Work Out World

I have gone here for years and always been happy, for 20 bucks a month I have childcare, free tanning (which I don’t use but holds value) and access to all classes and tons of equipment. the womens only area at this gym is actually good! I walk in everyday and I’m greeted with a smile by multiple people, the daycare staff has been the same girls for years, they are great! there is always someone walking around cleaning something. this gym is the best value, I am very satisfied with my years of being a customer.

The great place to work out for reasonable price. Great variety of machines. High ceiling, fresh air, doesn’t matter how many people are in the gym.
I moved out to the West coast and it is hard to cancelled membership. Four month since I left area they still keep charging my credit card.

Not very clean (gum in the cup holders) and the equipment has seen better days. The staff appears hungover an spend a bunch of their time gossiping about who got laid over the weekend. Heaven forbid you want to learn how to use the equipment as this ropes you into a hard sale for their services… not impressed at all

I stopped going here due to the distance but all their classes are great full of people. Love the Zumba classes.
bathrooms are ok they are trying just some of the customers are nasty!
Machines can use a little more cleaning as well.

I have lived in southern NH for 15+ years and have belonged to most of the gyms in the area at some point in time. This has been my favorite but I’m not sure why. I live 15 miles away and I drive by multiple gyms to get here but I keep going.
Weights are weights, treadmills are treadmills and the staff is staff for most gyms, so there is nothing new and exciting here. There is just something about this gym that keeps me coming back and working out. And, why join a gym if you aren’t going to go.

Just cancelled my membership after about a year. I stuck it out because WOW is just a few blocks from my house, despite the bad reviews — I like to keep things nearby when I can.
Lots of the gear is broken or defaced (i.e., the LifeFitness machines’ weight display dials are gone, or illegible). The place seems to have been in mid-​paint-​job mode for awhile now — blotches of paint on the wall, with no apparent progress. But the worst problem is the filthy weight machines. Many have munge on them — oily gunk that’s then gone on to accumulate small dust bunnies due to having been there so long. The bathrooms seem better in terms of cleanliness, but have the same unfinished/​mismatched paint scheme.
I am NOT a clean freak by any extent of the imagination, but this place is just beyond the pale.
The odd part is that there seems to be plenty of staff. However, they all seem to be onhand only to take new memberships or answer questions — or they’re socializing at the desk, having a grand old time. They’re certainly not cleaning!
Sorry, Workout World — you’ve lost me. You had a built-​in potential long-​term customer, as I live in the immediate neighborhood. I’m now trekking across town to the *sparkling* clean Planet Fitness on Coliseum, which also has ²⁴⁄₇ hours AND costs less! But it all comes back to the clean. You’re either blind to basic standards of cleanliness, or you just don’t care.

Before you join Work out World, check out their rating on the Better Business Bureau website. They received a rating of «F».
The pictures on their website are not of the Nashua location. The class schedule dates back to 2007. The coupon that they offer dates back to 2005. Why even both to have a website if it’s incorrect.
This gym is dirty. The cardio machines are so filthy I don’t want to use them.
After having my credit card stolen, my automatic payment to Workout World did not go through because the bank issued me a new card. They sent me to a collection agency immediately instead of contacting me. As everyone knows it takes a few days to get all of your new bank information in order…
The trainers are not employed by Work out World. They are employed by Professional Fitness. Before signing up for personal training, check out their rating on the Better Business Bureau website. They have also received a rating of «F».
They don’t show up to scheduled appointments and charge you for them. The management is constantly firing employees and not contacting customers as to a) not show up for the appointment or b) to reschedule. Their hours aren’t consistent for those that commute to work. The Management does not return phone calls. And good luck getting in touch with the corporate head quarters.

