I think that this business is now permanently closed. I'm…read moreglad, because several years ago, I worked for them as a yoga instructor. My classes met with approval, but seeing the inner workings of the business, it felt like anything but a safe and calming space. This all happens behind the peaceful shivasana (relaxation) and neck massages. I rarely write this sort of review, but seeing the tense, inner atmosphere of the organization, versus the calm, accepting facade, is just unacceptabe. The classes and instructors are good, and the training is solid. There is a falsity about this place that turned me off yoga once I saw through the facade. Sorry, but this was my experience. I hope to get back into yoga sometime soon, at a different place, for sure.

I am very pleased with this centre! The space is very calming and welcoming. You have no idea from…read morethe outside just how big the studios are with their open high beamed ceilings and natural wood accents. Multiple class varieties and reasonable prices. I am so pleased to have happened upon this centre and feel the positive effects of the barre yoga classes I been attending for 5 weeks !

Visited Toronto on business from Vancouver last week. I go to an affiliate in Vancouver and chose…read moreReebok Crossfit due to proximity to downtown Toronto (I was staying at the Thompson Hotel). First thing I liked was the location. Second thing was the responsiveness when I emailed - the night before - to see if they would take a visitor the next afternoon. Third, Jordan Symonds (owner/coach) was super friendly, helpful and welcoming. Finally, the gym is great (quality equipment), the coaching was spot on (... I happen to think our affiliate - Crossfit Westside in Vancouver is top notch) and the overall experience was non-pretentious but just as intense as one would hope/expect. I travel a lot for work and have been to a few CF affiliates that are borderline pretentious; even non-welcoming...... and if you're a visitor its kind of annoying and unnecessary. Next time I'm in Toronto, I'm definitely coming back to Reebok Crossfit in Liberty Village!

You have to give credit where credit is due : You simply cannot get much better than RCLV for…read moreCrossFit, in Toronto! I have in fact visited quite a few affiliates, beforehand allowing me to state this, so this isn't just a cliquish "come-check-out-where-I-workout", type of post! When it comes to knowledgeable and quality coaches, friendly members ( the usual athletic type 'A's".. true to the Xift mentality!), intense WoDs that would challenge even the most seasoned athlete. I think what I love the most about RCLV is definitely are the coaches, which to me are worth more than their price in gold. The facility is great, the music is awesome.. and appropriate! ( Yes.. I have been in Xfit gyms where for some reason, "Call Me Maybe" was termed appropriate to do 30 Power Cleans for time, so this was necessary to add to my review, yes!! ). RCLV has become a MUST in my fitness regime. I call this place "home", and miss it immensely when I am away too long..so to prevent this from happening too often, I actually just signed on for 6 months.. easiest decision I ever made! Couldn't be happier!!!! :D

This is my home gym (Eaton Centre North). I'm a true gym rat and also born in the Chinese Year of…read morethe Rat which makes me either 26, 28, 50, 62, 74... i'm not 14 or 86 :D I was also a former Bally member (like the reviewer Sunny V) before they got taken out by GoodLife and Extreme. The best part is my membership got grandfathered when GoodLife took over so I've got a very good rate. From a corporate perspective, they are a 5 star organization in this aspect of club managing. I have no issues with their policies and how they treat their members. Most of my fellow work out friends are at Extreme which is both good and bad. Bad is I do miss hanging with them at the gym and my jaw muscles are much weaker but good is I actually get a work out and I'm out much faster. From a social perspective, this is more of a corporate club as members are courteous but not chummy. You'll always get a few oddballs (ie. smelly, dirty or strange like the tranny who likes to wear his thongs to do a strip dance routine but he's recently moved elsewhere) so if these are your thing you may have your senses aroused. Overall a good mix and plenty of eye candy if that is your thing too (both guys and gals). 4 stars here. Equipment and facilities is definitely 3 stars and dropping. The club is about 10 years old so it badly needs a face lift. The size is about 18,000 sq. ft and the free weights area is a tad small. The aerobics room is a decent size and the rubber flooring was installed over the old wood floors when GoodLife took over a few years ago. Unfortunately that was the extent of the reno and here I give the management only 3 stars. The spinning room has an old bouncing floor (not sure if that is good or bad for you) and the yoga studio is a bit cramped. They brought in a few machines when they took over but everything is rather dated. Lockers are on the small side and they do have a steam room and showers (I don't use them since I live nearby). I've been to some of their older clubs and if GoodLife has a fault, it is they do not seem to bother updating their older clubs. I've been to several of their other gyms (Yonge-St. Clair, Manulife Centre, Bloor Park, Liberty Village, Coxwell-Gerrard, 2 Queen or also known as Eaton Centre South). Liberty Village is a beauty but too far for me. The trainers here are OK but a few are not as professional and lack friendliness or turnover is rather high but that's typical of all health clubs. I'll assume the compensation is the likely the issue here. Overall, I would give this gym a rating of 3.5-4 stars but dropping due to it's age. Rumour has it they are building a new flagship location nearby... to be confirmed in 2011.

