doubt that this is not a normal gym. There is more cardio machines than anything else.
That is mainly what fills up this small vicinity.
No squat racks, free weights, just Smith machines.
There are 2 rooms for the tanning booths and 2 rooms for hydro massage?
I haven’t seen anyone go into any of those rooms, but I guess it’ll puck up around summer time.
It is well kept as far as cleanliness goes. Any time I have gone the employees are walking around picking up trash off the floor and reracking weights left behind.
The employees are nice and definitely keep to themselves chatting, which I don’t mind because I go to the gym to workout, not stand at the front chatting up the employee’s.
The one employee I have found helpful is the young man that works the late overnight shift.
He has glasses and for the life of me I cannot remember his name!
But any problem/​mess I have brought to his attention, he has apologized and cleaned/​fixed the problem.
Planet fitness could use more employees like him.
Maybe their overall productivity will increase.
I only gave 4 stars because when you sign up, some of the employees aren’t properly trained on explaining the fees and overall memberships.
But it’s a decent and affordable gym.

I guess they’re too busy talking to each other at the front desk to answer their phones. The machines now have a thin coating of grime on them that they didn’t have when I first started going here. Every time I go for more than a week I end up with the flu. Tried to cancel over the phone and got told to f-​off by the customer service rep from the CORPORATE OFFICE. Shows what kind of a company they are. Never, never again.

Lunk alarm? Please there are not big enough weights in here to be considered a lunk, so many people standing around or sitting on equipment talking on their cell phone. The trainers I observed never were training anyone, just jaw jacking like everyone else. Do they still serve pizza there?

This is my gym for the summer. I’m not overweight, actually almost underweight, but since it is summer I thought, «lets work on getting abs and turn those puny arms into some muscle!». I’ve Been going for about a month already and have about 2 more months left here in El Paso to keep working out. Planet Fitness is a HUGE business here and you see billboards everywhere advertising. I got the deal where you only pay a dollar to join and then $ 10 a month after that. This particular location is less than a mile from my house. It has a lot of treadmills/​elliptical, and then one wall for bench presses, one wall for free weights, and then the second half with a bunch of random machines. They also have tanning and massage beds for those who decide to pay a higher month fee. Staff is nice and they will gladly help if you ask. They give you a paper that has the peak hours, so be very aware of that because it can get extremely crowded at times. The good thing though is that its 24 hours mon-​friday. I feel bad for not checking in those 30 times I have gone before because then I would’ve been Duke or whatever, but that’s alright. Happy exercising!