Blast Fitness West Allis

If it weren’t for convince and laziness of signing up for a new gym I wouldn’t work out here. The bathrooms/​locker rooms are beyond disgusting. The entire gym smells of fish. With all the other newer gyms close by and at the same price, I’d recommend those.
Equipment is often broken for months at a time.
As someone who has been coming here for 10 years it seems to be loosing members every month.

I am giving a blast a 3 because it has the potential to be great. It’s just not completely lackluster. I wouldn’t go to this gym if my office wasn’t sharing the parking lot. It’s cheap yes! 10 $ basic membership, but it’s also dirty, grungy (not in a good way) the bathrooms are a bacteria infested Petri dish. I highly encourage you to hold it. The equipment is older than I am and a lot of if it covered in «out of order stickers». The gym does have a indoor track though which is what I use before work. It’s a nice little feature. It also has tanning if your into that (I am not) however they look like a bomb shelter and equally as unmaintained as the rest of the gym. They also have babysitting if you get the top tier membership. If I had kids I doubt I would leave them here. So overall I strongly encourage you to seek other gyms unless you just want like treadmills and stair masters or the track. This deff feels like the mc Donald’s of gyms. I prefer my planet fitness membership 8 million times more than here.

Wondering what will happen now that there are «new» owners.
I feel sorry for the team members and managers. They are not given enough information to answer even basic questions and have no real authority.
There is not even basic cleaning. The locker room is dirty and many lockers don’t even open. The bathroom is terrible. Some toilets don’t flush and frequently there is paper floating because it did not flush right. The seat in the handicapped stall is disgusting. I have even offered to go to the hardware store to get a new one for them. The showers should not be used. There is mold growing in the grout. And dirt around the handles. Sometimes no hot water. Most times no soap.
The floor in the group exercise room, not the one pictured the real one, frequently has dust bunnies and strings of dust and hair around the edges.
The pool area is still just as it was when the pool was emptied a couple of years ago. Ugly!
Even entering, the mats do not fit the area designed for them and there are missing tiles.
The club is open 24 hours. Why? Close from 12 – 5 and use those monies to clean.
Recently new tv’s were added. Nice! But they were all bunched at the east end leaving a large section of the work out area with out tv’s in front of them. Poor planning!
The parking lot was recently resurfaced and painted. But the pedestrian markings were not repainted from parking to front door.
And don’t get me started on parking. Since the other businesses were added there is a severe lack of convenient parking places. Even tho there is a parking structure for those businesses they use the parking places that gym members could use. Even though supposedly those businesses say they are managing their employees they are not. Designated spaces should be marked just like the ones for the tv station and US bank.
So why do I go there??? Convenience.
I have been a member for a long time and the gym is close to home, where I work and where I shop.

Wow, never quite saw, or maybe I should say smelled a gym like this. What could be a goldmine with all of the office people located across the parking lot is actually run down, unmanaged, unclean, unsanitary spot. They HAD a pool and they HAD a sauna and steam room. Now they have a big empty hole and unused rooms. I’ve heard the locker rooms are deplorable but fortunately I don’t need it. There is no management present most times and when they are there they don’t do anything but hit on the customers or sit in their office surfing the web. Used to be a great gym, sad to see it go completely to heck. Oh, and never sit on a toilet!

I currently belong to Blast and go to the Stallis location and am critiquing it. They recently got all new equipment but that said new equipment is quickly falling apart and the LCD monitors on the new cardio equipment has never worked from day 1. The actual facilities is a dump and some of the clientele is sketchy at best. I pay $ 10 bucks a month so I guess you get what you pay for. I go, do my thing and get the heck out. As a side note-​most of the televisions don’t even work.

Someone should call OSHA. This place is filth. The roof caved in above the pool after pipes burst, while people were working out.
There is often no one at the front desk. Sometimes I think no one is working there. I tried it for a month but am looking for a new gym.
Stay away.

If this place was not literally around the block from my house (I need a gym when it gets cold or I won’t work out) I would have canceled a long time ago. I have been a member since this was Bally’s back in ’08. It has steadily gone down hill from cleanliness to amenities (they closed the steam room which is a huge factor for me during winter, and more recently the pool/​whirlpool). One thing I will give them is they still have a fairly nice class offering. And it’s cheap. 24 hr access for $ 10/​mo ($ 20/​mo with free classes). I don’t use the locker rooms anymore so i can’t comment on cleanliness there but the rest of the facility is alright, not disgusting. Like another person says, it’s nothing fancy and gets the job done.

