Idaho Fitness Factory Paramount — Local services in Meridian

The equipment often needs repair. Some equipment has broken parts that they say won’t be replaced. The ab machine makes such a loud squeaking sound that it makes it near unbearable to use it with it blasting in your ears. Other equipment has loose bolts that need to be tightened. Just very poor maintenance.

The other issue is a lack of a cell phone policy for the weight machine area. Couple that with the highschool kids doubling, tripling, and quadrupling up on one machine and you have waiting times that just become ridiculous. Since there is no cell phone policy, the high school kids and even adults just sit on a machine and look at their iPhones (or start using other equipment while they wait for their friends to get dome with their sets.

I can get three sets on least three different machines before these clowns figure out that someone might be waiting for the machine they’re on. It’s like they’re taking their morning dump while looking at their phones sitting on the toilet. This organization doesn’t give a damn about this and neither...

I am editing this after attending the gym for about 6 months. The more and more I come, the more I realize that if you’re past the age of 25, you’re not going to enjoy this gym. Remember how some guys went through that cringey high school gym stage? Basically imagine this 24/7 here. I’m currently sitting in the parking lot recollecting how I just witnessed about 5 different people (not together might I add) punching the air for literally no reason in the middle of the free weight area. Then there’s another two guys shadow boxing eachother near the bench seats… I just don’t get how there is so little self awareness here. Like, why do I have to wait for you to finish role playing Jackie Chan just to get some dumbbells? It’s SUPER funny and distracting to watch random dudes blatantly ask for attention. It’s like someone talked about fight club and accidentally gave the...

It's kind of small and lacking equipment and it's pretty busy with highschool kids as well... But it's 24/7 and it has the necessities.

Update after working out here for 3 months. It doesn't have a hack squat.... And the machines stay "broken" for months at a time, as I'm typing this there are 3 treadmills, leg press machine, chest press machine, and a cable machine broken. And they've been broken for 3+ weeks. For a busy gym this takes a lot from the users. You'd think they get fixed within a week like other gyms. Other than that it's kind of small but has pretty much everything you need to get a good workout in, but still needs a lot of equipment to be a top tier gym. Crunch meridian was definitely better but this is much closer to me so I...