Life Time — Local services in Wheat Ridge

HONEST REVIEW ➡️ I am a total gym snob, having had memberships to both Equinox in L.A., and Pura Vida in Denver. I love amenities, and a clean and inviting atmosphere… So we were on the list early when we heard a Life Time was opening up on our side of town.

🏋️ Gym: The main gym floor is huge with probably about 30 treadmills, plentiful stair steppers, and every single machine you would need, plus tons of free weights and mats located at all corners of the gym. There are also separate rooms for yoga, Pilates, group, fitness. They offer classes like Bootcamp, hot yoga, kickboxing. There are even multiple Pickleball courts available for reservation 🏓

🔐 Women’s locker rooms: Nice hanging/closet area for winter coats in the front (pictured) Towels everywhere …nice that they are plentiful. They are scratchy but get the job done, and I would rather have that than lugging around a wet towel in my car all day. The fact that they provide make up wipes is a nice extra. Sauna is extra hot and very large🔥 Steam room is hot and always has eucalyptus. Everything is clean, showers are plentiful. Don’t know why they don’t have a cold plunge, unless I have missed that. Hair dryers are very low so you have to bend down on your knees to blow dry your hair and I am not a very tall person.

🥊 Classes: I have only taken the strike class with Andie so far (twice now), and am obsessed! She is a great instructor. I know this will be a fave for me (pictured).

👧🏻👦🏼Kids center: Super secure, they print a name tags and put on their backs. Infants are up to a year or until walking, and then there is a toddler room after that. They provide really sweet and fun classes like gymnastics, art, etc. Note ➡️The infant care center is booked out weeks ahead! So make sure you sign up when the reservations open up -one week before hand. ⭐️ Your membership comes with two hours of free childcare each day!

☕️ Cafe: There are two sides one is the lounge that has coffee, smoothies, green juice, and some alcoholic beverages. The other side has grab and go items like tuna salad, sliced fruit, and every single bottled beverage you can imagine like Celsius, energy drinks, coconut waters. They had a really nice selection of kids, snacks, and drinks as well. I have had a salad 🥗 so far (pictured-looks like a lot of dressing, but the lettuce was packed in there so tightly it was enough for lunch for My Husband and I both!!) was great value for the money, and delicious dressing.

💆🏻‍♀️Recovery Room: Compression sleeves, hydro massage, Thera guns, that you can reserve on the app ahead of time.

🧖🏼‍♀️ Spa and Beauty: Really nice that on most days (besides weekends), you can reserve an on-demand blowout, haircut, facial. They have my some of my favorite products like Eminence organics, and Oribe hair.

…did I miss anything?! Overall I am a fan so...

I’m an internationally-decorated Ironman triathlete, marathon runner, rugby coach and former representative player, and qualified personal trainer. I’ve been using gyms all around the world for ~30 years, with high expectations and good insight into what works and what doesn't. I’m putting my flag in the ground to say this Life Time facility in Denver West is the best I’ve ever used!

I had a personal training session with Master Trainer, Cassandra Padilla, after identifying a weakness in my S&C training which I wanted to address as part of my preparation for the Ironman World Championships. Cassandra blew me away with her fantastic knowledge, attitude, empathy, enthusiasm, energy, and professionalism. I couldn’t recommend her highly enough to anyone needing help with their training. Whether you’re a total novice or a super athlete, Cassie walks the walk and talks the talk!

I also had a couple of stretch sessions with Stretch Specialist, Alyssa Loose, ahead of a recent Ironman race. Like Cassie, she was fantastically knowledgeable and professional, with a great attitude, empathy, enthusiasm, and energy. As someone with a lifetime of broken bones and soft tissue damage, I know I’m not easy to stretch and mobilize, but in just two sessions, Alyssa put my degenerating old body in good shape for my race.

The overall facility has been very well designed and utilized efficiently. The equipment is first rate, and covers the full breadth of training requirements (with the possible exception of power lifters who want to shift serious tin). The lighting—which gyms usually neglect—is good. The indoor lap pool is a rare treasure, and the outdoor one is great too (when members aren't using it as a social club!). The recovery suite is a fabulous value-add for someone like me who’s falling apart! The Kids Club is wonderful, and the enthusiastic staff knew my son’s name after just one session. All the staff are fantastic with great attitudes. The facility is spotless from top to bottom, and enthusiastically cleaned morning to night. There could be more water fountains and cleaning/sanitization stations on the gym floor, but what there is are good.

The one area that lets down the overall facility is the outdoor catering. Service is frustratingly slow, and orders have sometimes been wrong. It’s a very small menu, and the facility is well-staffed, so I’m quite bewildered as to how this isn’t a sick-running machine like the rest of the facility.

Overall, this is a lovely fitness center. I’m mindful you get what you pay for (it’s not cheap), and it’s still shiny and new, so I’ll check back with another review in a year’s time, but right now it get five stars...

UPDATE as of 10/1/25: They called the cops on my wife. Sitting in the parking lot waiting for my son to wake up from his nap before taking him to daycare (they still have active memberships) 3 cop cars surround her vehicle because the manager is retaliating against us. The police have taken a statement from us and we are pursuing a legal remediation. You guys are literal demons running this place.

Retaliation that ugly for my bad review is Disgusting

UPDATE: after the loads of communication with upper management that led me to posting this review I finally got a call from corporate. They banned me. User beware.

..There is nothing premier about this place. In the first year it was an absolute treasure but management opened the flood gates on their bizzare waiting list process (somehow i know people still waiting)

The facilities are constantly dirty. Now the staff is overwhelmed and doesn’t care about anybody management is nonexistent. Jill and Joe are never around, especially during peak hours when they should be.

If youre signing up for access to the pool i would advise you dont. Average weekend is overcrowded. People show up at 8am to “reserve their spot”

Also Parking.. always has been an issue and with the new developments opening surrounding the gym it will become even more sparse.

Also worth mentioning numerous cars have been stolen (one thief managed to access the club and steal someones keys)

They still refuse to have security?

The one saving grace of this gym is the amazing people who run the daycare. If you have kids, they will definitely succeed in their classes being here.

Go support a local gym or check out broomfield. No need to overpay for this garbage. Would leave if it wasnt right next to my house. (Convenience)

PS worth mentioning. We ran some labs on the food and drink as well as supplementz they serve. Non organic, extremly unhealthy ingredients, low in vitamins and minerals. High in pestides.

Added: Sorry to sound like a “negative nancy” and I do truly wanna say that I love this place and I love the people that work here behind the scenes to make it what it is there’s some very unique characters and informative caring people. Unfortunately management at the highest level has got to be looked at by corporate and probably needs to go. With the right leadership and some bright ideas this place would KILL IT

1st pic is pool 2nd pic is parking lot (every day its like this) 3rd pic is an obviously microwaved frozen burger 4th pic is the gyms senior manager “working...