I joined Blast fitness on 5÷17÷14 and signed up for the platinum membership so that I could use the sauna. I specifically asked about the pool area where the sauna is located while I was signing up and was told that the whirlpool was out of service temporarily but would be back up and running soon. I went to Blast on 5÷24÷14 for my first work out only to find signs posted stating that they are permanently closing down the pool area. I immediately knew I was canceling my membership so I went to the front desk to start this ridiculous cancellation process and ask for a refund for false advertisement but there was not a single employee to be seen anywhere. I ended up having to come back just to cancel my membership. But even when I did find an employee on my second trip I was told that in order to cancel my membership I would have to fill out a form, then call a third party billing company to inform them I want to cancel, then fax them the form that i got at the gym. What a pain in the ass. I was able to look past the many faults I saw with this location including dirty locker rooms (the inside of the lockers were so dirty I had to make sure I could hang everything from the hooks so it didn’t touch the bottom), no shower stalls (sorry I am not in high school anymore I prefer not to shower with a bunch of dudes), no paper towels to wipe down equipment (only two paper towel holders on the main floor and both were empty), old ladies walking through the men’s locker room (this lady was in there for like 10 min walking around), the smell (straight B.O.), twelve old school tube televisions (seriously?), the supply closet is just a curtained off area next to the tanning booths (classy). This was what I saw just on my first day and I didn’t even go upstairs. I was willing to deal with it but the fact that they blatantly lied about the facilities and their availability put the icing on the cake. I would not recommend location.

It’s June 2’nd and the people at Blast just told me that the whirlpool and swimming pool and steam room will all be closed permanently at all of their clubs in the Milwaukee area.

I am a current Blast member and frequent this location, as we live in Wauwatosa so it is closest for us.
They are currently focusing on renovations, which are long overdue. However, it shows they are updating and are taking people’s criticisms to heart. They are working on making it better so just bear with them!
3 stars because I prefer to run outside and not on a treadmill next to dudes wearing way too much cologne.
I recommend this gym to anyone not looking for anything fancy. You’ll get in shape here, though, and really that’s the point.

I have been traumatized by gym memberships since my horrific experience with Vic Tanny many moons ago. My friend brought me here for free with her Platinum membership (total of $ 20.99/mo). With the platinum membership you get unlimited access to all things, including free babysitting, except personal training which is an extra charge. The gold membership is $ 10.99/mo and it includes use of the cardio and weight equipment only. I stopped in yesterday with my hubby to see if he would consider working out there with me. Since he does’t want to use the pool or take exercise classes, I selected the platinum membership. They have a special going on now, only $ 1 and last months fee to join. It is $ 49.99/yr for maintenance and current pricing lock in. There is a 30 day cancellation policy. You stop in the gym and fill out the cancelation form. You aren’t charged any more after that and the last month is free because you paid for it at start up. My friend has had the platinum membership here for a couple years and never had any problems with shady billing. All gyms operate under the same guise and have similar pricing structures.
I checked out Xperience fitness yesterday as well. Yes, the facilities were better, BUT it was $ 99 to join, plus a $ 69 fee plus some other fees. They have the same higher and lower level membership plans like other gyms. Xperience would have been $ 15/​mo for the lower plan and $ 43/​mo for the higher plan. Also, they are not open 24 hours a day and the lower package has time restrictions and such.
A luxurious gym, Blast is not. But, it does have enough cardio equipment, weight equipment, tanning, a lot of classes, a pool and hot tub. I have been there different days and times– never had to wait for equipment even during peak times. They have cleaned the place up since last year. They are slowly remodeling (painting, organizing, replacing old equipment, etc). I don’t really use the locker room for showering or changing. It is clean enough, but I am not about to test that out. The staff was friendly and helpful, although there were only two people there and it was busy. It certainly was easy enough for me to swipe my key card and go about my workout. If you are looking for a reasonable, no frills place to workout, this is the place for you. If you want luxurious workout facilities try the WAC.

