My goal: Strength Training…read more
My experience: DTFC is filled with great coaches. However, if your goal is 'strength training' and you're looking for a personal trainer who provides you with an actual strength training plan (tracking weights, tracking sets, details your splits), I recommend having a very forward conversation with them or going elsewhere. Their marketing online for 'strength training' is misleading. While the website states you'll receive a customized training plan before you start, what they mean is the plan is day-of. When I asked about whether I would receive a copy of my strength training program, I was told it's provided by-day and day-of. And was told some sort of version of it being up to clients to lead on what they want. Even though I emphasized my goal was strength training and the website stated personalized training plans. You pay for that to be the coaches responsibility, so that was incredibly irritating. Not once did any coach record my sets, weight progression, or give me a proper training split. Anyone familiar with strength training knows that this is standard, bare-minimum practice. Anytime I overlapped with other clients, it seemed like our workouts were pretty similar, if not identical. From day one, I emphasized my goal was not weight loss, but strength training. Yet, anytime I was given monthly photos, under goals they listed weight loss. At times, though not always, the gym felt like a glorified weight loss gym with unsolicited diet advice. The prices are steep, especially when you're not given a copy of any sort of plan to help you track your progress. You do have monthly check-ins, but the emphasis is on body fat percentage and weight loss. Again, irritating when your goal is strength training.
Deceptive contract: Thoroughly read the contract, cancellation fees are insanely steep. It's very easy for your membership to just renew and role-over. Perhaps that's why they don't provide clients a physical or digital copy of a personalized, set-month training program. The goal is to just keep you there, why would they give you a program with an end date?
Again, this gym has great individuals and coaches, but it's incredibly hard to feel like the money I spent was even well spent. It's hard to trust trainers and gyms as is due to the wellness and fitness industry being misleading, so this experience felt like it eroded trust in the industry even further. Give it a chance, but with caution