Powerhouse Gym

This place is a joke… small gym and horrible customer service. Tanning beds suck and need to be internally cleaned and bulbs replaced. Who knows what else isn’t properly functioning. The staff is stuck up have no interest in communication. I think I will stick with my Planet Fitness. way better gyms than this little place. Oh also way overpriced what a JOKE.

Love the classes!!! All of the instructors are amazing and really keep you motivated and sweating! Great atmosphere with very well kept equipment.
Really love the daycare as well, it’s a great convenience for the parents. Being able to watch your child on the equipment’s screen is a bonus. My son absolutely loves the toy room and the people who staff it.
The sauna is AMAZING! I always end my workout there. Will be coming back through out the week. Keep up the great work!

Joined this gym for a year membership but I kinda wish i had not. The machines are good, tannimg is lacking in some ways. The staff I have only seen 2 people so far. First guy was nice but wasn’t very helpful with explaining the details about certain packages, he also talked really quiet. if your gonna sale stuff you need to be upscale and have a personality. …next guy there is a total tool head. He doesn’t try to extend a welcome manner. You can tell he is miserable yet his jobs easy he wipes machines down and uses a gym for free what more do you need dude? You greet him with a smile or a question he looks at you like your an alien. He prob is so jacked up on roids he doesn’t know what is going on. I seriously don’t understand why people are so rude there nobody tries to be friendly or even smile. you should feel great after leaving gym but i feel stupid and unwelcome. I recommend to go to another gym. I wish i wouldof signed up at West OC gym.

Need a place to get a good pump while on vacation in OC Maryland. I have been to many power houses in the past, while on the road, or just in general. My mother and I decided to go here because it was close to the campsite in which we were staying.
I must say the place was very clean, had a lot of good equipment, and was very spacious. Although this is in a shopping mall and looks very deceiving the inside is very spacious and the machines are clean.

Total Fitness’ classy beach brotha… If your looking for a real gym, powerhouse is where it’s at.

Best place in the area to work out! Super friendly staff, reasonable membership rates, great classes and instructors! I’m in the best shape of my life! Thank you Powerhouse Gym!

I’ve only been going for about 2 months and I love going here nearly everyday. The workers and people who go here are awesome, they welcome you and help you out whether it’s learning how to do something or just spotting you and giving you encouragement.
You meet a bunch of cool people and this gym just has so much equipment so you have a variety on what you want to do. Their Dumbbells even go up to 150. I will continue going here and if you’re a student, the price is only $ 20 a month.

no customer service!!! my high school student signed up for student membership for 4 months and we told them at sign up we were moving at the end of june 2014. they continued to charge our credit card for july, august and september and they refuse to refund the money! no one used the gym for those months, the gym did not lose money from us!!! why not refund our money!!! especially if we were good customers with multiple family members using the facility over the years!!! i wish i could take back the 1 star!!!

Amazing gym for the heavy lifter, the dumbbells go up to 150lbs. They have a squat rack, incline decline and regular bench. They have everything you need to lift stuff including weight belts, oh yeah they «cardio» equipment if you do that stuff. You can buy scoops of NOS powder to put in your drinks for a dollar so you can feel that pump all day long :)

My girlfriend and I trained here during our Memorial Day weekend at the beach. The gym itself is a little small, but it provides everything you’ll need to get a good work out in. The bathrooms/​locker rooms are spacious and clean and they provide tanning services (if you don’t get enough at the beach) as well as a protein shake bar. Early mornings/​afternoons didn’t seem to be too crowded and we were more than happy with the service that we received.
Also picked up some awesome Powerhouse Gym t-​shirts for $ 10 a pop, which was a pretty good for the quality. I would definitely recommend this gym.

Excellent staff… Clean locker rooms and equipment… I was reading a negative review and if you go to a gym to tan and get «tan lines» is that a reason to write something negative? Great equipment at a great membership cost… Power House rocks!

Down here on vacation and wanted the flexibility of a daily and weekly rate. These folks offered both. Equipment is new and if you’re a member of a Retro Fitness club at home, this is the place for you. Same Lifefitness Equipment is offered. Except they offer better treadmills and other cardio machines. They also have saunas in the locker rooms, free towel service, and offer exercise classes as well. Really an excellent gym at a very reasonable cost, $ 18/​day total for me and wife ($ 9 each.) Very clean, crowd there at the time of our visit was quiet and focused. Got in a nice hour + workout with no fuss or muss. Visited quite a few gyms in the area and this one delivered on all points. They have tanning beds which I don’t utilize, so I can’t comment on that aspect. Convenient to lower OC, WOC, just off Rte 50 on Stephen Decatur Hwy. Discovered they had a location back home, seriously consider changing gyms. I did have to initiate the good bye and exchange of pleasantries at the end of my workout with the staff. If that would irritate you, I’d suggest going elsewhere. Personally, I just want to come in, get done what I want with as little trouble as possible and leave.

