Tucked into the northwest Houston, TX suburb of it’s namesake, the Jersey Village LA Fitness is considered by many to be an ideal place to enhance your level of fitness, build a better body, and achieve a higher state of health.
This gym was designed from the ground up to offer up the most options to the greatest number of people who want to leverage exercise to increase their health and quality of life. With this goal in mind, this LA Fitness center offers a wide range of choices to keep members engaged and active and coming back for more.
A central feature of the LA Fitness in Jersey Village is the cardiovascular training area. While a lot of fitness options are available at this gym, the standard adjustable-incline treadmill is still the most used piece of equipment on-site. The management team knows this and has included plenty of treadmills as long as ellipticals, rowing machines, and other cardio options in the facility floor plan.
A big question at gyms is whether or not cardio equipment is consistently kept in top-working order. This can change of the years as the people in charge of the gym change and the top brass at the LA Fitness headquarters make decisions as to which gyms will get new equipment each year. It’s best to check the reviews below to find out how this stands at this particular LA Fitness.
There is more and more evidence that building muscle through strength is the key to a long healthy life. More and more research indicates that dedicating more of your time working out to increasing muscle mass will translate into a plethora of benefits that cardio does not bestow. The list of benefits includes greater insulin sensitivity, higher resting metabolism rate, hormone optimization, and more. With all these benefits, a good portion of the floor space at the Jersey Village LA Fitness is dedicated to increasing lean body mass.
The first of the two main strength training areas is the free weight area. Members will find two power squat racks, four bench press platforms, stacks of weight plates, and rows of dumbbells. Proper form is essential if you are looking to get the greatest benefit from free weight training so LA Fitness employs a full staff of personal trainers who work hard to help you achieve your fitness targets and overall health goals.
The second strength training area you’ll find are the rows of selectable weight machines. You’ll find inclined squat machines, bicep curl & tricep extension machines, leg extension machines, and more. A lot of LA Fitness members feel that these machines are more user-friendly, so they remain pretty popular with those who have strength training goals in mind.
Also available at this location is a full-length basketball court, group fitness exercise classes, and a lane-divided swimming pool for doing laps. Unless your form of exercise is exclusively limited to Olympic-style lifting, where you have to drop weighted barbells on a bounce pad all day, then it’s pretty clear that there is something for pretty much everyone here.
Finally, members will find high-end amenities such as a wood-lined sauna, bubbling spa, and well-appointed locker rooms. A Kids Klub facility is also found on-site for those who want to make fitness a priority regardless of the fact that there are little ones in the family.
Reviews of the Jersey Village LA Fitness in northwest Houston, TX can be found below. Please remember that more people end up on sites like this when they’ve been let down by a company than when they have received good service. This being the case, it’s often best to be sure to stop by the gym itself and take a tour to get your own first-hand perspective on how the gym is run. Also, be sure to stop back by and write a review of your own so you can share your insights on how this gym is run, whether good or bad.
Unlike a lot of gyms near me, this club is spotless, everyone is friendly, and I liked that the machines were NEW. They have great classes and class times, as well as plentiful cardio equipment and the same weight equipment that 24 Hour Fitness had, so I know how to use it all. Will was usually game to participate in some of the swimming and sprints, and having a superstar competing triathlete guiding the way, felt that I was in good hands. I tried three different gyms before giving up on ever finding a place that even came close to my experience here. There are a lot of gyms that are similar to this one but this MAJOR seems to do those things better. The prices have gone up recently(I’m sure this trend will continue), but it is very worth it. If your gym is an integral part of your everyday life, and you like to be surrounded by like-minded people who are into fitness, this is the place for you!
Signing up for personal training services is a lot like buying a car. So be prepared to dicker on the price and don’t be afraid to say no and just work out on your own. My trainer is actually really good, but LA Fitness would fleece the pants of a sheep for an extra buck. I like the fact that the trainers help you keep an accurate record of your progress. I probably would have never taped myself or anything if I had not gone with a trainer. At other gyms I’ve been to I don’t see many people working with a trainer. That’s not the case here. I think they cater to a more upscale, adult clientele. People seem to show up, hit the machines, and mind their own business. Other gyms near me that I’ve visited seem to be a type of hookup spot of some sort.
For the most part I feel inspired by the instructors and other members. There’s a lot of good here and not so much negative energy. That helps if you are working out early in the morning because you can start the day out on the right foot.
One other thing that bothered me was the fact that the floors in the locker room are not always clean as they should be. Bring a pair of shower shoes unless you want to run the risk of getting ring worm. This isn’t always the case, but it has happened on more than one occasion. They also have very large lockers, but bring a padlock for those.
Here’s a few more things about the staff. A lot people who work here seem to come and go. The general manager who signed me up disappeared soon after I started and trainers seem to come and go but I don’t know if they are going to other locations, they quit or are being fired. These issues are minor, though, and I’m glad to be here.
It’s very unlikely that there is a better gym in Houston. It is clean, clean, clean and very upscale. I don’t know how new the equipment is, but I don’t see out of order signs taped to things very often, and that’s what really matters in my book. Classes are well run. It’s so awesome to see unhealthy, out-of-shape people stick with their exercise program and get results. Some people must have lost over 45 pounds. How many other Texas gyms do you think are really helping people achieve their fitness goals? You can bet that this isn’t the case with other gyms.
One more thing about the classes… They will play games with the intensity of the classes. I think the instructors do this because they can get worn out and need to take it easy, but it works well for providing sessions which are more on par with people at different experience levels. Free weights will do a better job at helping you develop overall strength than the machines will. For is everything in working out. If you don’t know how to do something properly, be sure to ask someone. If you take care of your body, it will take care of you. If you don’t, it won’t. Remember to keep your chin up and give every work out 100% of your effort and you will see results working out at LA Fitness Jersey Village.
I’m older than most of the people that I see at this gym. I bet I’ve been a member of 15 gyms over the course of my lifetime. That’s not a small number considering the fact that the “no contract” gyms you see sprouting up all over the place didn’t exist back then. This is one of the good ones. You might think you can find a better deal than what you find here, but you’d be wrong.