Goodlife Fitness

This is a Goodlife take over from Fitness Institute in the past few months. The gym has turned south. NO CLASSES that are even close to the quality and content to other Goodlife. Parking is horrendous in regards to space and $$.

I came here for a few months because it’s close to work and I was offered the tour which took about 10 minutes. I would totally recommend the tour because you get to see all the features of the gym.
I have to say, prices ain’t cheap here. Corporate plans are around $ 75 a month and individual plans are something like $ 120? Don’t quote me on that, I can’t recall exact pricing but something in the hungreds.
Here are the pros and cons
PROS
— quiet
— not a lot of people especially in the afternoon and evenings so no lineups
— clean and not smelly
— wet and dry sauna, whirlpool, pool
— tennis (extra)
— good selection of machines
— towel service, toiletries, hair dryers, magazines
— café in gym serving smoothies, drinks and hot food (pretty good!)
— convenient, TTC accessible
CONS
— pricey
— limited group exercise classes, not as frequent as other gyms
There you have it. If you’re looking for a gym and the pros attract you, get a tour. The membership coordinators are all super friendly.

This gym is SUPREME. I am a personal trainer and male model, and I always must keep fit. Therefore, I am non stop in the gym, and I like a gym that is super comfortable and high quality. This place has everything and then some, absolutely kills the competition of Goodlife and the other chain gyms. Do yourself a favor, sign up for the 7 day pass, let the good, professional non pushy sales staff walk you around and you will be blown away and impressed as I was. From exceptionally high quality cardio machines and weight to high quality pool and professional grade tennis facility in an air tight complex where you would expect Andy Roddick to train. its brilliant.
They just lowered there rates from $ 499 sign up fee, to just the monthly rate of $ 89…a steel, go and sign up and see for yourself!!!
Cheers
Ben

I’ve been a member of many gyms around Toronto (Extreme, Goodlife, Toronto Athletic Club, Wynn, Frog’s, YMCA, Eclipse, etc).
I joined the Fitness Institute in March of 2013 and it’s definitely at the top of my gym lists.
First off, it’s an «Olympic High Performance Testing and Sports Medicine Centre». It’s full facility, with a sports injury clinic, tennis courts, salt water pool, gym and also the Gary Roberts Gym (NHL hockey training centre). They also have various classes including master swim, yoga, tai chi, karate, spin, core fusion, pilates, etc.
Membership is expensive, but worth it when you factor in all the facilities. You can choose your level of access based on your interests.
Other than regular gym facilites, you do have access to a patio with a bbq, whirlpool, sauna, steam room, etc.
Reasons why i particularly love this gym is because it’s a serious gym. People here work out here to get fit — it’s not a meat market. My friend and i call it the geriatric facility because majority of the clientele are older. This is great because you don’t have to really ever worry about access to a machine. You don’t have groups of juice bags hogging 6 machines at a time. The place is never packed which also makes it a great added bonus.
The place is just moderately busy throughout the day. And as a bonus, it’s open till 11pm during the week.
Also, I should mention that the personal trainers here are great and of a more professional calibre.

Decent gym — they recently changed their treadmills. There are a LOT of old people at this gym, which takes away from the intensity of the classes. Honestly, I get that when you’re 60, it’s really hard doing 20 rep steps but I don’t feel that the instructor should bend over backwards to make these classes super easy. I joined a gym for the purpose of getting a good intense class workout and took on their «gold membership». Had I wanted to work out myself all the time, I would have stepped down to get their lower membership…
But yeah, due to the amount of oldER and (very unfit) people, it’s really hard to find a class that’s actually intense. Due to my ears, I can’t do master swim and I heard that was pretty intense. I find their spin classes extremely repetitive and they have a lack of balance exercises. Hot yoga isn’t even hot. And core fusion left me angry because I felt like I got a 0 workout from that class and I ended up spending 45 minutes on the treadmill afterwards because I was so mad. Zumba is pretty good but again, the intensity is lacking (in ALL instructors).
I go to these classes because I want to burn calories. I don’t go for a walk in the park. Fitness Institute, PLEASE bring more intense classes. And if they wanted, the instructors really could suggest, «Ok beginners do this», «if you’re up for a challenge, do that». Instead of making EVERYONE do the same boring, 0 calorie, non-​intense, no-​sweat workout.

I joined the Fitness Institute last April after a friend suggested I check it out, I’ve really enjoyed the Club. It’s clean, staff are friendly and it has everything I need (I swim, use the weights and play tennis). I’ve been a member of other clubs in the past, but this is the first club that I’ve felt comfortable enough to bring my co-​workers, one even joined. If this club is close by you should definitely take a look.

I’ve been a member at North York Fitness Institure for 2 years. Equipment is good and all but the club is uptight about guest visitors. When I was sold the membership they gave me a bunch of visitor passes to use. Then 6 months later I wanted to use one for my brother who lives out of town, the club basically refused to honor it because the guest was not in there target market. Target market? I thought the guest pass was for ME to use, not for me to market for the club. When I almost threw my membership card at the manager’s face, that’s when he realized that he is going to lose a member for having shady policies. I’ve never been so embarrased for bringing a guest to a gym in my life — ain’t going to happen again. I still go there because it’s easy for me to reach but if things change and I can find another club, I will ditch Fitness Institute in a heartbeat. I also made my message clear to the club about how I feel.