GoodLife Fitness St Catharines Bunting and Carlton — Local services in St. Catharines

Overall, my experience has been really good. I love the gym itself, it's clean everyone is friendly.

However, I do not recommend booking with their personal trainers.

Please think extremely carefully before booking with Kari. If you want to be pushed past your limits and that's what you're going for great good for you, kudos.

I have 0 fitness goal, i do not want a rock hard body. I go to the gym for mental health.

When i explained to Kari that I have no fitness goal, that my only goal is to come to the gym consistently everyday. Whether that's to actually workout or to just to use the fun stuff, hot sauna, jacuzzi, the pool, etc.

I explained to Kari that I have really bad knees, i hurt them earlier that week, Doing the stairmaster.

After a 45 minute conversation about how i'm not athletic, i don't want to be athletic, i wouldn't mind knowing how to use some of the machines properly.

She then took me over to training area, had me do 2 sets of 12. For every exercise. That included : lunges, squat, inclined push ups, running on a inclined treadmill. Throwing a 15 lbs ball around. After coming down from the treadmill after a minute in a half. I'm out of breath and trying to take a minute, In this time she jokes about how she made her last client throw up. She explained to me that we should be taking 60 second break in between sets. But would only give me maybe 10.

So after working me extremely hard, making jokes about how she made her last one, throw up. Pushing me past my limits. Which before I say what i'm about to say, I understand that a fitness trainer is meant, to sometimes push you beyond what you're capable of. A fitness trainer is someone who shows you how to do workouts, In order to get the body or the results that you would like. My appointment was December 20th. I was immobile and unable to stop crying due to the pain until December 24th I have two small children, it was christmas, i had obligations to make that christmas for my two small children.

By christmas I was distraught, i could barely walk up-and-down my stairs, i couldn't sit on the toilet without help. I was completely immobilized.

Now I didn't want to make a post because I understand a part of this is just her job... But I did not go in there. Asking for a rock hard body, asking for an extreme workout, asking for unrealistic expectations.

My only goal is to go to the gym and be there everyday.

On the following monday December 23rd I grounded up as much energy as I could to go and sit in the jacuzzi, and the hot sauna and tried to recover on the massage beds. Which I will say helped so much, i was finally able to stop crying from how much pain I was in.

I felt like my christmas was a complete disaster Because I was in so much pain.

After talking to many family members, they all expressed that I should be sharing my experience with Kari. Because if she makes jokes about making her last client, throw up. I am not the only person who she is abusing in her position.

Personally, i'm gonna take some time to think if I really want to go back to this specific goodlife. There's one over in grimsby I'd be more than willing to drive to. Even though I live on one block away from THIS GYM. AND THIS IS WHY I SIGNED UP FOR THIS GYM. BUT NOW I FEEL USED AND ABUSED.

IF YOU'RE GOING TO BOOK WITH A PERSONAL TRAINER A) dont book with Kari. B) you can Google ANYTHING... You don't need someone to push you past your limits. And not let you have the proper break in-between sets and ALSO not let you drink water.

If you're just starting out and you're really just trying to get a feel for things. Ask other people at the gym, everyone whom i've had to ask for help has been extremely helpful, extremely friendly and extremely understanding. Or Google it! YouTube has videos!

Do not pay to have someone abuse you. I finally am able to walk up and down the stairs today (decemeber 31st) It's taken me almost 2 weeks to recover from one session. Please Keep this in mind when booking for a...

I'm a swimmer and decided on this gym solely for the use of the pool 24/7. It's perfect for someone who does shift work. I cannot comment on the gym equipment. That said, I'd say this is a pool for a leisure lane swimmer more than a swimmer training for anything over 10K. I have two other pools I go to in the region a couple times a week. This is why...