What a crappy place. Not the machines, and facility, mind you– they are quite nice. No, it’s the management that’s crap.
I joined this club with my girlfriend (separate accounts, not jointly). They ended up double charging her, then arguing and passing her along for weeks, before she threatened suit and got her money refunded. She then immediately quit, having had such a bad experience.
I wrote it off as miscommunication in the management, shrugged, and stayed on. A few months later, being a Hannaford shopper (at the time), my credit card got compromised, with thousands of other shoppers, when their system got hacked. The bank put a hold, then cancelled all our cards, to prevent theft. It took a couple of days to get this information to us card holders.
In that couple days, my automatic payment to Workout World was due (again, I had no idea that my card was invalid at this point). When the card would not go through, did they call me and ask me what was up (they, after all, had my contact info, and saw me check in, on a daily basis, for months, which is also on record)? No. Instead, they immediately sent my account to a collection agency, giving out my personal information, and have not once, to this day, have ever contacted me directly. By the time the bank told me that my card was being reissued, it was too late, and I was forced to change my phone number, due to all the bogus collection calls.
I begin to see why their gym was always so empty. Their management and policies are deplorable.

This place is an oversized warehouse with hardly any windows. The women’s bathroom is usually dirty and the tanning room looks like it hasn’t been mopped in weeks. No spinning classes are offered — they say there isn’t enough demand but almost every woman I know who works out even occasionally tells me that they wish they could find a spinning class (!!!)
Their website has not been updated in over a year and the class schedule that is posted on their site is from 2007. So if you don’t have a hard copy of the schedule you need to call them.
Daycare hours are pretty limited. Between noon and 4pm it’s closed… the hours that most moms are finally able to get out the door to go to the gym or anything else for that matter. So… that’s my 2cents. I’m considering Best Fitness or Gold’s next year. :)

Great value for the money. Almost all of the cardio equipment has flat screen tv’s which is great for passing the time. They also have so many different types of weight machine so that if the specific machine that you wanted to use is currently unavailable you can find a very similar machine to use. They have a woman’s area which is great as it has a lot of small free weights to use.
I also love the hours — it is rare to get a gym that is open after 5 PM on the weekends and they are open real early for those who have to start work early. Also the staff is very friendly and greets and say goodbye when leaving.
There are two things WOW should take some time to improve. Some of the equipment is filthy especially the cardio equipment. Also in the free weight area no one seems to take the weight plates off the machines. I am continually taking 45 lb weights off the machines so I can use them with lower weights.

I only recently became a member at WOW when my boyfriend got me a gym membership there for my birthday (thanks honey). I actually had a membership in Manchester at Planet Fitness at the time so I had something to compare it to.
My initial impression of the place was not so great, as I didn’t actually get to work out there. My boyfriend had a coupon for a free one week pass and the thing was the most dishonest time of coupon I have ever seen. All of them have fine print that say «with purchase of membership». On top of that, they said it was expired, but he thought he had received it in the mail only a few weeks ago. Sure I could work out, but for TWENTY DOLLARS. And I had never been there before, so they didn’t even let me go for that one day free. So of course, we left, because thats just crazy to pay for one day of working out.
After he got me the membership, I have since been able to go back and now enjoy it. The equipment is all new and many of the cardio machines have tvs in them (which you can never watch if you’re working out hard, because your vision is bouncing all around, but the gesture is nice and its good for cool downs). I’m not a fan of the peppermint smelling spray and the huge amount of trash WOW generates with the roll of paper towels, but thats anywhere.
I find it great that they have classes, although I haven’t managed to go yet. I find that the selection is not that diverse, but they recently switched training companies so I might see that change.
Great place for kids, if you have them, because they have day care right in the building, in the «Its a Small World» area. The women’s only area is pretty lame. I use the regular free weights as well and just went in there to see what it was, and it looks to be about the size of a walk-​in closet.
Good selection of magazines always available if you do stair steppers or anything. They say that there is no grunting, dropping weights, etc., but since the weight training area is so far from the front desk this definitely occurs. A little annoying, but not a huge deal. Everyone seems friendly when I see them, but there is often no one at the front desk.
Overall, if you just want to go somewhere to work up a sweat and not be bothered, this is a good place to go. If you’re female and go during the day, you can use the free weights in an (almost) empty room with no one grunting like a pig or running around sweating on the machines and dropping weights.