LA Fitness

Shoutout to Chris Owens. Amazing trainer, and definitely felt sore after the workouts. Lookout for him to give you some good tips.

Signed up for a 2 week of free membership. I was about to enjoy it for one day until the people here stopped me and told me I needed a Cali ID to even sign up for it… like that makes sense? What if I didn’t want to sign up for it in the end? They harassed me into getting a membership on the spot lol. But obviously I told them no. Hell. No.
Anyways with their stupidly rude service and nasty machines, Im happy they helped me decide that this fitness isn’t for me. :-)
Back to super clean but expensive Wilfit for me! Worth every penny.

Chris Owens is an awesome trainer. Under his workout supervision I was able to take my waste down 3 sizes in one month. I highly recommend him to women who recently had children and struggles to get back to regular size!!!

Chris Owens is an awesome personal trainer! Learned a few great core workouts and how to gain more lean muscle! Would highly recommend him as a PT!

I’m not even sure where to complain about this location. I frequent this location since it’s so close to my home, but I try to go to the El Centro location whenever I can.
Why are there only 1 set of 15 pound weights? There is always someone hoarding at least 2 sets of weights and won’t let you do a set between theirs, even when they’re not even using the weights!
The AC is never on. These days, there is heavy condensation on the windows. Disgusting. During the summers, the AC is barely on as well.
Additionally, there is always at least 1 treadmill, bike, stairmaster, or elliptical broken at a time. Why is that?
It’s nice to view the lights at LACMA, but shouldn’t there be things to view inside, like the TV? Why is it that when patrons ask to watch the football game on a SUNDAY (and the gym is pretty empty), employees tell us that they aren’t allowed to change the channel? Why are we watching bowling? Is that even a sport? If it’s football Sunday, there should be football on the tvs designated for sports viewing. If the NCAA championship is going on, then that should be on the sports tvs. Etc etc.
I’d give this location 1 star, but the La Cienega location is worse.
A few suggestions: have more weights available, especially 10s, 12.5s, and 15s; learn how to work the AC; learn how to appease patrons and change the channels on the tvs; if you don’t know how to operate the AC, install fans at least; force people to rerack the weights; and play better music (or stop blasting it so people can listen to their own music).

The people that work at this LA fitness are friendly, helpful and educated on fitness. The gym itself is awful, which is unfortunate since it is the only big gym in the miracle mile area. The machines are old and pieced together. The décor is dated and worn. The men’s locker room is always dirty. This location needs major work.

This review is for my Saturday 11am bootcamp class: Kelsey is the instructor’s name and she’s great! She has the best music, it gets my blood pumping starting my weekend right!

Yep, can’t get any worse. Super dated, smelly and all those things that come with a lousy management. The locker room is in a different structure which is laughable. I mean, come on… You’d need to walk 2 minutes to get to your stuff. OUTSIDE, with rain and everything. Seriously?
Heard people fighting with management about the steam room having not worked for 3 years. LA Fitness should come take a look before a lawsuit hits them or a health department visit.

It’s always hot and humid in here and smells. I can smell it before I walk in the door. Probably from the humidity. It’s also very crowded around 3 – 7 PM. If you like working out in a hot and humid environment this place is for you. I can’t even imagine this place in the summer. The plus side is that it’s cheap. If I were richer I would totally work out somewhere else.

Seen a prospective customer being bullied into a training session/​membership today, by the staff. Very unprofessional; will attempt to further this matter to corporate.

Here was my horrible experience with LA fitness. Consumer Beware.
I have been charged for 15 months (since July 2014) without stepping in the club Once. I was assured before moving from Los Angeles by my local club (July ’14) that everything was taken care of re: cancellation in person. Unfortunately the charges to my account went unnoticed because I rarely use that bank account.
When I noticed them in September ’15, I called corporate headquarters to speak to an Operations Manager. They told me that there was nothing they could do, although they noted that indeed I had not used the club since July ’14. Furthermore, they said that I was due to be charged THAT DAY and there was nothing they could do about it. I told them that I would be filing a complaint and to cancel my account now. I did not accept the 90 day refund they offered (this was a poor attempt at customer service in my opinion) and instead wished to file a complaint.
Today, Oct ’15, I have AGAIN been charged after the Operations Manager told me that he would notate my account of our conversation and officially end service. I even went online and CHANGED my method of payment but they went back to my old bank account to charge me again.
What I noticed, upon searching through my email: what they did was send out an automatically-​generated corporate email that went directly into my spam folder so I missed it. Not only did they NOT cancel my account in September ’15, they sent me something that said I gave them permission to continue billing me as usual because I had ‘updated’ my account over the phone (could not be further from truth or intent). Furthermore, they sent me an auto-​generated email directing me to print out forms and mail them in if I do wish to cancel my account. A bit of a double standard with their communication policies and expectations, to say the least.
This goes beyond poor customer service. It is tantamount to corporate theft. As a customer who has contributed to your gym for many years, and has been a member to a variety of gyms for over a decade with zero problems, I expect reparations to be made. I will be making this issue as public as possible.

Gross. Just gross.
Broken machines, no TVs on the machines, scary horror-​film-​like locker room, and so so dirty.

