FITNESS 19

Jim was very helpful, and had much knowledge about my situation. He was very patient, and listened to my concerns. My pain is just about gone, and he gave me exercises to continue doing to help strengthen my ability to move.

I had a great experience at the Wauconda location! Jim is super knowledgeable and helped me understand the pain I was having and got my pain under control. 10/10 would recommend and I’ll be going back for other issues in the future!

Great experience through my 6 week of coming here. Staff treated me awesome every session and was very committed to my recovery. Definitely recommend this location.

If you want to understand your injury and target it quickly this will happen with James. He gives you ALL of his attention while you are there and explains whats going on every step of the way. So grateful I tried the new Wauconda location out

Jim was great to work with! He helped me get strength back quickly through a variety of exercises. He helped me be able to reach all the goals set at our initial evaluation in just 5 weeks. I highly recommend Jim for PT.

And now for the TBR, The Brutal Review: thumbs up.

This location is clean and well organized. It has all but two pieces of equipment I want, and those are a seated calf raise machine and a tibia machine. Not all gyms carry the former and I only know of one that carries the latter. For me right now it certainly is not a big deal. The brunt of machines here are LifeFitness, which has made solid commercial equipment for decades.

The GM, Joe, is good people and cares for this gym well. I met one of the trainers, Chad, who's knowledgeable and offers great workarounds for the lack of the seated calf raise and tibia machines. I signed up for some sessions with him and he's pretty good.

I was skeptical with the google reviews before started having a membership with Fitness 19 but later I changed my opinion.

I got my membership enrolled and started visiting the gym. They do maintain the equipment nicely and have the sanitizers available several points.

By the way, I canceled my membership also :-) That doesn't mean i don't like it. I do like go for the trail walks during the summers.

If you are planning to enroll for gym membership, please go for it and especially during winters.

Can’t beat this gym for the price! I’ve been a member of F19 for over 4 years because of their business model. No frills and everything you need. My money isn’t paying for employees standing around doing nothing or for any unnecessary amenities. You get the best workout for your buck! I did personal training with Joe and he always managed to make an extremely hard workout enjoyable. So enjoyable that 2 weeks after a major shoulder surgery, I was back doing leg day workouts with him. Not sure anyone else could have motivated me to return that quickly.

This gym is great for the price point! Spacious and never over-crowded, equipment is always available. Easy location and parking. The staff is always friendly and helpful. Joe, the current manager, is a fantastic personal trainer and is very knowledgeable & always kind and willing to go out of his way to help anyone out. His fitness classes are also great for anyone who is already advanced in their fitness or just beginning their journey and would enjoy the support of a group setting.