This use to the Old Bally's Corporate gym. Since Bally went belly up. Goodlife bought most of its…read moregym. The Gym is located on the 5th floor. I wouldn't say the gym is super clean. It has some funky smell around. Especially when you walk it. You get use to it after few minutes. :-) Personally I just go in and do my work out and leave. I never do cardio and joint one of those class. The spinning class looks fun. But I think I will die if I go to one of them. lol I am skinny enough I don't need spinning class. I got the chop stick figure who needs to do cardio or any classes. :-) That being said. They do have different classes. I wouldn't join the spinning class not you get a lot of chubby people in there. The freaking room stink. Yikes. This gym use to be the best for bird watching. I guess since they open one on King West all the good looking birds are gone only the ducks are left in this gym. Cheers.

Great gym for the price especially. Staff is super friendly & helpful they actually make a point of…read moresaying hello. I hadn't been to any gym in a few years & this is a great one to get back into it. The LUNK alarm is interesting although I don't really see a need for it in this gym it's a pretty laid back environment. I do however think they should install a LURK alarm for people who are sitting on equipment on their phones or just "Lurking" and not really working out. I'm joking mostly but overall it's a good experience

I had a very unpleasant and shocking experience visiting their Whitby location today. I went there…read morewith my husband to switch the primary user's name to my husband. But their staff member was extremely rude in his conversation and said that if we do this switching again he would initiate the investigation into this. We asked why he was saying this as this setting was earlier updated by someone from their staff and we don't have any such access to their application. He was not trying to understand this whether it was the application issue or the staff's. Another member told us not to use the gym after the conversation. We have made all the payments and not sure why we were not allowed to use the gym and so rude treatment was given to their customers. I haven't found any Customer Care also for the customer grievances. Anyhow we will cancel our registration and I advise all the existing or future customers to be cautious as, if this can happen to us, this could happen to anyone else.

I like this location, a big room for group activities. Fair size room for women only which I really…read moreliked going. Also great change rooms and showers. A room for cycling classes has a good view and fairly large. Overall it is a nice location to go to.

20% increase! Here we are in a time where things are difficult for many people and how are the…read moretariffs affecting them. After just a month, without any notification my membership fee goes up 20% as I show up for a Zen yoga class? WOW! For all of those who are looking to Get fit with their New Year's resolution... go somewhere other than Goodlife fitness.

