Brickhaus Fitness

Positive experience: I didn't like the vibe of this Gym

Fantastic experience: I needed a gym that not only meets my equipment needs, but pushes me to reach my greatest potential and Brickhaus does just that! Not only they have every equipment I need, the atmosphere is surrounded with other members going 200% every time I go! I always feel inspired when I am there! Highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: This gym has everything you want in a gym! - AMAZING staff! - Clean equipment - Great atmosphere - Respectful members Do not feel intimidated if you are new or trying to be in the fitness space! The amazing staff and members make you feel so welcome and are devoted to your fitness goals. I’ve been going to this gym for years and I’ll never leave!

Fantastic experience: This is a great gym! Love this place!

Negative experience: I’ve been a member of this gym since 2017, even back when they were at their previous location. They grandfathered me into the new location, and I stayed loyal through the COVID shutdowns—even when they continued charging me while the gym was inaccessible. I reached out at the time, and they promised a refund, but I never received it. Recently, I noticed they increased my monthly fee by $20 without notifying me. That was the final straw. I belong to multiple gyms and only used this one sparingly, but I still wanted to support it because of the cool atmosphere. Unfortunately, the lack of transparency and questionable business practices make it hard to trust this gym. I can no longer recommend it. I’ve been trying to resolve an issue with my card being charged, and your customer service has been completely unresponsive. I’ve contacted you multiple times, yet I still have not received a proper response or resolution. I need my card declined on your end so that I am not charged again. This should be a simple request, yet I’m being ignored. If this is how you handle basic customer concerns, it raises serious doubts about your business ethics. I expect a response immediately and for this issue to be resolved ASAP. I shouldn’t have to leave a public review just to get your attention, but clearly, this is the only way to make you take action. If this isn’t resolved soon, I will be left with no choice but to escalate this further. Do the right thing and handle your customers’ concerns properly.

Positive experience: The gym is great, but we’ve been promised 24-hour access for the past five months as part of the price adjustment, and it still hasn’t been implemented.

Fantastic experience: Paid for a day pass today. What a great gym! Exactly what I'm used to at my home gym. Old school vibe, great equipment, great members. Ray was great and super welcoming

Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing gym, owner was great, highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: I’ve been coming to this gym for years and I consider everyone here my family. Everyone is so nice, and I love the new equipment

Fantastic experience: One of the best gym I’ve ever been, love the equipment is just perfect. It would be amazing if it returned the 24/7 schedule. But out of it everything is just perfect

Fantastic experience: If you liked lifting in the 80s and 90s you’ll love it here. The equipment is mostly old school and is kind of all over the place but it has its charm. They place metal music which is way more motivating than what other gyms play. It is also really inexpensive. All in all it’s a great gym, there aren’t many left like this.

Fantastic experience: Straight to the point, no frills. Great lifting gym with plenty of options on equipment. Nice job Brickhaus Fitness!

Fantastic experience: My “home away from home” for training when traveling for work. Clean, good lighting, great equipment selection, nice staff and the perfect vibe! Also they are staffed at 5am weekdays so I can get a day pass and lift in hours before other gyms open.

Fantastic experience: Brickhaus has moved to a bigger location with more equipment for just about any style of lifter. It is always making new and better upgrades. A great gym to visit or become a member too.

Negative experience: There was semen everywhere on the leg extensions. It was infuriating I’m never going here again.

Fantastic experience: Best Bodybuilding Gym in the Midwest

Fantastic experience: Old-school Iron pump house. Im Active Duty and Was in town for the holidays, and they took care of me. I intentionally drove 35 minutes for this kind of atmosphere and was not disappointed. Definitely my daily goto gym when I'm visiting my hometown.

Fantastic experience: Love it! Has awesome old-school vibes and isn't crowded.

Fantastic experience: Great equipment variety and atmosphere

Fantastic experience: I love this gym, the people here and the equipment. I forgot my headphones though today and the music is killing my workout. 80s hair band ballads non-stop. Jesus man. Still 5 stars though.

Fantastic experience: Brickhaus Fitness is phenomenal, great equipment. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: Been going here since the start, and I won't stop!

Fantastic experience: I was traveling through the Chicago area and stopped by Brickhaus Fitness for a workout. The staff was very friendly and the gym had good equipment for serious lifters. This is a bodybuilders ideal gym. I had a great workout and highly recommend this facility!

