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The recent updates (last fall at SMH) at the DAHLC, particularly the SMH location, have put the DAHLC a cut above the rest of the area's gyms, offering a complete weightlifting experience 24 hours a day in a safe environment. Recent updates removed much of the obviously inadequate pieces of weightlifting equipment in exchange for an excellent selection of free weight complexes.

The SMH now boasts 4x multi purpose squat racks, a Smith machine, 45 degree leg press, 45 hyperextension, seated preacher curl bench, kettlebell/medicine ball complex with battle ropes, dumbbell set up to 120 lbs, and a fair selection of cable and plate loaded machines. Resistance bands, foam rollers, bosu ball, 15 lap per mile track, hardwood cardio classroom, locker rooms, and the mega cherry on top...24 hour access in a secure environment.

It was only 8 months ago or so that Med City offered a painfully awkward selection of gyms. There was the expensive RAC, which for many years was the talk of the town but with far too many features for the average gymgoer and a price to match its size and breadth. The RAC has a lot, all the weightlifting equipment you'd need and a 9 lap per mile track but also a price that's nearly 4 times the DAHLC and limited hours.

There's Edge which is about 1.5x the DAHLC in price, has a full selection of free weights, has new and clean machines, a couple Oly lift platforms, couple power racks, and hosts a more serious bodybuilding crowd, but has limited hours. It's a fair value proposition and worth a try but not close to the value the DAHLC now offers.

Then came Anytime which offers 24 hour access, small less crowded gym environment that's new, 3 squat racks, and about 1.5x the DAHLC. Drawback of access here is that it's often empty past midnight and thus not safe to use alone.

Up until last fall, these were your awkward standout options (among other gyms that dont really stand out, including Northside, YMCA, and Fitness Evolution) then the DAHLC renovated and simply offers a much better value by far than the rest of the gyms in the area. Thanks Mayo. Now a weightlifting gym that we can be much...

Though this is a beautiful facility that's light, airy and pleasant to work out in, we just left for another gym. The parking just got too hard. Huge amounts of the indoor parking were taken away, and I swear that people who park in the DAHLC spots in the ramp are indeed members but stay there to park all day long. There's never an open spot there ever anymore.

The outdoor overflow lot is not great. No coverage for your vehicle, and more and more we had to sit there in our car waiting 10-15 minutes till someone returned and left their parking spot. Then we would walk quite as ways to get to the gym. We can walk just fine, but all this plus now the downtown construction mess, too, takes too much time for a lunchtime workout. Just no longer doable.

So happy to just park right in front of our gym now and to never have to worry about finding a parking spot.

I also don't miss all the construction and inconvenience with closing off areas and moving equipment around that has been so present at the...

Hours are until 11 but they will kick you out at 10:45

No hip abductor/adductor machines. This is the only "full" gym I have ever seen without them. It's embarrassing. These machines are arguably the most important cross training that a running can do to avoid lower leg/knee injury. They know this. They just give run around answers about how they don't have room and they can teach you how to use strength bands. The space excuse is a joke as they keep adding machines that are almost never used(Rope climbing machine?! Really?!). The strength band excuse is a joke as well, there are no reasonable ways to do these exercises above low weight with strength bands that wouldn't take 10x as long and be just as inconvenient. Is it possible? Sure, you could work out everything with strength bands theoretically, but the efficiency is the point of a gym. It's just ridiculous. The biggest insult is that they have these machines on the restricted upper floors where...