LA Fitness

I am completely dissatisfied with the mangers and staff of this LA Fitness location.
My mom and I signed up for our member ship and were LIED to saying we would get an hour with of the staff teaching us how to use the equipment.
I showed up to this appointment and it wasn’t at all what they had said, I was actually meeting with a personal trainer who spent 20 minutes with me working out with equipment that was only able to be used by personal trainers! The rest of the time I was in a chair, the «personal trainer» (sales person) talking to me for an hour and a half about why I NEED a trainer otherwise I couldn’t get the results I wanted.
Also the only reason I agreed to doing this hour was because I thought it would teach me how to workout on the equipment I could use, and I was only suppose to be an hour! I went at 10:30 and left at 12:30 with class at 1 that’s half an hour way!
So why waste my time with a membership then? If I have to pay 200+ a month to get any results? The whole thing is a huge joke and the purpose of this club is not to get in shape, its to rob you.
My mom called the manager Colby multiple times and decided to ignore all her calls yet Kyle, the personal trainer manger called her to ask when we were coming in to sign up for our training???
With that being said I want my money back.

Terrible staff, poor attitudes, filthy locker rooms.
This gym needs help badly… trainers roping off areas of the gym, taking up equipment with their clients. swim lanes blocked of for kids during prime adult use hours… ive been a member at this guy for over10 years and gladly drive to RB when I can for better staff and cleaner facilities…
Clean your gym, and improve your hours.

This used to be a hip, cool gym for ADULTS. Now the pool is full of screaming kids, there are leering 6-​year old boys in the women’s locker room and the jacuzzi now has sneezing kids splashing and playing around. If I wanted the family atmosphere, I would join the YMCA.

I am mainly writing this review because of my new trainer, Mitch A. He is awesome! Very friendly, definitely knows his stuff and is so helpful in getting you to reach your potential, at the speed you want. He really focuses his time on you when you are there and isn’t distracted by other people. A+ to Mitch.
To me, a gym is a gym. You get out of it what you put in. There is plenty of equipment and the place is clean. Yes the ladies room could use some new toilet seats, but I guess that’s a small one in comparison to the whole picture.
I am lucky I am able to go during the day and not during rush times. I truly appreciate that I can do this, because I can always find a machine to use.
I will now need to check out the classes offered.

My 2^nd home! I have to admit it, love the lafitness here. I made the switch from 24 to LAFit & I have no regrets. The place is huge. Every gym has its days where it gets packed but the fact that they keep it clean & way more organized than any other; I don’t mind it as much. Team over is great, friendly & they do such a good job watching over my son at the day care.

Decent gym. I’ve been a member of LA Fitness for five years now just because I live in walking distance from it.
They have a lot of cardio machines upstairs and a few stair masters downstairs, as well as a couple of cardio machines downstairs for the handicapped. There’s a full sized basketball court inside, which is nice, and I think the front desk has a ball that you can ask to borrow for the court. The classes here are great and you should definitely take advantage of them if you can! The racquetball courts sound pretty scary if you’re not in the proper equipment lol. It’s very echoey in there and made me feel like I was in an asylum! The cycle room is usually open to all if you’re there for the class or just to cycle on your own.
Because there are no fans, the air is pretty still and since everyone is sweating… It can get REALLY gnarly smelling here.
The showers are okay but I noticed that some spray weaker than others, kind of like a sprinkler. And if someone flushes the toilet, the pressure and/​or temperature will change.
What ticks me off the most is that generally, none of the workers at the front desk ever greet me when I walk in or leave and they overall seem very uninterested in their jobs. Most of the sales associates like Brett and Colby only care about making sales and well, none of the other workers here are very welcoming or friendly. They’re just here for their shift with a frown.
Good gym with bad employees.
(Excluding the janitorial staff because I’ve seen the hell that people put them through, so kudos to them)

Yoga clsses are pretty amazing if you Ask me lol.
The gym stays clean and staff are very welcoming.

I am not satisfied with their service. If there’s any choice go to 24, Chuze, or Mesa Rim. My friend was also scammed and lost more than $ 1000 from this location

This LA Fitness location has been my first gym I’ve become a member of. I usually go in the afternoon for a quick workout and it isn’t really too busy. You can go from one workout station to another fairly easily. But, it does start to get a bit busy after 6pm. Around that time you’re gonna have to jump around your workout routine if workout equipment isn’t open for use. It’s a 2 story facility. The 2^nd floor is mainly for cardio and then they have different types of classes held in this one room which can easily hold 20 – 40 ppl per class I think. The rooms also has punching bags for those who want to get some boxing in. The 1^st floor contains a weight room and then stationary workout gear for the most part. They also have a huge pool that I’ve never really checked out and the bathrooms come with lockers, saunas, and the usual bathroom gear you’ll see anywhere else. This gym is fairly clean from what I see everyday I go but yea, some people can be lazy and not clean up after themselves after they dirty up workout equipment. The gym provides you with personal trainers as well if you choose to sign up for them which isn’t free. This facility has been really good for me and my gains and I will continue to go to this facility including their other gym locations around SD.

