Fitness SF

I l really like this gym. It’s right across the street from where I live and super convenient. It has a good pool and all of the equipment that I need.
I’ve been weight training for 6 years, but recently I’ve been learning TRX with Juancho at Fitness SF — Fillmore, and it has been amazing. Juancho is really energetic and very knowledgeable about fitness. His training sessions have pushed me hard; I’ve seen and felt the results. I highly recommend him!

I have been a member of Fitness SF since its inception 3 years ago, and prior to that, was a member for another 3 yrs when it was called Club One. I know the club really well, and have been one of the very regular members there since I live in the neighborhood.
Comparing it to what it was when it was Club One, I will say it is a great improvement. Fitness SF has managed the Club really, really well. It is an extremely clean and hygienic facility, with a lot of group classes to select from.
My favorite use of the gym is the swimming pool. I have literally been swimming a full mile here (72 lengths) every day, and could not be happier. The water temperature is almost always a perfect 82 F, the jacuzzi nearby is a perfect 104 °F, and if you come at the right times, you can be pretty sure that you will have either the lane to yourself, or at most share it with one other person. This is very unlike the YMCA, where I was a member for 20 years, and they never ever got it right. Crowded lanes with 5 persons per lane, and 50% of the time, the lanes were unavailable, as the pool was being used for water aerobics. At Fitness SF, water aerobics does not shut down the pool or the lanes, and the aerobics class is quickly done in one hour at 10:00am. Efficient indeed !
The Club also is very affordable, more so than almost any other club in SF. A member can use any of its 4 facilities with no extra charge. We also get free bath towels and hand towels at no extra charge. And all the trainers and front desk staff are extremely friendly and respectful. Members are called by first name, and not treated anonymously.
Suggestions for improvement? Sure, else I would not be doing my part. The drought brought about water conservation, resulting in low usage shower heads. Now that the drought is over, it would be great to get high pressure shower heads again. It would be much appreciated.
Absolutely love FitnessSF Fillmore, it is about as good as it gets for a health club !!!

You guys should go and work out with Rodrigo. He is the best ! He understand your goals and help you reach it, always with a smile. He gets you motivated and pushes you to do better every time.

This is a review for Ricardo Yalli, who I had as a personal trainer for two years. He’s a very knowledgable trainer and adapts his workouts to the needs of the client. When I started working with him my goal was to cut down on my body fat percentage, and he not only tailored my workouts to help with that, but also gave me advice about how to plan my diet as well.
He’s also knowledgable about soccer, and was able to prepare workouts that helped me perform better and stay healthy on the soccer field. I would highly recommend Ricardo as a personal trainer.

It’s a bit small, and a bit claustrophobic… but even at peak hours, it’s not that busy.
Aside from the locker rooms smelling like dirty feet… It’s a fine gym with a lap pool, hot tub, steam room, sauna and showers.

I’ve been going here for over two years and I am still tremendously impressed. The staff is friendly and helpful and, most importantly, responsive. The few issues I’ve had (only one or two on two years) have been minor and handled immediately.
The main reason I stick with Fitness SF, though, is that I have been working with a trainer, Ricardo Yalli, who is tremendous. I am much healthier, stronger, and just generally in shape than I was when I started, and Ricardo has adapted our workouts to my progress. He is consistent in pushing me towards my goals, and has tremendous knowledge of how to make workouts more successful.
He helps me with diet and lifestyle advice, but, like his workouts, the advice is based on my schedule and needs rather than a one-​size-​fits all approach. On top of the excellent advice, Ricardo is friendly and easy to get along with. He is also not judgmental at all — setbacks are a chance to regroup with him, not a failure. He also is very conscientious of my workout goals and on the rare occasions he can’t make a session, he arranges another trainer to help (I have similar praise for Rodrigo Guzman who I have worked with when Ricardo was unavailable; Rodrigo is also a tremendously knowledgeable and positive trainer).
All in all, my body has changed dramatically — lower body fat percentage, more muscle, more energy. It’s all really improved my quality of life. I’ve worked with a number of fitness professionals over the years, but Ricardo is the first one that has made a difference and, more importantly, helped me change my habits so I am keeping more of the gains made at the gym and on my own than I lose at my desk job.

I want to thank my TRX trainer Juancho for motivating me and pushing me harder to stabilize my core. I have more sessions with him and will definitely get more! I admire all his hard work and for being serious and attentive to my needs as a client.

