Snap Fitness 24-7

Stay away and find another gym with friendly, or at least pleasant employees.
Now that ownership has changed, and Brandon isn’t there; it has turned awful. I’m canceling my membership. The current receptionist/​trainer does whatever he wants and has no regard or respect for the paying members. He’s rude to people, has temper tantrums, and on numerous occasions has literally thrown weights around the area he’s working out or training in. He tends to act as if it’s his own personal gym and he’s just letting the paying clients use it because he has to. My friends and I don’t use the gym at the same time, so it’s not as if we all witnessed this behavior at the same time. It’s been different times of the day and different days of the week. If you like the darker cardio area with the tiny individual TVs, he will come turn the lights on and force you to leave them on, even if everyone wants the lights off. He says that it only matters what he wants. To keep the fans off, he will go to each one and pull the cord on each and every one, instead of using the wall switch. So, a member cannot turn them on to circulate the musty, stale air.
Planet Fitness just opened up nearby for $ 10 a month. I guess I’ll try that soon. Maybe the employees there won’t be rude.

Excellent gym. The management is very friendly and goes to great lengths to make sure those working out have what they need. This place is a lot cleaner than other gyms at which I’ve worked out, and you can’t beat the convenience for West Nashville. I would recommend this place to anyone looking for a gym on this side of town.

I would not go near this gym again. Several weeks ago, I went to Snap Fitness on White Bridge to try their free week-​long demo, as I had recently moved and was in the market for a gym. I filled out some paperwork, and worked out that evening.
Several nights later, I received numerous calls and text messages from a name and number that I did not recognize. This individual described my attire on the night I had worked out, as well as where I was, but refused to say where he had gotten my contact information. I eventually threatened to call the police on him, and he said that he had received the information from his friend who was an employee at Snap Fitness.
I called the owner of this franchise, who cross-​referenced the name and phone number of the man who had been contacting me, and verified that he was in fact a member of the gym. He said that none of his employees had admitted to giving out the information, so he assumed the man had gotten it off the paperwork by looking over the counter. The owner then asked me was there anything he could do. Not having ever been in a situation like this, I really didn’t know what to say, so I suggested that perhaps I could have a membership for a year? I said I would just go at different times than when I had previously gone, and avoid the man who had gotten my information. The owner agreed that a year’s membership would be fine, and I thought that we were finished.
I did not go back to the gym for two weeks afterward, figuring I would avoid my potential stalker. When I finally did go in, just to pick up my key card, I received a call a few hours later from the owner of the franchise. He literally YELLED at me over the phone that I was extorting him, that I had not received any damages, and that not only was I not welcome to a year’s membership, he did not want me as a member at all. When I asked him how I could have been extorting him when he had asked what I wanted and agreed to it, he began yelling even louder that he hadn’t wanted to agree, and that he was sure I was going to sue him for every little thing that happened (I have never sued anyone in my life, for reference). I told him that I felt this was very unprofessional of him, and he told me not to ever come back to his gym.

A very basic gym, no frills. A little cramped as well and not very many cardio machines. Okay in a pinch.

Snap is a great ²⁴⁄₇ gym. It is very compact but has ample space to do everything I want. There is quite a bit of cardio equipment and pretty much every weight machine you could ask for. It is fairly limited in free weights (outside of the big dumbbell set and benches) which is the only reason it gets 4 instead of 5 stars (although if they were to have free weights I’m not sure where they’d be put).
Brandon does a phenomenal job keeping the place clean — it seems that every other day I’m in there he’s mopping, vacuuming or wiping down equipment. Overall an excellent little gym.

Basically, you get what you pay for at this gym. It’s very affordable, and they don’t try to trap you with contracts of any of that stuff, but it’s also a very basic gym. The plus side is that, although it’s small, it is very rarely insanely crowded. The downsides are that there isn’t a lot of space to lift free weights or stretch, they don’t have a lot of extra equipment (resistance bands, etc.), no showers, and there aren’t any group fitness classes. However, it’s also very close to where I live, and I can get in and out of there very fast. The manager and owner do a fine job maintaining the facilities, and they are very clean. Just don’t expect all the bells and whistles of a fancier gym.

I went today to begin a week trial… and left shortly after arriving.
The vibe of this place was just off. I can’t really put my finger on it.
The thing that really irked me was I was asking about personal training, and the Manager (?) said they discouraged training between peak hours of 5 – 7. What? He said they’d train at that time, but it isn’t preferred. Again, what? How about people that work all day and like to hit the gym after work? I was pretty confused on this practice. He acted really odd about it too.
I hopped on a cardio machine and just continued to be irritated, so peaced out.