This place deserves a negative 1,000.
My wife started our incredible journey with Bally’s in 2000. She bought the lifetime membership. She made every payment in full until the contract was up, and then at that point it was supposed to be a meager «upkeep» fee to keep using the gym in the future. She finished paying this in about 2002 – 2003 and decided that Bally’s wasn’t for her. She stopped going to the gym and didn’t pay the upkeep fee. Bally’s had no problem with this.
Fast forward to 2007, we’re now married and I’m still paying over $ 30 a month to go to the gym. I asked my wife if she could transfer the contract to me (Bally’s allowed it to be transferred) since it would only cost me about $ 9/​month paying in advance. She obliged, and I started going to the South Shore location until we moved to the southwest side in 2009. I then started to go to the Southridge location. While this location was much smaller, it was clean and still well equipped. Then they closed, and that’s when all hell broke loose.
After closing, I was referred to this location since the Cudahy location is 7 miles away. Coming into this location, I was unimpressed with the condition of this club. Multiple times I had to notify the workers of broken equipment. I wasn’t happy then, and conditions continued to get worse. Blast fitness bought them out a few years back and I was never notified or even told when I came in to work out. When I finally noticed they were now Blast, I asked the woman at the counter if they’d still honor my membership, and she told me «until it runs out». This was fine with me, I already wasn’t happy with the club. I let the membership lapse in early 2012, and honestly, in the months after they changed to Blast I might have used the gym less than a dozen times. Even with Bally’s upkeep problems, at least they kept the place clean. After Blast took over, the place got filthy. The locker room smells so bad, I refused to even change there anymore. I drove home sweaty to shower up and change it was so bad. The machines were even worse off than before, as one day I jumped on a treadmill and almost messed myself up pretty bad. I went from walking to a light jog and stumbled, almost falling on my face. One of the stabilizing legs had broke and the treadmill was on three legs, with nothing indicating it was out of order. I once again notified a worker as I had become accustomed to, and she said she would take care of it. I returned to the same spot two days later to use the treadmill next to it, and there was no sign on it. Thinking it might be fixed, I put my foot on the broken corner and the treadmill tipped towards me. I left and never came back.
Fast forward to November 2013, and now I’m getting calls from «ABC Financial» saying that they need my updated credit card information for «my contract with them». I never signed a contract with Blast Fitness, and I paid Bally’s everything I owed them and more, but they still harass me DAILY for my credit card info, even though I don’t use their gym and haven’t in well over a year.
Make sure to check out Pamela M’s pics, they are accurate as those are the same things I saw IN JANUARY 2012!
STAY AWAY FROM THIS CLUB AT ALL COSTS!

The gym is pretty dirty, they don’t do much to clean it up. Machines are frequently down and it takes a while to repair them. I know gym etiquette is pretty poor everywhere, but at blast you have people that will take four sets of dumb bells and block off a machine all at the same time and not let you work in. No one who works there seems to care. The only plus is the price is so cheap,

Blast has made some needed repairs, the pool works and the showers are better. You can find staff during the week, but not so much on weekends. So if you are okay with getting a cut rate experience, bring your own towel and plan your workout accordingly.

It’s very important that all of you know that the pictures posted in the business are NOT true and correct. I will continue to post correct photos of this gym even though Unilocal has removed them.
To further support my case, checkout picture #14. It CLEARLY states «Keeping CHICAGO Strong». Which is proof right there that this is NOT the same gym in West Allis on 60^th St. It is much worse looking and must be why they are lying in the photos.
I have worked out at this gym since it was Bally’s when I was a teenager. Blast has done NOTHING to update this gym. It’s dated and dirty and that’s why it has a low star count by various Unilocalers — truth be told.
It’s a cheap place to workout and in this case you are getting what you pay for.
Tvs are tube, bathroom fixtures and lockers and overall condition are poor. There are no wooden looking lockers. There is no blue and yellow paint job with cursive writing or section for women only.
Just sad the truth is being censored in the photos.

Before you think about joining Blast Fitness you must know they are not much better than Bally total Fitness. The clubs around the southeastern Wisconsin region are falling apart. They have not put any money into their clubs. It is dirtier than ever. they have broken machines that are not getting fixed. They make empty promises to their members and employees. If you sign up expect to pay an annual fee a month later. I have heard stories of members wanting to cancel their memberships and can only do so if a manager is present and signs off on the cancellation form. Even after you cancel members are still being billed.
If you are looking for exceptional customer service, state of the art equipment, a clean, fun, friendly atmosphere do not join blast fitness. Check out Be Fitness and Wellness Center in Delafield, WI.
Justin

DO NOT GO HERE! The machines are dated, the locker room is atrocious and the personal trainers do not care about their clients. I will not say whom I trained with but I was hardly weighed, was not given nutritional guidance nor did he/​she care about my workouts outside of our training schedule. The trainers mostly talked to each other during our workouts and sometimes the discussions were extremely inappropriate. The most frustrating part is my trainer was ALWAYS called in to talk to the manager right before my session which made our sessions 10 minutes late and that time was NEVER made up. A

Pool has been closed for four days now. Management is a joke.

Yesturday was our last visit to Blast. This place has gone down hill and quick. I am able to put up with a lot, but they have crossed the line.
Yesterday we went to swim, which was the biggest mistake I’ve made in a while. The water was cold and discussing and made your skin feel slimy. The bottom was full of black dirt. It usually has some sand on the bottom, but I’ve never seen so much black stuff before. The edges were really slimy and gross too. We spent about 5 minutes in the pool before we were just too grossed out and had to leave.
The showers were worse. Absolutely no hot water and the smell is just horrific. The locker rooms are not kept up and are really bad.
When we left I tried to speak to a manager, but the worker said they are only there 9 – 5 during the week. I then asked to cancel my membership and the worker said I need to fill out a form, call this number and they will tell me where I have to fax the paper to. Ridiculous. I“ll update you on the cancellation later, but my guess is it isn’t going to be easy and they are probably going to try to get a few more months fees out of me.