Negative experience: guy upfront is a straight a-hole, he doesn’t know how to deal with customers properly

Positive experience: This gym is a decent gym. It has its pros and cons. Pros: -- There's a lot of equipment. There are really no complaints I have about the gym lacking machinery needed to work out a certain muscle or muscle group. The gym absorbed the equipment from Retro Fitness when it closed, so it has a variety of machines. They even have an area with punching bags, which is nice, even if I don't use them personally. -- Hours. While the gym isn't open 24/7, the hours are still nice, being open until 11 pm on weekdays and 10 pm on weekends. Although I wish they'd stay open till 11pm on weekends. -- The gym is big. The gym has two main areas connected by a hallway; the front and back of the gym. There's also a small room with some exercise equipment in it. -- Locker rooms. The gym has decent locker rooms with locker storage, showers, and toilets. These are a newer addition to the gym, and not having them before wasn't the most convenient. -- Location. This really only applies to me, but the gym is a block away from where I live, so the proximity is convenient. Cons: -- Very crowded certain times of day. The high occupancy usually dies down in the evenings after 8 pm or so. Weekends are less crowded than the weekdays. -- Lack of maintenance. The machines are constantly dusty, the padded parts of machines and benches are ripped or torn frequently, and the walls of the gym below the mirrors are busted up with holes and nicks all over the place. Two machines were previously missing their pins, so to use them you had to steal a pin from another machine, causing the pinless machine to rotate throughout the day. It was that way for several months and no one that worked there ordered new pins (makes me think no one was maintaining the machines otherwise it would've been noticed) so I ordered my own and brought them in. You're welcome Brickhaus. Cable machine clips go missing a lot too. People like to remove them and throw them where ever, making it hard to find them when I need them. I would appreciate the gym maintaining the machines by zip tying the clips to the cables so that they can't be removed. I also had to buy my own and bring them to the gym because I was tired of not being able to find clips in order to use the cable machines. Again, you're welcome Brickhaus. To be fair, though, when a cable machine breaks or a padded part of a machine completely tears, the gym is pretty quick to get it repaired, which is nice. --Lack of supervision/Culture. Male teens and twenty-somethings often take off their shirts and flex or work out shirtless in the back area of the gym. It wasn't a problem until a few months ago. People started doing it and realized there were no consequences, so the frequency of it happening increased. Went from once in a while, to once a week, to now almost once a day. A lot of people go shirtless in the locker rooms or the small side workout room, which is fine. However staff does nothing about people going shirtless in the main areas. There's only one person running the place and they sit at the front desk, out of view of the back of the gym, unaware of what's going on. People also record themselves a lot on their phone, tripod, etc. so you may end up in someone's video in the background.

Positive experience: Awesome gym, clean and excellent equipment, this gym need to be back 24-7 so we don't have to see high-school kids, weight 110 lbs with broccoli haircuts, walking without shirts, thinking they are Mr.Olympia.

Fantastic experience: Wow! This gym is so amazing. The workers here are literally. Breathe of fresh freaking air.

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a great staff. Coaching staff is extremely helpful, educated and friendly.

Fantastic experience: Great location

Fantastic experience: The freaking BEST gym ever!!!

Fantastic experience: Thank you Brickhaus Fitness

Fantastic experience: Needed a gym to train while road tripping. The staff was amazing! Not shy to strike up a conversation as if you've always been around. Lots of good ol' bodybuilding style equipment. Change room and showers are extremely clean and nice. Drop in price is reasonable. I would highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym - stopped in for a couple lifts while travelling and couldn't have had a better experience. The staff were so welcoming, the gym is the perfect environment to get a good lift in and very veryclean. If I lived in Chicago, this would be my daily gym.

Fantastic experience: This is the meca of bodybuilding. They have all the stuff you will ever need

Fantastic experience: The best hardcore gym in the area. From power lifting to hardcore bodybuilding Brickhaus has it all!!!

Fantastic experience: Amazing place

Fantastic experience: Shout out to the owner I met last year. Haven’t been in the gym in a few months, came in to get a lift and was blown away by the amount of work that has been done to the gym. Place is one of the best places in the west suburbs.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym!

Negative experience: I hate leaving bad reviews, but I’m out of options at this point. I was a member for nearly a year, but ended up having to cancel my membership because of a job move. Everyone I worked with to cancel my membership was nice and helpful, so it really sucked when I found out they retained my credit card info and continued to charge me for months. I’ve done everything I can to fix the situation, but they still haven’t given all of my money back. They refunded me two months worth of fees, but I’m still out nearly $300.

Fantastic experience: Best gym out there and amazing people working there! Definitely go check it out!

Fantastic experience: The best gym in town! Great atmosphere, diverse equipment and great people!

Fantastic experience: I started going to the haus a couple months ago and my experience has been great so far. They have everything you could need at any experience level, from newbie to elite level athlete. Very motivating environment and it's pretty much never packed, even at peak hours. Best gym in the area.