This is the third LA Fitness I’ve been to, and this one is hands down, the worst. Westwood was okay, Studio City was great, but this one just sucks. It’s small, has one of the worst layouts, the AC doesn’t work or it’s never turned on, and it has absolutely terrible equipment. They have machines in here I’ve never seen before, that’s how old they are. They look like some medieval shit that someone welded together in their basement back in the ‘70s.
And if your stuff is going to get stolen from your locker, it’s probably going to be at this branch. The locker room is tucked away in a separate building, and it’s real ghetto. Studio City had problems with theft, but at least their lockers were in a highly visible, highly populated area so if theft was going down, there was a good chance somebody might see it and catch them. Here? Fuck, you could probably kill someone back there and nobody would know for days.
The only cool part is the outside arch area and the view of LACMA, which is just sad.
I’ll go somewhere else.

Plus side to this gym that the people are nice, parking is easy, it has nice views of the museum and is about $ 29 a month.
Now for the negatives… the worst for this gym is that it is HOT and small. There is no AC or fans when LA hits its highest heat wave. I go to hot yoga 2x a week and I get hotter at this gym. If you don’t feel like interval training in 110 degrees, this place isn’t for you. Also there are no towels to wipe your sweaty a$$. You need to use the paper towels that are always out or bring own… or go outside to the 90 degree weather to cool off.
Have fun!

I don’t know where to start, is it the dirty restrooms the old equipment the way it’s set up, everything about this gym is BAD first and last time at this location. But the fact that the AC not working in this weather makes you don’t want to work out. You have to walk to the other building for changing rooms and lots of the equipment are out of service I highly recommend that you stay away from this location. I’m leaving!

Love to came here love the location and the fact that it has sauna and steam room. Clean most of the time.

Kind of sad that my first review and an elite (!!!) is a largely negative one. I’ve been an LA fitness member before but during my current short stint in LA I decided to test out the 2 week free trial since this location is right next to where I am working. Let me break this down into pros and cons:
Pros:
–They offer a 2 week trial.
— They offer standard gym equipment and classes.
Cons:
–HOT!!! You would think a raging AC would be a no-​brainer in a gym?
–Unengaged staff. Usually sitting on the bikes watching tv.
–Locker rooms are a joke. Embarrassingly worn down and unkempt.
— 0 cell service. Necessary for streaming music.
— Old facilities /​equipment.
All in all this place needs a face lift pronto! Not a large space but they have such a great opportunity to gain clients with all of the offices and homes surrounding it.

This Gym location is sad and so is the up keep or management that is supposed to delegate the trickle down to the one’s at the bottom. No this place doesn’t give a fuck the equipment is broken or missing a piece here or there. Most of all it’s just a shitty place to work out at. You have to go through a labyrinth from parking to the front desk and up to the locker across the bridge and back. Down stairs etc. I put my membership on hold. meaning cancel it! They interpreted it as hold the membership and bill him every month for the privilege of having a stupid plastic key tag. «What? All seriousness I called corporate and they could care less. «well, um we will make sure it doesn’t happen again. I should «AG» the company but its really going to come down to my banks «fraud department.» All fairness the staff is friendly but that Gym needs a wrecking ball to match the Hollywood location.
Final thought, work out at home or get some buddies and rent a (lockout) small studio monthly and set your own equipment up you can work out anytime you want and if you are a musician heck… 241:)

This is a sad, sad place and state for any Gym. C’mon folks… just because you go in one day and no one is working out doesn’t mean you rate the gym with 4 – 5 stars due to the fact that you have free reign. You have to do a comparison to other gyms, and that’s where this one just falls flat and dies a horrible death.
I recently started working nearby and so I am looking for a gym to possibly do early morning workouts. This one happens to be super close, so I figured I would stop by on my lunch hour to check it out.
PROS: Honestly I can’t find any other than the fact that the parking is 2 – 2.5 hours free
CONS:
1. The gym is too small. Poor choice for a location. I walked around and saw that maybe if LA Fitness invested a little bit of money, they could possibly break down a wall and get rid of the little fountain/​pool scenery just on the West wall to add about 30 or so feet and make a lot more room for weights, but I doubt the building would let them do that. Everything is cramped and it feels that way. So hard to workout in the weight area, it all feels on top of each other.
2. Poor layout. Rooms separated from rooms, separated from locker rooms where you have to actually leave the building to get to a locker room, down a hallway that feels like you will get mugged. Also, when parking downstairs and coming out… I seriously had no clue where I was. Came out of an elevator that felt like I was in a business building with folks staring at me in my workout clothes. Very odd.
3. Ancient machines and weights. I can deal with some old machines because I honestly tend to use more free weights. But when I go and pick up a barbell and it is so old that the weights squeak and spin on the bar… damn this is old!
4. Poor ventilation… I walked around and noticed some clear issues of ventilation. Areas hotter/​cooler than others.
5. Locker rooms. I usually can’t stand showering in public locker rooms. It didn’t look too clean in there.
Dear LA Fitness. Read your reviews and make a good choice to just rent out a new building in this area that is big enough and better laid out to establish a nice gym. You will thank the many folks here who have pretty much agreed on this.

Love this LA Fitness location. It’s small, but it not really crowded. Every time I need to use an equipment, theres usually no wait or a 1 minute wait at the most. The free weights are always placed back on the rack. Classes are fun, although I wish they would put another hip-​hip class into the week. The staff are always friendly and helpful. Also there is free 2 hour parking in the building’s garage, some gyms don’t even have a garage you can park in, that’s a plus!
The reason I’m giving this location 4 stars is because They only offer 1 hip-​hop class once a week. Also if you want use free weights upstairs, you’d have to get it from downstairs. Other then that good location to work out at!