Marvin Altman Fitness Center

Fantastic experience: Was great.

Fantastic experience: Nice center

Positive experience: Great gym. It's always clean with plenty of workout equipment. They offer personal training as well. I only give 3 stars because they had some older lady working the front who got rude with me and then because I forgot my card which was never a problem before she wanted to break my contract that didn't expire til beginning of May and make me pay for a day pass. Sadly I won't be coming back, I found a far more friendly environment to workout in. All it takes is for 1 rude employee to tarnish an amazing gym.

Fantastic experience: Very clean. Machines are in great shape. People are nice. Love the pool and classes they offer. I am so glad they have a sauna!

Negative experience: Facility is older; the pool is not heated during winter months; jacuzzi has one strong jet. I won’t continue my membership after the summer months. Personnel are friendly

Fantastic experience: Great gym and they have cleaning wipes for your station

Negative experience: Went in to get a membership and the lady at the front desk was EXTREMELY rude. I was asking for membership details and she answered everything so rude and told me I couldn’t get certain things. I went in with the intentions of having a new gym but walked out without a membership. I forgot to ask for her name but she’s an older skinny white female with short hair. Hope she treats other nicer… Ps: this is my first ever negative review, she was just THAT rude.

Fantastic experience: Had fun swimming with my child and my wife! Also love the showers!

Fantastic experience: Went and exercised with my dad, the staff is very friendly! A nice clean gym. He's been going there for a while now. 5/5 be back soon!

Fantastic experience: Clean and nice staff

Fantastic experience: Best fitness center in Fort Smith

Fantastic experience: I attended the Chair Yoga class on Wednesday, and the instructor, Kaylea, was awesome.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and great environment.

Fantastic experience: It's a fun place to work out they have the entire set up that you need the staff is super friendly!

Fantastic experience: Great place to exercise and swim Nice hot tubs and showers, bring your own lock for a locker

Fantastic experience: I have just started going there. I have a Medicare Advantage policy that pays for some health/gym programs. I am still working, so I go at night or the weekend. They have numerous weight machines, treadmills, bike machines, swimming pool, and whirlpools. If you can go in the day time, they have several exercise classes and programs. I like it very much.

Fantastic experience: Loving It -- I'm A Newbie - IMPRESSIVE...

Fantastic experience: Love water aerobics.

Positive experience: Best sauna in town.

Fantastic experience: Really helping me learn to breathe better

Fantastic experience: Clean and associates are always very helpful

Positive experience: A bit expensive but they have a lot to offer along with exercise equipment they also offer exercise classes large pool suna and whirl pool foe 42$ a month

Fantastic experience: Great equipment, pool, and great value.

Fantastic experience: The "OG" of gyms in the Fort, great place to work on getting fit for life's journey

Positive experience: Very clean place, cost as much as a day pass at a water park, love swimming here

Negative experience: Definitely not a kid friendly place rude worker at first desk Talked to manager no help at all our mixed kids where question if they was our numerous times very rude place

Negative experience: The workers are so rude and racist. Worst place ever never get a membership there Really rude the old lady’s that go there are so rude got mad because I was splashing in the pool it’s a pool like who is not going to splash in a pool that has water in it trust and believe there the worst places in Arkansas.

Positive experience: It needs a complete remodel!!! The staff however are friendly. The classes are fun and the equipment always worked well when I belonged there. I just the price is a bit steep for what you get in return. It just needs a major overhaul! It needs new equipment and new interior design. It’s 2019! It’s time for a change.

Negative experience: One of the women working there is rude. I understand closing at 9, but to walk in there at 8:50 and say “we’re closed” with an attitude is unnecessary. I know what time the gym closes. I would understand if it was like maybe 8:57 and I was still there, but to go in there at 8:50 and tell me that the gym is closed with a hateful attitude is not okay.

Positive experience: The staff was fantastic. The group that was already at the pool for the aqua fitness class welcomed me like I was an old friend.

Fantastic experience: I visited the gym today while traveling from Pennsylvania for work. This is a great place. Very nice big gym space with quality free weights, machines and cardio equipment. They also have a nice pool, sauna and whirl pool. I wish I had more time I could have spent several hours there. The employees were also very friendly.

Fantastic experience: I went to this gym for about 3-4 months (had to temporarily stop because my kiddo is home for summer break) but I will most certainly be back. I went 4-5 days a week and without fail the staff was always so friendly, including the trainers, and all of their equipment was clean and orderly. Going to the gym can be a daunting experience, especially if you’re new to it, and even more so when you’re a woman. In many gyms I’ve gone to I’ve had unwanted and uncomfortable situations with other members and not one time going to this gym was I ever made to feel uncomfortable. The amenities are fantastic with an indoor pool, saunas, and hot tubs to help with recovery. The one and only flaw I’ve noticed in this gym is that they don’t have a mirror on the wall near the free weights to be able to check your form, but they do have them in the private rooms usually used for group classes (but I’ve never been at a time where one wasn’t open) and that is a very small compromise I’m happy to make.

