Basic-Fit Brussels Arts-Loi
- Belgium
- Brussels
- Leisure and sport activities
Avenue des Arts 47-49, Bruxelles |
5 rates
5.60/10.00
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Assessment
Barbara Pernice (25.09.2017 20:29)
Horrendous costumer service. Nobody speaks English, the one that did was annoyed when I was asking questions, signing up is through a machine where you need to insert IBAN and other details, which I had never been asked before when signing up to a gym. There's no wifi and prices are not worth the place AND the service.
John Adams (24.07.2017 20:20)
A typical session at this gym in the afternoon will go something like this:
You walk in and up the stairs. The Random Receptionist Guy will tell you to go back down the stairs and close the front door. The Random Receptionist Guy tells this to everyone as everyone think they close by themselves (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, a mischievous lot, doors). If you don't do this the Random Receptionist Guy will leave his spot behind the reception and follow you and tell you to do it. If you still don't do it he will look at you sternly but eventually go away.
After you go to the changing room you will squeeze in next to a locker and change standing up and try to avoid contact with the benches. You do this because out of experience, and after numerous ocular inspections, you know that a worryingly large minority of the men who visit this gym leave their boxers inside out. And the boxers have skid marks on them. So you do not want to touch the benches.
After emerging - hopefully excrement-free - from the locker room you go and hit the racks. There are two of them. You manage to get one and your mood perks up. Things are looking up. You start your squats. You go down and you grunt as you go up. While resting you start to hear grunts from the other rack. Loud grunts. This is because there is no music in the gym. None. So its you and this other guy next to you grunting. Its weirdly intimate and unsurprisingly awkward. You carry on carrying on.
After a while a guy comes up to you and asks you how many set you have left. You explain that you have a bunch of exercises left but seeing as he is going to deadlifts you try to accommodate by rearranging your exercises. You then take a bench next to the rack and proceed to watch the guy who came up to you take two steps into the rack and then stare at his phone for five to ten minutes. Markedly not using the rack.
After this you go to the free weights area. Which is almost completely occupied by young men in black clothes of a weird variety, including sweaters (some knitted) and t-shirts. Some have leathers shoes on. Some have hats. One guy is wearing a heavy silver chain. Outside of his black sweater. No one is talking. There is no music. The room is completely silent except for men grunting. One girl will come in, take a look at the room and quickly leave.
You pick up your weights and start. You immediately get interrupted because someone needs to get to the weights and you are apparently in the way. You move two steps back and you realize by examining the neighbors that you can just about sneak in your set when the other guys around you are resting, thereby avoiding any collisions. You do your weights (in complete silence). For twenty minutes. In complete silence.
You are just about done and hit the showers. Again you try to avoid all sorts of contact with anything. After showering you decide to look if Basic Fit has invested in a blow dryer. They have not. So you air dry. You change and leave.
On your way out you stop by the Random Receptionist Guy and let him know that there is no music. As he is sitting in the one area where there is some music (weird coincidence!) he simply points at the ceiling and says there is music. You clarify that everywhere else, there isn't. He responds that there is nothing he can do about that and turns his eyes back to the computer screen. The audience is over and so is your session.
Nicolas Botton (23.06.2017 18:24)
I don't like the color orange and it is literally everywhere. Too quiet, I could hear my own thoughts, which I also found to be extremely distressing.
Mara Pirovano (07.02.2017 20:34)
Plus: great choice of group classes + new and well functioning fitness equipment.
Minus: the changing rooms are in pretty bad shape (at least the ladies' ones). Three showers out of order (either broken/cold water), no hairdryers available, one toilet.
Warren Vercruysse (14.01.2017 12:15)
Really big Basic fit (2floors). There are a small canteen and vending machines. They also have their own parking. The changing rooms are a bit old.
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