Woodside
"Overall, I really like Woodside and most elements of it. It's got nice equipment, separate areas for tennis, spa services, and is essentially two gyms with multiple buildings. I've been going here many years and hope to continue. It's a little bit of a two part review in that I feel like the staff is doing a good job with Covid precautions in most ways. They wear masks, have dedicated cleaners, lots of wipes for equipment, hand sanitizer, drinking fountains shut down, added virus filtration, and spaced out cardio machines.The members are another story. I feel like I might literally be the only person who wears a mask when working out. Sure, the policy states to enter the building wearing one, but everyone takes it off immediately. I'm sorry, but it's not that hard when working out to wear it, it's just not. It defeats the purpose of a mask policy if no one wears it indoors, and being around someone with a compromised immune system, it's giving me pause on continuing to go here during the pandemic. Some suggestions?-Enforce mask wearing in the weight areas. I do understand enforcing it for cardio is a different animal, but the weight areas can deal with it. I do, and it's been fine. -Maybe consider workout appointments similar to the group classes for all Woodside visits? This could help ensure it's not super packed, which at times it is. (Side note, is an area is packed, I leave and just call it to be safe). If not appointments, maybe limiting capacity could be the play.-Enforce the distancing. It's frustrating to be mid set and have someone come up a foot away huffing and puffing on me. I ain't about to go viral in confronting someone but I've certainly been put off by it. Overall though, I like Woodside and their staff. The food is also good, and love the pool (and the fact that they keep it open if it's warm well past Labor Day)."
Freight House Fitness
"After a fire at their old Bliss Maple Syrup building, Freight House Fitness had a turn around time of 24 hours of getting back to a sweat your booty off workout class regimen. I have been coming to FHF since August of 2014. Actually got serious about my health and fitness January of 2015 when I embarked on a physical, mental and emotional 90-Day-Challenge hosted by Sean & Kendra. Before the challenge, I had managed to lose 15 lbs on my own but it was a whole different world doing this with a group of people. Not only was this the most intense I had ever been about understanding what my body needed as fuel, it broke down walls of weight-loss plateaus and helped me gain a new confidence as a woman. With that challenge, I lost 15 lbs and 11% body fat. Having maintained what I lost throughout the first challenge, I decided to do another to put me that much closer to my "goal". With having been given the tools and guidelines as well as a support system at the gym and a group on Facebook, I managed to lose another 10 lbs and 9% body fat. As much as everyone has their own love for their specific gym, I have found that much and more in Freight House Fitness and my "fit family" that comes to the gym.You can be large, small, round, square, male, female, young or old and love it as much as myself and the others who have found a passion for their workout styles, character and levels of respect and integrity. The goal is to put you where YOU want to be. Not where someone else wants you to be. That's my favorite part about Freight House Fitness."
