Anytime Fitness — Local services in Pinellas Park

I’ve been with Anytime Fitness since 2006 in Minnesota where they first began. I’ve been a member to various locations in Minnesota & Florida over the years & they aren’t all created equal. Elk River, MN was my first & favorite gym! 💙 This location was great until about 1.5-2 years ago, they changed management to save money but clients are paying the price. They took out great weight machines (abs & back) & cardio machines went downhill! Cut out Spectrum (amc, fx, syfy) to just basic cable (news, sports talk shows) I have become a fan of the Weather Channel when running!! Super Engaging 😐 Running on a treadmill sucks, running outside in FL summer sucks more! There’s a bi-annual maintenance fee of $43 (April & October) but IDK what they are “maintaining” cause it’s not worth that and $43/month. I guess the Bathrooms are usually clean. However I/we switched to Crunch fitness on 4th Street after almost 20 years at Anytime as a company. And WOW!!!!! $30 something/month($60 annual maintenance fee) have access to a ridiculous number of classes, other locations and holy crap the machines are amazing, they have 2-4 of each plus a massive dumbbell rack, spans almost the whole building(used to be Stein Mart) plus tanning & hydro massage included. They have trainers for everyone and it’s super friendly & welcoming, I genuinely enjoy being there. I wouldn’t have left Anytime if they hadn’t switched management,I’m very loyal to businesses like this & I don’t like change, I liked Doug, Zack & the other guys, they were great!!! My membership doesn’t fully expire until 5/20 and my hubby still goes there for now, already joined Crunch, he just has to cancel. However changing to Crunch fitness is probably one of the best things we’ve ever done. Plus canceling...

Been a member here for years. The fourth street location was a little crowded but usually not too bad. The name "anytime" has now become pretty ironic.

You wanna go bench press anytime?! I sure hope it's not a Tuesday evening. Wanna use a squat rack?! I sure hope it's not on a Wednesday evening. Deadlifts?! Sure hope you aren't planning on doing those "anytime" like the name implies.

They moved this location to gandy and changed almost no equipment relating to weights. They only have 2 adjustable benches and 2 free weight squat racks, the exact same equipment they had at the old location. They could've added so many more but they chose not too.

If you wanna use a bench, squat, deadlift, do assisted squats or bench, use a bench to press some dumbell presses, etc you have a damn good chance when you get there on a weekday evening you won't even have 1 of those options available to you.

It's really disappointing. The staff is very nice and I'm sure they are encouraged to sign up more members. Every time you go you will see new people being shown around the gym. At some point ownership must understand you are doing a disservice to everyone when this gym is constantly over crowded.

Please please make some administrative decisions to alleviate these issues. Or at the very least maybe we could change the name to...

Whatever you do, DO NOT sign a contract with these people. Very unscrupulous business practices and the manager, Travis, is very smug and condescending about it. Despite having cancelled my membership almost a year ago, they recently sent me to collections over $120. Pathetic. When asked why they sent this to a debt collector instead of contacting me directly, Travy claimed they had been attempting to for months and couldn’t. Funny as collectors were able to right away.....

As for the gym itself, unless you plan on working out at 2am, there’s no point. Very small with limited equipment(doesn’t even have a real bench press). If there’s any crowd at all, you can’t get much done. It’s more or less an apartment complex gym. Being open 24/7 and having access to all the locations in other places is certainly a nice perk, but there is nothing to justify recommending this location in particular. Unless you work out between 12-4am and this location is convenient to you, I would recommend avoiding it and contemptible manager Travis...