Gold's Gym — Attraction in Arlington

Gold's gym has moved to a new location, and I've had a chance to use it thoroughly—just as I did with the old location.

The upsides of new location: It is far more spacious and clean, as opposed to the old location, which was dank and smelly, and had rodents running around in the locker-rooms. The locker-rooms are far more spacious and clean in the new location, though there are no paper towel dispensers—only air dryers. The new location gets lots of natural light in through its floor-to-ceiling windows. This is a great thing unless you like to take pictures at the gym, in which case the photos will always been washed out. So far, the air conditioning always works well. Cell phones get reception in the new location.

Downsides of the new location: It is located right above the Rosslyn metro. In order to get into the gym, one has to pass by a bevy of drugged-out derelicts. At night, walking out down the poorly lit and non-CCTV monitored stairs from the gym would seem to be quite risky for women or senior citizens. The gym has done away with all of the hammer strength machines that it had at the old location. If you're into hypertrophy oriented training, you're not going to be a fan of this. The new Matrix machines, which are far less numerous, seem to be of lower quality and of poorer design, with respect to their angles and range of motion. For example, the old location had at least a half dozen different Hammer Strength Machines meant for training your back. The new location has just two non-cable machines for back—both of which are very lackluster. This is the biggest downside and has caused me to consider cancelling my membership. The Dumbbells, while new, top out at just 125lbs.

This is an upgrade of locations which seems very good on the surface, but suffers from some serious weaknesses when you dig down a little further—at least if you train in the fashion...

Beautiful Garbage. This place is all sizzle and no steak. While esthetically pleasing at first glance, it quickly turns to disappointment. First of all it’s very confusing to locate from the street level. It’s not marked from the outside and you have to enter a shared business area and walk through a food court to access it. I asked the front desk attendant if there was parking available and she said yes, in the garage. I asked her which one, because there’s like four and she said that she didn’t know because she takes the metro to work. She got the manager and he said that they validate parking, but it will still cost you $5 so if you work out 5 days a week then a $30 membership turns into $130 a month to work out. The gym layout is confusing and weird. You can tell that space was never designed to be a gym because the space itself is full of turns and corners and equipment is packed in it throughout with no real rhyme or reason. I settled on an oly platform to do some clean and jerks and about halfway through my workout another manager came over and addressed me because I was dropping the barbell from an overhead position. He said that the equipment was not designed for that. I told him that he was quite wrong, these were rubber plates on an Olympic lifting platform. This is exactly what it was designed for. Tell me you don’t lift without telling me you don’t lift. He then argued something about the structural integrity of the building and I was just annoyed with the whole experience at this point so I decided to shower and leave. For as big as the locker room is there is 3 shower stalls and no sauna. This was the most underwhelming Gold’s. Do yourself a favor and drive a mile up the road and go to the Ballston location. It’s a far better representation of the Gold’s brand and people are there to lift and not stand around staring at their phones. Would not recommend,...

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