I used this gym for few months and I loved it. Facilities are great, you can do plenty of exercises, great pool and steam room. Everything is very clean and tidy (you will see cleaners cleaning throughout the day). Staff was nice, some of them seemed to lack basic social skills (only 1 – 2 of them) and for that reason they might come across as ignorant and not friendly. I did not care, but some customers might not like it.
I enjoyed this gym a lot during my 6 months stay in the US and I would recommend it to anyone interested in upgrading your body and health.

I have been at Fitness SF for about 4 months and love it. This review is specifically for my personal trainer Justin. I was really skeptical about paying very large fees for personal training but I went through with it because I wanted to get back on a good routine. 120 days later I am super happy that I made the investment.
Justin put together a great plan for me to follow and taught me new work out routines. He emailed me specific plans for each day including routines that I would do by myself. He was always energetic and friendly and kept me motivated during our sessions. I never worked out consistently before this year and after spending 3 months with Justin I now go to the gym 5 days a week without fail and it feels totally natural. My biggest takeaway was feeling confident about working out the right way and not having to force myself to get the gym.
If you are on the fence about a trainer due to pricing, I would say give Justin a shot and you won’t regret it. If nothing else, you will learn great new routines and build up motivation and a new routine that you can implement by yourself if you eventually need to stop taking sessions for $$ reasons.

Penny Pinchers! All they care about is your money. You are not a human being in their eyes. Today, I was told that my loyal membership for over a year didn’t matter to them, all that I am is a $ to them.
I 2^nd the comment from GH — terrible customer service!
I’ve been a loyal customer for over a year. I signed up in December 2014, and was told I had the month free. When I went to cancel my membership because I am moving, I was told that I had the entire month left, theoretically the rest of March. So today is March 30^th, and when I went to exercise I wasn’t allowed in the gym and I was told that my membership actually ended on the 29^th, because that was the day I originally signed up (December 29^th), even though I had the month of December free.
So after going all the way there to exercise (I don’t live close anymore), I was told I could either pay $ 20 for a day pass or leave. I had extra free passes but they wouldn’t let me use those. I’ve been a loyal patron for over a year! This would have been my last day, and it wouldn’t have cost them a cent. They wanted me to pay $ 20 extra dollars? Really? That’s how desperate this place is that they need my $ 20 bucks?
Well I hope that the $ 20 savings you guys made today with me storming out and upset is worth the people who will never join this gym because you’re a bunch of jerks who are desperate for every dollar.
Potential gym members, go elsewhere if you want to feel respected.

Extremely rude customer service!
I am in the process of moving to SF and wanted to give a couple gyms in the area a try. I was doing the 3-​day trial at FitnessSF on Fillmore, on my 2^nd day of the trial I wanted to get my scan card but the guy at the front was extremely rude said he was too busy to assist me (my scan card was next to the keyboard with a sticky note on it with my name). I told him I am a possible interested client and he didn’t seem to care one bit. He continued to ignore me. I didn’t have time to wait 10mins for my scan card so I left thinking I could get it the next day for day 3 of trial.
On the 3^rd day, the same guy was going to check me in when I asked for my scan card, he then said he couldn’t check me in without my ID, and then whispered to another employee saying I was there the previous day with an attitude.
On day one I already signed the waiver and took my photo along with showing my ID. Apparently, they never made me an Acct. I showed him a photo of my passport since I didn’t have my photo ID on me and he then told me I wasn’t allowed to work out there bc I am not a resident of SF. He then handed me off to another employee, I continued to tell him I am in the process of moving and he still denied me access of my 3^rd day of the trial when they let me in the previous two days. He started raising his voice and interrupted me continuously, he also did this in front of other gym members and they were shocked. Then, i am getting several emails of them wanting me to become a member! This is really upsetting, I would suggest going elsewhere.

