RPM Total Fitness

Just had an absolutely killer spin class with Chuck at 730pm. Warning, this is not your mom’s Ymca basement Sunday morning pedal. His music might lull you into a sense of karoake and just when you think it’s not going to be a hard class he is pushing you to your limit at 120% and you are sweating your ass off. Pushed me to my max and I loved every second. Staff are also extremely nice and the facilities are all new with nice clean showers and bathrooms. Will definitely be back.

I stopped in not long ago to check out the place and I have to say I agree with another persons comment about the place on here. Although the classes seem to be a great workout, I feel it’s overpriced for what you are given. What probably used to hold a strong neighbourhood/​local vibe has been lost and transformed into a chain gym pressured experience.

good gym, and classes but had become far too crowded to a point to where you can’t get a spot unless you book a week in advance. even then it’s tough to get a spot in most classes. I signed up for a year but am now very frustrated.

If I had written my review 2 weeks ago, I would have rated RPM a 5-​star. My husband and I live in High Park and have active lifestyles. He bikes outside, and I run outside and train for marathons, and hold a Goodlife membership where I like to do BodyPump and BodyCombat classes with my friends. We come about 2 to 3 times a month on Sunday mornings for spin class with Magz in the winter. She is a really good spin instructor (her rating is 5-​stars!)
Recently, they took advantage of our willingness to show commitment to RPM as our drop in gym. We purchased about $ 275 worth of points. Each spin class is 6 points. By purchasing points, each class ends up being a few dollars cheaper than paying as you go. 2 weeks after we purchased these points, I received a shocking email from RPM that they are cancelling and not going to honour these points anymore. Instead, they unilaterally applied your existing points to a monthly membership. Ie. our $ 275 worth of points, which would normally have lasted well over a year (keep in mind that we come only during the winter), would only last 2.5 months now for ONE person. There was also no option for refund.
After a lengthy phone conversation, they begrudgingly offered to convert our points to a punch card, but not before making many excuses that made me feel like I was the one who was wrong. It would have been nice if the person selling us the points 2 weeks ago (which I think was one of the managers), would have told us that they were planning on converting to this new system. The worst part is that they are putting an expiry of 8 months to use these classes by the end of the year. The points we invested in did not have an expiry date and that was the beauty of it. I feel forced to have to finish my classes now, and I hate being forced to do anything. The person I was speaking with made many assumptions, saying things like, «I’m sure you will come to 16 classes by the end of the year». I’m sorry, but you don’t know me, and my workout schedule. I feel tricked, betrayed and super ripped off.
We used to like RPM because it was our neighbourhood spin studio with neighbourhood values but this kind of action now makes it feel like one of those «big chain» gyms that sucks you in with a good introductory offer and makes it impossible to leave.

Just started at RPM this week… I’ve taken quite a few classes already. The teachers are top notch. Everyone is accomodating and very nice.
I would have given them 5 stars, I just wish they got new spin bikes. But don’t let that deter you. you still get an amazing workout and like I said the teachers are top notch!
The workouts are as tough as you want them to be and the instructors push you to your edge but let you know you can and should pull back if you’re going beyond your edge.
Great place!

I went to RPM again yesterday and took my first «Gravity Strength» class and I almost passed out. Literally. My scalp started tingling and I had to stop.
After spin class, I walked into a room with 8 contraptions called Gravity. Gravity is a machine that is designed to essentially use your body weight as resistance through a cable pulley system attached to a glide board. The class was led by an instructor and he walked us through a series of exercises that work your entire body like a circuit. There are no breaks between the exercises except when you shift positions on the machines. What I loved about the method is it helps you build functional strength — it mimics stuff that you would do in real life. Really, when would a bench press benefit you in real life except maybe when you decide to frolic with someone way beyond your weight class.
It was tough, but then again I’m kind of a wuss. I loved it and I’ll return… likely next month when I recover.
If you do decide to go to Gravity, then bundle up. Man, they gotta turn the heat up at the place coz’ it’s just too darn cold.