LA Fitness

What a dump. Save your money. Equipment is always «scheduled for service» and majority of the members are slobs and never clean up after themselves. Management is horrible and never takes concerns seriously. If a high end gym like lifetime fitness were to open in the area they would be busy and this crap hole could close. Sales people should be embarrassed to show people around and try to sell them. Locker rooms and toilet areas are indescribable and far from sanity. I’ve email the corp offices and even have sent photos and always get a genetic «we have sent your concerns to the local DM» what a joke. Pool is not heated and we are always told «it’s under repair» or «we turn it on an hour before class» … Really?!? Someone needs a basic science lesson. The one positive. I live close and it makes me go. Driving far to a gym won’t happen. Proceed with caution. They JUST WANT YOUR MONTHLY DUES and will do nothing to encourage you to stay. Be aware. The trainers are a rip off too !

This gym has become a complete disaster. I go almost every Saturday morning– due to my place of living. Racks are never together. I should have taken a picture the last 2 weeks. The racks were almost empty. Free weights were every where. Can’t find a freaking thing.
Management needs to ship shape this place up.

Not sure where to start on this review. I suppose the sneaky billing practices that this place uses might be a good place. Beware of giving them your checking/​credit card information. The gym is very over crowded and loud as hell. Members rarely clean up after themselves and they love to push their creepy instructors on you (beware of the cost here as well). Avoid this gym and other LA Fitness locations at all costs! For the cost of 1 month at this gym you could go to just about any other gym for 4 months. Avoid meeting with a personal trainer (Salesman/​woman), calling them a Personal Trainer is the equivalent to calling a McDonald’s worker a Chef.

Don’t like this place at all. They are over priced and over crowded. It’s hard to get a work out in with all the people there. It’s not too bad on the weekends.

Never been to a worse LA Fitness. I typically try not to be so harsh but I think that this location deserves it. Equipment is always broken and seems to take forever to repair. The staff is hit or miss (mostly miss) — not friendly or helpful which is such a different experience then a gym up North. Lacks equipment, especially in the weight section which is always super packed by what seems to be a bunch of amateurs that like to congregate and talk. People grab and don’t put back equipment or leave 50 plates on the weights and your stuck having to rack them yourself. Let me know get started on weights for women like me who can’t lift heavy. Let’s just say they are lacking and or you have to walk around looking for them because people don’t put them back. I come here because it’s near my home but typically we are so disgusted with this gym especially on the weekends that we drive to 24^th and Baseline. That gym has equipment, not as packed, people seem more serious about working out versus hanging out and staff is friendlier.

This gym is conveniently located and it is a nice size with the typical amenities (pool, cycle room, babysitting etc). I enjoy the classes and there is never usually a long wait for machines if any. I only wish they had more classes that start before 5:30 p.m.

I signed up two people on this plan. It took me about a week to negotiate the deal and it took them about 16 hours to destroy it. I had to meet with a personal trainer while I was there to tell them I did not want to take advantage of the 1 session free just yet. I then fielded four more calls that evening about personal training sessions for free. I then got woken up for the 3^rd time the next morning and I finally said look, this is the 5^th call I have gotten about personal training session and I have explained to everyone I am not ready to use it. I was told sorry I would be taken off the list and the phone was slammed down in my ear. Needless to say, I went in and cancelled my membership and signed up with someone a little farther away, alot cheaper and alot more organized. More member focused and less sales driven. See, they are trying to sell you a personal training package. It is not you who they care about, it is their sales otherwise instead of allowing me to get so many calls, they would have noted my account on the first meeting and not called my home. Sorry if you have nothing for you employees to do but have them clean something or work with people in the gym who may need the help but not sit and dial the same numbers all day long. I asked when I cancelled to have the GM call me back but I did not get anything from him either. So if you can, take your business down the street or closer to your work. It will be alot less headaches if you avoid this gym all together. I have done personal training in the past. I know what they are doing and why. Do not be pressured into the high costs of personal training or membership. You can get more support from a real gym that is smaller and people care about you more. Even the regulars that go there. So you can say thank you Kihn and Martin, you have once again convinced me not to be a member of a huge gym.