I attend this location solely for the Lesmills group exercise classes and for Jimmy's classes only…read moreas he is by far one of the best instructors out there! He cares about his students & takes his time to make sure that we are doing it correctly so that we don't waste our time and to ensure that we do not injure ourselves. He is very high energy which feeds off to the rest of us & we feel energy moving through us while doing his Combat & Pump class. Even before entering the group ex class & upon entering the gym, I am always greeted with a friendly and warm smile from Prabhjot! He always makes me feel welcomed, listens to any questions or concerns I have with care and he is just such a nice person to be able to see and interact with the moment I arrive at Goodlife. I love my chats with him! The one small complaint I have is the Recovery Room that has a couple of very good massage chairs in it. That room is always busy and it is very difficult to get access to one of those massage chairs. People don't care and will keep it on repeat even though they can see that others are waiting for the chairs. It would be cool if there can be a scanner attached to it somehow to start the machines based on your membership and can only be scanned a specific number of times within a certain time. I can't speak for any other areas in this location but I do notice that it is an extremely busy location during prime times such as after work.

goodlife fitness in unionville is honestly pretty solid. been going here for a few months now and i…read moregotta say its way better than i expected. first thing u notice is how big the place is theres a ton of equipment and its never too crowded even during peak hours sometimes u have to wait a min for a machine but overall its good. the treadmills are all in good shape and theres like a bunch of ellipticals and bikes too. the weight area is huge with plenty of benches and free weights. i also like the group classes they got some good ones like spin and hiit, i tried yoga once and it was okay the instructor was friendly enough. sometimes classes fill up fast tho so u gotta sign up early. they got a few personal trainers here too, seemed helpful when i watched some of them helping clients. the locker rooms are clean for the most part not perfect but decent. showers are fine, towels available if u need them. the front desk staff are chill, they always greet u but sometimes seem busy so might have to wait a sec. parking is okay got a decent lot but can get busy in the evenings. overall i like this location, its big, got good equipment, not too crowded and classes are fun. membership isnt cheap but you get what u pay for i guess. if ur in unionville and looking for a gym this is a solid option definetly worth checking out.

Someone stole my $30 water bottle at this location in the change room, and the staff won't do…read moreanything to ask anyone who took my bottle and call out the behavior that this is a crime, the staff keep saying its misplaced, but where is the one thats exactly the same, and why will this person take home a bottle when he didnt bring one in the first place. This place is so dumb and full of excuse and wont admit theft when as mentioned in other review dozens thef has already happened here this year and they should put posters with counts of theft reported to warn people never bring anything that has any value. And they tried to shut me up to tell people what happened to me. So disgusting. never again. Please be aware that people steal your stuff at YMCA. Just imagine how disgusting it is that you are in the same room with thieves. Worst waste of money and headach instead of having fun. Also please be aware that some people's locker got cut in the change room. They do nothing to prevent that from happening. I would suggest to go someplace with better security measures. Don't think it won't happen to you. By the way, the staff were lying to me, at first they said they will contact me if they found my stuff. But later when I confronted them about camera footage, they said I need to file a report to the police about theft. And they were making fun of me reporting 30 dollar, as if that's not a lot of money to lose and I really like the bottle and this is the second time i lost a bottle there. Ymca should fire those staff. Apparently there are a lot of fake reviews added by the management. They've also blocked me for telling the truth in their social media, which violated my freedom of speach. Hope they go bankrupt soon! If you want to get your valuables stolen, feel free to go at your own risk

