Executive Fitness & Nutrition

They have weights of all sizes. Use em and stop crying.

Staff memember very poor english, when i ask a question he keep asking me for for my membership#. I said i am not a memeber yet, i just have a question, he put me on hold 3 times and the line just disconnect. 4^th time i call back, they just let the phone ring, no one answer. What is the point to do the business if you do not have any kind of heart services. Plan to go bec it close to my house n love that it close late, but i better turn to Blink. Even i do not like blink but see good reason now, why.

Worst gym I’ve ever been to. Treadmills are actually dangerous and management doesn’t fix, maintain or replace them. They don’t even turn them off when customer’s report problems. Treadmills belts change speeds and more than once I’ve almost been thrown off.
Only reason I go is it’s the only gym in the neighborhood.
I don’t even go in the locker room because it smells like piss. When I’ve complained to owner she just argues and is rude to all the customers. I’ve seen it’s being taken over, and it appears that maintenance has completely dried up now:

Someone could make a lot of money if he or she opened a nicer gym in Jackson Heights.
PROS:
Very close to my house and the only gym in Jackson Heights.
CONS:
The music is terrible and WAY too loud. Forget about listening to your own earphones unless you want to make yourself deaf.
The ceiling is leaking.
a bunch of the treadmills are broken.
Ironically it’s getting ever more crowded because of an aggressive recruitment campaign.

I have been here for a year now just because it is close to where i live. No body recommended yet i wanted to try. Here are what i found:
1. Rude fat lady in the reception.
2. Broken machines which never got fixed.
3. Stinking environment
4. Bathroom: omg, it is the worst ever.
5. Multiple Health Inspections failed. It should have been closed down as per the violations made so far.
6. Nobody is satisfied to be here but once they pay they have to be here. There is no refund or cancellation here.
7. The rooms are so small and sometimes people have to wait for their turns. This is disgusting.
PEOPLE SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM IT. WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE A NEW FITNESS CENTRE CLOSE TO ROOSEVELT AVENUE.

As other reviewers have said, the only reason to join this gym is the price and the fact that it’s the only gym in Jackson Heights.
The place is poorly maintained. About 50% of the machines are always missing pins. There are no towels for loan or purchase. Machines are frequently broken. There aren’t even paper towels or a dryer in the men’s room to dry your hands after washing them. The staff lacks customer service skills and seems to do very little to keep the place clean or working — and only one staff member has ever greeted me when I arrive during the 3+ years I’ve been here, and recently there are even larger groups of staff hanging out at the desk, conversing with each other and not speaking to clients or cleaning the place. And in the summer, their refusal to use air conditioning makes it unbearable, especially for cardio.
There is a huge opportunity for someone to open a better gym in Jackson Heights. All of us who are members just because there’s no other choice would quickly make the switch!

The only gym in Jackson Heights. Affordable, homely, workout-​focused space that is also frequently crowded and in disrepair. This should be a 2.5 star review but Unilocal doesn’t allow fractions.
Let’s get the cons out of the way:
— During peak hours this place gets packed. Expect to be very flexible about what you work on. Benches booked? Look for something else. Popular weights (looking at you 25 lb dumbbells) will disappear for long stretches. You’ll also do better if you don’t mind being social and asking folks to work in with them.
— Machines fall into disrepair here and are then left in unusable shape for sometime. They aren’t labeled as broken either so you may find yourself climbing on a treadmill that looks like it works (the lights are on) before realizing you’ve been played with (it beeps when you press the keys but just won’t start).
— Folks are friendly here but terrible about picking up after themselves. The lady who runs this place complains sometimes but when she isn’t there the staff at the front desk won’t get off their ass and enforce the rules. Late in the day weights will be strewn all over the floor in large, dangerous piles. Note to manager: When you aren’t there, the front desk staff watch soccer games, surf the internet and generally rest.
— The locker rooms and shower (that is singular, not a typo) are dirty and depressing. I wouldn’t take my shoes off here. Go home and shower there.
— The music is fine, fairly generic dance and Latin mixes — but it’s often way too loud. If you bring your own iPod you will still hear the gym music mixed in with your tunes. Generally the result is unsatisfying.
Now there are some significant pros, but you have to understand what this place is for and what pleasures it has to offer:
— Cheap. I just paid $ 199 to renew for the year. That’s a lot of your money that Equinox didn’t manage to steal. Invest your savings wisely.
— While I would love to see more women here (it’s about 80% male), it’s a great crowd. Men of all sexualities working out and chatting. Multiethnic, though mostly Latino. You’ll hear many languages here (some Mandarin, some Hindi, mostly Spanish). This is a place that feels of and by the neighborhood. Some inelegant reviewer objected to Spanish being spoken around her. Not sure what to say to that except: Welcome to New York City. (Also, to that same inelegant reviewer: everyone speaks English here, they just don’t always choose to).
— The Dominican lady who runs this place is welcoming and funny and irreverent. Get to know her. She’ll make you laugh.
— Folks come here to workout, sweat and then leave. If you’re looking for a place to look pretty or preen you will be unhappy.
— There is no AC in the summer. Yes, I am listing this in the pro column. If you have spent all your life in North American suburbs this might not be the gym for you. You may not realize that the human body can function without AC. But those of us from other places and with other biographies can adjust easily to a place that keeps the windows open and cranks up the fans. You have a body. It sweats. This is what being alive feels like.

