X Shadyside 24Hour Health & Fitness
Pittsburgh, PA 15232-2410
Phone: (412) 363-9999
10/24/2006 Posted by pgh15232
I am a reluctant member of this gym because it is 2 blocks from my house. Otherwise, it is an absolute dump. It smells. It's often 100 degrees inside and stuffy. I don't go near the disgusting locker rooms. There are never enough machines for the sheer volume of members who go there. Take a book, because you'll sit around for an hour waiting for a machine to open up, regardless of the time of day. Half the machines are broken. You can't see the TVs from the machines. Even if you can see them, there's no volume. The weight room is dominated by musclehead steroid goons dropping enormous weights on the floor and shaking the whole place, pacing around with menacing demeanors, posing in the mirror, etc. I've belonged to other gyms in other cities and paid less for much, much nicer accomodations. This place is so cramped it's ridiculous. There is enough room in the tiny far corner for one person to do crunches. And you'll be doing them under the feet of some muscle head doing squats while he's roaring and grunting. No swimming pool. No basketball courts, racquetball, squash. And the "24 hour" thing is a joke, too. They're closed by 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays, and by Noon on even the most minor holidays. At least you can go there at 3:00 a.m. on a Tuesday night!
Cons: It's overcrowded, dank, sweltering
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