The PIT

Fantastic experience: Without hyperbole, this is the greatest gym in the world. None compare in terms of equipment and community. It is beyond a training facility. It is a hub where people congregate and improve themselves and each other. It is a family. The Pit family.

Fantastic experience: I thought I was done with public gyms after exclusively using a home setup for years. The Pit changed my mind.

Fantastic experience: Best gym around. They've got great hours and everything you'd need to get a great workout in. I definitely recommend this spot

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, everyone is super friendly and best equipment around in Monmouth county. Very communal feeling and a safe space.

Fantastic experience: I joined the pit as a member in 2019 when it first opened. The gym is well run, organized, and clean. They’re always upgrading equipment and has a very friendly community. I’ve been in strength sports for 10+ years and this gym has everything you need for strongman, powerlifting, or olympic weightlifting. It also has a very welcoming environment to general population and the average gym goer. 100% would recommend to anyone in the Monmouth County area.

Fantastic experience: Wish it was closer, very good gym. I live in Edison

Fantastic experience: Great gym, has everything you need and so much more.

Fantastic experience: Great gym for both powerlifting and Strongman!

Fantastic experience: Owner's amazing! It's an awesome non-commercial gym experience that everyone can enjoy

Fantastic experience: Whether you're a seasoned powerlifter or strongman athlete or a complete beginner looking to step into this empowering world, this gym is the ultimate destination.

Negative experience: Not a fan. Reply My card was charged multi times without me permission by the owner because she was in a mood. Gym is 24hrs but at night in the winter it’s 30• inside. Summer it’s 80. I’m all for supporting small businesses but not ones that treat people like your gym does.

Positive experience: I didn’t actually get to work out. I called about a day pass and was asked what time I was going to arrive. I thought I’d be able to get here by 6 and the owner mentioned I needed to be here by 8. I didn’t make it til 7:30 and was told I couldn’t work out due to liability and that all non members needed to be done with their workouts by 8. Totally understandable but I feel like this was poorly communicated on the phone. Pretty disappointed about driving 30 minutes to get here and not having clear info. So FYI if you come for a day pass you need to be OUT by 8. Also no apologies on her part for the miscommunication - just a sorry you aren’t worth my business. Got it! I won’t be back.

Fantastic experience: Hardcore gym with a friendly and supportive atmosphere. If you need it to get stronger, The Pitt has it. They run some amazing strongman competitions as well. They just seem to be great at everything they do.

Fantastic experience: Before I came to the PIT, I was a gym drifter, but I have finally found my home . The PIT has all the equipment and space you need as a strength sports athlete or as a regular gym-enthusiast. The staff is always happy to answer questions or help out. The facility is CLEAN. And they offer different memberships for all commitment-types. There’s something for everyone, im super happy I joined!!!

Negative experience: The owner Gina is very rude!!! The owner has a foul mouth around children. She also attempted to defame a fiends name! Worst gym ever!!!!!

Negative experience: Let me start by saying this is one of the best 24hr Gyms in Monmouth County! Good equipment and conveniently located next to major highways and the GSP. **2022 Update** Let me start off by saying the gym itself is good and my prior review will remained unchanged in regards to that. I just had to update my review based on the interactions I've personally had with the owner Gina. I'm not going to go into depth or post my receipts, I'm gonna keep it as positive as I can and adjust my prior rating accordingly.

Fantastic experience: Can't say enough good things about this place. Has everything you need, Great owner, 24/7 access, and who doesn't love having a gym dog there.

Fantastic experience: Awesome, REAL gym! Lots of equipment to put in some work and very spacious. Glad I spent my money on a day pass here than anywhere else! Will return!

Fantastic experience: Looking for a serious lifting gym with the atmosphere to back it? You've found it! I live over 2 hours away and still make the trip to train here whenever I can. The PIT has equipment for whatever strength sport you are into and the space to be able to actually train!! Definitely need to get out to this gym

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym! Gina is fantastic! They have everything you need and are extremely helpful!

Fantastic experience: I've been competing and training at The Pit for about 6 months and have always been very impressed with the helpfulness of the staff and respectfulness of the members. It's hard to find a place that caters to powerlifting AND strongman, but Gina and her crew are always adding new equipment and making the gym a one-stop-shop for lifters of all kinds. If grunting like a maniac and punishing your body aren't your thing, there is plenty of equipment and expertise that surpasses what you would find in a chain commercial gym. They host a lot of clinics and competitions throughout the year, so if you're looking for a strength gym to call home, this is it.

Fantastic experience: I'm not even trying to be dramatic, but this is really the best gym around. you want powerlifting? check. Strongman? Check. Bodybuilding? Check. The staff is so nice they really take the time to actually get to know their members as well as Gina. The members are what makes it over the top! Everyone is so helpful, fun and downright hysterical. If you're looking for a gym just come here. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Fantastic experience: Whether you’re a strongman/strongwoman, powerlifter, bodybuilder or just a person that wants to get healthier….this gym is for you! They literally have EVERYTHING you would want or need to get and stay healthy. In house massage, apparel, healthy meals, snacks….great vibes with the members and a sick space! Definitely check out if you’re in the area…you won’t regret it! Thanks Gina for having a gym where everyone is welcome. The variety of equipment, quality of implements and staff is unparalleled! Highly recommend The Pit Gym!!