Juancho is an amazing trainer, his zumba class is like no other! He is passionate, sincere, funny, energetic and has a cute butt. This is as good as it gets! Don’t take my word for it, go to his classes. I’ve been training with him for two months and have seeing the results-​physical strength and health. I take his zumba classes occasionally because of my schedule and it makes my day, so glad he is there!
From Mark

I went to this FitnessSF on a Saturday for the first time to specifically try the pool out. I am a cancer and love water therapy. I usually just putz around and am not a bona fide swimmer per se (think: beached whale). The pool is super-​huge, but it is only 4 feet deep! 8-(meh I am 6’2″ and I cannot swim in it because there is not enough depth at all. The water temp is just fine, but there is a lot of air blowing…
Overall, the facility is very old — but VERY well maintained.
But the piece de resistance is the HOT TUB!!! They have a hot tub that is TO. DIE. FOR. I luxuriated for a long time in it and my cares just melted away! mmmmmmmmmmm It’s not very hot, though, but it is large and clean and bubbly — Fabulous!
I have not checked out the rest of the gym, as I go to another FitnessSF for that.
Not five stars because they don’t open until 8am… Too late for sure.

The pool at Fitness SF gets too cold to swim every month, or so. Pool temp is not the same as air temp. Normal swimming water is 82 but will feel cooler. Anyways for the past four weeks, it’s been prolonged colder, mid– to low-​70s, which is much too uncomfortable to swim.
Fitness SF will give you the «contractually we aren’t obligated to maintain 50% services 50% of the time» speech… «Yeah, we don’t know what’s happening but there’s so many people coming in to look at the furnace». One week later, on Tuesday… «PG&E is coming to take a look at the furnace next Friday». Then following Monday… «We don’t know what PG&E found out.» Following Wens… «PG&E doesn’t know what the issue is. We’re hoping the issue will resolve itself»… Issue miraculously resolved itself two days later! And then broke down again two days after that.
Let’s just say, it’s been a month and the temperature is still down. I called this morning and asked to speak to the General Manager. Instead, I got transferred to the finance department by someone who explained that he pays the bills for Fitness SF and had the capacity to address my concerns. This is what I received in reply, «The pool has been fixed already, the temperature is 75».
Well, gee, I guess that explains why nothing’s been done. Maybe it’s what they want.
Anyways, me and my recently acquired belly fat are in the market for a new gym… I went from swimming 5 days a week at an hour each session… to a total of an 1hr 20 mins all of last month.
So sign up now if you enjoy wasting your time and money staring at a cold and empty pool.

This is a business — and they seem to be making ends meet at the cost of member experience.
To «save water,» they no longer have towels in the locker rooms. This leads to strange behaviors like people stealing your towel while you’re showering (!)
The hot tub is usually either luke warm, full of a foot or more of suds (unclean), or out of service.
The wifi doesn’t really work — and the basement location means blocked cell service.
This leads me to think they cut corners by not cleaning and maintaining enough — and perhaps keeping the hot tub heater low?
Also, read the fine print: your monthly rate when you sign up can change at any time.
If you’re looking for an inexpensive, temporary gym and don’t mind regular (strange) inconveniences, it works.

I decided to upgrade from 24h fitness, which is only two blocks from my house. I ended up never really visiting 24h… because I was lazy! So, my laziness would latch onto this excuse /​mental hurdle: 24 hour was griiiimey. Let’s be clear, if I actually was committed to working out, I would’ve visited more. But it is one notch harder to convince yourself to «ramp up again» when funkiness is also a deterrent. I’m not trying to change in the locker room and step on that floor with my little piggies. So for a small bump in membership price Fitness SF is local, very clean, has quality equipment, isn’t too crowded, offers towel service (for everyone) and has free parking (WHAAAAT). It’s a facility I actually look forward to visiting! Sometimes you just need a conducive spot to pop your headphones in and get your zen right. Fitness SF is just that place for me.
When I was debating places to check out, I read some of the negative reviews for this gym. Honestly, some of you have impossible expectations. If you’re that degree of entitled, gurl bye. (Pray for Becky, y’all!) There is nothing like Fitness SF. For ~$ 250 a month you can go to equinox (zZz) which is only marginally fancier than Fitness SF (because that level of fancy matters so much and will finally make you happy!). I’m only paying I dunno like ~$ 30 more than I did at 24h and now you could crack a walnut w/​my glutes.

