3/5
I’ve been to this gym for many years and been part of Sports & Health club for over a decade, now. I’ll explain why I mentioned Sports & Health in this review later on, but this gym has its pros and cons. I’ve been to many gyms in my lifetime and can’t say this is the best or the worst. If you’re not ok with crowded gym this place is not for you! If you’re not patient this place is not for you because you will have to wait for equipment to be freed up. If you want interactive engaging staff this place is not for you.
3 stars for 3 reason
1. The equipment isn’t the best in my opinion but it gets the job done. Majority of their equipments are produced by lifefitness and they seem durable/well made. Equipments are bound to break or require service and when they do, it gets fixed fairly quickly from my experience.
2. The lighting here is pretty good and helps with motivation. The ambiance is nice, quite motivating, encouraging and modern.
3. The amenities that they have is pretty awesome for what I pay such as salted pool, jacuzzi, sauna and much more. A lot of wipes to clean off equipment is also provided.
Minus 2 stars because for a few reasons:
1. The men’s locker room is not always well kept especially the toilets. Dirty toilets, toilet papers on the floors and it’s smelly throughout the entire locker room. The paper towel dispenser seems to always be broken and low on paper. The sauna seems to never be power washed and smells bad like urine. The gym itself is fairly clean but you will see straps, article of clothing in the same spot for weeks so that just tells me they don’t really have anyone going around inspecting the place/cleaning. Weights are not always where they’re suppose to be.
2. The gym is super crowded during peak times and peak times can range from 2pm to 8pm. If you’re not ok with waiting for gym equipment then this gym is not for you. I don’t mind waiting because I’ll find something to do but I can see how other folks would hate it. Losing motivation and pump will happen on some days. You will find people on their phone or just simply spending too much time on equipments. Sometimes they will close off the entire turf and reserve it for members that are being trained. This sucks because the gym is already packed and closing off the turf can limits equipments that can possibly be used. I notice when they close it off certain equipment is not being used at all and we pay for the gym to use the entire gym and the equipment.
3. They broke down half of the basketball court to expand the gym. I’m sure a lot of people joined just for the basketball and now it’s half court! So much people waiting just to play basketball on the sideline now that it’s half the size and just half court.
It’s super busy because the Gaithersburg/lakeforest Sports&Health closed down and they sent all their existing members to onelife fitness Rockville and the onelife in Germantown. Onelife bought out Sports&Health back in 2014 and rebrand to Onelife fitness.
