I quite enjoyed my time at he Bellevue for a while that it's done a complete 180 in the last…read moreseveral months. The good: Very big and nice facilities with amazing great variety of equipment. A TON of group fitness classes if you're into that including free reformer Pilates classes (if you can get in.) Issues (that are unacceptable in general or just completely insane to have at the membership price point...these are things you deal with a budget gym or someplace you go for free): Constant elevator issues which cause lines and long wait times during peak hours. And for the last 6+ months they've only had two of three functioning if that. You know it's an issue, fix it for goodness sakes. Good luck if you rely on parking here. The entrance are closed half the time causing you to have to detour for a good ten plus minutes to get in and then exiting you're stuck behind trucks delivering in the alley they've left "open" for you to get out. And yes the validate but they randomly increased the price from $11 to $12 one day. Not a huge deal but why not tell members in advance? It's just sloppy. The sound systems are suboptimal for group classes especially in the HIIT studio. It is a vibe killer for sure. The spa that we were promising was coming soon when we joined in November of 2023 is still nowhere to be found. The locker rooms are adequately maintained but there are so many privacy issues. Often there are signs that there will be men working in the women's locker room. And the phone use is NUTS. People are on video conference calls! How is this allowed?? The cafe hours stink for early birds. If I'm done with my workout before 7am and I want coffee, I'm SOL. It's also insanely expensive. I cannot speak for the food there because I won't eat it after I saw a mouse in the cafe area while I was working from there one day. Treadmills are constantly broken. They added a bunch and now there's somehow less available because they cannot seem to maintain them. Out of service for a day or two is one thing but it goes way longer than that. Good luck and Godspeed accessing an assault bike or a ski erg between 10:15 and 2pm on weekdays. They're fully monopolized by the turf class and the HIIT studio is used for classes including mat Pilates (??) Generally speaking maintenance seems to be an issue. A pedal was hanging off one of the two assault bikes on the main floor this week when I was using it. A tread was sticking a few weeks ago when I started to run on it. I couldn't strap my foot into a rower the other day. It doesn't seem like it would be too much to ask that they keep their eye on this. I do feel like it used to be under control but had fallen off a cliff recently. Too many people here are shooting footage for social media. I cannot complete a workout without being concerned I'm in the background of someone's selfie-video or photo shoot. Hotel guests have full access to the gym. It adds to the insane crowds on the weekend and needs to get in check. Many of the trainers and instructors are great but a handful of trainers that either do personal training or turf classes are flat out RUDE. I was treated disrespectfully and even bullied by one of them while minding my own business just trying to complete my workout. This is embarrassing for the gym and needs to be addressed. Ultimately, I could no longer justify being a paying member with so little care shown by management about the member experience. Perhaps spending less time posting less on social media and more time listening to an addressing member feedback would be helpful.

There's a lot about this gym that's phenomenal, but the phone use in the locker room and sauna…read moredrags this place way down. This is a serious privacy violation, whether someone is intentionally taking pics not. (Sometimes they are taking pics.) Most people have camera permissions enabled on their phones for lots of apps. A sauna or locker room is a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, but the phone use means you do not have privacy here. It gets worse: the same people using their phones in the sauna are usually the ones who wear their dirty socks and gym clothes in there (sometimes even their sneakers), and you can even tell when it's empty, because the wooden benches are dirty from it. Gross. This isn't an occasional problem with only a few offenders. If you walk past the sauna (it has a glass door) you'll often see 4+ people in there scrolling their phones. The gym does have a couple of signs telling people not to do either of these things, but the signs are ignored. At $200 per month, this is considered a high end gym. The other high end gyms (Fitler, Equinox) in this area don't have the same problems, so I don't know what's going on here. I guess someone started doing it, no one stopped them, and now others see this and think it's ok? This is a shame because the equipment here is good, there are tons of great classes, and the space overall is very nice.

Clean and affordable. Can get really packed depending on the time or day you go. Infuriating that…read morethey have showers but don't supply towels

Very welcoming and professional staff! Excellent…read moreenvironment, and good quality equipment.

Solid OTF experience! It's in a mall so can be a little hard to find, but we got there eventually…read more Staff is friendly, coach Patrick was great! The studio has showers but no towels so just be sure to bring your own! Convenient location for when I'm in town.

In the downtown area from California. This gym is located on the corner inside of an indoor…read moremall/shops called "One Liberty Place" - 2nd floor. Great staff & workout!

