Fitness first Rant

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@misfit: That makes three of us.

ill join pwde?hehehehe....boxing mi sa manger hehehe

[doc_ock]

Fitness First Gym is just pa-class nga gym like gold's gym. Same ra kaayo og istilo. Iv bin into a real gym before nga simple ra ang equipments but very efective ang training. You know guys it really doesnt matter kung nindot ang facilities and amenities. Whats really important is to have your goal achieve which everybody knows nga nag desire og nice and fit nga body. Akong concern lang kay instead nga magamit ang services sa mga instructor which I preferably want during my training, ila naman hinuon gilahi og bayad. Kay nganu diay nibayad ka og monthly fee for the amenities? Ask your self kung sakto ba gyud ang imong purpose nga muad2 og gym? og kung mao ba gyud na ang imong gusto nga mahitabo sa imong gbayaran? I think everybody should know especially sa mga beginners nga importante kaayo ang guidance sa gym instructor sa imong personal training. Every tym you hit the gym, always ask gyud sa instructor kung sakto ba imong gbuhat kay most of the gym hitters mag pataka ra og execute sa exercise and it would really risk your health dur to injuries. That we don't want to happen to us. Basta advice lng nko a build habitual exercise daily kay mao ra gyud na ang key sa healthy and sexy body. Tnx!

[orangepink]

omg
i was told the charges have been reversed but i saw the statement just now and no reversal was made!!!
when i followed up three weeks ago, i was literally TOLD it's been done. lies, lies, lies!!!!!

same thing with my situation. so I emailed them again plus I attached a copy of my bills. And guess what, the cebu manager, Leah Marie Y. Sausa, replied with this :

Hi,

Good day. Can you send me a copy of your credit card billing statement reflecting the Php 4,500.00 charge so we can process the reversal of the said amount. Many Thanks.

Ka-bogo na lang gyud nila oi! Don't they know how to use emails!!! I sent it attached gud!!! Ambot na lang...I can't file a case against them cuz I'm currently out of the country. But I'm hoping the rest of you will file one. You have my full support & I'll do my best to help you.

Really, all the FF managers are just plain, old IDIOTS. How hard is it to reverse billing charge? They claimed to do that within 7 weeks. It's not rocket science. Nobody is asking them to invent the next lightbulb.

[Rance]

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[Tarmac]

I am a Fitness First member and after reading the thread I have to say I agree with most of what has been said.Â* In a nutshell, Fitness First is all about slick marketing and lousy customer service.

You first walk in and are greeted by neatly-uniformed and over-nice recruitment agents.Â* You are ushered into a nicely-appointed lounge and are served free softdrinks and coffee (which, they will point out, is free to all clients).Â* A tour around the place shows a spacious changing room with multitudinous lockers and neatly arrayed shower stalls; moving out onto the gym proper, you are awed by the sheer number ofÂ* exercise machines--treadmills, stationary bikes, rotary exercisers, abdominal boards, shoulder press, rowing machines--you name any exercise machine that's ever been invented and it's there.Â* And they all look like something out of Star Trek.Â* Each treadmill has a wireless TV/radio receiver, as the recruitment guy will proudly point out.Â* And as a final inducement, he will give you an offer you can't refuse ("Sign Up Now And Get A Free Cap!" or "Sign A Friend, Get P100 Off On Your Membership Fee Every Month").

Then you start working out and you see it's not all that it's hyped up to be.

A few months ago the shower stalls on the men's locker room went out of commission as faucet handles broke one after the other.Â* At one point not one shower stall on the first floor of the locker room was usable.Â* It took a full month before they were finally repaired.Â*

When I first started working out, the much-vaunted wireless receivers on the treadmills gave out only static--or the wrong channel, if it was my lucky day.Â* Despite repeated complaints, it took six months for them to be replaced.Â*

Some exercise machines languish for months at a time waiting to be repaired.

The above incidents smack of a callous and apathetic management.Â* It wouldn't have been so bad if the staff made up for the abovecited shortcomings with better customer service, but this is hardly the case.Â* Unless you sign up for a one-on-one session, the trainers--and there are plenty of them walking around at any given time--won't even give you the time of day.Â* With only a few exceptions, asking a trainer for assistance is a sure-fire way to get them to start slinking off.Â* They stick with you only if you've coughed up P7,000 (the cost of 10 one-on-one sessions) for their services.Â* The nearly P2,000 in monthly dues will not entitle you to the privilege of their even acknowledging your presence.Â* You are a non-entity.

I should've latched on to this when my wife and I first signed up.Â* We were assigned a trainer to show us the ropes.Â* Because we hadn't signed up for one-on-one sessions, the son-of-a-b_tch couldn't wait to get us out of his hair.Â* His actions were perfunctory and the only enthusiasm he showed was towards a girl across the room showing too much cleavage.Â* Midway through the weight session, he asked us if were doing alright.Â* When we said yes, he suddenly turned around and left, leaving us standing on the gym floor looking like idiots.

I ultimately signed up for personal sessions with another trainer.Â* My wife opted not to.Â* Even so, I requested that the trainer design a program for her because we always go to the gym together.Â* He promised to do so.Â* Two weeks later, still no program.Â* It was only when I finally confronted him that he took out my wife's exercise card and wrote down a program.Â* It took him all of five minutes.

And what about the exercise equipment?Â* While they look really great, they are the most unergonomic I've seen anywhere--and I've seen a lot.Â* These machines were probably designed by the Marquis de Sade himself.Â* Adjusting them is a real pain in the arse.Â* The handles, which you swing down over your neck, press down on the collarbone and hurt like hell when doing repetitions.Â* On the abdominal machines, there is no way to anchor your feet properly.Â* Imagine your feet floating upwards when doing reps on the abdominal crunch or rotary torso machines.Â* At the very least, your muscles are not properly worked out; at worst you get cramps.Â* Ask me how I know.

But boy do they look nice!

And therein lies the problem.Â* Like the machines, Fitness First is all about appearances.Â* The over-nice recruitment people, the well-appointed lounge, the huge locker rooms, the Jean-Luc Picard machines, the great offers.Â* All these serve to attract you and make you want to sign up right away.Â* Then you realize it's all hype.

When my membership expires, and it will expire soon, I will be sure to keep it that way--expired.Â* Â* Â*

[koibito]

hahaha!(^_*)

[misfit]

and i can't believe i fell for it.

[st@rr]

very well said Tarmac.

[punyeta]

well guys!!! what would you expect from FF it seems that they dont bother or care with our complaints. there just and asshole who gets our money.

and girl youre right with that MR. Allison he is really a maniac sila man siguro tanan pati na ilang mga babae na agents.

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the school that I work for adviced our student not to enrol in Fitness First. They have victimiized me and 8 of our students.