Crunch Gym

I signed up due to the low cost and the fact that there’s no contract. You get what you pay for, the gym is so overly crowded at all hours of the day it’s impossible to get your workout done in a reasonable time. About 80% of the gym is cardio machines, like treadmills and ellipticals, the other 20% is weight lifting equipment. In order for me to wait my turn in line for the incline bench press, i waited 25 minutes because there are only 2 incline bench machines in the whole gym. My over all judgment is they have too many cardio machines and not enough weight lifting equipment. I ended up canceling my membership after two days of attempting to work out. I do respect the receptionist because she contacted corporate for me and I received a refund.

This IMMENSELY POPULAR gym off of Houston Road seems to be THE Go To Gym of Northern Kentucky right now! I did a sample one-​day pass there yesterday and the staff was really friendly though not as well-​informed as they perhaps should have been about the machines and equipment.
The free weights are FANTASTIC and the weightlifting population of the gym appears to be very close-​knit and friendly. I had a GREAT TIME lifting there and it seems to be really geared towards those who like to GET THEIR GYM ON AND GO! Classic 30 to 45 minute workouts are probably this gym’s forte and I highly recommend it for the price and value! CRUNCH and PLANET FITNESS have helped reduce gym prices to, perhaps, what they should more realistically be. We all know that the Big Box Gym Just Down The Street had monthly gym fees as high as $ 45.00 (more on that in my next review of THAT place).
The gym is clean, well-​kept but a tad on the smallish side for me. There’s a HUGE CLASSROOM for YOGA, ZUMBA, ETC. and other AEROBICS-​TYPE CLASSES and it seemed that the space for these things may have actually been bigger than the gym itself (which is very strange to me). I think there is probably a real effort to bringing the WORKING MOMMY into the classes as we all know how BUSY working mommies can be.
Music could be better as well as you had to actually strain to hear it and can much more easilyt hear the conversations of other people currently in the gym.
Hey, it’s another great addition to the Florence area as it is a GYM that encourages people to work out and GET IT DONE!!!
And that is always going to get my vote!

I don’t usually give reviews regarding non-​food items, but I like to give high KUDOS!!! to Crunch gym and there staff and special recognition to Emily the Staff Manager. I was going to Fitwork in Florence off Mall road, was very very disappointed on there services and equipment problems over and over. So I needed a change, so Crunch was running a AD for 19.99 a month from Pandora radio. So my girlfriend and I decided to change, which was great.
We went in to see and took a tour of the gym from Emily. Even the Staff Memebers Greeted US, that one of my PET PEE!!! not too be greet at the front desk. Fitwork would ignore US.
First thing I notice and was foaming at the mouth, that there was al lot of treadmill, which Fitwork had only 3 working and 7 out of order. So I was sold on Crunch the treadmills. I going to quit Bashing Fitworks, which I will Never go Back there again.
Emily was very knowledgeable on all the equipment’s. She offer me the introductory rate, so we bought it. I been really really happy since I’ve joined. I will telling everyone to go to Crunch Gym. Great customer service. Thank you CRUNCH!!!

Total Disclaimer: I’m a gym hopper. In 2013 alone, I was a member at 3 different gyms in the Greater Cincinnati area, trying to find the right one for me. I’ve had plenty of experience with good gyms, and bad ones. So while my review might seem critical, I’m pointing out the things that might bother others as well, especially if they take working out as serious as I do.
I visited Crunch Gym for the first time on Monday, 1/​26, using a free day pass obtained via
. My first impression of the gym wasn’t a very positive one. I walked in the front doors to a crowd of people standing in front of the counter, nervous employees trying to explain to everyone why the computer system was down, and a gaggle of middle-​aged women freaking out because they were late for zumba. This was a quite overwhelming experience to get right off the get-​go. Once an assistant manager sorted the crowd out, and assigned the employees different tasks to do, I finally got one of them to give me a quick tour of the facilities.
*Side note: Crunch employees, if a person who is brand new to your gym comes in to get more information and you seriously have to ask «do you, like, want me to give you a tour, or something?» then you need to reevaluate what you’re doing, because you’re doing it wrong.
They have one of the largest cardio areas I’ve ever seen at a gym. I’m talking about rows on rows on rows of equipment. They have treadmills, stationary bikes, ellipticals, arc trainers, and stairsteppers. So many in fact, that even during their busiest time of day, there were more open treadmills, than people using them. They have a handful of flat screens hanging from the ceiling with numbers, and each machine has a plug in for your headphones so that you can dial in to the TV to get the sound. The equipment is pretty high tech and fairly new stuff. There is a room in the back of the gym that they provide fitness classes in. Right now they offer only a few classes, but expect that number to grow as this location gains more traction. Mind you, they’ve only been open for two weeks.
They have an entire area for personal training, and you get 50 minutes of personal trainer time when you sign up for a membership. (I just hope that I don’t get bombarded with cold calls like I did from LA Fitness, where they wanted me to pay $ 50 a week for a trainer. (Yeah, that’s $ 200 EXTRA a month. Pffff no!)
They also have a free weights section, which was nice, with free weight machines, and I saw more females back there, than men, which is a comforting feeling. There’s also a large, all-​in-​one cable machine in the back that a few people were able to use without problem.
They had a pretty a-​typical selection of machines to work out on, nothing special or off the wall.
Crunch offers two memberships. $ 10/​month to just have access to the equipment or $ 20/​month to have access to equipment, classes, tanning, hydro massage, and «bring a friend» passes. Note: The tanning beds are currently two stand up beds. They aren’t in individual rooms either, They instead have a small, coffin size changing area attached to the bed. Not anything I’d feel comfortable in.
If you’ve ever been back to this location, you’ll know that it can sometimes be a pain in the neck to get in and out of. (It’s right next to Kohls. So if you’ve ever dealt with that, then you know…) But there is ample parking, and a well lit parking lot.