The Seattle Gym

BEWARE of this gym… they have very shady business practices. Read all reviews below, I find that they are all dead on the truth!
the equipment is old, tired, broken, and dirty. actually the whole gym is dirty and very tired… the gym really needs lot of attention to bring it up… adding fake brick walls to the weight rooms ain’t gonna do it!
some of the instructors are stuck in the 80’s (Jane Fonda style – really)-for funnzies you should try the 6:00 am workout class, it really takes you back several decades in just one morning.
if you are over 65 years old this is the perfect gym. If you are any younger than 40 go somewhere where they are embracing the the new millennium – will not be hard to do.

Why are reviews not in date order? The review from 1÷5÷2016 was at the top with 5 stars until this review? hummm, Go figure! I wonder if the gym owner had to pay to keep that 5 star review at the top?
This gym is horrible-​I would give it zero stars but that isn’t an option. According the latest Unilocal ratings the gym is on a massive spiral down (out of control!)
Please notice that the gym owner, Kari, has only responded to a few of the complaints that she is getting… she can NOT respond to all because she is busy stuffing money in pockets instead if keeping up the gym… or she is paying off Unilocal…
ask for a tour before signing up!

I am not a current member, but was in the past.
Kari offers wonderful well executed classes, a no non-​sense membership, respectable environment, and is an over all fantastic gym to join if you’re going to have a gym membership.
The Seattle Gym shows true professionalism and expertise in their field. I would highly recommend their services.

The $ 15/​month is a good deal until you realize it only applies through January. So beginning January 1. You will be paying $ 45/​month.

I live near the gym, so just use the equipment, not the locker room or sauna — there definitely are times of the day when it is busier, but if you can find something outside of early morning and 5:00 — 7:00, there is not a lot of competition for the equipment. Agree the music is too loud in the equipment rooms, but if only a few people are there, the staff is willing to lower the volume — just a notch or two makes a big difference. I think the front desk staff are very friendly, and I’m in there most days, with a lot of different faces there. If you are reading this, Seattle Gym, nice choice of music for the past two days in the early afternoon! (sincerely meant, not sarcasm! very soothing music) Very glad this gym is in the neighborhood.

Not impressed! Music is too loud — -the bass thunders through the entire building. Certain managers need to learn the fine art of courtesy and a good public relations manner.

This gym is affordable, in a good location and the hours work well with my schedule. I only wish they would keep the men’s locker room and showers cleaner. The soap dispensers are not refilled on a regular basis and the carpet in the locker room could stand a good vacuuming. Staff are friendly and the equipment is in OK shape.

The trick is to get a membership when they are offering one of their deals. I’m a poor grad student and couldn’t afford it otherwise, but their New Years deal worked great. In 5 months I have NEVER had an issue getting on cardio equipment. Their classes are typical… but what they do best is hiring excellent instructors. The instructors are friendly, encouraging, and helpful with your fitness goals. Especially, Randy and Rachel from body pump.

On the face of it this seems like a nice enough place. There is the usual large turnover of the underpaid front desk staff & the typical Seattle anality rules, you cannot dry yourself off in the sauna if dog that you are happen to come in from the rain, folks snitch, lots of the men — at least at Laurelhurst — behave like proverbial old women, par for Seattle as far as I am concerned, and might take cell phone photos, there really is no place to rest unless you want to share it with the kiddies. I’ve moved on to 24 hour fitness which has a better working sauna and a steam room and jacuzzi and of course a far larger assortment of instruments, not that those at Laurelhurst don’t suffice. Lots of classes. Lots of loud music when there are classes.

It seems like a nice enough gym and I get a work discount. Its also close to work so I can get in a workout over lunch. But the facility is not that great – the main concern is the locker rooms. The men’s locker room looks like it needed a complete renovation years ago – the showers are in terrible condition and its not terribly clean. At some point track lighting was installed in the locker room area right by the lockers, so it you raise you arms to change your shirt you hit the lights. Its an older building but the lack of clean shower/​locker facilities is scary. It has tons of classes and has a great community feel, but they aren’t making any investments into the mens’ locker rooms for sure!

