Champions Health & Racquet Club

The staff are helpful, and willing to assist. The area is clean, others working out are polite, friendly, and down to earth. No egos, that I could see. More like a group of friends

I love this gym for several reasons. First, It’s never over crowded. I don’t have any trouble getting to the machines or equipment. The owner Hank truly cares about his members. He goes out of his way to help people achieve good health. He encourages people to ask for help whether it be with workouts, education about supplements, nutritional counseling, tips for local fresh produce, and so on. He offers free racquetball lessons which really helped me, and now I’m hooked. If he sees me on the court practicing, he is always willing to come in and give me some great pointers. The manager Vanessa couldn’t be any friendlier. They offer a good variety of group classes for all fitness levels. Cleanliness is a strong priority there, from the steam room, sauna, filtered drinking fountain, all the way to the air being pumped through the facility. That’s a big one for me. The members are very nice too which is a bonus! Members vary in age from teens to seniors. My son is 13 and he enjoys working out, and playing racquetball as well. Great health club!

If you either love in the area or a contractor in Atascadero for work, you have to come in. The racquetball play is great and hardly anyone on the workout machines. I love this place. I will definitely miss this place once our contract for work is over. Hank has given me the love for a sport that I have never played before. I’m on the court 3 evenings a week, religiously. He has given us the tools to become really good racquetball players. If you are not in here, you have no idea what you are missing.

Champions is reasonably priced, had great racquetball courts and classes. I also love the steam rooms and dry sauna. I used to not take classes because I felt a bit intimidated, but everyone there is super friendly and down to earth, so now I take several per week and really enjoy them. But they are tough and make you sweat!
Keep up the continued effort Champions. People notice!

Terrible hours: barely open on Saturday and closed Sunday! Plus closed all holidays, when it’s happens to be a good opportunity for working people to go to the gym at their leisure. A really unmotivating place to work out: outdated music, they turn off the TV’s if you happen to glance away from the screen, hot in summer, and they scurry around you vacuuming and cleaning. High employee turnover is a reflection on management. Owner appears to have OCD issues with keeping everything just so… like a museum… or perhaps morgue.

First of all it cost way too much (I believe $ 100 plus first month membership fees) to get a membership and for the monthly price it’s not worth it. The gym is too small and all the equipment is old. Out of all the treadmills only one would barely work and even then it would stop for a split second that really jacks with your knees. Now that I found a better, newer, bigger gym for cheaper I went to cancel my membership and now I have to pay them $ 25 dollars to cancel my membership!!! Worst gym I have ever been apart of.

Equipment is well maintained; facility is very clean and staff is very friendly. The gym clientele is more designed towards an older population, so if you are looking for social opportunities or classes with very active adults, you will not find it here. Most of the classes are attended by seniors or an older population so the level of endurance may not work for a younger and more fit individual.
Strength training and circuit equipment is adequate, but some additional pieces of equipment would really help the individual looking for a solid strength training routine.
Also, hours around the holidays and weekends could improve. Weekend hours need to be expanded to have the gym opened later on a Saturday and open on Sundays (currently closed).

Where do I even begin! Champions is an incredible place to workout with some truly amazing people. The staff is very friendly, the owner/​managers are extremely helpful whenever I would have any questions regarding nutrition or fitness neither of them would even hesitate stopping whatever it was that they were doing to offer assistance. Hank and Vanessa truly care about the happiness, well being and progress in the lives of the members and this is shown excellently with their intentional relationships with the members and availiblity to help. The club is maintained extremely well and it is clear that cleanliness is very high priority here. The club is great because I could always use whatever equipment I wanted without ever having to wait for equipment! There are excellent classes too that I felt I could always make progress with. I couldn’t have better things to say about this wonderful club and the sweet people here! I would recommend it to anyone and everyone without a second thought!

My work schedule changed — so I have since rejoined Champions because they have some great prices if you want to pay for 6+ months in advance. They still have limited hours on the weekends, which would be my only complaint. But I’m now able to go M-​F so it’s all good.
I still really enjoy the gym and atmosphere. It’s always kept clean (really clean!) and the equipment is in good shape. Even after the New Year it’s not crazy busy and everyone who goes seems to be there to workout. It’s an older facility, so it’s not as whiz-​bang as the new Cal Poly gym or Kennedy. But I actually like it’s vibe better.
Basically it’s the same gym I remember and I’m happy to be back. I’ve had no issues with any staff or the owners, they’ve always been nice enough to me.

the owner is a crybaby & i cant understand why you have to pay money to stop going there!
other then that is beats kennedys perpetual cycle of naked old guys in the locker room, just hanging out.

This is a great gym. No frou frou stuff like Kennedy. The monthly membership is a deal, and the staff is knowledgeable and there to help.