Fantastic experience: By far the top gym in Monmouth County... clean and flexible.

Fantastic experience: Positive: Communication , Professionalism , Quality

Fantastic experience: Home :)

Fantastic experience: The Pit is the most hardcore gym with some seriously strong powerlifters ! Very nice facility with the most professional staff around. State of the art equipment with that down and gritty old school feel. You have to go .

Fantastic experience: Great gym, and staff

Fantastic experience: Best gym in NJ

Fantastic experience: The pit is the single most complete gym I’ve ever been to, from a welcoming owner as soon as you walk in. To walking through the door to the gym floor and seeing the coolest looking / most effectively designed gym you’ll ever find. If you find a more awesome gym than this within 500 miles I’ll be blown away. 10/10 this gym is absolutely incredible. I can not wait to train here so happy I finally stopped by. Thank you to Gina for being so welcoming I will highly recommend this gym to everyone I know who lifts weights or trains.

Fantastic experience: DAAAAA BEEEEST GYM EVA

Fantastic experience: I fell in love with this place when I visited. Two days later I became a member. I've been wanting to get back into powerlifting to try and compete for the first time. So glad I found this place because just walking in motivates you to get stronger. Can't wait to crush my goals here.

Fantastic experience: Super clean, great community & atmosphere. Yes, strongman & powerlifting friendly but also newbie friendly to any fitness level. Plenty of platforms for weight lifting & amazing capacity for squat racks, too. Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym

Fantastic experience: Fantastic powerlifting and strongman gym. Even the music is great. I feel like this place gets me.

Fantastic experience: A true iron dungeon without the fear of tetanus. Extremely well run meets.

Fantastic experience: Great variety of equipment and the turf space allows different forms of functional exercises to be performed. Great owner, great community.

Fantastic experience: Very cool gym. Here for an event...

Fantastic experience: Awesome place wonderful owner

Fantastic experience: Stumbled upon this gem while getting barbell to build out my home gym, just moved into the neighboring town. Went in to pick up a used barbell and was greeted by a friendly face at the reception area, Gina the owner. As we were walking to where the barbell was, I was a bit (well actually a lot) in awe, having only been to the big box gyms in NYC which doesn't have the space The Pit does. Walking back to the front, she explained that the gym was a bit quiet because a lot of members was recouping from a USPA powerlifting event they just hosted and preparing for another powerlifting event the following week. After leaving the barbell in the front, she showed me the other side of the gym, the equipment area...beauty at it's rawest form, all the right equipment all without the need for fancy technology. She introduced me to a couple of members (who was competing the following weekend) and the Cryoden NJ owner, Karen, who is also a Masters 2 powerlifter and just competed in the USPA event. I will write a review on Cryoden, once I get my first session in. Gina unknowingly sold me a membership even without having to even sell me a membership. I guess I can use the home gym for my early morning/late night workouts and go to The Pit during the weekends. Gina, Karen and I talked a bit more and I asked about their rates, which basically had my jaw drop to the floor. I had told them the reason for to build out my own home gym, which was because of my hours with home life, work, the commute and how I prefer to get my workouts in early morning and said maybe I'll join just to go in on the weekends because of my hours. Their response...the gym is open 24 hrs. Ding Ding Ding!!! SOLD Join the gym when I got home without even having using a day pass to try it out. Finally got to get a workout in this past weekend and the atmosphere was absolutely AMAZING! Since I haven't been to a gym for about 3 months, I walked in feeling small and weak looking at all the people/members there who looks big, buff and/ or athletic (guys and girls), but I walked out feeling like an equal. There is definitely no shortness of camaraderie and friendliness there. Those in the neighborhood should definitely drop by.

Fantastic experience: If you're tired of your commercial gym experience, you're in luck. Welcome to The Pit Gym. Clean, accommodating and convenient. A no-nonsense facility dedicated to outfitting members with all the resources and equipment necessary to achieve any and all strength/fitness goals. The Pit offers a serious training environment for members to take their personal goals to the next level. Conveniently located near the Garden State Parkway and RT18, The Pit Gym is a training facility worth considering to visit or join down the shore.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym for power lifters and strongman training.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I have ever been too! The owner is always there and really cares about her members. The gym is very clean and organized. Everything has a place where it belongs. Even the people that go to this gym are very nice and helpful. It’s a great environment of people supporting each other. So many strong women powerlifters and strong women. It’s truly an inspiring gym with amazing people that go there. Also, the gym has a dog!!! The dog is very friendly and very happy. Only the best gyms have dogs! This gym can not get any better!