Negative experience: I called before coming to your establishment to ensure it was an open pool for swimming and was told "yes". My assistant took my 3 children and her 2 children to swim at 1:05 and by 1:32 they were told to leave. They were not rude or disrespectful to the lane walkers and were interacting with some of the elderly in the pool. One woman in particular complained and they were asked to leave after 27 minutes. We were not offered a refund and only offered a receipt to return at 7pm to 8pm tonight for family swim. If you are not an open pool to the public or restricted, please do not present yourself as such. Also, the fact you kept our payment after your blunder, speaks volumes to the kind of business you are running.

Fantastic experience: This gym is an incredible place to get into premiere physical health. It offers a good variety of classes ranging from yoga to dance to navy seal physical training. It is very spacious offering a large number of cardiovascular machines and muscle building equipment both resistance and free weights available. I personally enjoy the large heated pool the hot whirlpool and the extremely hot sauna most of all. The locker rooms are amazingly clean with quick dry machines for drying your swim trunks instantaneously and the showers have great smelling shampoo and conditioners that will leave your hair feeling exquisite. Priced at 40$ a mo th for one person is still a great deal but sign up with a partner and each pay only 25$ a piece.

Fantastic experience: Love this place... No pressures, nice welcoming staff, clean facility... Friendly members that treat you like family

Fantastic experience: I love every thing about!!!

Fantastic experience: Great place, friendly and social

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, clean facility, not crowded

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, clean, friendly staff,,I recommend Marvin Altman fitness Center.

Fantastic experience: Nice gym

Fantastic experience: Wonderful atmosphere. Wonderful people working there.

Fantastic experience: Staff are friendly and helpful. Equipment is new and very extensive. Pool is huge, but the main reason I chose MA is the whirlpool and sauna. Whirlppol has been recoated multiple times in the past year. Let's hope this time it sticks and doesn't bubble up.

Fantastic experience: Great pool and good facility. Love the cleanliness and the other members are encouraging.

Positive experience: Friendly staff, plenty of exercise equipment

Negative experience: Why does this gym close so soon. Use to have better hours

Fantastic experience: Marvin Altman has a variety of ways to exercise. Swimming, weights, walking, classes or just working out on the machines. Great place.

Negative experience: It is ok but they keep adding classes to the pool area which takes up space without giving people a heads up. Without the pool area they are definitely not worth the money, not even close. If you have no free lanes then why do they think you want to pay the amount of money they ask of you?

Fantastic experience: Back after a long time and the staff is still just as professional and nice

Fantastic experience: They were very helpful with my questions

Fantastic experience: Entry of parking. Everyone polite and professional. Went for Pulmonary physical therapy.

Fantastic experience: Love the pool. Easy on my bones and joints but when your in the shape I am.... swimming for exercise about my only option. Free membership thanks to my insurance. Also a great way to start the day and spend quality time with my wife.

Fantastic experience: Employees are super friendly. Place is very clean!! Love coming here.

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out

Fantastic experience: Clean environment plenty of room to workout friendly staff awesome pool & sauna

Fantastic experience: Back after a long time and the staff is still just as professional and nice

Positive experience: Great staff and like many members. Needs to be updated better.

Fantastic experience: Marvin Altman has a variety of ways to exercise. Swimming, weights, walking, classes or just working out on the machines. Great place.

Fantastic experience: Great place to get your exercise with work out equipment, swimming pool, walking track, dance and aerobic classes, sauna, and hot tubs.

Fantastic experience: What a nice facility wish we had one in VB watched grand swim team practice ☺️

Fantastic experience: The classes are great. The instructions are great. The instructor help me alot working the type of muscles I want.

Fantastic experience: Great place to get your workout done. Constant cleaning and social distancing makes for a relaxed atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Help with a lost child bag. Staff is very friendly and polite.

Fantastic experience: Great facility with awesome perks good for families as well

Fantastic experience: Great Place to go for a great workout

Fantastic experience: Very patient with me, friendly, does a great job .

Fantastic experience: Love this place wish it was open 24/7

Fantastic experience: I love it there

Fantastic experience: Always great.

Negative experience: Hoo is guoandefull be there is clinging in all people is friendly I like special take it a swimming class in more is a good place find peace in relaxing thank you!!!!

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out when I'm in town!!!!! Great staff and helpful!!!!! Very clean and well organized!!!!!

