yup. multiple people complaining about it being 80 degrees + mentioning that management refuses to change it means that a lot of people are complaining about it and eventually mgmt had to change it
its literally just an entertainment video with some jokes. why are people so serious? sure they mightve been true at one point but arent now so why are people tripping so hard? "SHOW THE DATES!!" "they knew you at the front!!" yall probably dont even go to the gym and arent in the area and care so much.
They acted like they knew you at the front desk. Maybe they already know who you are since you are a well-known youtuber so they treated you well? Just a hunch.
To be fair, the first gym didn't seem to have any plate racks holding extra plates, and each machine only seemed to have 2 to 4 45s per machine, so I can totally understand the complaint about it not having enough plates--especially if it's busy.
Well, he also doesn't realize that a female patron WILL be treated very differently from how he would be treated, even if he would not be an influencer ... Same goes for the plates ... the amount of plates he's pointing out is indeed VERY FEW for the amount of benches and machines they have. This seems to be less then a metric ton visible on 6 benches, that's nothing. Even if only half of them would be in use, people would indeed be missing plates.
I mean I’ll agree to an extent with the service, but everything else I mean it’s not like they knew he was coming and then all of a sudden just setup all new equipment lol.
For that last gym I can tell you the sweat and humidity is definitely a thing when the guy is packed, i've been to a similar underground gym in my city and it gets very much frustrating
But prolly not equal to real weight also I guess prolly way different weight distribution, by looking at them they remind me those with oil/gas or whatever, which act like non-Newtonian fluid, the faster you push harder it gets, so if you push slowly it becomes extremely easy.
Another thing that would help is the dates when the reviews were left because i get a funny feeling the thermostat gym had been a problem for years before you went and reviewed it.
I do wonder how much it helps Will that he can go in during slow times. I can totally imagine people in the first area of the first gym having too few plates to share, or kids hanging around that 3rd gym after school.
Agree. Time of day is so different. I use my local YMCA at 5am, and it’s a really great vibe. Usually the exact same group of people getting it done in the gym, friendly and supportive. Nice community vibe. If I accidentally go in the afternoon when schools out, it’s a bunch of fuckboy highscoolers being fuckboy high schoolers, which is annoying at best. And you get all the aggressive basketball games going on, all yelling at eachother and sometimes fights breaking out. It’s a totally different scene to say the least. And lock your shit up in the afternoon. That’s when your stuff gets stolen. Early AM is no risk for theft
@@ngndnd These aren't 1 star gyms btw. They all have good reviews, hes picking the few bad reviews and seeing if they hold up. I thought like you at first to because if a place is 1 star, it gonna probably be a bit wierd so why be defensive. The title of the video could have explained this better.
@@Suds1407 That's the case for 99.9999999% of gyms. In every country. I've lived in Canada, US, Brazil, Italy and France. Any medium sized city (or bigger, of course) has this issue.
We still have a couple of these in my gym. One other benefit is that you can easily load up resistance to do eccentric reps, or do drop-down reps with just a push of your thumb to deload.
@@kaylum983 There's several reasons "why". If you try to use power with freeweights or weight stacks, you''ll exert force the first portion off the rep and make the weights fly up the rest of the way. With air pressure there is no momentum, so you'll have to apply force through the entire range of motion. Then there's also the ease of adjusting weights, which makes it possible to instantly transition between resistances between reps.
The gym I went to from 15-21 was like straight from the 80s. Dust and dirt everywhere, needle marks in the bathroom stalls, a literal ant hill on the inside of a window, torn padding and vinyl on everything, the little balls on a cable machine handle had broken off and were replaced with golf balls that had holes drilled through them, a dog would just run around everywhere, and the ceiling had missing panels everywhere. That being said the atmosphere was awesome and the regulars there were big and strong as hell and always willing to help you out.
@@zoommiesbayand a camera man while filming and talking about the place. They wouldn’t be rude to somebody who obviously has an audience and is literally reviewing the place
That would fairly apply to the staff's treatment of him (as well as his fame in the bodybuilding community), but as for everything else, there's nothing they could've had time to change or fix before his arrival.
@@OptimisticNihilist1244 bru don't be so butthurt lmao. But if you're gonna make jokes like that know what you're talking about. Introverted people don't want to be alone, antisocial people do
I can tell you as a gym employee/trainer for a few years, gym staff is probably the most fluctuating quality at a gym. You get rude/uncaring/unattentive teenagers or blowhards. Or sometimes you get energized, professional, and attentive people. Chances are if you come between 10am-5pm you're gonna get the best service just because more management/trainers are around.
I'd always be sure to be out by 5pm, or get there after 7pm cos that's when the douches show up. They'd work out in packs of 6+ and stand around while they'd (one at a time) do one rep on a barbell that was way too heavy, grunt, drop it and chicken strut around the room. But if I was there at the Douching Hour, at least it was entertaining.
