American Muscle — Attraction in Carlsbad

This gym has a lot of potential but the lack of competition from non existent gyms around Carlsbad has allowed American Muscle (AM) become complaisant. if AM would address this things they would be a great gym. all it takes is some attention and upkeep, no major remodeling would be needed.

First Am has a great set of free weight dumbbells in the front room, the only problem is that they do not enforce people to re rack the weights where they belong. This problem stems from not having the rack labeled, people know more or less where the respective weight goes but not exactly, leading to 80lb weights ending up with the 30lb ones Also about half of the actual weights them selves are labeled you have to guess counting the plates on the dumb bells to see what weight your actually holding.. this is very annoying when you are doing supper sets or moving up in weights every set and you have to spend 5 mins. having to find your weight or trying to analyze whether the weight is a 40 or a 45lb. I will say that AM has a very nice set of labels dumbbells in the back crossfit room but i never want to go in there because there are no mirror and the only benches they have are flat ones. i like to do incline dumbbell bench and incline hammer curls, so for this reason the back crossfit room is almost useless.

PROBLEMS:

Unorganized/unlabeled dumbbell set

Dumbbells them selves are not labeled

Benches that recline in the...

If you want fancy equipment and an abundance cardio this is not the gym for you. If you want to put in work, this is it. This gym is MASSIVE. If you need it, they have it. There’s a good amount of cardio for those who need it, tons of free weights, plenty of squat racks. They even have a room for women only for those of us who’d like to workout in smaller more private setting. It’s fair priced and the woman at the front desk is extremely kind and helpful. I’m from out of town but I will be sure to get my workouts in here every...

I LOVE THIS GYM. It's large with an awesome free weights section, lots of machines and all kinds of areas with punching bags and cross-training stuff. Tons of elliptical, walking machines bicycle machines etc. Now they will have a room set up for yoga for ladies and all 6 or so rooms are unique and not crowded. The members are friendly and helpful. The only thing I'd change is the dumbell rack needs to be labeled and some nice signs asking the few ones to put their weights...