Fantastic experience: This gym is a dream come true. First of all, it encompasses equipment needed for all fitness levels, so anyone should be able to achieve their goals here (given attendance is regular). But the most impressive part for me, is that their equipment range is so large, that it surpasses the limited selections of almost all gyms I have encountered aside from professional sports facilities and division 1 NCAA weight rooms, which I have had much experience in. If you are a professional athlete, competitive fitness athlete, bodybuilder, weekend warrior, or stay at home dad or mom... this place has everything you could need from now till the last day you ever walk in a gym. For those strong enough to need 200 lb dumbells... they have them! Single leg Hammer Strength leg press?... Yup. All the variety you could ever want for any goal. Just a heaven of a gym. Couldn't be happier with my visit today!

Fantastic experience: Great gym and great equipment with everything you need to train. The staff and people who workout here are very knowledgeable and helpful. Great overall gym and would highly recommend for anyone looking for a new gym.

Negative experience: New building same old equipment No lockers No showers No hours Sad

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Fantastic experience: Best gym around

Fantastic experience: Absolutely second to none awesome equipment and awesome people.

Fantastic experience: Feels like a second home

Fantastic experience: The best gym I've been to. Very welcoming, supportive and SAFE. Support your community!

Fantastic experience: Love their hours and that they opened up! Good equipment selection. Staff on their phones a lot though.

Negative experience: Scammed me out of $90

Fantastic experience: Awesome environment.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym, solid machines, great people and the atmosphere is perfect for getting in and working hard!

Fantastic experience: great place Good luck we need more gyms like you

Fantastic experience: Been a member of this gym for a long time and am very satisfied. Friendly atmosphere and has all the equipment for heavy lifters as well as turf and cardio equipment. I’ve never felt more comfortable in a gym until I came to Brickhaus. I recommend everyone stop by to see what I mean

Fantastic experience: ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS GYM. Great atmosphere, staff is friendly, and the machines are awesome! There’s a nice functional training areas with plenty of free weights (that go up to 200lbs) and I feel as though everyone is there to make progress.

Fantastic experience: The gym is amazing and the whole vibe is a United one. SUPPORT LOCAL BUISNESS !

Fantastic experience: This is a great gym and the owner is amazing! Thanks brickhaus and Brandon for all you do!

Fantastic experience: GREAT GYM

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym! Equipment is new and the best you can find. Lot of equipment you won’t find anywhere else. Staff and owner are the most friendly helpful people you will find. You really feel like you’re apart of a family and not just a member.

Negative experience: This gym was opened early despite our COVID-19 pandemic, which is still not over. This business opened before it was safe to do so and was issued violations for it. I do not agree with ignoring state laws as an official business, they should follow the law. No respect for the well-being and safety of customers or citizens. Therefore taking my workouts elsewhere.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, great staff, support them 100%.

Fantastic experience: Great owner, Great Dog! Great gym! Great Vibe!

Fantastic experience: Best absolutely best place to workout, equipment is amazing all people are amazing and the staff and owner are really cool!!!

Fantastic experience: Brickhaus Fitness is insane, it has just about everything you would need to have an amazing workout.Come check them out, you won't be disappointed. One of the best things about this location is that it supports the United States Military! Hoorah!

Fantastic experience: This gym is a paradise for any fitness enthusiast, bodybuilder or regular gym person. Managed and owned by wonderful individuals. Its got a great environment and members that will absolutely push you to your limits and beyond. This place is for everyone!

Negative experience: Don't know what Brickhaus was thinking when they took over Retro Fitness. Even when expanding Retro Fitness it still won't be enough to accommodate both Brickhaus and Retro Fitness members. Needed to move into a gym that is about twice the size as the old Retro Fitness gym there will be a lot of unhappy members it will be so crowded you wont be able to get a good work out.

Fantastic experience: Always a blast at Brick. When I moved back to the Midwest, I tried a bunch of gyms but none of them stood out like Brick. My dad was at Lifetime for 17 plus years before he went to Brick with me one Sunday, and he never went back. I’ve brought my friends, family and coworkers here and it always feels like home.

Fantastic experience: This gym by far is the best gym I’ve been too. It has everything you can want in a gym and the atmosphere here is awesome. No judging or looking down on others. I highly in courage other people to come check it out and see for yourselves.

