Anytime Fitness — Attraction in Shorewood

I updated my review and rating based on additional experiences at this location. The original review is below.

New Review: During my short membership a series of events have happened that are counter to all the experiences I have had with this chain over 20+ years of membership across multiple cities, states, and countries. The management of this location is completly apathetic. The entry system regularly malfunctions, denying access to they gym. Cleaning supplies (spray and paper towels) are regularly depleted by Monday morning. Over the weekend, the gym gets trashed. Huge spills of water, protein shakes, etc on the floors and tables, this past weekend the lights were turned off-making for a very dangerous series of workouts, broken treadmills that go unrepaired for weeks, and just general filth throughout the gym. If I wasn't stuck in a contract, I would leave this gym. The worst part is that the staff just does not care. Giving them feedback does nothing. Writing to ATF corporate does nothing.

Original Review: This is a nice location. It is middle of the pack for Anytime Fitness locations in the US. 3 bathrooms and 3 showers. The staged hours are limited and the gym gets trashed every weekend because there is no staff to clean up & replenish paper towels and equipment wipes. The equipment is plentiful and in working order. Personal training is a high pressure sale when the trainers...

This has been my home gym since 2009. Well maintained machines that rarely break down, 3 clean single person rest rooms with hooks, benches and showers (if you're like me and prefer to change into your workout clothes at the gym) all the free weights and kettle bells you need, assisted and unassisted bench press/squat racks, never crowded, access to a parking lot, subway, walgreens, sendicks and metro market all within walking distance for that post workout meal. The owner and the trainers are quite knowledgeable in the field of fitness and nutrition, and are generally friendly and love to interact with the regulars and get to know your life story. Even the cleaning crew are friendly. I have no choice and I am moving to the southside because of work, I am going to miss this place.

PS. If you're new to fitness, don't buy into the hype of these pocket change gyms that say they're "judgement free" with no qualified staff to show you the proper way to use the equipment, maintain proper form, proper workout for your age, sex and body type and to eat properly in order to maximize your results and cut down body fat. If the gym you go to has a free complimentary pizza and bagel day and is also managed by high school age kids that know nothing about fitness and are getting paid a dollar over minimum wage, you're not working out, you're...

Let me paint you a picture.. It's 1957, your grandfather is marching through the hot humid jungles of Vietnam.. his shirt is soaked through from sweat, heavy breathing, his soul aches for just a little wisp of a cool breeze......

On he's death bed 50 years later, he tells you this story and says "any man that even tastes what I had go through in that sweltering jungle, is a true man".

Welp, turns out I sure as hell am a true man. I have tasted what its like to run in a sweltering jungle----- WELCOME to Anytime Fitness Shorewood.

AC is broken again. Went months last year without AC due to it being broken. They bought MAYBE $60 worth the fans (mostly nonadjustable cheap box fans). There are no ceiling fans which makes the place stuffy as heck.

Since your AC is non-existent for a good portion of the year, lets put some real fans in there and at least give us a fighting chance at combating that horrific environment...