@@BigJonB36 Sadly dude, that's not even far from something you might overhear. I've heard all manner of inappropriate shit being said about members by giggling front desk employees, sadly sometimes even trainers. Or you're trying to get checked in and you have to repeat yourself 5 times to them while they stare at their phone before they actually pick their head up, "huh? What's up dude? uhhh?" Or worse case scenario, you've got weird membership issues and because you come in to workout at 6pm, and sales leaves at 5pm, you literally never encounter someone who can help you. Then you come in next week and get told your membership is innactive and you're charged a fee for missing a membership payment. (things that happen surprisingly often)
It's genuinely so telling to see how naive and immature a white person is by how they react to a different language. Idk how you can live in this diverse country and be so ignorant
My local gym is an underground one and it CAN be really cool....if AC works properly. We were dying in the gym in the summer, despite the fact that it's in a cellar as I mentioned before. Cellars are naturally colder than over ground facilities, but the AC just couldn't keep up with all the humid that came from people working out there. Also, they have a habit for neglecting broken machines for weeks. And not cleaning the AC properly. And not fixing the walls for MONTHS after a water pipe leak. I'm dead serious, some sections of the gym wall had black mold for months until it was removed and repainted. It is totally automated, "smart gym" with no gym staff, so when I called them to tell them one of the machines is broken, the lady on the other end thanked me for notifying and said "it will be fixed during the next maintenance window". Next maintenance window happened after 2 weeks or so, lol. And there are also cases when the gym radio just dies. My gym partner called them and he was told that they'll turn it back on. They didn't XD (This happened multiple times btw) If you've never been to a dead silent gym before, let me tell you it's really weird and awkward. Just hearing everyone sigh, growl, the clunking of the weights, etc. It's really funny, in a bad way. If it wasn't the only 24/7 gym in my town, I'd never go back. But it is. And it is also the cheapest, lol. (Well, cheapness comes at a cost as it seems)
The thing about 1 star reviews is in most cases they are based on truth, even if they are embellished in the heat of the moment. A majority of ppl will not go through the trouble of putting a review unless something sparked that fire.
I also see that people with horrible attitudes and a sense of entitlement leave 1 star reviews because they harassed the employees and got in trouble. Especially at restaurants.
@@fungustheclown666yes exactly. This video is super weird because the reviews COULD be 100% false and probably made by a super aggressive and annoying person. Or it could be true completely and the gym could've fired a few staff members and now it's operating well. Or maybe he's just famous and they chose to be nice. Or maybe the staff had a bad day when that lady made the review. Or maybe they are more likely to be nice to him because he is jacked and not so many gym goers look or are super strong... Just because he has a good experience doesn't discount the reviews .. there's literally so many factors and he seems to just ignore them
Yes! Filipino here and a lot of these look nicer than my local gym, but that doesn't necessarily speak on quality of the place. I've been loving how i feel after a pump and always look forward to the next time i enter my "1-star" gym
bro i go to gym thats crowded asf, not that hygienic and its super cheap + the weights are IRON and heavy the 12kg dumbbell is super heavy these gyms look decent to me lol
22:05 that's an injectable resin they put into concrete to fix leaks. What they generally do is drill holes closest to where the leak is seeping through the wall and they just shove pump that shit into the hole until they cant anymore. Then you wait to see if it leaks somewhere else and you rinse and repeat. Considering this gym had reviews of leaks it makes sense you see this. Injecting resin into concrete is EXTREMLY expensive too and pretty much the only way to fix concrete water leaks unless you fix the source of the leak which can be much more complicated than you could ever imagine.
Sorry but just because the front desk recognizes that you’re in influencer and can see that you have a camera pointed at you doesn’t mean they might not have been rude or less kind to an average gym member. None of this discredits the 1 star reviews
Exactly this. I wish he would've had his cameraman just go in without a camera or anything, just acting like an "average joe" off the street to see if the staff would've acted differently. The staff acted more like fans than how typical staff would react to any other gym member.
18:57 To be fair, Laura's complant was legit: it's not accessible to anyone who can't do multiple flights of stairs. There are people with lower body mobility issues who want to get shredded up top, and maybe even improve their lower body to eventually be able to do stairs, if possible.
I thought the same. Glad it wasnt just me. Also. "AC is set to 80" Manager sets to 70 for like.. half an hour while this chump is in there. Why the fuck am I even here. How did YT bring me here of all things I would want to watch.
@@dobby240 that's not how commercial ACs work. If it was really 80, it would take probably an hour for it to go down to 70. HVAC systems set to 80 blow HOT air, and cold air to bring it down a whole 10 degrees. There's NO WAY *NOT* to feel that happening.
I go to a small, smelly, with old and new machines gym. The staff is nice, the people exercising are friendly, the posters on the walls remember the 80´s and 90´s. I love it.
2:04 "I recognize you, bro!" all of your customer service reviewing is invalidated by this because the guy was a fan before you ever came in. he may act like Dahmer to everyone else
18:30 Gotta love that to help people figure out if they should go up the stairs or down the stairs, management decided to put a horizontal arrow on the wall. Very helpful.
Man, I would love for you to continue doing these as a full-time series. I loved it!! Striaton 6 looks pretty cool with some of that equipment. Good mix.
19:15 i was like oh how the heck did they get that green screen behind the rack like that?! And then it literally went back to normal and i remembered THE ENTIRE WALL WAS GREEN 💀💀 such good editing
I go to a privately owned gym and the equipment definitely has alot of love lol. Theres no real heat or ventilation but they do have an industrial fan as well as few others scattered around and if desired you can open the garage door for natural light and fresh air. I enjoy the freedom of being (mostly) alone to do my thing and the condition doesn't bother me so long as its still usable.