The staff at OC Powerhouse is always friendly and encouraging. The equipment is new, personal trainers are effective & fun, and the owners are personable. The childcare is great, and they always listen and adjust their practices whenever we voice concerns for the kids. Overall, from my experience, best place in OC to work out, especially when kids are in tow.

Attended 2 mos, Nov & Dec, What a horrible experience. My 1^st impression was on the mark & it only got worse when one worker even decided to intimidate when she didn’t get her way! This mid-20’s attendant with the long brown hair insisted over 5X to try the stand-​up tanner «so I wouldn’t get lines». I told her I don’t get lines cuz I turn on the bed, and due to back problems, I prefer to use the lie-​down bed. No matter, she pushed and pushed, to the point of additionally lying to me to make me wait 15 minutes other trips, making a big deal saying she had to «clean» the bed first. The book showed the last tan client had been an hour prior!
I then realized she didn’t like to clean-​up the bed after someone tans, so this was her way in immature attempts to coerce me to use the stand-​up (no oily glass to clean!). She initiated additional harrassment, making superficially strained smiles sticking her face forward at me and sarcastically stretching out «gooooooooood byyyyyye“s when I left.
She’d fawn and flirt over the men in the gym, doing extra favors for them, and then go on attack mode with me, exaggerating high-​stepping over my gym bag over and over one day when it was late eve, only 3 others in gym. I’d set my bag next to the elliptical I was on. If it was against policy, all she needed to was politely let me know. Instead, she dramatically waved her arms and pointed and told me loudly my bag was in the way and squished up her face to show disapproval and demanding me to get off my machine immediately to move it. She’d seen me over 2 mos, & knew I used the elliptical 10 min. max.
When my monthly gym membership card beeped the expiration tone when I came in for my last week of tanning (purchased monthly tan after my gym’s), she smiled from ear to ear like a Cheshire cat and yelled loudly, «Your membership’s EXPIRED!!!» and then just kept staring directly into my eyes, and never said anything else, like a normal, professional, mature person would, such as, «Would you like to renew your membership?» She just glared at me. I responded with, «Yes, I know, but I’m here for a tan. May I have the sign-​in book, please?» Her smile faded and she looked very irritated, so much so, that the other attendant, Emily, noticed and told her that yes, I had another week and got the book for me. It again was obvious this other female didn’t want to prep and set up the bed, because Emily took over from there.
Emily had always been polite to me from day one, but I need to re-​iterate, no one in this gym extends a «friendly» disposition. They do not go out of their way to smile, say hello and goodbye, UNLESS you do it first. I always said hello and goodbye and how are you when I arrived and left, otherwise I got silence from the 6 or 7 staff I’d met. I don’t get it. I spent good money to live 2 months extended health leave out of state to refresh, get back in shape and lose weight. Nearly 50 yrs old, I trimmed down 20 pounds and 2 full dress sizes in 25 days; the same people saw me there night after night, and never said, Way to go Girl, Are you losing weight? You look great! Keep it up! Glad to See you Back! Instead, I got ignored and harrassed to boot! You go to a gym to improve yourself, to improve your mood, your body, your fitness level, to make friends and be social– all part of the mind/​body connection and you end up having to deal with these snotty attitudes. The fact that no one at this gym extended themselves and there was never any friendly banter between customers or workers, tells me that the shit rolls downhill from the top. The owner was never present in the evening; from what I heard since from another dissatisfied member, he is a misogynistic phony.
I’m back home in PA now. I regret not joining the OCFitness Gym, as this gym experience really affected me negatively during what was to be my respite from stress. I had put too much emphasis in my choosing on the fact that Powerhouse had a sauna. I rarely ended up using it, because there was such bad and sometimes hostile energy in this gym, that I didn’t want to stay any longer than my workout and tan. Sad, because in just one exploratory visit to the OC Fitness Gym, I felt like I’d made ten friends just coming in the door. The owner greeted me with such kindness, introduced me to every teacher, said I could call her ²⁴⁄₇ with any problem, and followed up with e-​mails inviting me to their monthly buffet parties. When Powerhouse had their Xmas party, they SHUT THE GYM DOWN THREE (3) HRS EARLY no advance warning! screwing me out of basically three days workout\tans.
If you must have a sauna, go to Powerhouse. If you want kindness, friendly atmosphere, excellent service, fun classes, and to feel good after your workouts, go to OC Fitness. There is a reason why Powerhouse is dead empty in the evenings (4 males; only 1 or 2 females ever), and why OC Fitness is teaming with women and abounding with cheerfulness.