Bladium Sports & Fitness Club — Local services in Alameda

WARNING! First, non-members use the gym during gym hours. I guess the gym is open to the general public because after 4 pm random people attend and bring their children and start drinking while children are present, so generally speaking it's not safe because you have a lot of drunks walking around every day. Second, the gym always appears to be rented if you want to use the fitness section were all the mechanical machinery is located good luck I have witnessed how all the old farts follow the young women around and act like they are working out just to watch them. I am appalled by some of the behavior I have witnessed. I feel sorry for some of the women but I can tell the women know when the old men are working out next to them just to get a closer look at their body parts. If your a woman you have been warned the old men and some men in general will follow you around just to stare at you. I have witnessed it all year and have become frustrated by it because it's obvious. In addition, I never used the bathroom in the fitness section of the gym because they smell horrible but I have also witnessed how they clean the restrooms. Maintenance mops the floor with dirty mops, slightly wipe down the sinks and if the mirrors look clean dont clean them at all. Maintenance never cleans the sauna and the shower stalls they do a "thorough" cleaning on Thursday once a week, every other day it's a simple wipe down. I know because I am friends with the maintenance staff and have personally witnessed how the bathrooms are cleaned. They never thoroughly clean the women's bathroom so, if you are using the sauna or showers make sure you are fully clothes because you might catch something, carpets get cleaned once a month benches never get wiped. Also, I just learned that they are having trouble hiring people to keep the place clean so good luck guys hope you don't catch anything while you are there. When it comes to cleaning the fitness rooms were the trainers have their class they clean them once a week and slightly wipe down any dirt they see.

Third Bladium summer camp which means all summer and non-summer have kids running around the gym all day making it impossible to have a good work out, so basically every day, all day the gym is occupied by kids and even if you rent out the courts or fields there are still children running around and drunk people making it impossible to enjoy your time at the gym. Furthermore, they have a program youth coordinator named Kelsey McKeon that tries to get parents to join a summer scam camp called Triple Threat Academy (T.T.A.) which I consider a real sham because they charge people $280 for 3-4 days to be trained by one of their 'PERSONAL TRAINERS" named Drew Nash. I did some research and have found the private contractor T.T.A to be a sham company I doubt they are even an LLC. I looked online and found their address and main office location to be a UPS store when I spoke to UPS management they said no company (T.T.A.) by that name is located there. Also, I looked online at the T.T.A website to get more information on the "personal trainer" and found Drew Nash does not possess the proper credentials. As a matter of fact people actually need a Bachelor's in Kinesiology to be a personal trainer Drew Nash doesn't even possess a Child Development certification that is required by law to work with kids. Sorry but having a high school diploma and some college basketball experience doesn't make you a legit trainer or qualified to work with kids. Also, just because you have a website doesn't mean you have a legit company T.T.A. is charging people $280 for 3-4 days they have been working with Bladium for over a decade now. Basically, Bladium appears to just hire anyone to work with the kids and scammed their clients. So if you don't really care about your children's safety take them to Bladium camp. All information is online I will post some pictures and add links they honestly just hire random people to take care of the children. You have been WARNED it must be true if the guy below is...

Referees have absolutely no control of the games. When you play soccer here, you risk getting punched in the neck, slapped, or scratched across the face - all three of which happened to my teammates in the last 2 indoor soccer seasons at Bladium. After the first incident, the referees and Luis, the indoor soccer director, completely dismissed our complaints when we said the matches were getting too verbally aggressive and violent. After Luis gave our team captain some lip service saying he agreed that things were getting out of hand and that he would tell the refs to call the games more tightly, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and came back for another season. Within a few weeks, my teammate was punched in the neck after a game escalated with the same referee from the previous incident. After sending that player off the field, the referee and the other team’s “coach” justified our player getting punched because she tackled their player. Regardless of whether or not it was a hard or clean tackle (and it was both hard and clean), that is absolutely disgusting and inappropriate to suggest that our player was to blame for getting punched in the neck. I’ll be surprised if Bladium doesn’t see legal action against them at some point as long as this behavior and lack of accountability for players’...

PARENTS BEWARE: I recently had an experience with Baldium Sports Camp that left me more than disappointed. Actually shocked.

I was surprised to find out that during camp hours, the kids were watching TV instead of participating in the various fun activities that were advertised, such as basketball, kickball, and arts and crafts. This is completely the opposite of an active and enriching experience I had hoped for when choosing Bladium camp for my children.

I emailed the camp director Ben Maxwell and unsurprisingly never got a response. I also called and spoke to Jimmy about some problems my kids encountered at the camp, and while he acknowledged the issues and promised to call back, I never heard from him again.

In the email, I mentioned the disengagement of some coaches who seemed more interested in their phones than interacting with the kids. Nobody was checking kids out of the camp during pickup, which seems like a basic requirement to have a license to take care of children.

While I await a response from the camp, I DO NOT recommend the camp due to the issues mentioned, and will never send my kids to a Bladium camp, Nike KIDS Camp or US Sports...