The only reason i come to this shithole is because its 2 blocks away from where i live.
Lets start with the cons:
— Half of the machines and equipment in this place are broken. They take weeks to finally come around and fix a single treadmill and by the time they do 2 more have broken. A lot of the weight training machines are broken and never get fixed. They becomve chairs.
— It is toooooo packed in peak hours which also makes the above issue worse.
— In the summer they don’t put AC, just ceiling fans that all they do is circulate hot musty stinky air everywhere. You start sweating heavily before even starting your routine. When i approached the manager about the issue he said that they dont use AC because people get sick. That’s understandable if you blast the AC but that’s not the case. They just need a regular fresh temp.
— The staff is nearly useless.
— If you lose your 25 cent tag they will charge you a full $ 20 for a new one
— The membership fee is too high for what this gym really is. $ 300 for the year or $ 40 a month is too high. There are MUCH better fitness center that cost $ 20-​$ 30 a month.
Pros:
— its near my house
— they have all the basic free weights needed. If it wasnt because they are virtually unbreakable half of them would be broken too.
— That’s it.
Unless you live very nearby to the gym, don’t go.

I purchased multiple-​month memberships at this place twice, but gave up before my packages expired both times. The first time was about eight years ago — I was interested in group exercise classes, but later discovered that the instructors would insist on blasting the music so loud that it was really unpleasant (and I worked in the music industry at the time so I was no stranger to loud music — but this was LOUD). Also, the class and the gym itself was always really crowded.
The second time I signed up was about three months ago. This time around, all I was interested in was a local treadmill so I thought this place would suffice. However, between 7:30 and 9 am, the treadmills are pretty busy and there’s a wait list. The sign-​up policy for the wait list is a little confusing, and no one informed me about it at registration so I had to find out about it via an altercation with another gym member, who tried to intimidate me off the machine with her friend. Lucky for me, I am not easily intimidated. But after a few encounters with hostile personalities in trying to figure out how the sign-​up policy worked, I decided that I was a little too old and too zen to engage in fights over treadmills at 8 in the morning. So again, I gave up on them.
Both times I tried them out, I didn’t want to use the showers there, so I just went home to freshen up after my workouts.

EFN zone BREACH OF CONTRACT!!! O out of 0 stars!!!
EFN ZONE Roosevelt Ave 78 – 14 JH… Take your business elsewhere. I paidn$ 300.00 for 24 hour access. Now the established hours 6 – 8!!! Who can go then? Bait and switch. They only gave 1 weeks notice??? Pissed!
Calling BBB
Not enough free weight benches!!! Way way way over crowded! Lockerooms are nasty!
The only Plus the over night staff was amazing,
I will be filing a complaint with the better business bureau today! Unacceptable business practice!
STAY AWAY!!!
FN zona EFN ZONA 78 – 14 Roosevelt Ave. JH … Tome negocio a otra parte. Yo paidn $ 300,00 para el acceso de 24 horas. Ahora bien, los horarios establecidos 6 – 8??? ¿Quién puede ir? El cebo y el interruptor. Sólo dio un aviso de semana??? ¿Quién va a administrar este agujero? No hay suficientes bancos de pesas libres! Camino lleno de gente! Lockerooms son desagradables! Voy a presentar una queja con el Better Business Bureau hoy! Las prácticas comerciales inaceptables! Mantente alejado!

lol, i saw this place on the side of my screen and thought, why not?
I have been a member of EF and I have to respect a gym that is like, 150 dollars a year. That is very nice of them. But then you get inside and BAM! (disgusting old machine that doesn’t work) POW! (a lady making you feel bad even though you don’t know what she is saying because you don’t speak Spanish) and SMACK (what their chid care lady did to my son was he was two because he wouldn’t watch TV) And SMACK I once was on my elliptical there and saw a man lying on the street for my whole workout and watched people sort of nudging him to see if he was alive (maybe he had done some smack???)
He was alive, the ambulance came and took him away, the vagrant.

I guess I’ve been spoiled because I was struck by how small, tightly packed, crowded, and dirty the gym was. I worked out there for about a month while staying in NYC this summer, but actually dreaded going there for these reasons, plus: the main room of the gym doesn’t have air conditioning! And this in the middle of a very hot summer! EFN has a decent amount of equipment, but some of it is old or broken. The place did get cleaner while I was there, but it’s still not really clean. They sometimes ran out of cleaning supplies (paper towels, soap). If reasonably priced chain gyms enter Jackson Heights, I imagine EFN would be out of business sooner or later. I suspect it’s managed to survive this far because it’s the only gym in the area with sufficient equipment, despite all its problems.

One of the only gyms in the Jackson Heights/​Elmhurst area, located on the second floor of a retail building, just under the 7 tracks. Despite its size, the gym has a lot of basic equipment: treadmills, free weights, machines and a studio room. I have been a member for 1.5 years, and the place has gotten dramatically cleaner. I wish they would start replacing some of the equipment. For any normal gym-​goer, this place does the trick.