I go here because it is convenient. Nice people in the morning. But the gym is dirty, there is never enough cleaning equipment and it smells! Apparently the classes are the big pull because seriously I would never shower or even pee here… Just really close to my house and the am crowd is nice and it is not crowded…

I belonged to this gym during the summer, and went at all different times every day, sometimes twice a day. In all that time, yes, I tried to make a class, but just didn’t. So I can’t speak to the classes, although they are used by members and are usually full. That’s the good thing– they offer a ton of classes, and the membership is cheap. $ 108 for 3 months with a bunch of classes thrown in is super cheap.
This place has a ton of equipment– rowers, ellipticals, stair steppers, treadmills, weights. And it is never busy. The neighborhood area has a lot of married people and their teenage kids, which is the customer base of this gym. It isn’t an uncomfortable place, but if you are young and single, you won’t find a ton of cohorts. There isn’t such thing as 5 pm rush. The busiest time I can find is about 12:30 when I think everyone from Seattle Children’s Hospital pop over on lunch, but even then, not too bad.
Here’s the two things that gave it a two-​star: it is not clean. I often used this gym to shower before I was running off to a meeting after working out. One shower had a band aid stuck to the shower door for a quite a while– it became a game for me to count and see when that band-​aid would disappear. I reached day 17 before I quit. I then told a person at the front desk, and she had enough dignity to be horrified. She assured me they have cleaners every night pop in, although I don’t know where. The band-​aid was gone the next day. The floor in the locker room always needed a good vacuuming, and it was extra yucky to walk on after a shower. It appears clean until you actually are there every day, and then eww. The bottom of the showers are often black and icky. I have a feeling it could be a lot worse, but due to the high number of mothers and older women who are members and probably do secret cleaning when they see something, make up for the lack of professional cleaners.
The equipment is not cleaned either. Any stair stepper or elliptical is icky, especially where you put your feet. It often looks like someone who just went hiking in the mud then decided to follow up with a nice elliptical workout.
The staff: there is one staff member who is awesome and on top of it. The rest, not so much. I have been told «I’m eating my dinner now» when asking for a towel, confusion over class schedules, confusion over trainers (they don’t seem to know how they work or do not work for the gym) or basic membership. Sometimes they just act like they can’t be bothered. The towel issue became quite funny, because sometimes it seemed it was kind of a trial for them to figure out how to bill me for it. Sometimes they are just not all with it.
If you want someplace cheap, this is it. You get what you pay for.

Love this place! The people who work there are all very friendly. It’s not your typical gym full of meatheads.

I’ve been a member here for about 6 months now. They have a great student discount (~$ 30/​month) so it makes it pretty reasonable. Also, I joined last fall when they were running a promotion to get the fall for free if you committed for a year, so our first 2 – 3 months were free! Not bad!
The gym is nice and small and has a community feel to it. I generally am able to get the machine I want, although if I show up right around 5 PM or so, I might have to go for my second choice machine. There’s about 10 treadmills, a good selection and several different types of ellipticals, bikes, and stair machines, a full room of a free weights, about 20 different weight machines. There’s a dedicated stretching room with mats. There’s also a nice, clean locker room (although the showers are fogged glass — I’d prefer something a bit more private). There’s also a friendly greeting person at the door and plenty of towels around.
There’s a great variety of classes included with memberships. I’ve tried a few yoga classes and step aerobics. The instructors have always been nice and helpful and the classes are fun and easy to follow along. The only classes that sometimes fill up are the cycling classes. While I’m not the best about actually getting myself to the classes, they really make the gym feel like a great deal to me — I could spent $ 30 a month on two yoga classes alone!
The only thing I don’t love about the gym is its location. It was super convenient when I lived right nearby, but it’s a ways off the highway and you have to get through some UW traffic to get over there. Not the most convenient if you don’t live east of the University.

I recently joined this gym as it is close to my work and I have been pleasantly surprised. I didn’t realize until I had actually walked into the building that it is actually 2 floors. The cardio equipment is on the second floor and most of weight machines are on the first. There are multiple different fitness classes available throughout the day and there’s no need to sign up beforehand, with the exception of the cycling classes. It gets a little crowded in the late afternoons, but there are is so much equipment that it really didn’t bother me. The locker room is also very clean and there is plenty of parking. I highly recommend this gym if you are around the neighborhood!