Thankfully I moved away from this area and have built a nice home gym for myself. No more gym nightmares for this gal!
Anyway, this gym is fine if you like overcrowded, dirty, unorganized gyms! There are always so many people, even when they first open at 5am, good luck getting the equipment you want. Also, the free weights are always scattered ALL over the gym! What’s up with that? Don’t the staff ever get up from their desks and take a walk around the gym to put things away? It’s kind of ironic that the staff at a gym are lazy. And don’t forget about the dirtiness too. There was one time, I was working out in the free weight area, and this really obnoxious dude (who walks around like he owns the gym but still has a huge gut) spit on the floor! I kid you not. He hawked and spit on the gym floor, right next to me. I wanted to punch him in his face.
Good luck if you sign up with this gym. I was nothing but disappointed with it. But then again, it’s Laveen. Pretty much everything in this area is disappointing.

I go to this place because it has what i need and is close. The staff administrative staff is completely incompetent. I’ve even had to pick up PT flyers that were literally tossed in my front lawn. I think that at least 3 machines need to busted before they start to pretend to care about it. A joke.

I’d go 4.5 if I could be a 4 .
I just think it’d be smart for them all to have name tags.
Otherwise this location (I’ve been to 4 others in the valley) is my favorite. There is alwayssss someone cleaning at all hours of the day. Lockerrooms –bathrooms — the main floor you name it.
Both male and female custodial folk keeping it clean and well stocked. The trainers are all welcoming –not gnarly dudes that you wouldn’t trust alone with your daughter or wife.
Out of towners I’ve taken here are blown away at how big it is. Equipment is all new and regularly maintained by what seems to be a dedicated repairman. Other clubs I’ve seen out of order signs on equipment for weeks. Busy at night rush as is any gym but all other times of day, plenty of space and availability. Members are all nice — it’s like family at this point. Regulars galore… Which tells a thumbs up story all by itself.
Well done la la Laveen fitness!

This gym isnt bad. Never gets too packed, which is great. Music selections is terrible but whatever, i usually have my headphones at the gym anyway. They have a nice lap pool and a sauna. Basketball court. As well as alot of weight and cardio machines. Free weights as well. Good luckk getting on the leg press machine tho, that thing goes quick!

Unfortunately this is the closest gym to me this place is horrible! I can get past the fact that the weights are all out of order ad all on the floor that it stinks and that the restrooms are disgusting, but they have horrible customer service! they always have an attitude and act like they are doing you a favor by coming to work! if you don’t like your job go find something else to do!

This is one of the worst gyms in Az. First the place is always packed with people, the staff especially the girl at night in the front desk does not do her job, she allows, kids range from 5−10yrs of age, in the gym the kids are playing with the machines and not allowing the customers to use them, secondly she sits in the desk flirting with guys while the kids are stealing the basketballs and she is not paying attention whatsoever… I go to pay my bill she has an attitude problem and calls me a bitch and tells me to step outside, I don’t need nor do I deserve this kind of attitude especially when I pay $ 99 a month for 3 persons and then she refuses to take my money and pay my bill, I had to go to a personal trainer to help me otherwise I would’ve been late on my payment meanwhile she is laughing in the background and acting very juvenile… I will be calling corporate to see what needs to be done because this is absurd… Another thing I have been waiting for the scale in the girls restroom to get fixed for a month and it’s still out of service. I would not recommend this place to anyone… My friend goes there as well but during the day and she says the guy personal trainers are perverted and try to sleep with you so you have to watch out for the guys in there, it’s so sad… The same front girl allows the teenagers in there to open the back door and allow a bunch of high school kids to play in the gym and they get loud and they almost run you over where they are horseplaying. There is no management in that place either this girl goes or im canceling my membership

This is the worst of the chain in the area. Weights never re-​racked and equipment is beat. Place is filthy people leave paper towels and plastic water bottles every where. Rest room always smells as bad as it looks.

