Grant Health and Fitness Center

I will seriously miss this place as it sets the bar high in so many areas.
Price: great for the variety of equipment, classes (that you don’t pay extra for), and cleanliness of the facilities.
Staff: excellent, trained staff! I can honestly say I liked everyone who worked there because one could have a good chat or just leave it at a friendly greeting. Did I mentioned well trained? I worked with a number of different trainers there and they all had their strong suits in the programs they developed for me. I thought the training packages were reasonably priced and not designed to gouge.
Classes: I think there’s something for everyone in this respect. I went to a fitness class two days a week for most of the last year I was there and tried to make sure I scheduled around it. And I am not typically a class-​goer. Though there’s no pool, I was motivated to learn how to swim through the life coaching sessions I bought. Now that I can swim, I wish there was a pool, but not a big deal.
Population: As Susan H. mentions, it’s not your typical loud, grunty hardbodies population. Instead there are people with a range of abilities, so it’s not intimidating. It was motivating to take a class or work on equipment with people in their 70s who could run rings around me. This gave to something to work toward, maintain, and then improve upon. I will say that dude do not know how to put their equipment back and like to ignore the no cellphones rule. What’s up with that sense of entitlement?
Parking used to be a bit of a nightmare, especially in winter, because I’m convinced hospital staff were parking in the deck who weren’t supposed to. However, it vastly improved in the last year or so. Still, use the green deck if you want to get to the fitness center and take the elevator to the 9^th floor. Also, there’s usually plenty of parking on floors 4 – 6, but you’ll likely get stuck behind some numpty driving 5mph or trying to squeeze their stupid SUV into a spot [thisbig]. Finally, it’s easier to back into the spots, which are freakishly small. If that’s my only complaint, you know this is a good gym.
In a previous life, I would usually last for eight months at a gym before quitting or going maybe once a week. I stuck with Grant for two years and it will be hard to duplicate the experience.

I agree with the previous reviewer: facilities and price are very good. It’s especially important to me to have amenities such as shampoo. towels and deodorant included at a club, and there are no high pressure sales tactics here as at the chain gyms.
HOWEVER — this place is geared first to the convenience of OhioHealth/​Grant employees. As the other reviewer said, the weekend hours are a problem for those of us that want to fit in a workout on non-​work days. 12 to 4 on Sunday is very inadequate.

I shopped around pretty seriously for a gym. The hands down nicest was McConnell, but it was ridonkulously expensive. Grant is affordable (about $ 52 a month) low key, and comes with free parking downtown! That alone is worth $ 30 a month so…
There’s no pool and the weekend hours are not the greatest but the view is spectacular. There’s a huge window that the cardio machines all face and the gym is up on the 9^th floor.
I like the mix of folks that work out there too. It’s a good mix of cardiac rehab folks, Grant employees, and other random folks. A lot of older folks so I never feel intimidated by the seriously fit young folks at other gyms. The small size and non chain affiliation make this gym a «best kept secret» that most folks have never heard of. I almost hate to Unilocal about it because it is so nice and quiet there now.