The new owners have completely revamped this facility. New equipment, new paint, new cleaning service , new dumbbells coming soon, and staffing changes to better improve the gym. The owners really care about customer service and are there everyday ensuring customer satisfaction. The other gyms around don’t hold a candle to this gym now. Thanks for caring and taking pride in this facility.
The plans should be individualized, client-centered. Not one size fits all. Fitness goal is a personal goal, and trainers should not be insensitive and judgmental. I just think that it makes sense to put oneself in the same level with the clients, in any profession, and to understand where they're coming from, in order to better serve the clients. You don't know what the client has been through in life in terms of diet, fitness, and influences from social media, and what their prior experiences with training programs were. Thank you.
The trainer puts his own judgement and assumption on what he thinks the clients are doing without allowing clients to express their thoughts. The trainer is biased, puts personal opinions, shaming and labels on clients lifestyle ("dirty" not "clean" diet), does not address clients' concerns and questions appropriately, but instead getting defensive and conceited. For example, saying how much experience he's had working with various population, including people with certain medical conditions. The trainers might have the experience as trainers, but they're not doctors... so it doesn't mean that they know about the disease pathology, symptoms which they might encounter while training the clients, and how to properly handle those situations, as well as knowing the treatments and diets that doctors have allowed. In addition, one size does not fit all. One client with the same medical condition is not going to be the same as the other.
The gym itself is great. The manager is helpful. However, the personal trainer was judgmental, condescending, and conceited.
1st time here a few months back gym was packed, which isn't a problem, but no one put their stuff away. Place was a mess. I get that it's the members that don't return things to where they belong, but the staff had zero desire to enforse or ask members to put weights away. Now today I walk in and it's a steam room. Girl at desk said she's "not allowed" to turn on the AC. Whoever is the owner of this place should be embarrassed to call this gym his own. I regularly go to about 6 different retro's (owner, you can use my gmail username to confirm my membership and that what I say about using many retro's is true) and this is by far the worse. I'd rather pay $100 a month to go to planet fitness, which is only $10 a month, than come back here for free. This is the last time I come here and I hope that any potential member reconsider joining here and go to either of the other clubs on rt 18 or go to another retro, North Brunswick isn't that far
This gym is great. I've been going to gyms regularly since 1999. This gym is clean, it has every machine you need, the people who work there are nice and most of the members have gym etiquette and put the weights away. It might be smaller than some other ones in the area but the machines are top of the line. Yes it gets busy at the peak times but still worth joining. I have been going there for years, then stopped to work at another one. When I stopped working at that other one I made sure to join Retro that night. If your looking to join a gym in the area you wont find an all around better one for price, value and everything else you might look for in a gym.
Not sure what resources the personal trainers used to back up their statements, whether scientifically or evidence based, or merely personal opinions? One trainer in the same facility said to avoid carbs and some days might not even eat carbs, one suggested eating different sources of carbs; one said to eat 1 g protein per pound of body weight, one said people don't need much of protein a day. (?)
I have had a membership at this specific location for a while now. In Jan, I brought several family members here to tour the facility and sign up. They signed up because they were liked the classes offered in the gym in the mornings. It was great to take a class then go to work. Over the last 2 months, all of the classes except Yoga have stopped being offered. When my family members expressed this concern with Lynn the manager, she could not be concerned with working out a solution. There are 4 people who signed up and are not using the gym now because the classes they liked are no longer offered. Lynn's response was simply that they signed a contract and there was nothing she would do. Yes, they signed a contract based on the services offered. It's funny how the classes run during Jan, Feb, and March when they push so hard for new members, but quickly stop offering classes shortly after. Stay away from this gym. LA Fitness and Crunch are both very close and actually provide the classes they advertised. Give your money to a company which cares about their customers.
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