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LA Fitness Cypress is a nice gym with a good layout, has newer equipment (although it is starting to get a little run down and other local LA Fitness facilities have newer, nicer stuff). I have been a member since the location opened.\r
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It includes all the amenities to include locker rooms, basketball court, raquetball courts, machine weights, free weights, indoor pool and extensive cardio machines. It also has a nice class for aerobic classes and a dedicated spinning room. There is also a childcare called the Kids Club that is available for patrons who have children.\r
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Compared to the 24-Hour Fitness @ Spring-Cypress and the Copperfield YMCA, LA Fitness is a much nicer gym with far more to offer than 24 and far less crowded and less kiddos running around than the Y.\r
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The ""dry"" areas of the locker rooms are nice. The wet areas are really starting to become kind of nasty. They need to replace the urinals, sinks and paper towel dispensers with the infrared kind. Particularly with staph infections becoming more prevalant in gyms.\r
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Now for the drawbacks. With as many staff as I see sitting around, they could have someone constantly roaming the gym reracking weights and cleaning trash up. This is a huge problem. Of course gym patrons should be far more courteous but the management should stay on top of this and post some flyers encouraging patrons to rerack weights and clean up after themselves.\r
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The gyms hours are reduced on Saturday and Sunday and closes 1 hour earlier on Fridays than normal. I understand the Saturday and Sunday but don't really see the reason for Friday -- it's just another hour.\r
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The class schedule is very random. This is in an area surrounded by residential neighborhoods that have stay-at-homes and I personally believe they could do an AM and PM class (for instance an AM and PM Yoga on Tues & Thurs).\r
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The gym has a personal training department called Body of Change (basically a business w/in a business). They sell individual sessions or session packages and the price varies depending on how many sessions you buy. Still though, even then package price is not that great for what you get.\r
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They are supposed to conduct an initial fitness assessment and then measure your progress on a regular basis (doesn't happen unless you make them do it).\r
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The training sessions are short (30 minutes) and very rushed. The trainers are (for the most part) minimally certified, minimally educated, and not well paid. This creates an unmotivated corps of employees who just basically wanna get 'em in and get 'em out. It also seems like the instructors would be the first line of defense with keeping the gym organized and clean by encouraging patrons and setting a good example but they don't. Personally I think this is a management problem.\r
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The routines they do are very basic (with some exception with certain instructor) and you can plan on being stuck on a 3X15 routine for a long time (almost like they don't want you to progress quickly so you keep buying sessions). They don't do any cardio sessions with you either so your kinda on your own there.\r
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They also piggy-back the training appointments so at the end of your session the trainer is basically running to someone else and there is no ""debrief.""\r
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They could really improve their product by making sessions a little longer (45-55 minutes), giving you a complete fitness eval and a complete fitness plan, adding some cardio training, stretching/flexibility and some true teaching from instructors with better certification. They could do all that and not increase their rates and still make decent profit off the service.\r
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Overall, LA Fitness Cypress is a better gym than the closest 24-Hour Fitness locations and the closest YMCA. To my knowledge there is not a Bally's in the general area. The gym could be a lot better though with some changes. \r
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Pros: Newer equipment, nice layout, has all the amenities mostly
Cons: Messy/disorganized, hours, classes, inexperienced trainers
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