This one was tough, probably should give it a 3, but gave it a 4 due to good staff and most of the…read more"negatives" being things kind of out of the businesses control. I've been a member for 2 or 3 years now and have seen various iterations (some of you will remember when weights were in the basement). The good: - staff professional and friendly - clean - equipment kept in good shape - solid class options - fair price for what you get The not so good: - too small for the number of members. This part is kind of out of their control, but I think they should honestly consider capping the membership. I pretty much don't go after work, just way too crowded. If you're able to sneak away from work and go during the day it's amazing. - locker room setup; the sauna should of course be in the locker room. There are no large bath towels at this location (only small towels) so you're forced to sit in the sauna in your clothes (at least athletic shorts). I've never showered at this location which is pretty unusual for myself....but again it's because I don't want to bring my own towel and then take a sopping wet towel home. Maybe I'm wrong? Maybe you can request a bath towel?? but I'm pretty sure you cannot. I think that's it for the not so good, but honestly the crowdedness is enough to have me considering other gym options. But I have liked being a member overall and would recommend to people in the area.

City Fitness is extremely unethical in their billing and sales departments! I have been in the…read moreindustry for over three decade. I worked for 24 Hour Fitness, NY Health and Racket Club, NYSC, Bally's, and 12th St gym. Some of the sales people, like Dom at Spring Garden, will say anything to sell a membership. When I went into the Spring Garden location with my 11 year to discuss with him correcting how he misrepresented the gym with my membership sale. Dom told my son when he is eighteen he will sell my son a membership. No class! City Fitness prides themselves on having the best. The truth is the best instructors are either at the new Sporting Club at the Bellvue or on their own. The Precore equipment they outfit their gyms with is trash. Planet Fitness supplies its gyms with Matrix equipment. Far superior, and they added 6-8 new plate loaded pieces that are top of the line. Before joining City Fitness consider ALL other option. Just my humbl and very well experienced advice. Stay fit and stay real

Fit Gym is on 44th and Chestnut and it's a good alternative if you're a college student nearby. I…read morecame here when Penn's gym was closed and while there are a few other gyms nearby, this one was by far the cheapest. I believe they're moving to a new location soon which will have parking. Their Facebook is where they make most of their updates: it has their most recent hours and they recently started having classes again. I'd suggest joining when they have a deal going on. It's a really bare-bones, old school workout spot. It has everything that you need to get the job done and that's pretty much it. Downstairs is where most of the free weights and racks are, while upstairs has the cardio and weight machines. Their equipment is pretty worn and by midday, their weights are arbitrarily reracked and scattered. Unfortunately they don't have a ton of lighter dumbbells to workout with. They do have a bunch of weights that are insanely heavy and I've never seen anyone go near them. All in all, the gym has enough equipment for you to get in a full body workout and it meets standard expectations. TLDR: A bare-bones, old school workout spot that has enough for you to get in a workout, but don't expect fancy new equipment or anything flashy.

For what it is, I'm super excited to be starting at this gym. While there isn't anything new or…read moreflashy, they've got the basics with some devoted patrons and class leaders. The spin classes look so fun and high energy, the Zumba glasses are packed with fun dancers and cool music, and there are enough weights to go around. The front desk staff member got us signed up really quick with no hassle, and we could start same day with the coupon I got. Had a nice hour long workout. Weirdest part is the flickering light in he bathroom, but that's not a problem for me. For now, I'm happy to be a member!

