My Gym Frisco

My previous review details our great experience taking classes at My Gym; this review is based on our experience throwing a birthday party for a three-​year-​old.
One word: fantastic! Their prices are extremely reasonable for what you get (which is a LOT). You can book your party online (super easy) and make all the arrangements via email if you’d like (which for me is ideal because having a phone conversation with a toddler screaming in the background can be, um, challenging). Package prices are based on the number of children attending. My Gym provides everything: set up/​clean up, décor, paper goods, and two teachers who literally run the show so you can just sit back and relax. I honestly just had to bring food and drinks in for my adult guests, ordered a couple of cheese pizzas through My Gym for the kids (you can’t order outside pizza), then just let the staff handle everything else. They even serve the food and cake to the kids. Easy peasy.
The party itself was a BLAST and very well-​organized. They tailor the activities to your child. My kid abhors circle time, so they minimized the amount of circle time activities per my request. The teachers told me what to do and when to do it. They provided a great variety of activities for the kids. They were professional and enthusiastic. And they made my child feel special with lots and lots of «happy birthday» cheers and special rides just for her. She got to ride in on a big toy motorcycle at the beginning of the party. It was pretty dang cool.
They offer theme packages for an additional $ 50, and I got the Minnie Mouse package (honestly not expecting much) and it was beautiful. I couldn’t have decorated it that adorably myself. I added on face painting for $ 20 (the teachers do it with a stencil kit) and it was another cute activity. If you really want to minimize the work you have to do, you can add on sheet cake and party favors and juice for the kids and call it a day. Doesn’t get better than that!
I’d highly recommend My Gym for a birthday party. It was absolutely perfect for an active bunch of three-​year-​olds.

I haven’t even stepped foot in this location and I am already disappointed. I have left 3 messages 3 days in a row and nobody has returned my call. Moving on to something else.

I love love love this place! I wasn’t sure at first since I could never get through to them on the phone, but I gave it a try. This is absolutely amazing for kids and parents!!! The staff is always super friendly and they are really nice to my daughter. I can see why my phone calls went unanswered because the staff is busy playing with the kids. It’s also very clean. I love the variety of activities. This is great for kids who stay at home!!!

We have been a My Gym family for the past 6 years, being parents to three little girls who are 7 and under. We are a military family, so our first experience with My Gym was in San Diego. We enrolled our oldest daughter in classes as a toddler, and loved it so much that when our second daughter we born, we enrolled her as well. After my husband deployed overseas after giving birth to our third daughter, I moved back home to Plano and was so happy that there was a My Gym here that my girls could still enjoy. My middle daughter attended classes after our move, and the familiar environment and the curriculum (same music, games, exercises) that she was used to made the transition so easy.
As a military spouse, I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am for the opportunities My Gym has given me for respite– they offer camps that are age-​appropriate (a better option for me than sending my younger daughters to a gymnastics gym where the kids are much older) in addition to monthly Parents’ Night Out in a safe environment. The instructors make it a point to know every child’s name right away, and do a great job structuring the class appropriately, engaging the children to work on a variety of skills, and allowing the children the opportunity to explore and play independently. The instructors follow a new lesson plan every week. Our girls love the instructors (especially Ms. Ariel and Ms. Addie!) and every time they go to My Gym, it’s like home away from home for them.
I enrolled my 3^rd daughter in My Gym as soon as she began to walk and she has loved every moment of her classes, and we were very pleased to have her 2^nd birthday party at My Gym. Highly recommend this great program to families with young children.

Love this place. It has been a great experience for my toddler. We have really seen her develop here in the 6 months she has been attending. I have been both to the classes and open gyms. They are always welcoming, even for additional guests like when my parents came to town and wanted to attend with their grandchild.
They play fun music, and are very upbeat. I like the new location even more than the old one on Lebanon. Parking is tough and sometimes the open gym is crowded, but never unsafe.

Just checked out My Gym with my 2 year old son at the Frisco location yesterday. We were excited to try-​out the Tuesday 4:30PM class for his age group that is a «Mommy and Me». The class is 1 hour long and the only requirement is «shoes off». It was a free class for the first time visit.
The facility is very clean and welcoming. My son could not wait to start playing with the trampolines, giant ball pit, and jungle gym. I noticed a count of 10 children with 2 female instructors. 8 little girls were in this class and 2 little boys (1 being my son).
The class starts out with a «circle time» where the kids have their «warm up» together with Mom and instructors. There is upbeat music and you can see the excitement in all the eyes of these 2 year olds eager to play and learn.
I could not believe how much was fit into just a 1-​hour visit! There was dancing, skills, games, and a puppet show.
The skills learned this class:
Balance beam: (Instructor Guided) Your kiddo walks across the beam, does «stork» stance in the middle, and continues walking as they hold the instructors hands. My son loved this and ended with a «Ta-​daa!»
Rings: (Instructor Guided) Rings are hanging from the ceiling about 5 feet off the ground. Your kid is picked up by the instructor and swings from ring to ring. They are directed to let go of one ring and grab onto the next. Very fun. My son exclaimed he was Tarzan after his turn.
Other skills: Balancing bean bags on their heads, listening skills, frog jumps.
Over all a very great experience. SO much was fit into just one class. but it flowed nicely and we had just enough time for the kids to learn something and move onto the next thing.
The only reason I cannot give 5 stars is the price for a membership. And I am still not completely understanding why they are charging what they do.
–First you pay around $ 70 for a «Lifetime» membership. which is cut in ½ if you sign up in 24 hours. So, $ 30 something which they claim you never pay again.
–Then you have to pay $ 70-​somthing monthly. (NOT cut in half. that is your membership fee). Which makes each class around $ 20. once a week class for 1 hour.
Also members, there is «open gym» which is a couple times a week you can bring your kid to the open gym and play during those open gym times. Thats nice. But, again, that brings me back to what the «Lifetime» means if you are paying monthly for a 1 day a week class.
And the instructors really did not do a great job of explaining this. I also do not appreciate businesses giving a 24-​hour incentive pressured to get your «Lifetime» deal 50% off. Especially when I really still don’t know what a «Lifetime» is. Hmm. My son will not use a «Lifetime» membership. He will grow-​up and move onto sports and other things right? One instructor laughed saying «He can come back when he is 80 years old». Really? Ha. Ok.
So if you can afford it, I would recommend the My Gym. It seems like a nice place and fun for kids.