I ADORE this gym.
Let me, however, be very frank: I generally detest gyms. I used to hate working out. Sweat is gross! Sweaty people are gross! Sweaty machines are gross! Being sore hurts! You know what isn’t sweaty or gross or painful? Reading books and eating donuts on your couch with your snuggly, fluffy cat!
However, Fitness SF converted me. Seriously, people: it took 27 years to get me to actually like a gym and to like working out. Now I go at least 3 days a week. I LOVE their Group X. I LOVE their Zumba classes (Julia, Justin, and Pablo: you are pretty much my idols. I miss you when I miss class). I LOVE Kickboxing and BodyShred (Heather is the most badass human being ever). I just stopped to giggle at that sentence because Me-​From-​The-​Past would find it horrific to know that Present-​Me actually «loves» Jillian Michaels’ BodyShred. Me-​From-​The-​Past would probably try to smack some sense into Present-​Me, but would fail because Fitness SF has given Present-​Me great reflexes and toned strength, so that Me-​From-​The-​Past would be grudgingly admiring underneath the horror. I even like their machines, because there is NEVER a wait for them and they are top-​notch quality (with great TVs). I LOVE the people who work there, who are so kind and so helpful and so cheerful. I go to this gym primarily because I actually have a blast when I go – I go secondarily because I get a great workout in.
Thanks, Fitness SF. I probably extended the years of my life because of you. My cat is sorta lonely sometimes, but her memory is also like 30 seconds long so it’s totally OK.

Be aware of the cancellation date ! You should let them know 45 days in advance, not «15 days before next billing date» on the contract which is not clear at all.
Recently I need to move to a different city, so I went to the gym to cancel my membership 30 days in advance. (I went there at the end of August to cancel my membership for October). After I signed all the paper, one of the workers said «You can’t cancel it until November. It’s our new policy.» So they took the paper I signed and changed the cancellation date.
What they did doesn’t make sense at all. So I got confused and asked for the reason. The worker who helped me explained,“you have to let us know 15 days before next billing date, which is September 4^th. It takes us 15 days to remove your information from our billing system.” What a joke! Are they using 1980’s accounting system? Or do they only have one accountant who works one week per month? If they have ethic, they can literally give me refund to my cc card even if they charged me.
At the time I enrolled this gym, I was asked to pay first and last month together. I thought coming here 30 days in advance to cancel my membership would be appropriate (since the contract only states 15 days), but I ended up paying one more month because they didn’t make it clear on the contract. Also I will be in a different city in October, what’s the point of me paying until November? ITS FREE MONEY FOR THEM!
However, it’s not the end of the story. The worker who helped me gave me a name card of his manager, and told me to talk to him THE NEXT DAY FROM 9 – 6, BECAUSE HIS MANAGER WAS OFF AT THIS MOMENT. So I went there again the next day around 5 pm looking for their manager but was informed that the manger was leaving earlier today. The same worker was there too. He acted all surprised and asked me” you haven’t talked to him yet? I TOLD YOU YESTERDAY THAT YOU COULD TALK TO HIM BECAUSE HE WAS HERE!” What a worker. I don’t want to say any bad words to him but it is a sh*tty customer service.
After all this, I won’t believe anything they tell me. Because I know if I come again, they will give me another excuse not allowing me to see the manager.
Hey manager, if you are reading this, here are some advices for you:
1. Fix the contract and make it clear that you want customer to inform you 45 days in advance for membership cancellation.
2. Train your employees and teach them work ethic and good customer service. Who will change the contract after people signed for it? Who will give wrong information to the customer and make it like it’s customers problem?
3. If it’s possible, update the billing system! 15 days only for removing a name from billing list??? That’s inefficient at all.

Just got a membership with them before they discontinued their $ 49.95 membership tier.
I signed up to use their pool which is fantastic! Salt water, huge lanes, very clean!
Pro:
Cheap
Validate 2.5 hr parking
Super nice new treadmills
Super nice clean pool
Offer classes with membership
Sauna and hot tub
Towel service
Con:
No ventilation on warm days
Yoga mats are cleaned once a month– ONCE A MONTH!!! GROSS
Yoga mats are replaced every 6 months
No one seems to wipe any equipment down
No room to do stretching or calisthenics unless the classroom is free

I loved Club One! I am sad to know that they are no longer around. I used to be a member of Club One in Fillmore now Fitness SF.
Fitness SF is not that bad just that they don’t take care of details like Club One used to do. Example: all the exercise balls need air but everyday I go there hoping they will put more air on the balls and they don’t. So far I only frequent the spin class and the spin classes are all awesome! When it used to be Club One the spin classes are all full and people would use cranking as well but I never seen anyone on cracking and the spin class thought by Erica so far the best. I will try tomorrow morning to go to Fernando’s spin class at 6:15am and I will update my review. FYI: there was a spin class instructor named Fernando when this used to be Club One, I am hoping this is the same Fernando. All and all I will give this gym 3 stars.