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Been going here roughly 5 years now, primarily on Sunday mornings. Decent assortment of equipment (meets my needs and plenty to go around in the off hours). The patrons are good folk. The place was renovated about two years ago when the chain severed ties with Gold's Gym, so the equipment was updated and there is now a bleak industrial gray color everywhere. Every now and then there is a leak from the ceiling (heavy rain, recent snow thaw, or just the AC unit condensation). The cleanliness of the locker room is hit-or-miss, and they always seem to purchase benches that wobble. The sauna is down about 12% of the time and has fairly low heat output (could probably install a door that properly seals when closed? or get a heat unit that produces sufficient output?). When things break (like a wall clock) it is obvious that they don't have much urgency to fix things because they will leave it broken for a few weeks. Every year or so there is a new person as the morning opener, with about half of them being questionable at performing their job (sometimes they don't show so the gym is closed during open hours, or they aren't properly trained on how to turn the lights on). Sometimes other comedy errors happen, like when all of the TVs that are plugged into the Gym TV Network have a Windows error prompt.

There is some good and some bad. Considering it costs me $150 a year which my health insurance fully covers (so it is ultimately free for me), I'm ok with there being some bad. But I can't deny it is a mediocre gym.