SATS

Right off Odenplan you find this gym in a basement below COOP grocery store. It doesnt matter what time you go here, its always people pumping iron in their tiniest shirt. Yes thats right, this is the place most people go to show off while working out… or vice versa.
You can assume by the looks, that most ppl here has got some kind of help on their way to the perfect body, either by multivitamins or surgery. So if you dislike that, you are probably better off somewhere else.
To sum it up, if you dont mind working out in-​between wolves and barbies, this is actually a great place due to their beneficial opening hours. Also, most ppl are very dedicated, so if you want to, you can get lots of tips how to take your training to the next level.

Finally got gym membership here in Stockholm. It was kind of a headache. I don’t have a Swedish ID (personnummer) yet and without that, you can’t pay monthly. So I was forced to pay my entire year’s gym membership up front.
SATS is considered the nicer gym in Stockholm. With my gold membership I get access to all the SATS gyms in Sweden, which is nice considering I have two very close to me and some near my workplace.
Now I get to burn all this vacation fat and overindulgence fat from my first six weeks in Stockholm.
It’s business time.
So when I told my Swedish friends I signed up at SATS, they all laughed at me. They said it was a total scene and laughed at me for paying way more than I would’ve paid at Friskis Svettis.
Apparently Friskis Svettis is ‘family gym’ for those who don’t want to ‘pay as much’ and don’t want to ‘get laid’. Just kidding, I don’t use the gym for getting laid. Not enough privacy.
Well, when it comes to gyms, I don’t skimp. There are a number of reasons I will pay more for a good gym over a mediocre one.
1) I want to feel good when I go there. I want to feel like I want to come back. I want to feel like I can spend hours there. Those that go to a crappier gym, will go less often because it’s not as welcoming.
2) I want it to be clean and for the machines to be in good condition. I got scabies at a gym once because some asshole didn’t wipe down the machine.
3) I want to feel inspired by those beautiful people around me. The folks that pay more for a gym use it and they look awesome. And just knowing that I can look like that someday is enough to inspire me to keep me coming back.
PROS
— Overall, the gym is very solid. The machines are in great condition. Lots of room to work out in.
— Lots of good classes. I don’t use them, but they look good if you want to use them.
— The people are beautiful. It pushes me to work out an extra half hour so I can look like them.
CONS
— It is definitely a bit of a scene. Worse than my gym in the states. People definitely think they can pick people up when they’re dressed like crap and smelling like it too.
— No towels. Ugh this frustrates me. If I’m going to pay so much, why can’t you provide towel service.
— That said, people smell here. Maybe it’s a Sweden thing, but deodorant and washing your clothes and showering more than once a week would be better for my own health as well as yours.
The PROS far outweigh the CONS, so if I had to choose, SATS is the place to go.