Great place. I was at Talaris for a conference, and The Seattle Gym had a week-​long membership deal that allowed me to work out on breaks from the conference (Talaris is essentially in the same parking lot).
Very friendly and helpful staff, well-​stocked with machines and a great deal.

The Laurelhurst gym could really use a deep cleaning and mopping of the floors in the cycle room on a continuous basis– I guess any type of cleaning would be an improvement to what is happening currently. The machines really need to be wiped down from top to bottom every once in a while too, people drip sweat all over them and then just give them a rudimentary wipe down when they are done using the machine. Have you every seen anyone, I mean anyone wipe down the bottom section of the treadmills or elliptical machines – they are covered in sweat-​oh my, the germs. And the floors in the cycle room… don’t get me started… I too notice the crap that is accumulating between the sponge squares that are on the main floor of the gym-​does the gym not own a vacuum cleaner?
It would be more that wonderful too if they could change up the M-​W-​F 6:00am class. I don’t think the instructor has noticed but most of the participants leave at 6:45 when she moves the class into a pirouette twirling spinning type routine-​yes, it could be that some must leave to go to work but when only one or two or left it might mean the class needs some adjustments. Body pump might be a great way to bring the class into the 21 century and leave the 80’s behind.

This is a pretty good neighborhood gym. They have a pretty extensive lifting area with a few cardio machines mixed in and an entire upstairs dedicated to cardio. They have a big room for classes and a separate one just for cycling classes (only 22 bikes so make sure to sign up!) The locker rooms are a decent size and they have a sauna too. The staff is very friendly and they get to know the regulars.

I am a 22 year old female college student and feel really lucky to be soo close to such a great gym! The fact that it’s about a 15minute walk from my apartment is stellar! The staff is always really friendly! I always get a «hello» when I enter and a «thank you, have a nice day» when I leave! LOVE IT!
They have tons of cardio equipment upstairs. Lots of free weights and bands, a stretch room… They also have tanning beds, Showers, Sana! WOO! and Lots of lockers! They always provide you with a clean stack of work out towels near the front desk, and in the woman’s bathroom they have a nice little jar of Tampons just in case! WOOOOOO!!!
My favorite thing about PR is their work out classes! LOVE THEM! The instructors are really friendly, real people. If you’re new to the class feel free to go up to them and let them know. They’ll make you feel right at home!!! And they give a lot of support throughout the class, they let you know that it’s okay to stumble a little, even if you aren’t new… I mean HELLO we do ALL have our off days! The only thing is that I wish they had more BodyStep Classes! But I guess we can’t run the instructors ragged so I switch it up! :)
Something awesome for people with kiddos is that they have childcare!!! I don’t really know the details, since I’m childless… but IT’S TOTALLY THERE!
Another thing that I LOVE love about this place is the age range, I have people with white hair in the classes I go to and they are kicking butt!!! It’s great!!! If they can get their butts out of bed, then so can I! There are people of all ages, sizes, colors! ITS FREAKIN FANTASTIC!
You must try this gym, they have specials going on all the time! And if you don’t want to commit to the gym, you don’t have to! They have a month to month option as well!
So what are you waiting for? GO KICK SOME BUTT AT PRO-​ROBICS!!! I know I’m gonna! :)
See you there!

This is a pretty good gym. It’s got the basics — air conditioning, lots of weights and weight machines, and lots of cardio machines (even two ergs!). The place is a little old and worn, as are the machines, but they seem clean and they work fine. And if they aren’t clean enough for you, the owners are kind enough to keep spray bottles and towels next to the machines so you can catch the sweat from that big hairy guy who used the shoulder press before you. They even give out free towels for us sweaty patrons. As a bonus, the women’s bathroom carries tampons and little vases of flowers.
Finally, they are running a promo right now where you can purchase 10 visits for $ 10 — all the proceeds go to charity, too!