LA Fitness — Attraction in New York

This gym is absolutely terrible. Even though it's large, the place is very packed, unless you can get there between 5am and 8am. The machines are populated by people just sitting around talking or texting on their phones. The cardio equipment is the same. There's a sign that says 20 minute limit if there are people waiting for cardio machines (which most people don't obey), which goes to show just how crazy crowded it is there. The freeweights area is very congested. You can't even stand and do curls without worrying about hitting someone by accident. There is no deadlift platform either. Plenty of benches, flat and incline, however again they're always in use. Same story with all the cable machines. DO NOT go to this gym unless you can get there in the wee hours of the morning!

EDIT (10/02/17) I've been going to this gym for 14 months now. I chose to keep going to this gym because its very accessible and the less busy hours work with my personal schedule. The amount of people in the gym at any given time has only increased since the day I've joined. I've found that going to the gym anywhere between 5 am and 9 am is bearable, you wouldn't have to wait much for anything. between 2 pm and 4 pm is okay too. If you work a 9 to 5 job and you were planning on hitting the gym after work, forget about it, the crowd makes it a huge waste of time to go at those hours. It would be much better if this gym was open 24 hours on weekdays like most gyms I've been to.

A lot of the rules here are not enforced. Barely anyone re-racks their the weights they use, and if they do they never put it back in the right place. Want to use a pair of 20 lb dumbbells? Good luck finding one, let alone both.

I do like the huge amounts of free parking; I always park underground right by the door so I never have to worry about running out in the rain or having to dress warmly in the winter. The men's locker room seems clean enough, in my experience there's always paper towels and soap available, though I never use any of the lockers so I can't comment on that. I do use the sauna occasionally, I don't have any complaints there, it's just a regular electric sauna with wooden seating. I whole place is very well lit; I hate gyms that have that blue/white dim fluorescent lighting that makes it feel like a dungeon. This gym's lighting makes everything feel warm and inviting and happy.

If you're a casual gym goer you'll probably find this gym to be fine, as it feels as if that's what this gym is catered to. If you're the type of gym goer who loves lifting, is into bodybuilding/powerlifting, and overall a "gym rat", it would be hard to recommend this gym to you.

UPDATE: 11/29/2020 This place has only continued to get worse and worse. I cancelled my membership in February and then the pandemic just happened to shut down gyms in March. I got an email offer to come back for $25 a month $0 down so I figured I'll check it out since I used to pay $40 and maybe it would be better after all this down time. I was so wrong. Half the machines are missing their pin for the weight stack. Multiple unusable broken machines. 10 out of 14 cable machines missing the clip to put attachments on. Only 2 out of like 8 mens locker room sink faucets work, and only 1 or 2 of the soap receptacles seem to be filled at any given time. The free weight area is always a complete mess, finding a weight that you need is like finding a needle in a haystack. The staff is rude to you when you point out these things. Probably needless to say but I've cancelled my membership 2 days after I started it. Cancelling your membership is an experience that's typical of a gym (meaning they give you the run-around and try to make it difficult for you so that maybe you'd just give up and keep the membership). I continue to go until the 2 months I paid for is up just to get my money's worth, but man I hate it. The only thing good that I have to say is that they did add a 3/4" rubber mat near the squat racks that I'm pretty sure is intended for deadlifting, but no one ever uses...

Been at this gym for almost 3 years. Good Equipment when it’s open. Good sauna now that it’s fixed even though recently it was broken for like 3 months. Nice pool now that it’s clean, you used to be able to smell the chlorine from the top floor, it’s not that big though. Good jacuzzi. Equipment sometimes go missing sometimes it’s broken. Some staff can be rude and def the worst LA fitness in ny. Sometimes the lockers are dirty because people leave it like that, now for the showers………….where do i start. Sometimes the locker room has socks and wet paper towels scattered everywhere going up into the shower room as well. First bad experience in the showers was getting athletes foot, after that I never forgot to wear my crocs. next bad experience two men in the same shower with the curtain open, idek what they were doing cause i looked away but from what I saw they looked like deer in front of headlights. There’s also definitely weird men in that locker room they don’t care if the whole world sees their balls out while they’re roaming around. It would be different if they were changing real quick or in their own shower stalls but taking strolls… come on bro😐. After that i stopped showering at the gym for a few months and then i recently started to again. Now today the worst of all there was a man pleasuring himself in a shower stall. I won’t get into all the details but it’s true. So i would say don’t shower at this gym😭. But if you’re going for a good workout / swim / sauna go ahead. Shower at home. Is it worth the money after they limited additional guests to your subscriptions from 2 to 1? No. you’re better off going to the LA fitness in New Hyde Park or the planet fitness right across. If not go to crunch. If you don’t really care about that then go ahead this...

I want to cancel my membership immediately I do not want to be a member of this gym because of the lack of taste and silliness of the manager of the gym and also because of a lie on When I made my membership in the beginning, he told me that you can bring any guest with you to the gym and I was surprised when I brought my brother with me that he is a liar he told me that it is not possible to bring any guest with you when I talked to him he spoke to me nervously and tastelessly so I told him I want to cancel my membership, he said yes, I will cancel it now, and I went to my condition, it was on Saturday, November eighth, an hour and a half before the flight closed, or less, but I was surprised that he did not cancel my membership, I noticed that you started calling on November 27, but he told me that you cannot cancel your membership now and you must cancel your membership before it and he said in order to cancel your membership (how is this, and I asked the manager of the gym to cancel my membership ten days before the new month) The receptionist spoke very nervously and when I started filming him with the camera he told me that he knows my home address and phone number and that I And that I am in big trouble with him and he threatened me to interrogate me by stopping the camera I did this by calling the police and I did a preparer for the machine because it is for my life as well so I demand that my membership be canceled immediately when I caused a manager and a humanitarian employee to harm myself to me and also there is a remembrance of using any sports machine that does not have any tool to hold on to pull or...