Fantastic experience: I really enjoy this gym for many reasons. The first being that there aren't many people that are at it at any given time. Next most of the people that do go are older and very respectful of each other and the machinery. They have classes which are quite fun as well as staff that give instruction on how to use machines and what to focus on.

Fantastic experience: The place is clean and the patrons are a respectful bunch. I love the sauna & pool. The employees are super helpful.

Fantastic experience: Its a reasonable price and I can take my kids to family swim time so they can swim and play in the pool

Fantastic experience: Have been going here since I was a kid, absolutely love this gym.

Fantastic experience: Still a great place to work out always clean and friendly. I spent year at planet fitness and decided to come back to Marvin Altman for the showers, whirlpool and swimming pool On my return first thing .. I noticed how much better the exercise equipment was at Marvin Altman's then planet fitness I am talking they are hundred percent better made . There is no comparison I'm glad I'm back...

Fantastic experience: Love it

Fantastic experience: I really enjoy the aquatic classes.

Fantastic experience: Finest jam I've ever been to

Negative experience: The Blonde fat lady up front called me a liar within the first 20 words she spoke to me.

Positive experience: The staff is helpful I like the large pool and hot tub The equipment is easy to use. I get a good workout.

Positive experience: Always have liked this place to be the best gym in fort smith. It just cost to much for everybody to members here. There are more affortable ones

Fantastic experience: Good place to go whether exercises, walking trail, swimming, hot tub or sauna. They have it all and also great staff.

Fantastic experience: Love this place enough equipment to do a total body transformation

Fantastic experience: Its a good place to build up your body and meet good people

Fantastic experience: Huge variety of equipment, nice pool for family.

Fantastic experience: My favorite place to work out,pool time,spa and sauna

Fantastic experience: Christy was amazing with over the phone information and customer service!!! So patient and helpful with all my questions. Suggested the best membership options for my situation and was super friendly! Great job Baptist Health, Christy is a keeper!!!

Positive experience: Great place to go workout

Fantastic experience: Me encanta.

Fantastic experience: Very Friendly and Professional!

Fantastic experience: Great fitness center.

Fantastic experience: Awesome!

Positive experience: They need to change the hours back to how it used to be.

Negative experience: Not a member anymore. Nuff said.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town with the best staff!

Fantastic experience: Love this place. Great staff.

Positive experience: Awesome gym, just wish they were 24hr gym.

Positive experience: Clean gym with lots of equipment, great pool and no crowds.

Negative experience: Not a good place for heated pool therapy. They have a section for that in their indoor pool with ramp so I was excited at the possibility. They charge more than other places for this in town but the people seemed friendly, it had a ramp rather than a lift that is hard to obtain and they said it was heated satisfactorily for physician required pool therapy. I explained my neurodegenerative condition. The pool is not heated adequately per heated PT therapy standards for anyone with a condition that would actually require it not just prefer it including arthritis, neurodegenerative, connective tissue disorders, muscle spasms, etc. so it caused me severe muscle spasming and joint subluxations that required weeks to recover from. I expressed this concern and was told the heater was temporarily malfunctioning and was now fixed. So I tried again. Same result, weeks to recover and be able to get out of bed. I asked for a refund from the manager. Was told I would get a full refund considering the extenuating circumstances. Only received a partial refund and they said they charged me for two months I had membership. Only had membership for month and a half and all that time except 3 thirty min visits to the pool were spent in bed recovering from the damage the pool did to me. Very disappointed that they promised a full refund and then didn't deliver. Very disappointed I spent hundreds of dollars on this expensive lesson that the local hospital gym does not support my need to do medical heated pool therapy to reduce my muscle atrophy. I guess they don't keep it heated enough-90 degrees is what it should be-because of the swimmers on the other side of the same pool but they do not represent that upfront. I went there to save money because I didn't have the money for daily PT copays especially when I can't even do enough to warrant a physical therapist and instead lost a bunch of money I didn't have getting hurt. The only good I will say is it's good they have a ramp although watch out at the end of the ramp where it connects to the pool there is a large lip that I tripped on all three times which also hurt me. Also good is the people are friendly there but in the end, not helpful enough. Adding an edit: They did in the end after calling the manager multiple times give me close to a full refund. Thank you for that.

Negative experience: Very old equipment. One new cable machine and a double sided power rack in over a decade is all that's modern. No specialty barbells and the barbells they have are of low quality. They do have a sauna and whirlpool otherwise 1 star. They are clean but membership is $52/month have you have to have a year contract. $99 to cancel contract early. Most people get a 15%-%30 discount which would be $44 - $36/month. This is very expensive compared to the other local facilities. So unless you cannot live without a sauna you should look elsewhere.