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Alameda Athletic Club
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1226 Park St(between San Antonio Ave & San Jose Ave)
Alameda, CA 94501
(510) 521-2001
7 reviews for Alameda Athletic Club
i've had my membership to the alameda athletic club for almost a month now, and i have to say i do love it. the club is nothing fancy, nothing flashy, but a place where one goes to simply get fit, stay in shape, or lose weight. this is not a place where one goes to impress others with how much they can bench, or to show off their new lululemon apparel. its a place where you go to get a good sweaty workout, without having to worry about how you look or if your doing something wrong. this is why i'm definitely a fan. i feel comfortable there.
some other great things about the club:
they have classes everyday except fridays. i have only gone to their vinyasa yoga class on tues/thurs, and i just love it! i have never taken yoga before, and the instructor is so great and gives us proper attention and helps us out with our form. no one is concerned about other people staring at them, or worrying about not being able to do certain poses. i definitely recommend it! i have yet to try out their other classes such as tai chi, pilates, yoga/pilates combo, step, cardio dance.
upstairs there is a seperate room for women only which i really like. i'm not completely comfortable working out with weights in front of men because well i'm not sure if i'm doing it right. this room is great, and so far every time i've gone its been empty. another great thing about the club -- it never seems to be packed. theres always cardio machines available, located on the first floor and second floor as well. they are a bit old, but hey they do the job!
lastly -- no contracts. i did have to pay a sign up fee + first and last months payment up front, but other than that, cancel whenever, which is perfect for me, because i'm only going to be in alameda until december.
so if you're looking for a simple place to get in shape, i highly recommend the alameda athletic club =]
I used to belong to this gym, but left because the equipment is old and doesn't operate properly and the lack of cleaniness. My clothes were infested with ants in the locker room during my workout.
This is my kinda gym. The AAC is not for people who want bright, shiney, neon-lit gyms with sparkling new machines. This is not 24-Hour Fitness. No, this is a place for people who want to get in, get a solid workout, and get out. Lots of iron plates and bars in the main room, with solid, functional machines.
Other high points include:
-Sauna & hottub in both the Mens & Women's lockers
-LARGE wood-floored dance studio for everything from karate to yoga classes
-Good cardio machines upstairs
-punching bags and medicine balls upstairs as well
-Women's only workout room upstairs
This isn't a joint to stand around in your latest gym fashions, this is a place to work out. 'Nuff said.
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This is the only gym in town that really feels like Alameda on the inside. I've been just about everywhere around here to workout, and this is the only place in town where you can overhear 70+ men and women sighing and saying "remember the 40's?" I don't know, but I really don't mind that they have an insanely irradic class schedule, or that the equipment is from the dark ages, or that the locker room walls are musty and slimey smelling. I like the hand drawings on the second floor of all of the old time heavy weight rivalries of the 20th century. How cool is that? When you're going into your second minute of wall sits you can look up and instead of seeing Magic, or some TV sitcom, or whatever, you see these legendary champions of the ring.
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I used to go to this gym because it was convenient and cheap, but you get what you pay for. The machines are very old; they are the same machines my Dad worked out on when I was a little girl. They also don't clean very thoroughly. (The same booger is on a machine where it's lived for the couple of years I was a member, it's pretty gross!) Also, for a long time there was this huge hole in the wall downstairs in the women's locker room; their fix was to cover it with a poster. I found this out as I was leaning over to put on a shoe and went to rest my hand on the wall. Needless to say my hand went right through the poster and right through the wall.
I brought a neighbor in to join right around the time they were having a promotional deal where you can bring in a friend and receive one month free. My neighbor joined 2 days prior to me receiving the promotional mailing and even inquired about me getting credit for her joining. I asked the guy at the counter to look into this and he said the owner did not want to honor this. Well, I'm sorry to hear that they would rather lose a loyal customer rather than part with one month free for something I deserved. I wrote a letter to the owner of AAC, he asked me to consider coming back and offered me 2 months free which I thought was nice, but I had already quit their gym and go to another now.
Hopefully they will work on their customer service so they don't continue to lose customers!
not busy, decent cardio but very old weight machines. some look like they are from the 70's/ the price and location its OK, I just wish the three test-fests would stop lounging on the weight machines admiring each others muscles so others can USE the machines.
This is a solid, standard gym where you mostly don't feel too harassed. It's not at all new, and not at all intimidating. We recently switched to the Mariner Square gym in Alameda because of the lack of classes and because there is no pool at the Alameda Athletic Club. While the AAC does have classes, they are not in a good location and anybody can walk through at any point. It's distracting. However, we were members of this gym for two years and liked it for what it was -- an economical, not too crowded place to work out.
