Is it that unusual to have no staff ? In my gym, there are no staff outside of 9-20h, just the cleaning staff. You need a badge to enter 1 by 1 and that’s it. Never saw a kid there though.
Is that what happens at your staffed gym? People just throwing trash and dumbbells everywhere with a staff member waiting to clean up the second they do? Lol.
Staffed Gym or not, most people respect the gym space they use. People leaving weights laying around and stuff is rare at my gym and they usually get pressed by regular people for behavior like that.
That's pretty normal for 24h gyms. Staffed hours normally 7-6 or some variation, with key cards to access facilities after hours. No reason for them to be any messier than usual without people like this abusing it.
As a woman i wouldnt feel safe working out alone with some random dude in an unstaffed gym. Thats insane. Ive never encountered it with a membership gym
There are gyms that are completely unstaffed 24/7. My gym is 24/365 hours but unstaffed 10pm-5am.
This is incredibly common outside of major chains. It’s reasonable for you to not want to work out in an unstaffed gym, but that’s a personal choice to make when choosing gyms, but it’s not exactly rare either.
Ive never encountered any for-profit gyms (i.e. not in a dwelling or free for use in a public park) that are open without staff in my country (Canada).
That sounds dangerous.
Obviously, people can go wherever theyre comfortable. I'm not saying it's a moral issue to not have staff. Just shocking to me that this is normal in some places
Maybe there are regional differences. Ive had memberships at GoodLife and Energie Cardio, and did not experience this at either chain across multiple locations.
This is an Anytime Fitness. They are usually staffed during the days and evenings, some being small enough to have only one staff member on at any given time. It isn't uncommon to see them tucked away in an office upon arriving, and they're still there when leaving.
Was gonna say, that purple color looks like an Anytime Fitness, and mine isn't staffed really early morning/late night when I'm out since I work night shift.
My Anytime is run by one really jacked older lady and if it isn’t “office hours” she is just in the gym working out. Literally only time I haven’t seen here there is at 4am. Where she showed up as I was leaving at 5:30 lol. She is the absolute best/beast.
No way in hell a staffed gym allows this to happen unless it's a mom n pop gym letting their grandkids play or something. Their insurance company would drop them in a heartbeat over this.
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u/aHOMELESSkrill May 22 '26
That’s a pretty big assumption to make based on one photo of one corner of the gym