There used to be this old church in Ballarat Australia, full of old steel weights and home made cable machines. The guys there were in their 50s to 80s, lifting heavy and the banta was amazing. Miss that to what it is these days
@@Harrisonmego I don't live in Florida and have no opinion on the crabbiness of the people there, but there definitely can be higher percentages of crabby people based on locations.
@@Harrisonmego yeah, the thing is that in my experience from living on the west coast, FL, and europe, that random FL people on the streets are way more rude/confrontational
Don't see people mentioning it, but the joke at 6:25 about Katie with the switch to Albert review is why I'm here. Served peak comedy once again, thank you @Will Tennyson
Everyone probably has a relatively valid review. Everyone has a bad day, that includes the gyms themselves. Even my gym has things I can complain about but it changes day to day depending on how staff and visitors treat it.
Will I wanted just to say thank you ( I know this isn't one of those vids but whatever). You helped me start to get better and get my life back. I was beyond morbidly obese if there is a category above it or below it I don't know. I spent more years than I care to admit having just given up on everything. I can't remember how I came across you but am so glad I did you helped me more than you can imagine with your delivery and light hearted approach yet serious and instructive. It has been around 8 months now since started training tbh only had 4 good months, I was hardly able to walk and doc told me all bad things. I am now about 90kg (198lb) down I am still about as strong as a toddler but I can do things I thought were impossible to my old self now. I have a tomorrow now and am trying to make it better and you have been a big inspiration to me. From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU! You were a big part in saving my life. Much love
I hope this becomes a series, a lot of us don't get to explore new gyms like this and tackling it through the perspective of a 1 star review is very neat
Initially I was put off by Striation's backrooms-esque entrance but boy did the place grow on me the more I watched. There's a very cool, friendly ambience and the machines seem really awesome. I'd like to see more of those everywhere. I low-key loved that moody black room.
this gave me a good laugh, i saw a bunch of negative reviews for the powerhouse i go to, went to a tour and looks like they fixed everything they complained about in the reviews ✨
Those air pressure machines looked awesome, really hope to see some of those one day, brilliant design idea. I would also second all the comments about entering during work/school hours compared to prime time 3-7pm with those hours being horrible to train in. Nice entertaining video, keep it up!
I've been in customer service roles my whole life, including the community and events manager of a 5-star gym (I'm talking 1000's a year, cryotherapy, 1on1 nutritionists, the janitor was told to memorize new member names by photo before their first day. My civic looked so out of place in that parking lot lmao). Some people just live to complain tbh, especially the higher up you go in terms of net-value clients. The 2/3 star reviews are where its at, those people are honest
00:10 that is true. i really worry about the majority of reviewers mental health just by looking at all the typos, weird sentence structures and generally bad reviews that have nothing to do with the products.
When people writing a review on something, I don't think they would really care about grammar, spelling, typing etc, They just mainly care about their complaint and doesn't care of how they write their review, especially if it's really good or a really bad experience, they would go out of their way to type that review in and won't care about nothing else
They probably worked out some issues at the first gym, but that's a good sign of the management. Though I do wonder what the 'harassment' was. I have almost lit up a few gym employees acting crazy but 99.99% of the time they are the sweetest people.
What is interesting, and this could be a thing, is the gym saw those 1 stars and fixed some of the issues. The good ones would of at least, so the ones you found that were decent to good probably did that, the ones that were indeed bad, were ones that didnt.
a bit dystopian in the beginning. I’m paused at 2:31 and I can’t tell if that desk review was genuine or sarcasm. It was immediately disqualified as soon as the first person made known that they know and watch you
It was genuine, but I don’t blame him. They were definitely being respectful to him, but at the same time he definitely should’ve looked back at that clip and realized that they only respected him because of how popular he is.
1-star reviews are usually the most worth reading. They're either super informative or absolutely hilarious.
95% miserable karen rate
I find 2-3 to be a little more thorough. I still read the 1 stars tho
@@dboyedoe yeah, the 3-star ones are the most balanced, but they're usually very boring
“Wish I could give zero stars!!111”
Your stupid opinions is a podcast based on just reading peoples reviews of places. Absolutely hilarious.
bro for the first thing about the service desk they literally recognize you....of course they are not going to be rude.
Was thinking the same. Of course they were amazing, they knew who you were. Celebrity status is not an accurate assessment of the vibes
also hes not a woman so....
That's what I was thinking.
@@Kcii-99how dare you
Why r u offended@@ThiccLadiesDMme
Honestly that first gym would be the nicest gym I have ever been in.
seriously- if you have to take an elevator to the gym, then I know you have money
RIGHT? 😮💨
@robertstanley9633 My gym has 4 elevators and it's nowhere as nice as this. I do live in a huge dense city though
real, if that's 1 star mine would be 0.01
Yes me too that could be heaven fo me. Btw im from the Philippines.