This is a pretty standard gym with most of the basic necessities. I’ve previously been a member of 24 hour fitness and you can definitely see a difference in equipment and overall gym vibe. Like most gyms, this location is the fullest between 5 – 7:30pm when everyone gets off work. Emptiest on weekend AM. Same goes for availability of basketball courts. They have pretty decent classes as well so make sure you take advantage of those!
Update–
There is no wifi here!
Staff could definitely use some excitement/​enthusiasm towards customer service, especially since sales run mostly on commission. Nonetheless, special compliments to Brett Melnick who’s done a great job taking care of myself and my family in regards to securing the best rate for our memberships.
Cheers to endorphins!

Living really close to an LA Fitness was one of the main reasons I signed up as a member. They have plenty of equipment whether you’re wanting to lift weights, do some cardio, or just lay down a mat and do some stretching. They also offer plenty of classes available to members.
The staff is just okay. I’ve been to different gyms where the staff is very welcoming and seem to enjoy their job. At LA Fitness, however, their sole purpose that the front desk seems to just check people in and out and wait for their shift to be over. Even the employees who help you enroll in a membership seem bored out of their minds.
The cleanliness of the place needs work, though it’s mostly due to the laziness of other members who don’t bother to clean up after themselves and put equipment away.

What can I say? It’s a gym. It has all the essentials you need for weight control and healthy living. I gave this gym 3 stars because the management doesn’t manage their cleaning crew.
Recently, their main guy that does their cleaning was replaced. His name was Julian. He was a bit creepy but he was safe. The new guy they have for cleaning is literally retarded. He vacuums around people who are lifting weights; and I don’t mean light weights either. I myself can squat 315lbs. And here comes this dude with a portable vacuum and this super long chord with no regard to safety whatsoever.
Just now, he was was mopping around a crowded weight lifting area with NO wet floor signs. Should this continue, the new manager, Annalese will get an ear full. And if she can’t fix the issue, I’ll consider getting a lawyer because his working methods are endangering members.

Been working out here for a while. It is still my favorite place to work out in Mira Mesa. I would say in this gym you can get a decent workout in.
The pros and cons remain the same. See my original review for those details. The key comment to anyone about to start out is to avoid the training. It is a gimmick. If you are starting out, go to a health website and lookup a routine you are comfortable with. There are plenty of them. Start slow and learn what you are doing verses just doing it. Once you have a good handle on things, you will enjoy real progress, and save some money.

Gym is nice but customer service needs help.
There are a couple of friendly guys but the girls are aloof.
I tried getting an assessment but they don’t return phone calls.
Someone needs to do a better job of managing the staff.

Terrible customer service… seriously, would it hurt to say good morning or have a nice day? Maintenance of the equipment is pathetic. Cable equipment, leg equipment (hack squat, leg press) need to be greased occasionally, not once a lifetime. Lazy members who don’t know how to put weights away, but the staff doesn’t enforce it, and I have seen some, although not all, staff members leave weights on equipment when they were done working out, so why should anyone care? I grew up in gyms where you were shamed for not putting your weights away. Members who take up equipment for long periods of time but not actually using it for working out, instead, they play with their phones… Their thumbs must be freaking huge, because that is the only body part that gets worked out.
All together just not a good gym, fitness center, health club or whatever you want to call it.

I agree with everyone, this LA fitness has horrible customer service and untrained employees at the front desk.
This is my first LA fitness gym experience and I only join because it was convenient and has a sauna (one star for sauna).
Had a two week pass to go to the gym, but you have to use it consecutively, awesome it’s free, but not fair if you can’t make all the days. So not even worth it so just join.
After the free trial I joined. Initiation fee about $ 25, and first and last month fee $ 59.98 all upfront and $ 29.99 monthly. Don’t agree with the first and last month BS, but ok whatever. Forcing me to pay the last month billing, but hey you can still go to the gym for a month after you cancel. If I wanted to cancel in the first place why would I even want to come back and use the gym. They also charged me for all the fees twice on my card. Eye rolling… Pay attention… Geez seriously. I caught it in time and was able to reject the second payment. So that was that i was handed a membership card and was on my merry way to workout.
The next day after signing up, my card doesn’t work, get pulled aside to activate it. Why wasn’t this done during the member sign up?! I don’t fudging know?! I head to the locker rooms and locked my things etc get a announcement over the gym to come to the front desk. I’m like wtf i go up and you know what they asked for? To take a friggin picture. I said let’s take it later I ain’t got time for this, front desk chick said it would only take a minute I said lets do it later not now, she said it’s their policy and she would get in trouble, give me a fudging break. You should get in trouble anyway for not doing everything while I was signing up, get it all done and leave me alone, take my money every month and every piss poor customer service staff can get paid.
Besides the staff, the gym is fine, nice equipment, and plenty around. The locker rooms need a makeover, bathroom looks like dirty public bathrooms you find at a park, the bathroom stalls are not very private, the doors have big gaps, the toilet seats about to fall off, it’s just a horrible design, shower curtains are see through at eye level, and big enough for someone to peer in, I don’t want some creepy person looking through while I have my head under the water with my eyes closed! Lol
But yeah I don’t feel so much for this gym, maybe other locations are better. Idk I just go in and go out.

