Thibodaux Regional Fitness Center — Local services in Thibodaux

Very disappointing! My husband and I are senior citizens, and we were so looking forward to having a nice place to get in some real exercising! However, it didn't take but a couple of months to learn that the center really caters to young people. All of their staff "appear" to be under 25, and are not interested in helping older people. I went to the desk and asked one young lady to help me with a machine...her reply was "you just sit on it and row, like in a boat!" I explained that I tried but could not get it to work and she reluctantly walked over with me. She saw that it had been "adjusted" for someone with long legs, so she hurriedly changed it to "fit" my legs, and rather rudely said THERE! And walked away...needless to say, we stopped going, then cancelled our membership! Very disappointing. It's simply ANOTHER gym/meeting place for young people who exercise as a "sport!" You will find very few people there who really NEED to be exercising for health reasons, to loose weight or to become flexible and agile. I even suggested they hire a couple of "seniors" for the purpose of identifying with the needs of us older folks...of course I never heard...

The facility itself is very nice, spacious and staff is generally helpful and friendly. Wide variety of machines and classes, however, the rooms are HOT. So hot people leave in middle of class to cool off and I nearly passed out once in a low- energy class. Certain classes are always overcrowded to the point that you cannot even see the instructor, I got stuck against a back wall behind a pole even though I showed up 30 min prior to class and had some rude lady shoving my equipment around so she could have more space, while she had 2 empty set ups next for friends that showed up halfway through class. For the price we are charged monthly it would be nice to get some air conditioning and perhaps a projector screen for those of us shoved in the back so we could actually follow along. No classes between 12-4, maybe a couple classes in that time frame would spread out the crowding, I've had that discussion with quite a few members that would love a 2...

I tried it...didn't like it. Way overpriced for what I was doing/using. Unless you're into water sports there are better options out there. Then there was the issue of the rudeness among some of the staff members. For example, on my second day there I asked one of the fitness desk staff members a question about one of the machines I was using and he completely blew me off... had no time for me whatsoever. So that set the tone for the rest of my tenure there, which was only 2 months and one of those months was under duress... because they claimed I didn't resign before the 20th of the month... and thus had to pay for a second month. They of course alleged that I signed a contract to that effect and it made no difference that I reminded them that I did not even see a contract until after I had already signed an electronic pad. The contract was emailed to me later. Too late then. I'm sorry I just had a bad...