Fantastic experience: This gym is awesome. I've been a member for almost two years and train here regularly because the owner, Brandon, is someone who is extremely passionate about health and fitness. He's committed himself to creating a facility that offers its members anything and everything they need as far as equipment regardless of your goals...general fitness, bodybuilder, powerlifter, strongman, combat sports athlete. Whatever you're looking for...this place probably has it. I can't comment on the afternoon or evening crowd because I train in the early morning hours, but at that time...the members and staff are all great people to be around. A workout at Brickhaus is a great way to start your day.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing gym with a great atmosphere. Place is filled with people who love to train and that keeps me motivated. I've been going here since shortly after it opened a few years ago and it keeps getting better. The owner is a great guy who is extremely passionate about this gym and it shows with continued improvements and new equipment that you wont find at your average gym. If you're serious about your training and want to be surrounded by like minded individuals, look no further.

Fantastic experience: Brickhaus is great. All the equipment I need, dedicated bars and platforms for deadlifting. It's open 24 hours and it's inexpensive. The staff is great and the owner is hands on and really cares about the gym. You definitely can't say that about the other 24hr gyms in the area. I highly recommend them.

Fantastic experience: Been lifting here for over 2 years. Awesome gym with friendly members and staff and all the equipment you could need. I do powerlifting and enjoy the mono lift rack, competition bench press, and nice deadlift platforms/deadlift bars.

Fantastic experience: Love brickhaus fitness, the people there are amazing!! Great atmosphere, everyone will help and you if you need a spot. They have all the equipment you need and different equipment that a lot of gyms don’t have. They have many supplements and the guys at the front desk help you and what you should get if you’re looking for a lean body tone or bulk body tone. Love the Brickhaus gear the t-shirts and sweatshirt,shaker cups, sweatpants, shorts and there own pre-work really gets you going.

Fantastic experience: You Already Know, Best Place To Work Out!!!

Fantastic experience: Still scrawny but this gym makes me wanna keep coming and get my daily pump!

Fantastic experience: This place has specialized equipment that you do not find in other places and it has been a large part of me recovering from various injuries. The owner is super friendly and even suggested some movements for my set of issues. The supplements are top notch, not overpriced. The layout is great, and atmosphere drives me to be the best I can be. Highly recommend....also the music cycles between a few insanely good stations...if you walk into a gym blaring Korn you basically want to give them your money...

Fantastic experience: Best gym I have been to the owner is super cool very nice clean pig iron weight with lots to offer can’t find that nowhere

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms I have ever been too! By the selection of equipment it is easy to tell that the owner of the gym is very knowledgeable and passionate about working out. The staff and members are very friendly. Overall it is just a great place to workout at

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, great atmosphere, and honestly one of the best gyms i been too for leg day

Fantastic experience: Best gym around me! Get a better water system please. Water filter? Great people. Great CS. Awesome eqiupemnt. Amazing price. I drive 25 minutes 4 days a week to workout here.

Positive experience: Love the environment

Fantastic experience: Great gym atmosphere! Like the variety of equipment and handles they provide!

Fantastic experience: Great customer service. Definitely recommend!

Fantastic experience: I have been lifting at Brickhouse for over 3 years and this place is amazing. Great staff, great atmosphere and sick machines. I would recommend it to anyone who’s looking for a great place to workout! The Haus is home to a lot of dedicated athletes.

Fantastic experience: I've been coming to Brickhaus Fitness for over a year now and I wouldn't go anywhere else honestly. The staff is amazing and super friendly, as well as the members. Its a great environment for anyone who needs good motivation because you won't find more dedicated people anywhere else but here. Thanks for being such a great gym!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in burbs s/o angel

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a positive enviorment. Friendly and welcoming staff. If you're looking for a place to work hard this is the place to do it! wide variety of machines and free weights. love it!

Fantastic experience: Don’t bother getting a guest pass...just commit and get a membership! It’s worth every penny. Magnitude of machines to use, friendly and helpful staff, and great energy!

Fantastic experience: A great gym with friendly staff and a comfortable environment to workout in. They have a wide range of workout equipment for all types of exercises.

Fantastic experience: Welcome to the garage gym. Your one place stop for all your needs. This is one of the dirtiest places you'll ever visit. Serious issue people. Very good reviews.

Fantastic experience: Love the fact that they are staffed everyday for a lot of the hours. Love the fact they have everything I need from apparel, supplements to equipment. Great staff! I’m very happy here. Motivation from staff and other members is great.

Fantastic experience: Solid gym with some very unique equipment. Great vibe and awesome staff. Highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym

Fantastic experience: Phenomenal gym, equipment and atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Liiit

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym to workout at.

Fantastic experience: This place is phenomenal, great equipment, well organized, staff is very knowledgeable and helpful. Has a nice selection of fitness clothing and supplements available. One of the best gyms I've visited. Highly recommended if your looking for a high quality gym.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I have ever been to.