Reviews can change ownerships behavior. These one star reviews were probably legit, but the owner changed practices because of the reviews
That's what I was wondering, how old are the reviews? He never shows any dates. Could be reviews from 5 years ago, of course things will be different
yup. multiple people complaining about it being 80 degrees + mentioning that management refuses to change it means that a lot of people are complaining about it and eventually mgmt had to change it
its literally just an entertainment video with some jokes. why are people so serious? sure they mightve been true at one point but arent now so why are people tripping so hard? "SHOW THE DATES!!" "they knew you at the front!!" yall probably dont even go to the gym and arent in the area and care so much.
@@newp0rt lol what?
@@newp0rt sounds like ur the one trippin bruv
They acted like they knew you at the front desk. Maybe they already know who you are since you are a well-known youtuber so they treated you well? Just a hunch.
bingo
bro might be conan
He is?? This just popped up on my feed. Have no idea who he is.
@@jmarcguyhe has over 2 million subscribers
@@jmarcguy The idea is that given he is a huge fitness influencer, and they work at a gym, there is a good chance they are aware of his existence.
The front desk recognised you, that's why they were so friendly.
They saw the camera too
To be fair, the first gym didn't seem to have any plate racks holding extra plates, and each machine only seemed to have 2 to 4 45s per machine, so I can totally understand the complaint about it not having enough plates--especially if it's busy.
I noticed the same thing.
yeah i was looking for this comment
Probably more plates in the "cave" section.
Trueee
Exactly. Just make home gym like people did in Covid days hahahah they dumb. Selling all their equipments when gym reopened
I find it very hard that Will doesn't realize that him being a big TH-cam influencer changes how people interact with him
This is the first video I see of him, and he honestly seems like he's not very self-aware.
fax
@@LymbicSystemuwu It almost feels like satire
Well, he also doesn't realize that a female patron WILL be treated very differently from how he would be treated, even if he would not be an influencer ...
Same goes for the plates ... the amount of plates he's pointing out is indeed VERY FEW for the amount of benches and machines they have. This seems to be less then a metric ton visible on 6 benches, that's nothing. Even if only half of them would be in use, people would indeed be missing plates.
I mean I’ll agree to an extent with the service, but everything else I mean it’s not like they knew he was coming and then all of a sudden just setup all new equipment lol.
For that last gym I can tell you the sweat and humidity is definitely a thing when the guy is packed, i've been to a similar underground gym in my city and it gets very much frustrating
yea when guys get packed the smell can be rough especially if you were hoping for alone time with him
That last gym, the equipment is sick AF! Being able to drop set weights without having to change the pin/plates is awesome. I wish my gym had those.
Yeah, that's pretty rad. I've never seen equipment like that before.
But prolly not equal to real weight also I guess prolly way different weight distribution, by looking at them they remind me those with oil/gas or whatever, which act like non-Newtonian fluid, the faster you push harder it gets, so if you push slowly it becomes extremely easy.
@@MAST Meh, depends if you're training for strength or hypertrophy. Just size and I guess they are great tools
@@MAST Go and try one. Legit cannot answer this as I have no experience.
@@MASTI’ve been using them since 2012. They’re actually meant to be used for very fast reps that toil wouldn’t be able to do with a weight stack.
I never trust the 1 star reviews... the 3 star reviews are usually the best for actually getting to root of the problem.
Cause those are reasonable people most likely, not just angry dumb dumbs lol
1-star reviews come from a place of anger, 2-3 star reviews means the person actually articulated on why they disliked something
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A lot of 5* reviews are from people who have gotten what ever it is for free so most are useless and not trustworthy.
I also like clicking on the person to see if they only leave 1 star reviews for places
Another thing that would help is the dates when the reviews were left because i get a funny feeling the thermostat gym had been a problem for years before you went and reviewed it.
Known strategy: leave bad reviews so the gym won't get too crowded......
Smart 😅
Then the gym will shutdown because they don’t have enough members??
actually… genius 😂
@@tyajjjjjjjjynah, the regulars are always paying..
Yeah, until it closes because of all the bad reviews and no one joins.
I do wonder how much it helps Will that he can go in during slow times. I can totally imagine people in the first area of the first gym having too few plates to share, or kids hanging around that 3rd gym after school.
100%, the powerhouse I go to is decent at 11am, but borderline unusable from 5-7
Agree. Time of day is so different. I use my local YMCA at 5am, and it’s a really great vibe. Usually the exact same group of people getting it done in the gym, friendly and supportive. Nice community vibe. If I accidentally go in the afternoon when schools out, it’s a bunch of fuckboy highscoolers being fuckboy high schoolers, which is annoying at best. And you get all the aggressive basketball games going on, all yelling at eachother and sometimes fights breaking out. It’s a totally different scene to say the least. And lock your shit up in the afternoon. That’s when your stuff gets stolen. Early AM is no risk for theft
idk this video feels like an ad anyway. Like he already knows the owners or something by how defensive he got from the reviews for the first one
@@ngndnd These aren't 1 star gyms btw. They all have good reviews, hes picking the few bad reviews and seeing if they hold up. I thought like you at first to because if a place is 1 star, it gonna probably be a bit wierd so why be defensive. The title of the video could have explained this better.
@@Suds1407 That's the case for 99.9999999% of gyms. In every country.
I've lived in Canada, US, Brazil, Italy and France. Any medium sized city (or bigger, of course) has this issue.
“Not one influencer to be found” said Will, the fitness influencer, to his camera man
Of course a 2.5 million follower fitness influencer with a camera crew would be greeted with a warm welcome.
