Life Time Fitness- Get FIT

Looking for a luxury fitness center? If so, Life Time – Sugarland Fitness is the place. Located at 1331 Highway 6, it’s a 24-hour gym complete with a spa, cafe, basketball court and an indoor and outdoor pool equipped with water slides. The club has excellent lighting and offers a variety of clean cardiovascular and weight machines. The major drawback is the club is around five-years-old and its routine to see broken machines sitting around for days waiting to be fixed.

Life Time offers a wide range of classes such as yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, aerobics, spinning and strength training. The first class during the week is at 5:15 a.m. and the last is at 7:15 p.m. One caveat for dedicated yogis, the yoga classes offered are more fitness based than traditional yoga. If you want to try a class, Adriana is the most skilled instructor.

The locker rooms are clean and spacious except for the restroom area. They only have four stalls and could be kept neater. The pool and locker room area is overrun with children and teenagers during peak hours. This is expected from a gym in the suburbs. And if you’re looking for a solid game of basketball, be prepared to stand in line, the court generally stays crowded. They have extra space outside that would adequately fit a soccer field, but no moves have been made by management to accommodate this member demand. Still, membership is comfortable enough to make getting a good workout in a decent amount of time possible.

All of Life Time’s amenities come at a moderate price for a plush gym — $55 is the average fee. However, members have to pay or upgrade their membership to use the rock climbing wall or racquetball court and to visit other Life Time Fitness locations.

All in all, if you are willing to pay the slightly pricey monthly dues and mingle with the slow-paced suburban crowd, Life Time is a well-run club with a friendly staff

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