I was able to try out this LA Fitness for 2 consecutive weeks with friends I had met at another nearby gym. We were all part of a weight loss challenge and we would meet here for our nightly cardio sessions.
The gym is clean — almost to a fault. The strong smell of bleach nearly burns my nose hairs off. Machine attendants are readily available to clean machines throughout the day.
Speaking of machines, there are a surplus of workout machines as compared to their free weight area, which gets pretty cramped during busy times. And there are only 3 stairmaster machines? Plenty of ellipticals and treadmills upstairs — you are able to look down on the rest of gym and hot bodies working out and showing off their.. cute gym ootd’s.
The salesmen are dumb as dirt.
Why do I keep my membership?
— close to home
— the kid loves the Kid’s Club and the girls who are in there are super sweet
— all my friends have memberships there
— sauna
— close to home
I would never ever ever ever drop my 24 Hour Fitness for this gym. I prefer the smell of sweat, the grunts of real meatheads, and friendly staff.

This is a really nice gym. It’s smaller than what I’m accustomed to from my previous gym back home but it has everything you need. It’s a big open layout where you can watch everyone work out. Good for some, bad for others. It’s all good. You shouldn’t be creeping on others anyways. Focus on you and you be aight.
The equipment is relatively new and in good shape. Nice, clean facility with a great deal. I’ve been to a few deals with contracts and obligations to only use your home gym. LA Fitness offers a great deal where you can either, try out the gym for 3 days with a guest pass or trade in that guest pass for $ 50 off your sign up if you enroll on the first day. Pay the first and last month and then it’s up to you if you want to keep going. No contracts or obligations. Use any LA Fitness in the country. Great deal! If you pay $ 100 ($ 50 with the deal) you pay, $ 28 monthly. Or you pay $ 50 (Free with deal) and pay $ 33 monthly. I went with $ 33. They have tons of classes at all hours of the day, swimming pool, sauna, juice bar. Anything you’re looking for in a gym. Nice staff too. Also good to walk in and not feel judged.
4 stars to healthy living.

To me, a good gym is a gym that is a good location from where you live, a clean and sanitary place you can work out, a spacious floor where you don’t bump shoulders with others, a good amount of equipments and weights where if it’s busy you won’t have to wait long for your turn, a friendly and welcoming staff, a full schedule of complementary fitness classes, a good amount of treadmills and bikes and ellipticals with TV access, a good sized locker room and plenty of available water fountains. LA fitness at Sorrento Valley is all of these, and so much more!
They have a full sized regulation basketball court, an Olympic style swimming pool, a stationary bike room, racquetball courts, and a kid’s club area.
The parking lot is huge and can accommodate everyone even during the busiest hours.
The only thing I’d like for them to add is a section in the gym where you can do Olympic style lifts, with the correct racks and correct bumper plates to go along with it. I think this would make many patrons happy as well.
Lift on!

My humps, my humps… well… they’re lovely lady lumps indeed but get a bit out of hand. Fergie knows how to handle these curves-​I gotta get up in the gym just working on my fitness.
Enough of the pop music references and onto the pumping iron part: I’m a member at LA Fitness and I actually generally hit up other locations but was in the area and stopped in at Sorrento Valley to burn some buns a bit on the cardio deck.
I was… affronted by the smell of the place. It was late in the day and it was busy but holy sweaty stink. There’s no major fans in the place, and the air flow was stagnant. It was too warm in the place-​turn up the air conditioner people! And they need to install something additional to get air flowing in there. I know that sweat is fat crying… but does it have to be sobbing and smelly?
I loved the layout however, with an upstairs cardio section and they way the machines were laid out-It’s roomy, and there’s a racquet ball section and several fitness rooms/​courts that branch off from the main layout.
Although I’m currently munchkin free, someday I’ll probably have some, and will be able to truly appreciate the child care center they have onsite– A sure plus plus for many patrons.
I took it upon myself to wipe down my whole machine BEFORE I got on it, and the again after. No one else in my line of ellipticals did. Ew. All in all, cleanliness needs a big time boost but the facility is solid besides that.