Fantastic experience: This is by far the best lifting and strong man gym in NJ . The owner Gina is an absolute badass and super helpful with watching your form. The atmosphere makes you want to give it your all but at the same time welcoming to all levels of fitness. The pit gym is a family we support each other and just want to see everyone who comes through the doors of the gym succeed.

Fantastic experience: Love this gym! They have everything you need... kettlebells, freeweights machines. Lots of open space and cool people who train there and work there.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym, very clean! Good for powerlifters and non. Everyone is super friendly and best part is it’s 24/7 unlike the other gyms in the area with short hours on weekends

Fantastic experience: Visited this gym on a day pass a couple of times in the past. Today was that I finally became a member. The camaraderie and the atmosphere in this gym it's unlike anything in the area. Best gym hands down. If you want to get stronger, if you want to be surrounded by people that can help you grow mentally as well as physically this is your place period! The owner is amazing and goes the extra mile for her patrons.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym, very clean! Good for powerlifters and non. Everyone is super friendly and best part is it’s 24/7 unlike the other gyms in the area with short hours on weekends

Fantastic experience: With a very positive atmosphere and vast array of bodybuilding/strongman/powerlifting equipment, The Pit is hands down the greatest gym around. I have been to dozens of fitness facilities over the past 13 years and none of the owners have ever come close to being as genuine as the the owner of The Pit, Gina. She sincerely cares about all of her members and puts their needs before anything else. To say she goes above and beyond her duties as a gym owner is a tremendous understatement. She has built an absolutely amazing facility through countless hours of hard work. Her magnum opus, The Pit, is filled with top of the line equipment that nobody else in the area has. If you live in the tinton falls/eatontown area this is the gym to check out. Great for all levels of experience!

Fantastic experience: Best gym I’ve ever been to. She has everything you could want at a gym. The people that go are so awesome and friendly.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I’ve been to so far and Gina is so nice and helpful

Fantastic experience: Finally a no nonsense hardcore 24hr gym that’s all about blood, sweat and tears. One side of the gym is deadlift platforms, dumbbells and machines and the other side is a Strongman’s playground. They have it all, Yolks, Atlas Stones, circus dumbbell, weighted Kegs, Giant Tires the log press and more. Go check it out because you won’t be disappointed!!!

Fantastic experience: Awesome! The only word I can think of to describe this gym! The owner is very knowledgeable and as friendly as can be! She keeps the gym clean and the members coming back for more. She shows love to military and first responders like the heroes they are. She did not open the gym for a money profit either, she opened it for the powerlifters and strongman lifters (and whoever else wants to join) to have a place where they can be with like minded people. The strongman/power lifter community is probably the nicest community I’ve ever encountered, EVERYONE is supportive and extremely helpful, even if you have never met the person in your life. I, for one am neither of those kind of lifters, I actually have a muscular dystrophy and because of the knowledge from the owner Gina from past encounters and advice, I’ve never felt better and have never lifted more weight before I met her. I feel way more comfortable walking into that gym than I do at any commercial gym like Retro, Planet fitness, or even LA fitness. I would give this gym more than 5 stars if I could. Love the gym and the owner

Fantastic experience: I love this gym. One side has standard equipment - benches, racks, platforms etc and the other side is a wide open space with all kinds of strongman equipment. I didn’t know anything about strongman stuff when I joined but I am learning and it is so much fun. You would think with the size and strength of most of the members it would be an intimidating place. But I have found them to be much friendlier than at ‘regular’ gyms and the atmosphere is so motivating. I can’t recommend this place enough.

Fantastic experience: Not only does it have an awesome name ... the gym has everything you need. This place will motivate you to step out of your comfort zone and lift. Clean, well managed and priced perfectly.

Fantastic experience: Dropped in on a weekend. Great equipment options for powerlifting and strongman. Really cool atmosphere. Owner seems to really care about the place and the liters.

Fantastic experience: From the first time I walked in The Pit, I was welcomed and taken care of in every way. In 2011 I suffered an amputation of my right leg from an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), while on my third deployment in Afghanistan. Since getting out of the Marine Corps eight years ago, fitness has become an integral component in my physics and mental recovery. The owner Gina has taken the time each week to assist me with proper form and exercise regimens, specifically tailored to my needs as an above the knee amputee. I highly recommend this gym to EVERYONE in NJ, and you should make it a point to swing through and see for yourself just how amazing it is.

Fantastic experience: Transferred from a Jersey Strong gym. it was the best thing I ever did. Great atmosphere, equipment, side entities, staff, and people. It really motivated me to push my limits. They offer so much here. if you’re thinking about switching just do it you won’t regret it.

Fantastic experience: I stopped here while on vacation in Asbury Park. A fantastic gym for serious lifters. They have powerlifting and strongman specific equipment, plenty of space, and other amenities like ready to go food and a microwave. The owner is friendly and I can tell she takes great pride and has and will continue to put care and effort into the facility. Watch out for this gym - they're going to be the next premier power and strength facility in NJ for sure.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I’ve been to so far and Gina is so nice and helpful