It is with a very heavy heart that I write this review.
I've been a member since July of 2022. Since that time, I've made best friends here, found my life partner here, and I've genuinely felt like I had a place where everyone was welcomed and belonged. I loved everything about it.
However, simultaneously during that time. I've watched highly qualified coaches like Kodie, Barz, Charles, Jacob, and Lauren all get treated like they were of no significance to the very gym that needs them, by upper management. There are new coaches/front desk associates hired every other month because upper management is unwilling to adapt to change, hyper controlling, and has an intrinsic misogyny that carries out into all of his actions. He does not hire female staff and when he does, he lies and misuses them.
Since I've been there, there have been at least 16 different coaches for classes. Half of the classes advertised on the window aren't even offered. Classes and coaches come and go so fast you'd think the gym was a bus station. I've watched really talented and great people get diminished in their craft because of management and then leave for something better.
There was a time, I would have done anything to help this gym thrive. I would offer up my time for free to help keep the gym functioning. I cared so much about this place because of the amazing people I met through it. But all those amazing people left, including my friends that I made here. The general vibes in the gym are so toxic. Toxic masculinity and toxic femininity it runs rampant through the gym now.
Over those 2.5ish years I've watched this gym crumble and my community of friends, coaches, and sense of belonging disappear with it, all after personally experiencing issues with upper management.
If you'd have asked me 2 years ago if it was worth it to be in this gym, I wouldn't have hesitated a millisecond before screaming "absolutely" at you. If you ask me today, I'd tell you to try the Foundry of Lancaster, Power Level Fitness, or hell, even Crunch across the street. This gym is not what it once was, and at the rate it's going, it will never be that again.
Posted 1 year ago