Empire Nation Gym — Local services in Houston

I absolutely love this gym. As a personal trainer and IFBB Pro Bodybuilder, Empire Nation has everything that you need. No matter what your skill level is. Whether you are trying to lose weight and tone up what you consider problem areas, or build muscle, or trying to become the next Mr. Olympia. This gym has everything that you need. You won't find another gym with more equipment to build the perfect body. There's tons of back machines, legs, chest, arms, shoulders, calves machines etc... You will run out of time before you run out of machines to work on. Trust me, this place is nothing like the cookie cutter commercial chain gyms that you are used to. Nowhere close! Empire has a great owner and friendly staff. The members here are like one big family. And here's the best part. There's so much equipment here, you never have to stand in line and wait for your favorite machine to become available. That's a win, win, within itself. And... You don't have to worry about people just sitting around playing on equipment and taking up space. The members at this gym come to work. Give this gym a try. I promise you...

had a membership here about a year ago. wouldn’t recommend wasting your money. this gym gets so hot you can put yourself in danger of heat stroke during the summer. had to stop going because i simply could not find a place to cool down when i pushed myself too hard. i had to run out to my car and turn on the air conditioning. it’s very pricey for a big garage with a bunch of old equipment. do they potentially have everything you’d want to use? yes but ya def have to be ready or plan like you were working out at someone’s closed garage because there’s no airflow in this place. it def wasn’t worth it and was def a decision i regret in hindsight. they have limited hours as well and just to get in the door they have to unlock it for you to even badge in so ya def not convenient so there’s probably a market for this type of gym but the gimmick doesn’t really match when you don’t even have all your fans working and they’ll charge you for not reaching your weights lots of hidden charges that make no sense for a business like this...

The gym is huge with mostly plate-loaded machines. Most of the machines are redundant. For example, there are many machines dedicated to leg extensions, but very few for hamstring curls. The machines are mostly (not all) quite old with failing upholstery and worn-off numbers on weight stacks and dumbbells. The plates do not match and are scattered everywhere. I had to wander all over the gym in order to collect 18 non-matching plates for the hack squat machine. Putting plates in their proper place is NOT part of the ethic at this gym! I travel all over America and visit many gyms. This one is decidedly unfriendly. It might be as a result of the hip-hop/rap music being played at an eardrum-piercing volume. A day pass...