Gold's Gym Austin Downtown — Local services in Austin

Y'all. I cannot even begin to tell you what an amazing impact Personal Trainer Edward "T" Cantrell has has on my life. I'm a gal who's been struggling with weight loss. In the past 5.5 years, I've managed to go from 230 pounds of curvaceous to 15.6% body fat of bodacious! When I met T in October of 2012, I was at about 23% body fat and just knew I had to take my weight loss to the next level. I asked him to help train me for the upcoming Warrior Dash (that was happening in only 3 weeks!). It has now been 4 months and I still meet with T several times a week. He is tough--and I mean REAL tough. However, he is REAL GOOD and GETS RESULTS. I am in love with my physique and am constantly amazed when I look in the mirror. I'm telling you....this man is phenomenal. He makes me believe that I can push myself beyond the limits, and I do....every time. He's not "sales pitchy" either. I keep paying the man because I truly believe in him and my new-found acceptance of and pride in the way I look is all because of him One awesome downtown Gold's Gym offering is T's Functional Fitness Boot Camp. Twice a week at 6:30am, T teaches a boot camp class. Because of T's personal attention and motivating personality, it's basically like getting personal training sessions for half off. I recommend this boot camp to ANYONE looking for a challenge. While I'm on the topic of praising people to the nth degree, I have to shout out to Jessica and her Body Combat class on Fridays at lunchtime. I'm telling you--this class is AWESOME. It's not cheesy/dancey (which I know many people don't like). It's serious A$$-kicking, sweating fun. Jessica offers options for people of different fitness levels, but is not afraid to push you a little further. On Friday at noon, when most people are going out for lunch or starting their weekend early, I'm busting my butt in Jessica's Combat class. Makes me feel a heck of a lot better about Friday Happy Hour....you know what I'm sayin'????? In conclusion, I just love T and Jessica. I love the entire staff at Gold's Downtown...from the manager to the trainers to the GGX instructors and even the housekeeping staff! Everyone is so friendly and makes you feel like a...

I’m pretty surprised that this gym has rough reviews. I don’t live in the area and I came in for a guest pass I was greeted by a jacked gentleman who was really respectful and nice. I have an extensive background in powerlifting and strength and conditioning and I am used to facilities that are very well equipped first off. This gym was perfect for what it is. It’s not cramped like some people say, it’s extremely well equipped and the layout makes a lot of sense for the amount of space the gym has. If you’re looking for something large like many gyms in Texas are, if you just look at it from the outside this obviously isn’t huge so some of these reviews don’t make a lot of sense. I like the aesthetics and the lighting of the whole place, the main basement area gives an old school golds gym vibe while being really clean. It could use maybe one more squat rack but the machines from what I saw were really well equipped they had plenty of dumbbells and barbells and plates. The bathroom was clean the sauna was nice. Everything was nice and exactly what I would be expecting from a golds gym.

If you’re expecting a warehouse gym that’s HUGE with tons of space this isn’t it. This is a nice convenient gym that’s well equipped for people who are serious at lifting or just beginning. For what it’s worth I saw a personal trainer from the gym doing a pretty good job at training her client which you don’t see often at big corporations.

Honestly I would go as far to say as some of these reviews just aren’t true and if by chance you DID have a bad experience here - coming from someone who’s been at top gyms all over the country and especially where I’m from in New York give this place another chance. I had a surprisingly GREAT workout. I met the general manager Mike he was super duper nice along with another gentleman. I really have no complaints only nice...

Gold’s Gym

What you need to know: Convenient, centrally located, not crowded, priced well.

I work out at lunch. I can’t spend two hours in the gym. Because I live in Round Rock and commute downtown I just don’t have the time after work to hit the gym and I was done with getting up early after I left the Navy. I get about 45 minutes worth of working out done and then hit the showers. That is why this is a great place for me. If you have a different scenario obviously, you might have different needs.

I believe they will validate your parking. I walk from my office so that hasn’t been an issue for me. If I’m wrong, I’m sure someone can let us know. But, what can you expect when you head down those stairs? Well, first, the only time of year it is a little crowded is right after January 1. By March it pretty much thins out. Yes, I am dogging out those New Year’s resolutionists. There are plenty of lockers and the showers are clean. There is also a sauna in the men’s locker room.

If there is an exercise that you want to do whether it be free weights or machines, you’ll be able to do it here. There are rows of cardio machines, a spinning room, and a room for yoga/dance/aerobics classes. The staff is great. I’ve been lucky and only had one issue over a payment, and it was resolved the next day. So that shows they are responsive. There is a couch and a table to use, but I would not say that it is a real lounge area if, say you were coming from Lifetime fitness. Just remember, there is only so much you can do on a property like this and I feel like the staff are always looking for ways to improve. I don’t use the personal trainers but I’ve seen them working and they all seem nice, and attentive to your goals. I’ve belonged to bigger fancier clubs but for a lunchtime workout downtown you can’t...