Extreme Fitness

would not recommend this gym-unfriendly un ethcial tactics

would not recommend this gym-unfriendly un ethcial tactics

Would not ever use this gym. Head Office does NOT exsist for assisitng in any complaint- no phone number or mailing address.
Very unethical.
If you wind up messed up in this; call your credit card company, change cards, call the police Fraud unit, Consumer Protection Agency and the Better Business Bureau.

I am a member of the Pickering location and after they double charged me for a month now I am waiting for the refund for more than 2 months.They filled out all the forms but for more than a month now I tried to talk to the manager but, conveniently he is always extremely busy.I will NEVER recommend this gym to someone.

I don't recommend joining Extreme Fitness-Richmond (nor the others). The club is very crowded. You have to leave your member card at the front desk when you arrive and often have to wait to get it back when you leave. If you forget to pick it up, they throw it out at the end of day so you have to pay $12 to get it replaced.

Their strategy is to get people as many members as possible to join. Once in, you?ll have pay monthly for a 9 months (I guess that?s what they mean by advertising no annual contract). Once you do join, they?ll put on the high pressure tactics on to get you to dish out more money on personal training.

If you use machines, good luck getting one. The air quality systems in the spinning and aerobic classes haven't worked since the club opening. I don't think it will ever be working.

If you do aerobics classes, there is constant flow of people walking in and out of the classroom to get equipment. It's disruptive. Why you would store the equipment in the class as opposed to outside the class (like every other gym) is beyond me.

Bottom line, they seem like an honest and professional organization. Don?t be fooled this is just another fitness scam.

I have been a member of the extreme fitness danforth location for nearly two months now. After a rather stressfull encounter (the "assessment" with the "personal trainer" who deemed my diet poor and my lack of personal training unsafe) I was suckered not only into the 70 dollar a month membership, but for 300 dollars worth of personal training. This was done by nothing less than scare tactics are far as i am concerned. I am very upset with how they deal with clients. When i tried to back out of the PT they bullied (for lack of better word) me into keeping it. As far as i am concerned, my trainer got his certification out of a cracker jack box. I am a nurse and I am more qualified to train than my "trainer" is. I want out of my contract, and at this point, cant figure out HOW I will be able to get out. Has anyone ever sucessfully broken a contract with these soul-stealers?

I am use at the pickering location, and i would definatly not recomend it to anyone(and i work there) the sales people and the GM are very un ethical and will use any tactic to screw you over, this is a warning to anyone who is thinking about joinging this gym, if it wasn't for the sales people who work there i wouldn't be saying this but unfortunatly the extreme fitness in pickering is a complete joke of a place to work at, its hoestly the worst scaming i've seen.

To the person who works at extreme in pickering, you're on the inside, how can i break the contract? IF i tell them i'm moving and i dont really move, do i get allowed out?

unfortunatly no, they will want u to prove that ur moving, like a new address or a ticket showing that ur leaving "the country" otherwise they wont break the contract, the only way out is using a medical reason but even with that u will still have to provide a doctors note saying that u will not beable to do any physical attivities. but even then i still wouldn't trust them.

I have realised that numerous people have been riped off, mislead, lied to amonts other things. Lats night at extreme fitness danforth there was a screaming match between a sweet old man and the young university aged employee at the front desk. Extreme Fitness had withdrwed nearly $2000 from the man's with permission or explanation! She was EXTREMEly rude to me when I asked her a simple question. I am a new member there an all ready wanna pull my hair out. I feel like i have been taken advantage of! Please join my efforts to EXTREME SCAMMERS to and end!!!http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6368482280

To Megtoast, at the danforth gym was it some asian woman who yelled at you? just want to see if we got treated the same by the same person. i wouldn't recommend this gym to anyone they all a heartless companies and just want you to shell out your money.

I do not recommend this gym to anyone, they have riped people off in the past and do not be fooled by their offers, in the end you will pay the same amounts, occasionally even more. If you are with them, they will probably end up taking money from your account even when your account has been frozen or expired. Getting in touch with the manager is another story.

I have been at the Richmond street location since day 1. I gotta tell you it has been the best gym I have ever seen in toronto and i have been to alot of them. There are a few hiccups with the building but the guy Gord (who seems to live there) always delivers every time I ask for something. I asked for more weights cause there werent any in the beginning. Then they got MORE then enough. They got extra equipment in when I complained that they needed more. I atleast found the staff helpful and give good answers to my high demands. No health club is perfect but this one is the closest so far. Worth a look and a consideration for sure. Pricing is around 50-60

This is for anyone who thought there wasn't a head office for Extreme Fitness.... There actually is and its the Thronhill location thats there head office and for anyone who might want the number for them its (905) 709-1248 or for anyone who might want to talk to the president his number is (416)666-4498 ext 252. just figured people might want to know.

I raised a large amount of money for a charity and I ended up wining a free membership to Extreme Fitness. I was shocked at how quickly the sales girl's attitude changed when she figured out that I didn't have to pay. She was rude and rushed me through the entire registration. I get it that there is so commission on $0 but I did not deserve to be treated so poorly. She handed me my package and practically kicked me out of her office when the whole thing was done. The only time she paid the closest bit of attention to me was when I mentioned that I worked for a large company which currently didn't have a corporate gym. When the free year is up I will absolutely switch gyms!

I find Extreme Fitness extremely unpleasant to deal with. Their advertising insists that there is NO ANNUAL CONTRACT, and their advertising keeps showing up in my mail. When you are signing up they say you can sign up for the no annual contract if you are willing to pay around $130/month for access to only one location and no towel service. Alternately, you can pay $76/month for access to the 6 less nice Toronto locations, not the two "premium" ones.

What about the two premium ones? If you want to go to them too, that will cost you around $130/month.

So let me get this straight. Access to the all of the gyms, including the nicer ones, is about $130, or I can use the less nice gyms but get the towel service for $76 per month, so obviously that's the better deal.

By the time I ended up signing the contract, I understood that the cheaper fee was for the cheaper gyms, and that the higher fee was for access to the premium gyms. At no point did they EVER make it clear that was I agreeing to a ONE YEAR CONTRACT WITH NO CHANCE OF ENDING IT EARLY. After all, everywhere you look you see the words "NO ANNUAL CONTRACT" stated loud and clear, so it didn't even occur to me that I could possibly be locked in for a year.

The reason this scam is so successful is that you never have the opportunity to review the pricing schemes in writing. They do not post them anywhere publicly. The only way to find our their current rates is to know what to ask.

SO, BE WARNED: A membership WITHOUT AN ANNUAL FEE COSTS AROUND $130 PER MONTH, is only good for that one gym, and excludes towel service.

By accepting their "cheap" membership rate of $76/month YOU ARE AGREEING TO AN ANNUAL CONTRACT.

Signing up for access to the premium gyms also costs around $130, and ALSO INCLUDES AN ANNUAL CONTRACT.

NO CONTRACT = ONLY ONE LOCATION, NO TOWEL SERVICE, AND VERY HIGH MONTHLY FEE.

Extreme is in big trouble do not join.
There losing money and probaly going to sell quick

Extreme is in big trouble do not join.
There losing money and probaly going to sell quick

Extreme Fitness is a lieing SCAM! The representatives sweet talk you, and lie to your face to get you to sign a membership that gets you bounded for 9 obligatory months.

DO NOT JOIN THIS GYM AT ALL! BUY EQUIPMENT AND TRAIN YOURSELF AT HOME! IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY, STAAAAAAY AWAAAAAY!!!!!!