I apologize in advance for the long-​windedness of this post. Please go to the last paragraph for a summary if you don’t want details. The details are essentially for the management of this particular LA Fitness to evaluate and then act, if they see fit.
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I was visiting for two weeks and the 24-​hour fitness in the area sucked BAD. So, I walked into this LA Fitness near where I was staying.
Stan was really cool and is a great asset to their sales team. That said, the only product they had for me was a one month membership at $ 75 (no additional initiation fee). The price was ALMOST unreasonable especially given the fact that ALL I do is treadmill and elliptical. But, I’ll tell you, when you pay that much and you only have 2 weeks to use it, it is a REAL motivator to get your ass into the gym! The final tally came to 8 – 9 bucks per visit. Get a visitor plan in place, LA Fitness!
Their staff are friendly, courteous and professional and is the ONLY reason they got 3 stars and not 2. Their people are this gym’s best asset. The facility is very clean; not always my home gym’s condition… ugh. Another irritant that shows what a CA /​24 Hour wuss I am was they closed really early on weekends (8pm). But I get it: very capitalist, maximize the profit sweet spot and expand the hours if there’s a market for it. Apparently in Laveen, there isn’t a market for that.
Now the ‘meh’ part… and this is indicative of 24 Hour Fitness too: They just don’t maintain the ellipticals well. Only one machine I tried in two weeks (and I used a different machine every visit in a desperate attempt to get a working one) took my heart rate. All of ‘em…not one worked. So, even after «mastering» two new machine programs, they all ended up going into manual mode after exclaiming, «No heart rate found». So then you end up modifying the program to approximate what you were trying to achieve for that workout. It meant messing around with the settings 5 – 10 minutes into the workout: very hard to get into that hard-​workout focus that is the «crack cocaine» of my routines when you’re EFFing with the touchpad.
I invite the facility manager to workout on his/​her own ellipticals and tell me if I exaggerate.
And the fact that you can’t get a programmed workout longer than 30 minutes is a real irritant: I work out for 1 – 1.5 hrs normally. It is friggin’ irritating to have to reprogram the same workout halfway through it. Their lawyers probably dictate this to avoid lawsuits. Well… you make us sign every friggin’ liability release known to man when we sign-​up so WTF? I’m a proud libertarian… if I give myself a heart attack from overdoing it, it was my choice and I’ll die a happy and free man.
If you’re in the Laveen area and do weights, racquetball or swimming I recommend this gym. And go see Stan… he’s a great guy. But If all you do is «rent the machines» like I do: find another gym that maintains their machines; it’ll be worth the extra miles.

Compared to all the LA Fitnesses I’ve been to, this location in Laveen is the absolute worst. First of all, it’s way overcrowded and they continue to offer more and more specials to obtain members. That’s fine, I get that, you want more money and more people to become members. If that’s the case, build another one close by or make it larger. For the size and machine availability, the ratio is by far off. Next, I understand that machines break. However, their step machine has been broken for over a month and they have not yet fixed it. Now another one has broken so that only leaves two available for use since the other two are broken. I know this place is not broke enough to get machines fixed since membership is like 40 – 50 bucks a person… What’s the excuse that machines are out of commission for so long? Especially when they’re machines that you only have one of or four of? Next the place is dirty, the floor mats to do core exercises are always nasty. The next morning for a morning work out, there are weights everywhere, things are
Not back in their place and members shouldn’t have to walk around the entire gym to find a 12 pound dumbbell. Have your gym organized for us early risers and it cleaned up and organized. We don’t have time to be looking for things or making room to do a work out because your employees didn’t clean up before closing the night before. Especially since morning people go and have minimal time as it is since we have a job to get to. Poor rating here. I only come here cause it’s close by. Inever recommend anyone come to this location. Hopefully you can get it together.