For non swimmers, this will make no sense so maybe ask your swimmer friends. For people training for long distances, I'd plan to go elsewhere a couple times a week unless you're like me and have to settle on where you can go during odd hours. The pool is always sudsy and the water is soft and hard to grab. When I say sudsy, I mean literally, sudsy. When I do kick sets, I make a full blown bubblebath. The other thing, every single time I leave this pool, I have a full blown sinusitis episode whereas when I go to Kiwanis or the YMCA, that doesn't happen. I now take allergy medication when I arrive and it's in my shower bag to take immediately after. Whatever chemicals they use don't vibe with my sinuses and definitely don't vibe with my hair. Ladies, fill your hair with oil, water and conditioner before you get in this pool and consider wearing two swim caps instead of one if your head can handle it. Your hair will still die more than any other pool I've ever swam in and don't even think of going in the pool if you have dyed hair. The colour will be stripped out. This pool has both stripped toner from my hair and dyed the natural hair in a single swim.

I highly recommend if you have any sort of medical issue, you skip this pool altogether. It's unsupervised and the glass in the one area where people actually see you is frosted. The gym bros aren't going to save you. They can't see you. The people in the front aren't looking. I once went in at 0200 hrs, immediately saw someone laying next to the hot tub, and asked the very friendly staff member when she last looked at the pool because someone was passed out next to the hot tub. She said a while. The guy passed out next to the hot tub after getting light headed and being smart enough to get out. When I went to get in the pool I chatted with him and offered him glucose tabs. He said he was likely there for about 45 minutes. If the glass wasn't frosted, maybe a gym bro would have seen him. I purposely made friends with some gym bros, one whom I don't even like. Both know when I'm in the pool and practicing breath holds or am swimming more than 10K and check on me.

If you go after dinner, expect people with no pool etiquette. I don't go at this time before I'm going in for night shift. It's a waste of time. There are parents in the hot tub not supervising their kids in the actual pool and you have random people walking around in the pool directly in front of swimmers as they do lengths. There are also no lane lines and if there are more than 3 people in the pool, you're pretty much out of luck cause people don't know how to share there.

That all said, the women's change room is clean, the pool is clean even if for whatever reason the chemicals they use don't jive with me, the facility seems clean and the staff is wicked friendly. Also, if you work shift work, you can go at 0200 when you're coming off of nights and almost no one is there which is why I give this gym 4 stars even with the...

Very frustrated with a personal trainer I will not name. And now the management as I have been waiting for a phone call from a supervisor to discuss my concern for 3 days now. So discouraged from even being a member at this point.

Dont waste your money on the personal training packages they offer when u sign up. I opted to do one as it was my first time joining a gym and working out at all for that matter so I figured the "Life Changer + 3 sessions" package would be perfect as I wanted to do this on my own, but I litterally had no clue what I was doing or where to start.

I was told that the lifechanger takes about 90 minutes and then I would receive 3 - 1 hour sessions.

My first session (the life changer) was less than an hour. She had to cut it short as she had another appointment and did not have time, she told me we would finish it on my next session.

My next session I sat at the gym waiting for her for 40 minutes at 7am until I decided I wasn't wasting my time anymore. She called me several hours later telling me she had a small fender bender on her way in to work so she was late.. You dont call your place of work to inform them you will be late? They tried calling her a couple times as well but no answer. Fine, we booked my next session.

The second session was just under an hour again and we only finished the life changer assessments, nothing more.

My 3rd session was an hour and it was great. No complaints. She spent some time offering me personal training packages where I expressed I was not interested as this package is all I needed. I also brought up the life changer session and what I was told when I signed up and how it took 2 full sessions.

She explained that the gym does not allow them too book sessions longer than an hour and that she would book my last session on a day she had no one else after to make up the time I lost.

I have yet to receive that last session.

I did have to cancel it but asked to rebook it, she asked me what dates worked for me. I replied to her to let her know my schedule and it took 10 days.. TEN DAYS for her to reply with "sorry, let me check my schedule and get back to you".

She has not gotten back to me and it has now been another 12 days. I did send her a msg 2 days after hers letting her know my schedule again and that my package was expiring at the end of the week.

At the end of the week she still had yet to reply so I called and asked for a supervisor. I was informed they had left for the day/weekend but she would call me Monday. It is now Wednesday night and I have no call.

So maybe this review will give them a push to rectify...