Exactly!
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Exactly. He seems to be really trying to defend these gyms
At least the first one, that was a bad look tbh
fax
using air pressure for a resistance machine rather than weights blew my mind.
Badass
Those are oldschool Keiser machines. They still make really cool machines that are often used by high level athletes for training explosive power.
Keiser machines are great for athletes, rlly great for explosiveness and strength
We still have a couple of these in my gym. One other benefit is that you can easily load up resistance to do eccentric reps, or do drop-down reps with just a push of your thumb to deload.
cool product but makes you think "why?" ahaha. don't fix what ain't broke.
@@kaylum983 There's several reasons "why". If you try to use power with freeweights or weight stacks, you''ll exert force the first portion off the rep and make the weights fly up the rest of the way. With air pressure there is no momentum, so you'll have to apply force through the entire range of motion.
Then there's also the ease of adjusting weights, which makes it possible to instantly transition between resistances between reps.
The gym I went to from 15-21 was like straight from the 80s. Dust and dirt everywhere, needle marks in the bathroom stalls, a literal ant hill on the inside of a window, torn padding and vinyl on everything, the little balls on a cable machine handle had broken off and were replaced with golf balls that had holes drilled through them, a dog would just run around everywhere, and the ceiling had missing panels everywhere. That being said the atmosphere was awesome and the regulars there were big and strong as hell and always willing to help you out.
Sound like a great gym
"I don't see a high-schooler in sight, or I just don't know how anyone who's under 18 looks like... which is a much bigger problem" - Will
Circa 2024
combine it with 23:11 "age is just a number" 💀💀
wo sb to thike pr BITS ki pfp? damn
Not gonna hold up in court
@@Klogeist out of context, this is terrible lmao
There are some "14 year olds" who look well into their 20's or 30's these days, so who really knows!
Correct title of this video - I tested 1 star reviews gym with my camera crew.
I'm not the only person with eyes after all.
Yeah that’s actually a pretty good thing to think about
he goes in with body cams not full on crews
@@zoommiesbayand a camera man while filming and talking about the place. They wouldn’t be rude to somebody who obviously has an audience and is literally reviewing the place
That would fairly apply to the staff's treatment of him (as well as his fame in the bodybuilding community), but as for everything else, there's nothing they could've had time to change or fix before his arrival.
I work on gym equipment to a large chain. Watching your reviews gives me an idea of what I can do to better peoples experience
The last gym is an introverts dream
Backrooms
well guess what, it's gonna be flooded now, people are gonna swarm the place
*antisocial. Don't confuse your hate for other people for introversion.
@@tomashorst9544 Bro I don't hate other people !! Tf is wrong with you ??
@@OptimisticNihilist1244 bru don't be so butthurt lmao. But if you're gonna make jokes like that know what you're talking about. Introverted people don't want to be alone, antisocial people do
I can tell you as a gym employee/trainer for a few years, gym staff is probably the most fluctuating quality at a gym.
You get rude/uncaring/unattentive teenagers or blowhards. Or sometimes you get energized, professional, and attentive people. Chances are if you come between 10am-5pm you're gonna get the best service just because more management/trainers are around.
Same. It's always bustling and teeming with vibes at 10am and 5pm.
I'd always be sure to be out by 5pm, or get there after 7pm cos that's when the douches show up. They'd work out in packs of 6+ and stand around while they'd (one at a time) do one rep on a barbell that was way too heavy, grunt, drop it and chicken strut around the room. But if I was there at the Douching Hour, at least it was entertaining.
Ok, but I don't really need gym staff to do much but watch me check in. As long as they don't call me Fatty as I do that, I think we're cool
@@BigJonB36 Sadly dude, that's not even far from something you might overhear. I've heard all manner of inappropriate shit being said about members by giggling front desk employees, sadly sometimes even trainers.
Or you're trying to get checked in and you have to repeat yourself 5 times to them while they stare at their phone before they actually pick their head up, "huh? What's up dude? uhhh?"
Or worse case scenario, you've got weird membership issues and because you come in to workout at 6pm, and sales leaves at 5pm, you literally never encounter someone who can help you. Then you come in next week and get told your membership is innactive and you're charged a fee for missing a membership payment. (things that happen surprisingly often)
10:28 local white man hears different language for first time and is very scared
I suppose that was cuban Spanish and not even I understand it as a Mexican lol
It's genuinely so telling to see how naive and immature a white person is by how they react to a different language. Idk how you can live in this diverse country and be so ignorant
I whould be scared to man
Striation 6 would actually be a vibe, the underground gyms are always dope (when they have all the dumbbells)
My local gym is an underground one and it CAN be really cool....if AC works properly. We were dying in the gym in the summer, despite the fact that it's in a cellar as I mentioned before. Cellars are naturally colder than over ground facilities, but the AC just couldn't keep up with all the humid that came from people working out there. Also, they have a habit for neglecting broken machines for weeks. And not cleaning the AC properly. And not fixing the walls for MONTHS after a water pipe leak. I'm dead serious, some sections of the gym wall had black mold for months until it was removed and repainted. It is totally automated, "smart gym" with no gym staff, so when I called them to tell them one of the machines is broken, the lady on the other end thanked me for notifying and said "it will be fixed during the next maintenance window". Next maintenance window happened after 2 weeks or so, lol. And there are also cases when the gym radio just dies. My gym partner called them and he was told that they'll turn it back on. They didn't XD (This happened multiple times btw) If you've never been to a dead silent gym before, let me tell you it's really weird and awkward. Just hearing everyone sigh, growl, the clunking of the weights, etc. It's really funny, in a bad way. If it wasn't the only 24/7 gym in my town, I'd never go back. But it is. And it is also the cheapest, lol. (Well, cheapness comes at a cost as it seems)
The thing about 1 star reviews is in most cases they are based on truth, even if they are embellished in the heat of the moment. A majority of ppl will not go through the trouble of putting a review unless something sparked that fire.