All of the staff is super nice and I love my personal sessions w James. I also love spin class on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights w Chris, yoga w Cristy on Thursdays, and Monday night yoga with Scott.
However, I am not a fan of how predatory the males are. I’ve been a member at five gyms (this is the sixth) over the past decade and this one is by far the worst. The guys are disrespectful (I think I’ve actually caught a few of them taking photos on their mobile of females whilst they’re lifting, myself included). Creeptastic!
I’ve tried going at a variety of hours and it’s always packed. This is awesome on one hand but bothersome on the other because people at this gym have nearly zero gym etiquette. I’ve never seen anyone re-​rack the weights, girls like to use stability balls on the ab/​stretching mat (pick one, don’t use both!), and people stand in front of others who are clearly trying to use the mirrors for form maintenance (just to list a few offenses).
I’m confused by the seemingly young individuals that frequent this gym and, other than re-​racking the weights, the issues mentioned above stem from the younger age group.
The gym has the usual equipment; nothing fancy or special. It’d be nice if they added water refill stations (the fountains don’t cut it) and a swimsuit spinner to wring out your suit after laps. Cleaning stations with proper sanitizers are completely missing (hand sanitizer stations only, no wipes or spray bottles) which is pretty inconvenient, let alone nasty.

I am here quite frequently, and really think it’s a great gym. It’s clean, well maintained and it’s convenient to my house. So overall, I am definitely a fan.
However, minus one star because they don’t offer spin classes other than 5:45am, 5:30pm daily and 6:45pm on Tues and Thurs. Most of the other LA Fitness gyms offer a 9:15am class at least 2−3x per week. This one does not. And given most people work until 5, it’s hard to get to a class at 5:30. (And I’m not good at waking up to be at the gym at 5:45am)
I will say that it gets very busy at night — so sometimes it’s really hard to get a treadmill. So try and go as early as you can because 7pm is prime time and it’s packed.

Living nearby, I waited for what seemed like an eternity for LA Fitness to open. When it finally did open, I was not disappointed. I’m a regular in the morning and it’s pretty clean. There are a few dumb-​bells out there that can seem clean up after themselves but I don’t fault the gym for their laziness. I would give this place 5 stars if they extended their hours on the weekend.

I walk in the door and this song immediately starts running through my head…
Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt.
It is so big. *scoff* She looks like,
one of those rap guys’ girlfriends.
But, you know, who understands those rap guys? *scoff*
They only talk to her, because,
she looks like a total prostitute, ‘kay?
I mean, her butt, is just so big.
I can’t believe it’s just so round, it’s like,
out there, I mean — gross. Look!
She’s just so … black!
And then I step in to the Latin Heat class and it continues…
I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can’t deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung, wanna pull out your tough
’Cause you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she’s wearing
I’m hooked and I can’t stop staring
I’m thinking to myself how nice it is not to be surrounded by a bunch of blond bimbos staring at themselves in the mirror…
So your girlfriend rolls a Honda, playin’ workout tapes by Fonda
But Fonda ain’t got a motor in the back of her Honda
My anaconda don’t want none
Unless you’ve got buns, hun
You can do side bends or sit-​ups,
But please don’t lose that butt
The class instructor has played the best mix for any Latin Heat class I’ve taken…
So Cosmo says you’re fat
Well I ain’t down with that!
‘Cause your waist is small and your curves are kickin’
And I’m thinkin’ bout stickin’
To the beanpole dames in the magazines:
You ain’t it, Miss Thing!
Give me a sister, I can’t resist her
Red beans and rice didn’t miss her
I’m drenched with sweat, I’ve bonded with a few of the ladies in the class and for the first time in a week I’ve smiled…
So ladies, if the butt is round,
And you want a triple X throw down,
Dial 1−900-MIXALOT
And kick them nasty thoughts
Baby got back!