It really pains me to write this review. I've been taking classes at RippedPHL since shortly after…read morethey opened. Of the various treadmill workout studios in the area that have come and gone over the years, it consistently was my favorite. It had been in my regular rotation for a while until they changed the Thursday night class that best fit in my schedule to a strength only class. Since I really like the treadmill portion I hadn't been here in several months. During that time they made some changes, and the class names changed. I was hoping it was just the names, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. I'll start by saying that I'm a runner - I run regularly, most often on trails with lots of hills. Although I am squarely a back of the pack, party pace runner. Ripped's treadmill programs have three options of increasing difficulty. They also have a high incline hiking option that I was excited about when they launched, but never ended up trying once I saw that it hits speeds of 4.0 MPH and higher. That's not a realistic hiking pace for me, especially when you're at double digit inclines. I've always found level 1 of the running programs challenging, but doable. Now, however, level 1 is significantly harder. When the first treadmill interval kicked off, instead of the usual 3.8 MPH warm-up pace, the level 1 warm-up pace had jumped to 4.5 MPH, which is a pretty significant increase. And it just got harder from there. At one point the speed was at 6.5 MPH, which used to be a flat road sprint speed for level 1, but this time we were mid-hill on a 5% incline and going up from there. The second tread set started off with 5.0 MPH as the warm-up. For level 1! That's not a warm-up for me - that's my race pace. I had to completely tap out with this new program. I know some people like the challenge of striving for goals out of reach and find that motivating, but I'm the opposite. If I wanted to try something harder and currently out of reach I could try levels 2 or 3. Finding myself completely unable to keep up with the lowest level option as someone who identifies as a runner outside of class, let me feeling really bad about myself. I used to leave these classes feeling tired and challenged, but confident and accomplished. I left this class feeling defeated and bad about myself. At a time when it seems like a lot of studios are making an effort to accommodate people at all levels of the their fitness journey, Ripped appears to be going in the other direction. And yes, I realize I can modify and reduce the speed or walk when I can't keep up, but those numbers I'm supposed to be attaining and failing to reach are right there in front of me challenging how I feel about my performance. One of the benefits of fitness classes for me is the boost they provide to my mental health, and that isn't going to help me think positively about my fitness journey and performance. If your approach to fitness is different than mine and/or you're further along on your fitness journey in terms of performance, I encourage you to try RippedPHL. It really is a great studio - the instructors are amazing and the front desk is always awesome and welcoming. And I'm assuming their regular members asked for this update and like the harder programs, which is why they've made the update. I wish the studio the best, I really do - we've lost too many fitness studios in Philly recently. But I feel like I stepped off the train for a minute and it sped away and left me behind. So I'm going to have to explore other options that work better for me for where I am on my physical and mental fitness journey.

This was located on a third floor walkup in Rittenhouse. I was exhausted by the time I got to the…read moretop of the stairs, but I guess that is a good pre-workout to get you ready for the class. Malik was the instructor. For someone that wants to get into running I really think that this is a great motivation. Everyone is on treadmills and the intensity of the speed and workout varies during the workout. Each treadmill is state of the art and they have large vivid screens that were streaming images of streets of NYC. It was engaging to watch. You would alternate from the treadmill to the workout benches and on the benches there were different weights that you could use for activities like dead lifts and sumo squats. There was also a variety of stretching exercises. The workout room was a bit cramped and dark for my liking but maybe that is something that just takes some getting used to.

Great space and welcoming environment. This is a non profit organization and primarily a yoga…read morestudio but also has about 6 art shows a year, some 200 workshops and events annually in the fields of dance, music, theater, clowning, comedy, film, and other performing and visual arts. They also partners with local grassroots organizations to raise funds and foster dialogue for communities in need. Our largest recurring arts events are the Fun-A-Day Community Art Show every February, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival every September, and Philly Clown Slam one Thursday a month throughout the year. They try to keep prices low to make this space accessible to all.

Love this yoga studio! I have been getting back into yoga and the instructors here have been so…read morewelcoming and made everything so accessible. It's the kind of studio that is all about community and inclusivity, with zero ego. I love the causes that they have done fundraisers for so I wanted to support, even though I don't live in West, and it's well worth the drive!

I love this gym! The staff are professional, knowledgeable and friendly. I love the studio classes…read more The instructors are so helpful in making sure you are doing the exercises correctly and making adjustments to meet your individual need. The facility is always clean.

Love this place my favorite gym in Philly! So much equipment it's never too popular to get the lift…read moreyou're looking for!

I love this pool. Its a real treat to have auch a nice pool and the main reason to go here. But the…read morefacility and people are also great and there is a lit of natural daylight.

I don't usually do reviews however I'm tired and people deserve to know so I won't write a lot but…read moreI'll attach exactly what I'm talking about. Take a look at the photo every other day. Somethings broken class is canceled or somethings changed. A great facility with very poor accommodations absolutely no consideration for members. Oh I have to put a star in order to post a review that's crazy because they don't deserve any

I always leaving shaking and sore but that's obviously encouraged. I love how solidcore is so…read moreencouraging and they keep boosting up your energy to push you harder. The classes and all instructors have been so nice and fun. I have yet to go to a class I haven't loved yet. I will say, I should definitely invest in some grippy socks because some of the moves make me nervous that I'll slip.

Very intense full body workout! If this is your first class I recommend maybe arriving 15 mins…read morebefore the class actually begins so that you can claim your spot, place your things in a locker and even do some pre-stretching because I got there just in time and had to jump straight into which was a bit overwhelming. Although, thoughout the course of the class I enjoyed the encouragement coming from the instructor, how clean the facility was and the workout itself wasn't like any other workout I've done so this was pretty cool!