I also see that people with horrible attitudes and a sense of entitlement leave 1 star reviews because they harassed the employees and got in trouble. Especially at restaurants.
@@fungustheclown666yes exactly. This video is super weird because the reviews COULD be 100% false and probably made by a super aggressive and annoying person. Or it could be true completely and the gym could've fired a few staff members and now it's operating well. Or maybe he's just famous and they chose to be nice. Or maybe the staff had a bad day when that lady made the review. Or maybe they are more likely to be nice to him because he is jacked and not so many gym goers look or are super strong... Just because he has a good experience doesn't discount the reviews .. there's literally so many factors and he seems to just ignore them
People only leave reviews if they are really good or really bad. Normal people wonf leave them
These 1-star reviews will go crazy in Southeast asian gyms. We have chickens running around in my gym, NO AC and NO fancy equipments.
Yes! Filipino here and a lot of these look nicer than my local gym, but that doesn't necessarily speak on quality of the place. I've been loving how i feel after a pump and always look forward to the next time i enter my "1-star" gym
bro i go to gym thats crowded asf, not that hygienic and its super cheap + the weights are IRON and heavy the 12kg dumbbell is super heavy these gyms look decent to me lol
That last gym was actually pretty freaking awesome, super cool equipment and that dude you met there was for sure a hardcore Jiujitsu brother lol
Cauliflower bro
The first gym might have actually had some of those problems until the owner or manager saw those reviews.
22:05 that's an injectable resin they put into concrete to fix leaks. What they generally do is drill holes closest to where the leak is seeping through the wall and they just shove pump that shit into the hole until they cant anymore. Then you wait to see if it leaks somewhere else and you rinse and repeat. Considering this gym had reviews of leaks it makes sense you see this. Injecting resin into concrete is EXTREMLY expensive too and pretty much the only way to fix concrete water leaks unless you fix the source of the leak which can be much more complicated than you could ever imagine.
I guarantee you that first gym learned you were coming somehow. You don't get that many complaints about the temp and have them all be wrong.
I didn't see any plate racks. Only the few plates on each bench frame. So the lack of plates could be valid.
or after many complaints they finally adjust the temp
Maybe they got a new manager. Or, maybe someone started reading the reviews.
🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎
Nah he's straight up sponsored by them
These 1-star gyms look like the 5-star ones I have in my city lol
same 😂
Same 😂
The frontdesk was on point.. You can litterally hear them say they recognize you..
Means nothing. How do they treat people they don't know/care about?
Sorry but just because the front desk recognizes that you’re in influencer and can see that you have a camera pointed at you doesn’t mean they might not have been rude or less kind to an average gym member. None of this discredits the 1 star reviews
Ok, but in the first gym it wasn't 80 degrees, there were plenty of plates, and it wasn't a labyrinth.
Yea that’s what I was thinking lol. He really can’t accurately judge that part because he’s not an “average” client
Exactly this. I wish he would've had his cameraman just go in without a camera or anything, just acting like an "average joe" off the street to see if the staff would've acted differently.
The staff acted more like fans than how typical staff would react to any other gym member.
@@za-ir5nicould be that they saw the reviews and fixed the problems, the world may never know
@@za-ir5niBut there was 1 influencer..
10:26 “4.1% from your retirement accounts” got me ugly laughing 😆
To be fair to the reviews about plates in the first gym, there weren't many that I saw, which would mean that during busy times you'd have no plates.
1) liked the checklist at each gym
2) that last gym was pretty cool!
18:57 To be fair, Laura's complant was legit: it's not accessible to anyone who can't do multiple flights of stairs. There are people with lower body mobility issues who want to get shredded up top, and maybe even improve their lower body to eventually be able to do stairs, if possible.
He was on an elevator. So they do have access. Some people just donr want to look i guess
@@zoommiesbay He rides an elevator at the first gym, not the one where the accessibility complained about in the review.
I dont reckon the owner of the gym owns the whole building and would be able to implement an elevator if it even made sense to spend that much money
Who cares about people that can't even walk up stairs?
@@leonardhpls6 🥱 Trolling failed... Try again in: Never.
Nah, Bro's glazing the gym so hard.
average 1 star reviewer
10:28 that translation had me weak lmao
What does it actually say???
You forgot to put a disclaimer *sponsored by 1star rated gyms*
I thought the same. Glad it wasnt just me.
Also. "AC is set to 80" Manager sets to 70 for like.. half an hour while this chump is in there. Why the fuck am I even here. How did YT bring me here of all things I would want to watch.
