Planet Fitness – Fenton

This is your typical Planet Fitness. They have great cardio machines, some weight machines, and some free weights. I have never been here when it is jam packed, but they seem to have enough machines to go around. They also have a lot of televisions with all major networks, cable news channels, and sports channels provided.
The reason that this place only gets 3 stars is because the wifi is really weak, the locker room is small, and the showers are usually pretty dirty. I usually have to turn off the wifi and use my cell data to listen to music. Overall, this place is doable when in the area, but it is my least favorite PF that I have visited in Michigan.

I love this place! Great gym and one of the best compared to flint locations. Morning, afternoons, and even late nights still a decent crowd, no drama, and it’s not overly crowded.

I have a membership in Fenton and dread workouting there. Very few if any of the employees are ever working. They feel that a gym with people sweating constantly does not need cleaning. They instead stand behind the counter and talk to each other. The men’s bath/​locker room is always dirty. I plan to move my membership to the Burton location as soon as my employment obligation is up. The people at the Burton location at least clean and do not spend all their time behind the counter talking. The management at Burton is by far superior. The gyms must be owned and operated by different owners because the Fenton PF is not maintained very well nor does there seem to be anyone leading the headless horse in Fenton. If you are just using it once in a while, you might now see the issues but if you go regularly you can clearly see the lack of leadership and laziness of the employees.

This place advertises new treadmills…
If they are «new» why are all the ipod connectors out dated? Not just out dated but worn out, twisted and frayed in some cases.
Stability and balance is important during a work out, I’m afraid you’re going to find it hard to achieve balance when stretching in this gym as the floor is uneven. When performing a squat in the stretching center I felt uneven pull though my body seemed to be on par for stance. So i pulled my level app up and started measuring the floor. You can’t find a level area on that floor within a foot radius. It slants from 4 – 16 degrees variously.
The support columns for the building differ 16 degrees from top to bottom, so they are slanted, creating an uneven pull for one of my work outs when I need the column for stability.
Already I’m not liking the people who run this establishment because one parking lot entry will jack your spine when you drive over it, the parking lot itself is littered with pot holes that could swallow your car, I don’t know about you but I would like to make it into the gym without spinal compression.
The yoga mats they supply as they wont let you bring your own are warped. I wont use them because they will pull the muscles away from the core as they are thick pads that are over used creating sunken craters in the center. So when you lie down on them getting a balanced flat position is impossible you’re muscles are pulled outward away from your core. The mats are also ridiculously small. Their design defies logic and physics required for a safe and EFFICIENT work out.
The yoga balls look over used, I watched some people use them and noticed they bulged incorrectly from ware and desperately need to be replaced.
The lighting in the stretching center makes absolutely NO SENSE. You’re on your back a lot in the stretching center so why are there lights beaming directly down into your eyes? I absolutely love standing up from stretching and becoming light headed as my vision adjusts because I’ve been staring into lights the whole time. This is one room that would benefit from track /​bounced lighting.
I have gone through three years of physical therapy, I did not just attend and do as I was told, I questioned and learned a lot about the body and how our muscles and joints work and I and my physical therapist agree that not all machines that this place offers are safe for ANYONE. So there is that, I have a hard time investing in a company who isn’t up to date on gym technology and research. Although this location has turned down requests for things like row machines as they have been proven to be harmful, they still have some red flags to clean up.
Then there is the fact that this is a gym that offers free pizza on certain days… Anyone who knows anything about health and nutrition knows that pizza is a sugar pie and is a waste of energy to eat it.
I also understand that they are a business trying to make money but the only thing from their cooler I would put in my body as someone who is health conscious is the water and even that is debatable as I have a fantastic private well at home.
Overall I will not be renewing my membership here. Maybe I can find a more structurally sound location but there are a lot of things about their business I don’t agree with, such as not being able to bring in your own equipment. I understand liability but I also understand there are legal way’s to give the client what they want and still protect the business.
Service is poor. I see a lot of people standing around and I have waited at the counter repeatedly while being ignored for private banter between employees that had nothing to do with work. Heaven forbid you don’t know that they have to turn the body treatment thing on for you because if you don’t remind them, if you don’t know you have to tell them to turn it on even though they are standing there watching you sign in, you’ll be standing alone in a room for 20 minutes trying to figure out how to turn it on before getting dressed again to go ask them to turn it on.
The benches in the locker room are unusable if you have leg muscle or pelvis issues due to the raised ridge along the outside of the bench. They would also be better on your back for putting shoes on if the benches were an inch closer to the ground, basic physics.
The hours… this location and many locations are closed at night on the weekend which was the main time I wanted to be in the gym, when my friends are out drinking and I don’t want to join in.
Overall I find a lot of oversight in the set up of this facility and for a gym that advertises to be there for the person trying to get back into shape I find a lot of things not helpful about this place.

great friendly staff. Visiting from out of state. glad a pf was only 1 mile away. Just like the PF by us. the staff here is really friendly. even struck up a convo with Cory for awhile. Thanks for the tips for the hardrock casino in vegas. This one is a lot bigger then the one by us, but dont care for the style of benches they have. and could use another set of cables. but all in all. very clean. no cracked pads on equipment. other then that i guess theres not a whole lot to say. its your typical pf.