Onelife Fitness - Bethesda - Bethesda, Maryland

Chris M

Great variety of equipment, staff are friendly and helpful. My one gripe is the maintenance worker who works mornings always props the sauna door open to clean it for 5-10 minutes, letting all the heat out. Sauna takes over an hour to get heated up again, so it’s unusable if you happen to be there within the hour after it’s cleaned.

Chandler Horton

For the price of this membership I was expecting the clientele to be less like a planet fitness. It's constantly weights left on machines and racks, dirty treadmills with mystery liquid and lint in the cup holders. The workers have always been very nice but jeez is this place dirty and needs some new equipment.

Matt Richards

No business should charge you $300 to cancel a subscription. Tired of acting like these anti-consumer business practices are the norm. Hundreds of other businesses are able to compete without needing to force their customers into unfair, confusing, and hard-to-cancel contracts.

Find a gym that wants you as a customer, not another contract to fill.

EDIT:

I explicitly asked to be removed from One Life's membership system, AS I WAS NEVER A ONE LIFE MEMBER. I signed up for Sport and Health over two years ago, and transferred my contract to another business without informing me and continued to charge me $60/mo for a gym I never signed up for.

To add insult to injury, after asking them to remove me from their system, they're apparently still able to look up my data. Great--why did I pay you guys $300 to be removed, again?

Screw Sport and Health for selling my contract, and screw One Life for treating me like I signed a contract with them. Both of these businesses are more concerned with keeping you on their contracts than treating you with any respect.

DELETE MY DATA FROM YOUR SYSTEM, PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

Stephen JW Steele

In the era of Covid, the Bethesda Sport and Health Club is the ideal club. As a transfer member from Crunch Metro, I was impressed with how much room there is to enjoy your own private workout. Covid compliant but relaxed with the full range of options from big beautiful wooden floors to have a great stretch, weight rooms with rubber floors, cross cable machines, a truck tire, abs in a few different ways, the best combination of new fitness options like crossfit style rubberbands, ropes and weighted balls to old school free weights and "machines" and a great attitude by everyone there. The management is friendly and professional and this is as well organized and run a club as has been my experience with years as a semi-pro athelete.
They have a pool, squash/racquet ball (schedule reserve on-line) courts fully glassed in and even a tennis court. Towels, flat screens, treadmills, stationary cycles etc...available always for your use. Rates for membership are fair and the best value for a big club in the DMV. They have Private Trainers that are real atheletes but great for beginners also. They come from varied sports backgrounds so their experience is diverse across disiplines to suit your fitness objectives. Rehab and returning to a gym after years away can be made easier with a trainer. Young atheletes preparing for the leap from high school to college can prepare here. Lots to get ready for.
This club seems big and complete in many ways.
Have a great visit...join.
Currently highly recommended.

Dale Russell

This branch has an eclectic clientele, that ranges from many older people that socialize more than workout, younger folks who take swim/tennis classes or workout in groups after school to some regulars that are always there. The Les Mills group classes are nice. The pool is often crowded. The weight/machine area is so-so. The cardio area is good and rarely crowded.

Nick de Franceaux

Not only does this gym have everything you need, the staff are super helpful and friendly. Zach helped my girlfriend and I get a joint membership that is more than reasonable for what they offer. He explained everything well and was able to answer all of our questions.

As for the gym, it’s surprisingly huge with 3-4 different weight rooms, treadmills, a few yoga/zumba studios, basketball court, 3 tennis courts on the roof and one inside with pickle ball, numerous racquetball and squash courts, full length salt water lap pool. They also have a men’s and women’s locker room each with steam room, sauna, hot tub and showers. This is all included at their base membership!!

I was a member of equinox in Bethesda which is great but for the price, joining one life is a no brainer. Way more to offer here at a fraction of the cost.

Thanks again to Zach and everyone there!!

Adrian Lupton

Out of town guest that has a background in fitness management, physical therapy, customer service, and more. Management was contacted by husband about 1 week pass. Information was to be saved - Upon arrival front desk was great but confusing on 1 week pass vs 1 day. I contacted my spouse to see if we already paid. I then told the front desk girl the situation, and she aloud me to check out club. Coming from truly beautiful gyms in Chicago, Nashville, and San Antonio - I was in shock of how filthy, unorganized, and just depressing this place looked (nothing like the photos on the site). I thought, it's all good. I can make it work (Master Former Personal Trainer and Management and currently Physical Therapy). Then the Manager came out and asked, "Can I help you?" A bit hostile! I told her no I'm okay. She said, "No one is aloud to tour without an accompanied employee". I told her that the desk had me give my information and aloud for me to see the club as she did just the one day pass instead of the week I wanted (later she would make a deal that I put my name in backwards).

I de-escalated the managers hostility, and went along with her as I have PTSD with people that behave like her. I knew I just needed to get out. After she calmed down, I was able to get assistance and pay for the week pass. She said that it's just "scary" when someone walks in. I didn't just walk in and provided my ID and followed instruction. I tried not to think it but after I left my spouse who is a very important manager himself was disgusted. Walked back in after work and canceled the week pass. Upon doing this she told him to stay in her office while she went to the front to cancel it (again, hostile about the disarray of the gym - we know this tactic with management). She left people's signed checks and information for memberships all across the desk. She'd rather violate privacy actions instead of anyone step foot in this poorly managed gym.

So to all, know that your information is not in good hands. The gym has so many rules that you will feel like a child. I won't say it was racially motivated, but it definitely was a biased involved although I was dressed to the nines.

I immediately called my friend who is a regional manager for a well known gym. He was also disgusted, and agreed that he has heard of this gym and it's practices. It's all about SALES SALES SALES with not an ounce of luxury. Oh, and a guy literally walked across the gym to go to the pool half naked, and that somehow was fine. Stay away from this particular gym if you are ever in town. There are so many better ones in the area. The manager can be decent but is a hostile and nasty person to new or "different" people.

Sally

One of the best. I really enjoy my time in the gym. Today it is the 43 years old birthday of the gym. We had a lovely party.