@@dobby240 💀💀
@@dobby240brother used “chump”. Yeah you’re cooked.
@dobby240 good point why tf am I watching this
@@dobby240 that's not how commercial ACs work. If it was really 80, it would take probably an hour for it to go down to 70. HVAC systems set to 80 blow HOT air, and cold air to bring it down a whole 10 degrees. There's NO WAY *NOT* to feel that happening.
That "Labyrinth" gym looks like a level of the Backrooms.
That second one looks like every small town gym that charges $60 a month.
Honestly this is pretty average where I live - is 60 bucks supposed to be cheap or expensive?
@@sprint702expensive. Gym of that quality should be about $30
@@sprint70260 bucks a month that’s very expensive 😅
Expensive @@sprint702
@@sprint702expensive compared to commercial
18:10 The "out of focus" effect on the review when zooming into Will was smooth.
You got a good eye man 👍 Sincerely, Editor
@@TheEditorJoshIf you actually are the editor then that “only fans” edit at 17:58 gave me a good laugh, good job 😂
I go to a small, smelly, with old and new machines gym. The staff is nice, the people exercising are friendly, the posters on the walls remember the 80´s and 90´s. I love it.
18:16 that whole entering the gym clip felt like those 3am videos, but that might just be me😂
Ur not wrong
Nah bro you right
Last gym had some mysterious vibe to it for sure
23:12 someone clip that
Essentially the first gym took the feedback and improved the experience of their facilities, that signals good management!
2:04 "I recognize you, bro!" all of your customer service reviewing is invalidated by this because the guy was a fan before you ever came in. he may act like Dahmer to everyone else
"Dahmer" 😭😭😭
18:30 Gotta love that to help people figure out if they should go up the stairs or down the stairs, management decided to put a horizontal arrow on the wall. Very helpful.
Man, I would love for you to continue doing these as a full-time series. I loved it!! Striaton 6 looks pretty cool with some of that equipment. Good mix.
You are by far the funniest Gym Bro TH-camr there is. Thank you Will for being you and allowing us to be a part of it.
Would you count Mike Isreatel as a gym bro? Cus they are at least neck and neck with both different styles.
Simp
@@23Butanedione
As much as he is a kiss-ass, throwing the word “simp” around just makes you look like a dumb teenager.
@@MrTisjeboynah Dr Mike is way funnier
The one-star reviews are some of the people dont want you to go to them. So they can have the space to themselves.
19:15 i was like oh how the heck did they get that green screen behind the rack like that?! And then it literally went back to normal and i remembered THE ENTIRE WALL WAS GREEN 💀💀 such good editing
Lol glad you enjoyed and thank you for the kind words! (Editor)
@@TheEditorJosh yeah man, you did a great job
I mean, not like we need to key in green nowadays anyways.
I go to a privately owned gym and the equipment definitely has alot of love lol. Theres no real heat or ventilation but they do have an industrial fan as well as few others scattered around and if desired you can open the garage door for natural light and fresh air. I enjoy the freedom of being (mostly) alone to do my thing and the condition doesn't bother me so long as its still usable.
yeah but what's that monthly and yearly fee?
Bro the last gym is literally a paradise for introvert/beginner, love it!
There used to be this old church in Ballarat Australia, full of old steel weights and home made cable machines. The guys there were in their 50s to 80s, lifting heavy and the banta was amazing. Miss that to what it is these days
really like the format with the objectives
this is actually Ryan Trahan's video format...
You tripping on that scooter was hilarious!😅
the green screen at striation 6 was brilliant
That was gold!! That made me laugh the hardest!!!!😂
Lmao glad you enjoyed 😂 I was like YO that thing’s green, we can mess around with this (Editor)
You did great 😂😂@@TheEditorJosh
“Not only am I building my muscles but I’m fortifying my immune system” 😂
22:10 ah yes, the "FUTURE!!" machine
Dead 💀
17:07 🤣🤣🤣 "They do kilograms? One star."
As a European, that line hit me
I mean, a person before him probably just flipped the switch on the scale because it does both lbs and kg.
@@pasefavor possibly
Every non-American at this moment:
‘Pathetic.’
Every American at this moment: “you’ve done well, my son.”
As someone who lives in Florida, it doesn’t surprise me that there are just crabby people who leave bad reviews
FR… the first gym is way better than mine. 🤣🤡
As someone who also lives in Florida, I don't really understand what the state has anything to do with it; there are crabby people everywhere
@@giancarloarrobarodriguez5291 The first gym is actually badass like it'd be sick to go to 10/10 gym.
@@Harrisonmego I don't live in Florida and have no opinion on the crabbiness of the people there, but there definitely can be higher percentages of crabby people based on locations.
@@Harrisonmego yeah, the thing is that in my experience from living on the west coast, FL, and europe, that random FL people on the streets are way more rude/confrontational
13:50 "the fact that the ceiling might come down on me, I find that feeling extremely anabolic" I DIED BRO😂😂😂
Don't see people mentioning it, but the joke at 6:25 about Katie with the switch to Albert review is why I'm here. Served peak comedy once again, thank you @Will Tennyson
13:30
One of the holy laws of anobolism is the impending doom of the ceiling falling 😂😂
I wonder if the 1st one is people just leaving bad reviews to keep over crowding to a minimum
Everyone probably has a relatively valid review. Everyone has a bad day, that includes the gyms themselves. Even my gym has things I can complain about but it changes day to day depending on how staff and visitors treat it.
