Life Time Fitness

The staff at the Maple Grove Lifetime Fitness are awesome — from the Group Fitness Instructors to the maintenance crew. The entire club has a feel of «come as you are and welcome» and there is a general courtesy given to almost everyone arriving at the club — the person walking in just ahead of you will hold the door open for you!
The club just went thru a main floor carpet restoration last week and they also put in a couple of new machines that you will notice if you are a regular.
The parking at this club is pretty good, with ample overflow parking next door at the Maple Grove Library parking lot next door which comes in very handy on Saturday mornings — especially during the months of January and early February (until the newbies drop off).
One complaint: This club is a re-​badged Northwest Swim and Fitness Club which means the lockers are very small and the entire locker room setting is sub-​par for a Lifetime Fitness (at best). As evidence of this — just check out the family locker rooms which were built after Lifetime fitness took over and are Lifetime Fitness standard.

Great place to goto. Daycare is the hardest part about working out. Their staff is A+ and I feel perfectly comfortable leaving my kids with them. This is priceless.

I love this place! I go here all the time. The front desk staff is very nice and friendly, the childcare center is awesome, and the cardio equipment that I want to use is almost always free. The only reason I’m not giving five stars is because of the classes, most of the classes are amazing but they’re usually super-​crowded and I don’t think the offer enough for how popular the classes are. Also, I’m not crazy about the yoga choices, there is no hatha yoga or hot yoga offered. My old Lifetime had a lot more yoga classes.

The set up when you walk in is… not great. The design of this facility can be a lot better. I didn’t feel comfortable walking in. However, the kids swimming area was really nice. I’ll go back just for that.

I really enjoy Lifetime Fitness… We technically belong to the Plymouth club, but frequent the Maple Grove club because we now live closer to it. It is a bit smaller than Plymouth, but I love the set up of the workout area they have to do your own mat excises and it’s great that they have an indoor track, too. My husband and I especially love Kris W’s yoga classes!

I brought my family to the adjacent community center. My daughter is a Lifetime member. The clerk told me that to use the cardio machines for 90 minutes I would have to pay $ 40! This is disgraceful corporate behavior. A reasonable pass would have introduced me to the facility-I’m in town often-​and allowed me to exercise without charging an exploitative and exorbitant fee.

I personally love to workout at home and do so everyday. Lifetime fitness offers such an array of weights and classes that makes it an awesome addition for my lifestyle :)
This is an excellent place for families because of the numerous things you can do. At the end of the day it’s totally worth the investment in your life and health.

This is not my home Lifetime. In fact, I’ve only used the cardio floor a couple of times. It was fine. The TVs aren’t in a good place for the machines I like. Sad for me. However, I have used this pool at least 100 times. Have I ever swum laps? Nope. the schedule is a little confusing for my purposes. I swim with my kids, year round. If I was only grading the recreational pools, I might even give five stars.
They share the building with the Maple Grove Rec Center.
The staff here is cranky. Like when my husband checks us in while I’m holding the swim bag and a child and they make me get out my card and then tell me if I’ve ever been let in without showing my card (say, oh DOZENS OF TIMES) that first of all, I’m remembering wrong and IF it happened once, that employee was probably immediately FIRED. Thanks for the swimming buzz kill. Oh and to the front desk worker who said I must not come very often bc she doesn’t recognize me? Really? My four year old recognized you.
Also, I travel around a bit and I think the crowd here is cranky too. Yes, you should not use your smart phone on the stairs. The locker rooms are a bit small, but by no means is this the smallest LifeTime. Haha. They have a gym! HAHAHA. (Maybe some people are remembering the dearly departed Highway 100 location? That place was HUGE. No wonder they knocked it down) I expect bad locker room behavior in the main locker rooms, but the family locker room can be cut throat too. Everyone should stop using entire benches for all their stuff. We’re in a LOCKER ROOM. There are LOCKERS for your bags.
Back to the good stuff. Zero depth indoor and outdoor pools. I love that during summer we can go back and forth easily. Both pools have some of those little fountains kids love. You cannot bring anything inflatable, so leave the water wings at home and put your non swimming kids in life vests. Do bring a few small toys. Balls, cups, swimming dolls. Lifetime members, use your free towels. I use the MG Community side for bathroom trips and appreciate their typical pool snack bar. The snack bar upstairs is pretty good too. The Life Café kids meals are a shockingly good deal.
There is a small slide in the indoor pool that my children adore. I have watched them as preschoolers use this slide again and again and again. That slide might get five stars from me if only I didn’t have to deal with all the other typical LTF crap.

I don’t like this location. Not one bit. Why? First: It’s small. Really small. I don’t know if it’s because it was originally a different workout chain or what, but it’s got to be the smallest square footage of any LifeTime in the Twin Cities. Second: It lacks equipment. Especially in the free weight area. It’s super small.
Thirdly… What irks me the most is that it has ridiculous hours. Went in at 6:30pm on a Sunday to do some lap swimming. Went at 7:15pm on a Monday. Both times: Pool is closed. Most of the other LT’s are 24 hour gyms and the pool is always open. It struck me as super lame that the pool wasn’t open. And it’s not like it’s closed for maintenance or cleaning or whatever. The pool closes at 6pm every Sunday, and 7 on weeknights. That is really, really, dumb. The café/​store also doesn’t appear to be open past 6pm on the weekends either. I usually grab a protein shake after working out — but not at this location.
It’s to the point now, when I’m in Maple Grove every Sunday and Monday, I don’t even bother going to the gym anymore. I call those my days off. This location is just so disappointing.

This Lifetime looks like an older gym, but still has some decent amenities. There’s plenty of cardio equipment, tvs, weights, etc.
The indoor and outdoor pool are shared with the community center next door, so there are usually a lot of people using it. On busy days it can be tough finding lounge chairs.
The indoor pool has a lap pool that they convert to a volleyball area. A rope swing and short climbing wall are in the pool next to it. The larger indoor pool has a zero entry area and play area for kids. The deeper end has a water slide. They keep the water fairly warm, or is that because all the kids pee in the pool?
The outdoor pool also has a zero entry area and a larger play set for kids. There’s a lazy river and a small bridge that kinda can play on. Noodles can be hard to come by for the lazy river. Some kids take four of them to float. For the bridge, kids have to be able to swim by themselves in case they fall in. If parents try to help their kids cross the bridge expect the lifeguards to yell at them.
The gym isn’t bad, but I’ve seen much nicer and cleaner Lifetime gyms.

I’ve been going here since it was a Northwest club years ago… sorry to say that not much has changed as far as updates go.
This is a nice club as far as health clubs go and probably deserves an extra star but. They have a very good pool here, good gym area for playing basketball, good track for running and walking and a large workout area. When Lifetime bought it they did put a lot of new equipment in and fix the place up.
The worst part is the change rooms. They are very crowded with small lockers, narrow isles and about half the room that other Lifetime’s have. They have a good hot tub, sauna and steam room but really need to enforce club rules in these rooms (they do a better job than the Fridley club mind you, too many old, fat naked Russians).
I will say the Salon here is great, $ 20 for a mens cut, wash and style.
My other beef is the Fitness Trainers downstairs. I have been going here 5 days a week for the last 3 months solid and not one of the six of them have ever said hello. People upstairs are very nice but these people seem to have a stick or weight up their *ss!
KT