Edit: MUSIC HAS ARRIVED! It’s amazing what a difference even a bit of radio makes in the weight room. Absolutely transformed and vastly improved the experience. YMCA now feels like a gym vs a library or waiting room. Thank you for...
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Edit: MUSIC HAS ARRIVED! It’s amazing what a difference even a bit of radio makes in the weight room. Absolutely transformed and vastly improved the experience. YMCA now feels like a gym vs a library or waiting room. Thank you for listening to feedback, it’s a vastly better space when not silent.
Edit: three month update - still no music, so all you hear is grunting and heavy breathing. The gym is wired with speakers and has been for years, so the problem is just being ignored. Probably going to switch gyms, this is insanely weird. This gym is quieter than the public library and it’s the strangest experience I’ve had in fitness.
Edit: two week update, no change to the music situation despite owner’s response. The new, much smaller space has gotten very crowded while the same eerie silence remains. It’s crazy that something like background music can make such a difference, but other places seem so much more inviting (likely because there’s just more to listen to than grunting noises)
The YMCA has been a friendly location with nice facilities for fitness. The new space is unfortunately much smaller and therefore much more crowded, but it is VERY nice with quality equipment. Honestly, the greatest improvement they can make is to break up the strangely silent environment in the new weight space. I've never been to such an eerily quiet gym, and while the YMCA does appear to have speakers in the space, I haven't seen them used in years. Sure, you can wear headphones. But you try doing a HIIT workout without those things falling out! YMCA management - I beg you - please please please add some radio to the weight spaces. This alone has been a factor preventing friends of mine from joining - it's bizarrely quiet.