Will
I wanted just to say thank you ( I know this isn't one of those vids but whatever). You helped me start to get better and get my life back. I was beyond morbidly obese if there is a category above it or below it I don't know. I spent more years than I care to admit having just given up on everything. I can't remember how I came across you but am so glad I did you helped me more than you can imagine with your delivery and light hearted approach yet serious and instructive.
It has been around 8 months now since started training tbh only had 4 good months, I was hardly able to walk and doc told me all bad things.
I am now about 90kg (198lb) down I am still about as strong as a toddler but I can do things I thought were impossible to my old self now. I have a tomorrow now and am trying to make it better and you have been a big inspiration to me.
From the bottom of my heart
THANK YOU!
You were a big part in saving my life.
Much love
5:57 S2000 SPOTTED!
IS THAT…. AN S2K?!
DAMN SON, Silver clean, that's a well treated car
I hope this becomes a series, a lot of us don't get to explore new gyms like this and tackling it through the perspective of a 1 star review is very neat
Initially I was put off by Striation's backrooms-esque entrance but boy did the place grow on me the more I watched. There's a very cool, friendly ambience and the machines seem really awesome. I'd like to see more of those everywhere. I low-key loved that moody black room.
That random bathroom translation had me DEAADDD 😂😂😂😂
19:14 the walls are good tho, they really helped your editor with the green screen. Lmao
Nah for real bruh (Editor)
this gave me a good laugh, i saw a bunch of negative reviews for the powerhouse i go to, went to a tour and looks like they fixed everything they complained about in the reviews ✨
People like to write 1 star reviews on gyms so the gym wont get super crowded
that guy you interviewed had some of the most wild cauliflower ear i've ever saw next to UFC fighters lmao
I've noticed that too
Those air pressure machines looked awesome, really hope to see some of those one day, brilliant design idea.
I would also second all the comments about entering during work/school hours compared to prime time 3-7pm with those hours being horrible to train in.
Nice entertaining video, keep it up!
I love dropsets and machines like these would be 🔥🔥
My gym back in the day had those, in the 90's. They're actually pretty good machines. Made by Kaiser.
People are very precious regarding old gym equipment
I've been in customer service roles my whole life, including the community and events manager of a 5-star gym (I'm talking 1000's a year, cryotherapy, 1on1 nutritionists, the janitor was told to memorize new member names by photo before their first day. My civic looked so out of place in that parking lot lmao). Some people just live to complain tbh, especially the higher up you go in terms of net-value clients. The 2/3 star reviews are where its at, those people are honest
It’s always hard for me to sit through a TH-cam video, but your videos always lock me in. Love your content, bro. Keep up the good work.
Bro turned into Willem Dafoe at 21:33. "I'm somewhat of a lifter myself."
Some people just have anger issues you know
Like you
@@fedorahatguys7979 ?
22:30 That fella definitely plays rugby. Cauliflower ears!
Or he's a fighter
Obviously a fighter man🤣
Or a wrestler
00:10 that is true. i really worry about the majority of reviewers mental health just by looking at all the typos, weird sentence structures and generally bad reviews that have nothing to do with the products.
When people writing a review on something, I don't think they would really care about grammar, spelling, typing etc, They just mainly care about their complaint and doesn't care of how they write their review, especially if it's really good or a really bad experience, they would go out of their way to type that review in and won't care about nothing else
2:22 they're not going to treat you the same way they treat the average customer.
When finally the office's theme kicking in show's the spontaneous humour of will.
That made me smile
Plot Twist: The Reviews were done by loyal members to prevent the gym from overcrowding.
They probably worked out some issues at the first gym, but that's a good sign of the management. Though I do wonder what the 'harassment' was. I have almost lit up a few gym employees acting crazy but 99.99% of the time they are the sweetest people.
Man, you could probably do an entire series “Gym Rescue” like Bar Rescue or Kitchen Nightmares
Epic idea!
17:55 nah bro you didnt have to do her dirty like that 💀
Yeah there is no way a pornstar is naming herself after a fish 😂
2:48 They definitely changed it after all the complaints lol
Will stole his child's scooter for this video and now is tempting a stranger into stealing his child's scooter.
I lost it when you knocked on the door at the last place😂😂😂😂 18:35
What is interesting, and this could be a thing, is the gym saw those 1 stars and fixed some of the issues. The good ones would of at least, so the ones you found that were decent to good probably did that, the ones that were indeed bad, were ones that didnt.
a bit dystopian in the beginning. I’m paused at 2:31 and I can’t tell if that desk review was genuine or sarcasm. It was immediately disqualified as soon as the first person made known that they know and watch you
It was genuine, but I don’t blame him. They were definitely being respectful to him, but at the same time he definitely should’ve looked back at that clip and realized that they only respected him because of how popular he is.
There are only two types of reviews most people will bother to make: 1 star or 5 star. Keep that in mind and have a nice day.
13:20 this looks like that one clip in monster inc when boo in hiding from sully
Nahhh fr tho 😂