The Village Fit Gym - The Village Dallas — Local services in Dallas

The village fit through photos and appearances, no doubt, is a 4 or 5 star gym. There are however multiple issues that cause it to be 2 stars.

The weight room is incredibly cramped and unimpressive. Compared to the previous village fit, it is comparable in size (with maybe a few less pieces of equipment). This is amusing, because the new village fit must be 6-7 times the size. The old village fit also never seemed quite as busy.

The cardio space, however, is 7-8x the size with much more equipment, when in fact less people when I go use this equipment. You can tell they placed the cardio equipment where they did for the photos. (Gyms like having treadmills in front of windows).

Whoever was the project manager failed to realize that gyms like this are "free" to residents. I use that term loosely because they charge more on rent. The thing about "free" things is more people use them. I've gone at multiple times during the day, 5 am, lunch break hours, 2-3 pm, 5-6 pm, and right around closing at 8-9 pm. The weight room almost always feels cramped, even when it might not be! If you go at 5 am it's empty, but then by 5:15-5:20 it's booming. The day doesn't matter (except on Mondays, because that's national go to the gym and lift weights day). I've even tried to go off of "popular times" on Google, but even when it says it's not that busy - all the people that are there just seem to go to the weight room.

They made an attempt to expand this, no doubt after complaints, but it's all outside and it's not much unless you like to squat, and take all your weights and the bar outside.

I'm hoping Covid is the cause of the tremendous price increases and not amenities like this gym.

I have a feeling they may be trying to increase more space, but I think this is years away. I've kept an eye on their construction practices, and it's pretty slow. I think there was a hole or some issue in the basketball court, It wasn't until a month or two later they boarded it up with wood.

People I've talked to are unhappy with the size, but go because it's free, and "supplement" with other gym memberships. I feel like people supplementing alone shows failure on the village's part for a great gym.

I think people in project management programs at universities could actually use The Village Fit as a great example of going for appearance instead of practicality. That being said, the staff is very friendly. The negative review isn't personal, it's just pointing out the failures of whoever was in charge of building this place. They should consider expanding hours to ease busy hours in the weight room and wheeling out old equipment into a new make-shift space. I know for a fact there was more equipment because I saw it at the old location

TL:DR Gym is pretty for photos, but falls short in the weight room due to it being free and due to a confined space with pitiable amounts of equipment for the amount of residents at the...

Just a couple of comments about the Village Fit. It's a beautiful facility although need more equipment for the serious "work out" people. Check other comments as they are very specific in their needs-more weights, squat racks in front of mirrors, more room either by longer hours or build out to accommodate. Take a poll and ask the members of the Village Fit what they would like to see in their gym. There are offices up front which are empty most of the time when I'm there. More room for work out space and less for office space. Also there's only one room with a nice wooden floor and mirrors downstairs. This room is always booked with classes in the evenings and sometimes the class may only have one person in it. We need time allotments for dance / practicing on the wood floors with music and allowed to close the door and use music to dance. There are many ways to care for our body and keep in mind dancing is a great way to exercise, work on flexibility, relieve stress and move the body. We just need open times slots to use the room without interference with classes every hour in the evening. Also when we are doing choreographing, we need to play the music on the speakers in the room or be allowed to bring our "jam box" to work on our routine. Also why not consider dance classes to include in the schedule? Country two step, ballroom or west coast swing? It would be fun and this style of dance is so...

Cardio area is way larger than it needs to be and goes underutilized, while the weight section is small and always crowded even at "slow" times during the day. Many days you'll never get access to what you need if you're doing strength or bodybuilding training.

EDIT: Owner left this response: "It's funny, the cardio users always want more cardio and the weight room users always want more weights. Surely between 3 outdoor work out turfs, two indoor studios, multitude of equipment, weights, stationary equipment, benches and grit equipment, indoor studios, indoor track and basketball court within 30,000 sq feet - someone can get a decent work out in?"

My response: Just search "cardio" in the Google reviews. Every single one complains of the exact same thing that I did. Nobody that I see has complained about wanting more cardio. Maybe instead of getting defensive, you guys could pay attention to the same repeating message: more strength/bodybuilding options. You only have two flat benches for BP in this entire 30K sq ft. Pay attention, take action if you actually cared. But the decision makers don't care, that's why this never gets fixed. That's why I've now purchased a different gym membership, instead of taking advantage of this free gym as a resident. That should...