It's long run monday and rain you need to stay away. Or else i can't run today. Cause the gym is out of the question.
I don't know about you, but with i've been in management. I've studied business. The purpose of a business (and how it stays in business) is to meet the needs of its customers.
We've tried three gyms in our city. One is ok but on the other side of town (in winter it sucks for that drive). One is actually through Dh's work, but its got only old equipment and mostly old people go there, and there is no pool.
The one we go to now has two big big problems. I surely can't be the only member of our gym to find these problems big issues in me getting my butt there!
One is the daycare. Our son is nine months old. Three times this spring (before we stopped taking him there) we went to pick him up to find him sitting by himself, crying his head off (he doesn't cry, he is a very happy baby), with no adult near him (he was only 6 months old at the time). I even tried calling the gym to give a complaint and the manager of the daycare never called me back. Second, the hours of the daycare suck big time. I know i am not the only parent who would find the best time to work out to be between 5am and 8am or in the middle of the afternoon. But they are only open from 8:30 to noon and from 4-8. Seriously! After 4 is a joke,c asue you have to have the baby eat dinner at a certain so his bedtime routine can start on time so the baby will sleep good through the night.
Its a joke and i hate our gym.
Also...they have like a dozen really really ancient and crappy treadmills that no one uses for obvious reasons. They also have a dozen really good treadmills. Well, for the last six months only 6 of the good treadmills have been working. Yea i know. How do you have a gym where you only have 6 treadmills is beyond me. They have signs up saying that they are waiting on their vendor to fix things on the vendors end, something to do with new management there. Sorry what an excuse. Its a business. If your supplier can't follow through with an order in thirty days, its a breach of contract and you switch to a new vendor so your membres will keep coming to the gym!
I'm not one for excuses. Or Bs. But as a new mother who balances a big full plate on her shoulders...when i have the time and energy to go to the gym, i wnat to be able to go. And not deal with poopy daycare people and hours and machines that don't work.
And what is with having classes at 5 or 6pm? its dinner time. People should be home with their families. If you have class at that time that means you eat dinner really late or you eat a big snack at 3 in the afternoon so you don't pass out during the class while waiting to eat dinner.
This rant really makes me want to go off on the people who live at the gym, but i'll save that for another blog.
Can you tell i'm fed up with our gym?
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