I used to be a real gym rat. 6 days a week, 4 hours a day. Hey, going amateur body builder takes a lot of work. Too much really. As I became a husband, and now father, those aspirations are gone but I still like a good gym and got tired of paying the high prices for the YMCA. Golds became Peak, Peak became ZX, who knows where ZX is going to go but here we are. ZX in Matthews is a quite spacious gym, originally a selling point was a climbing wall that never was realized and I'm still disappointed by that. The bathrooms are adequate but I don't feel as comfortable cleaning up here as I was other gyms. Not quite sure why that is. The equipment is about a decade or so old. I've been to gyms out of our area that have modern equipment and I am amazed at how this budget gym has stuck with things out of the late 90's early 00's that really need to be refreshed. This is a sticking point that is growing greater and greater each year. I understand it's a cost thing but at some point you want to have an upgrade path and I for one want new equipment. The staff is friendly but a bit disconnected. When you see someone slinging weight around or mal-handling equipment staff should be helpful on getting people on track and they for the most part do not seem to be so inclined. At one point they were canvasing the gym constantly for training signups but that seems to have been relaxed--it was an annoyance for a while. I'm no longer certified by I was a personal trainer. It's clean and they have what you need to get the job done for a budget price. Could be better, could be worse. Wish they'd reinvest more, but you get what you pay for.
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