I was a member of this gym from June 2024 - January 2025. I joined this Gold's gym as was starting to get burnt out driving 13 miles to my favorite gym in Ashburn (The Shop!). Route 28 was starting to get the best of me with more people RTO, getting home was slow. So I took advantage of a flash sale and joined this gym as a back up. What I liked was that it had more equipment than Planet Fitness. I was very happy that at mid day this gym never got busy. Even though this gym still only had 1 leg extension machine and 1 seated leg curl, there was a high probability that it would be available at 2pm. There were enough lifters there, most of them knowing what they were doing to keep me motivated. Saw one person I knew which really improved my mood for those workouts. They had a lot of abdominal equipment, unlike my favorite gym, my abs were in the best condition during my time at this gym. I liked the stretching room with the bar to start off my workouts.
What I didn't like and made me cancel:
1. Too many people that didn't have gym etiquette and were rude. On my 2nd day I had an older man came up to me, mid set, to complain about me super setting with two pieces of equipment next to each other. I offered that he could work in, he didn't even want to use the equipment. He wanted to argue. Management did not revoke his membership for being a bully, but the man never bothered me again.
2. This gym is dirty. During the 6 months going here I would see the same smudges on the mirrors for weeks. I have never seen an employee clean anything. The equipment is never cleaned other than the members wiping down the equipment themselves. I didn't like the cheap disinfecting wipes they ordered. They would get the equipment wet, but never felt confident the equipment was clean - which made the stretching room feel like I was going to contract a skin infection at some point.
3. Front desk personnel were mostly unfriendly. There was one employee that was there when I became a member, he was friendly. All others were not friendly, which set the mood for your time there. It is hard to respect a place, when they don't respect you when you walk through their door.
4. The music was painfully bad. If I heard "I only want to dance with somebody by Whitney Houston during my workout one more time...oh god I would just start to grunt a bit to muffle the music just a little.
5. Price gouging on protein snacks. If Golds didn't give the retail area so much real estate, they can lower the prices. They charged $2 more than my other gym for a Lean body protein shake.
I gave a score of 3 stars because the parking was always easy for me, given the time of day I would arrive. I could take all back road to this location so it was very convenient. The price per month was fair and I respected that. The equipment is better than a Planet Fitness, but with the space and the empty room in the back that was blocked off more weight machines would have been better. read more