This is a place where people are supposed to feel a sense of community and safe, especially…read morechildren. This location absolutely does not live up to those standards. My 13 year old daughter was using the gym there when a grown male began harassing her. Here are the facts to what happened and what the management's response was. I dropped my daughter off to do her work out at this location. Unfortunately, my wife and I were both in the middle of a project so was not able to stay with her but we were not worried as we felt that she was SAFE there. Near the end of her work out, she was approached by an adult male who asked her how long she was going to be. During her work out, she took a snap of herself to send to a friend as children do these days. She may have inadvertently got this male in the background. He became angry and asked her if she was taking pictures of him. When she tried to explain, he wasn't listening to her. He took his phone out and started recording her. It is unclear if it was at this point or later on when other members got involved the he called her fat and said she has a fat stomach. When he started recording her she Very Loudly told him Stop recording her and asked him WHY he was recording her. Her being loud is what drew the attention of the other members. 2 male members came to her aid as well as a female member. He became very belligerent towards the other member, tell them .... off. I was actually on the phone with my daughter at this point because she called me and I can hear this in the background. When I get there, she was already in the office with the female adult which aided her and some staff members. Shortly after I arrived, a Sergeant from Peel Region Police arrived to investigate. The Sergeant spoke with myself, the Female witness, at lease one of the male witnesses and the staff as well as the Adult male in question (once they were able to find him). No charges were able to be laid as there was not physical contact made. That is what we were told . I was told by the staff that there would be an incident noted on his file. That was not acceptable to me and I demanded that he be banned from the YMCA. I wanted him banned because not only did my daughter NOT feel safe and was afraid to go back because she might run into him again but I didn't want any other young people to possibly have a similar experience . They told me that only the program director or general manager would be able to do that. I sent the general manager an email that day (Saturday). Monday morning I called the center to speak with the Program Director who was not in. I left my information for him to call me back when he was to get in in the afternoon. After waiting and not getting any type contact by the management team, I called him back and was told that he was in a meeting. I was then informed that the General Manager would be dealing with this. I received an email later from her asking that we afford her some time to speak to her staff and investigate. I told her I appreciated her taking this matter seriously and told her about the 2 men and 1 lady who intervened on my 13 year old daughters behalf. I also told her that they spoke to her staff and that her staff on duty that day should have their information and that I would await her review. To recap the timeline, this incident happened on Saturday, I sent an email Saturday. Monday I had to contact the center instead of them contacting me. The General Manager asked me for a few day to review on Monday. Thursday afternoon just before 3pm, I had still not heard back from anyone so I sent another email to ask about the status. Just before 7pm she finally responded to me by tell me that she could call me "tomorrow" and to reply to her directly with a good time to call. I'm not sure as to why she had to say directly as my communication was directly to her unless she didn't want me to continue to tag the CEO of YMCA in the emails as well. She calls me the next day and tells me that my daughter won't have to worry about running into him "in the near future". I asked her what that means. I tell her that I assumed that means that he is suspended and not banned outright. She told me that she reviewed the footage and spoke with 2 witnesses and she said that they didn't hear anything prior to to my daughter very loudly saying "Why are you recording me? Stop recording me!" That is when they stepped in. She didn't speak to the lady as she deemed that she wouldn't have any information because she wasn't standing directly next to them. I pointed out the fact that that just because she wasn't STANDING right next to them doesn't mean that she didn't hear anything or wasn't observing from a distance. She then tells me that there are procedures that they have to follow. She tells me that in the footage, he wasn't any closer that 5 feet from her, like that is supposed to make any difference. Basically, they aren't going to do anything.

The best gym I've ever been to. I've been training for years, mostly in commercial chain gyms, but…read morehaven't found a place on earth as genuine as Oliphant's. The place oozes history and is kept open by a dedicated community of people who really care about maintaining the atmosphere its had for decades. If you just want to build your body without any of the flashiness or corporate nonsense of other gyms, come to Oliphant's.

This place is absolutely amazing! I've been natural bodybuilding for over 20 years, and got tired…read moreof the usual fitness clubs and how they discourage intense training. It's all about looking pretty and being quiet. This place is an old school, no nonsense, sweat-locker kind of place. Everyone is extremely nice ( I've talked to everybody I have seen so far ) so it has the comradery that I've been missing all these years. It also has a heavy bag, which is gold. I was at Extreme Fitness, and as soon as Goodlife took over, they removed the heavy bag. Boo! I love smacking the heavy bag around in between sets. It's much more fun that a tread-mill. If you want a tidy gym with all the new equipment, people who are cold as ice, and not sweat too much or grunt too loud, then go to Goodlife. If you want to train hard, sweat like a pig and meet great people, then come to Oliphants! The 100th year anniversary party is coming up, so I'm excited about joining at such a pivotal moment of Toronto's weightlifting history! p.s. It is run by the members, for the members, so there are lots of opportunities to participate in making the gym an even better place.