Bally Total Fitness

Okay, this gym used to rock when it was on Airport Highway. There was a pool and loads of free weights; hell, I think they might’ve even had a sauna.
Well, they’ve now moved to Reynolds Road and everything has changed. The new building looks like an old office building. You can tell it wasn’t built to be a gym at all.
The weight room is over crowded with useless equipment. I’m constantly having to push stuff out of the way when I’m working out. Also, they barely have any weight plates. If more than three people are in the gym at any given time, everyone has to scrounge around for weights to load their bar up.
Something else this gym lacks are the narrower style barbells. They only have the cheap thicker ones here, which suck for doing deadlifts.
I would cancel my membership, bite the bullet and go to LA up the road, but I’m moving in a few months so I’ll stick it out. I do wish they’d make an effort to improve this place though.

It has a good indoor running track (14 laps per mile), a clean half-​Olympic lap pool (33 laps per mile) and a solid assortment of weights and cardio machines. I don’t understand why the other two posters seem to want to undermine it. For $ 40 a month, it’s almost exactly what this 35-​year-​old was looking for.

Dirty, outdated, bad hours, unfriendly staff and manger. If they drop the price to 10.00 $ a month then I would recommend other wise I can’t. But if your 45 and older then it’s perfect cause that is about the only people that go there. Also one time I found poop in a shower and blood in the locker room. The best is when they turn the lights off on you when they are closing and you are rushing to get dressed. I mean what is another 5 minutes!

Are you over 50 and have the word ‘creepy’ stamped on your forehead? If so, then sign yourself up for a Bally’s membership — particularly this location!
Zero stars if possible. So why the two, you ask? The amiable and over-​worked staff that simply do not receive enough credit for their long hours. There are only a handful of them that it only takes a week or so before they start recognizing your face.
So onto the horrendous parts of the gym: everything else. From the weight machines to the cardio equipments, I seriously question how long they have been there. Based on the number of times that I’ve seen ellipticals and treadmills been fixed there, I will rightfully surmise that those machines have been there since the early 70’s. I kid you not.
There’s a pool that divides the cardio section from the weights section which may seem like a perk to some. However, seeing the appearance of the pool, I’d have to say that the chances of contracting a disease by jumping in Mirror Lake is actually far slimmer.
Seriously, switching from Lifestyle Family Fitness to Bally’s is like trading in your Mercedes S550 for a Kia Rio.