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Retro Fitness
Your neighborhood gym with modern equipment, friendly staff, and a supportive community vibe.
4.2(5 reviews)
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Access to a full range of modern equipment including treadmills, ellipticals, free weights, and machines for all fitness levels.
One-on-one coaching with certified trainers to create customized workout plans and ensure proper form and motivation.
Tanning booths and red light therapy sessions to enhance skin health and recovery after workouts.
Relaxation and muscle recovery with state-of-the-art massage chairs available for member use.
Post-workout refreshments with healthy smoothies and supplements to fuel your fitness journey.
Structured classes led by instructors to add variety and community to your routine (based on typical gym offerings).
Your neighborhood gym with modern equipment, friendly staff, and a supportive community vibe.
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Retro Fitness in Garland offers a comprehensive fitness experience with a wide range of cardio and strength equipment, personal training, tanning/red light booths, massage chairs, and smoothie bar. Our dedicated staff, led by General Manager Jim, prioritizes member satisfaction and continuously improves based on feedback. We're committed to providing a clean, welcoming environment where everyone from beginners to fitness enthusiasts can achieve their health goals.
This location has all the necessary equipment for your workout needs and have great smoothies too! The current General Manager Jim cares about his members and ensures everyone's experience is the best!
This place is an awesome place to work out. Only problem is time. If it’s 24/7 then it will be great
I love this gym! The equipment is wonderful! Lots of space. All the staff is amazing... especially Izzamar (sp?)! She is so sweet and helpful! Massage chairs and tanning/red light booths are great. The ONLY problem I have with this gym is that the A/C either doesn't work or is not turned down enough. It is miserably hot in there. While I love everything else about it, the heat is bad enough that I am considering switching gyms. Being that hot while working out makes me feel sick and also makes it a LOT harder to overlook other people's poor gym etiquette. 😬 If they get the A/C fixed, this will be my favorite gym in Garland! Update: Thank you so much for your response. I look forward to your remedy. I will update my review accordingly. When I went back today, the temperature at the back of the gym was 84.6 degrees and 76.6 at the front of the gym. I know that IFA guidelines, which are based on recommendations from OSHA and the American College of Sports Medicine, state that a gym should be no warmer than 68 degrees in aerobics, cardio, weight training, and Pilates areas to avoid "overtaxing the cardiovascular system, which can lead to dangerous physiological conditions." I feel confident the good people at Retro Fitness did not intend for things to get this out of hand. I hope it's cooler when I return on Monday! Update 2: It's been a couple of weeks now, and it is every bit as hot as it was when I made this post, if not worse. Everyone is complaining about it. Girls are sick in the locker room because of the heat. My friend was going to get a membership here, but it's so hot, she has decided to go to Planet Fitness. Update 3: Unfortunately, Retro's idea of addressing the problem seems to be waiting until the temperatures outside go down. This has continued to be a miserably hot workout making me dread the gym and how sick I feel when I am in there. I guess I will have to go elsewhere to get safe, healthy workouts. I'm so disappointed. UPDATE 4: I wrote this review last year and have continued using this gym. At the beginning of this summer, someone from Retro Fit contacted me to talk about what I thought of the gym. I shared the same thoughts from this review. Within a couple of weeks, changes were being made. The temperature in the gym this summer has been drastically different than it was before. It is SO much better! I am thrilled to return this rating to 5 stars for the gym as a whole and the willingness of management to listen to it's patrons.
Just moved to the area and was looking for a new gym to try. I saw how close this location was to my house and to my job. I showed up at 5:10 AM because I saw their hours. They stated they open at 5AM. I was happy to see that there were other members there hoping to get in which was great, I love seeing a good crowd in the morning. As I was waiting I was starting to look at the time… 10 more minutes went by… no one opened yet. 30 minutes went by, people started to either leave or walk to the door and still no one was there to open. It finally hit 6AM and I decided to leave. I was truly disappointed on this location’s reliability for keeping the gym open during posted hours. It’s not just my time that is now wasted but I also feel now the other members who I’m sure rely on the gym to be open when they say the will be, and there day is thrown off.
Great gym. Nice atmosphere and very clean. The employees are nice and professional. I was greeted by Delilah H. She answered all my questions about joining the gym and showed me the equipment and how to use them.. Delilah H. also told me about having personal trainers. She informed me that the gym is about to undergo a transformation because they will be remodeling so I am looking forward to the outcome of the remodel.
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