Iron Pit Gym

Fantastic experience: I cannot recommend this gym highly enough. I love "The Pit". I will be a long-term member of this gym. They have anything and everything.

Negative experience: If you wish to go to a gym with the type of people who disregard the basic safety of driving to and from the gym, this is the one for you. Living close to this gym is an absolute nightmare having to listen and deal with the constant daily reckless driving just to go lift weights to show off to the "bros".

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Bloomington hands down. I've been a member for 5 years and also joined some other gyms at the same time. None hold a candle to the pit. Great community atmosphere and I've met some good friends through it! My only request would be a posing room. :)

Fantastic experience: This gym is by far the best in Bloomington. The sauna, 24 hour convenience, and variety of equipment makes the most out of your membership.

Fantastic experience: If you're searching for a gym that combines state-of-the-art equipment with an unbeatable atmosphere of determination and camaraderie, Iron Pit Gym is the ultimate destination. This gym is more than just a fitness facility—it's a community that pushes you to achieve your goals, no matter how ambitious they are. From the moment you step inside, the energy is palpable. The facility is packed with top-tier machines, free weights, and specialized equipment that cater to everyone, from beginners to seasoned athletes. The cleanliness and maintenance of the equipment are impeccable, showing the staff's dedication to creating a safe and productive environment. Iron Pit Gym fosters a welcoming vibe—it's a place where you can feel both challenged and supported. The diverse membership base ensures you'll find people of all fitness levels, all working toward their personal best. For anyone serious about fitness—or even just getting started—Iron Pit Gym is a game-changer. This is where goals become achievements and effort turns into results. It's not just a gym; it's a lifestyle.

Fantastic experience: Great place to workout!

Fantastic experience: I've on-and-off been a member of Iron Pit for the past 10 years, but only recently at the (now not-so) new location. The facilities are really great. There is a ton of free weight equipment and even when it is busy it's reasonably easy to get on a rack to get your workout done. I'm not a power user of the space by any means; I don't use the weight machines, I don't use their personal trainers, their locker facilities, their kettle balls, or anything like that. Mostly I am strictly a cardio and barbell lifting person. Iron Pit is an affordable option for the resources they provide, and their 24/7 facility means getting into the gym is convenient for me no matter what's going on in the week. They've been great for a decade at least.

Fantastic experience: Literally the best gym I’ve ever trained in my life. Doug and Matt run a wonderful and unique place here. Blessed to find it.

Fantastic experience: Love this gym.

Negative experience: It's a good gym and Doug is great! But there is another gym owner named Matt and he can be very abrasive and abrupt. He is almost always high off pills, anytime I see him, anyway. He is always slurring and his eyes are bloodshot. It's sad because you can tell Doug carries the load and is trying to keep the gym in good shape and is very nice to the gym goers and Matt is a pill junkie who is not very nice or helpful at all. I hope the gym makes it because Doug works really hard!

Fantastic experience: Excelente lugar cómodo, aseado y con todo lo necesario

Fantastic experience: We love this gym!

Positive experience: Faculty and space is PERFECT. Everyone here is beyond nice and the equipment is top notch BUT i haveeee to remove a star because barely any of the lockers work properly and there are NO handle grips for the cable machines. They are in desperate need of some, as almost all of what once was are broke :( These are both fixable and theyre not gonna stop me from loving this gym, just definitely points of criticism <3

Fantastic experience: Great facility and staff

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and low-key atmosphere.

Negative experience: Used to be a great place to workout. Now it has the worst layout of any gym I've ever lifted at, a tense atmosphere, and no community or camaraderie whatsoever

Fantastic experience: Love it. If you are serious about lifting this is the place. Tons of knowledge in here!

Positive experience: Great gym and priced well, a no-nonsense place with everything you need

Fantastic experience: LOTS OF MACHINES. LARGE WORKOUT AREA.

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a powerlifting focus. Excellent equipment available with friendly and professional staff. If this gym was in my hometown, I would lift here without a doubt.

Fantastic experience: I’ve been going to this gym for about a year and a half and have loved it. It’s affordable and has tons of variety in equipment.

Fantastic experience: Best gym you'll find. It's pretty busy, but that's for obvious reasons.

Fantastic experience: This is a "Real Gym" with everything you could possibly need. With consistency and hard work, one can obtain any fitness goal. Peers are friendly, the place is clean, and the staff are friendly. Leave egos at the door. If you don't like a lot of people around, this isn't the place for you. Everyone who attends this facility is SERIOUS about his or her workouts.

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever.

Fantastic experience: Owners are great guys, with all the knowledge you need. Super solid & diverse facility. Reason rates. No weaknesses.

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Been going to the iron pit since the old location and even then it exceeded expectations. Great equipment, environment and people. Can't complain

Fantastic experience: No gym in the area, maybe the state, holds a comparison to this one. Matt and Doug are absolutely legendary in their support and passion for the craft. Brothers and sisters in iron- the weights are real and so are the people. Don't take it for granted, train insane!

Fantastic experience: Love this place. Best environment and staff

Fantastic experience: Great place to workout. Super clean and a huge variety of equipment. Matt and Doug are both awesome. I drive 40 mins to workout there and wouldn't go anywhere else.

Fantastic experience: No other gym like it in the state

Fantastic experience: Great place to train. Very clean, courteous staff, top notch equipment and alot of options for your workout. By far best place in town

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out. Meets the needs of everyone, from a regular 9-5 type person to serious powerlifters.

Fantastic experience: Great rates, 24-hour access, great equipment!

Fantastic experience: I've been 3 or 4 times now and I have no complaints. Everybody is really nice and encouraging. The manager is a great guy too. I am glad I chose this gym

Fantastic experience: Love this place!

Fantastic experience: Best Gym in the Midwest. Period.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place, clean and huge variety of machines, free weights and power lifting area.

Fantastic experience: I've been a member since 2018, when they were in the old and small warehouse. The new place is a huge upgrade. It's big and looks much cleaner looking than before. Only problem is that it's moved so far out of town now. It's well worth the drive from town though.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I have been to, in many states. Clean, professional, and friendly. This is a gym that is focused on lifting weights, not cardio. I LOVE THIS PLACE

Fantastic experience: Was in Bloomington for a week. My friend and I needed a gym, we joined iron pit, which was reasonably priced for a week long membership. The staff were beyond polite and pleasant to speak to. The gym and equipment was well kept / clean and everything was in working condition. Overall we had a beyond great experience here. I would 100% recommend it to anyone.

Fantastic experience: This is easily the best gym I’ve ever been a member of. You can really tell the owner has a passion for weightlifting and fitness. The rates are very reasonable, and includes a sauna. The facility is always clean and well maintained. I honestly have no complaints.

Fantastic experience: The gym is always clean. The equipment is always in good working condition. The owners are always friendly and helpful.

Negative experience: Anti vacc based on flyers posted in the facility. Its one thing to ignore masking mandates at a gym, but quite another to discourage vaccinations entirely. Proceed with caution.

Positive experience: Everything at the gym is pretty nice and even has a sauna! I've only met with an employee ( probably the owner) once because I've went at night. Although the notes I see sometimes are not enlightening and a bit profane. But the equipment is great to use but also A bit pricey.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing gym!! Extremely clean and well operated!! They have something for everyone. One of the best gyms I’ve ever been too!

Fantastic experience: It's a great gym. 24/7 access. Lots of equipment. I mean...what more do you want? Pick up heavy things, put them back down. Repeat. Get swole.

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever !

Fantastic experience: A great place to work out.

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff. Good variety of equipment and amenities. Fair prices.

Fantastic experience: Friendly members and great equipment complemented with a productive atmosphere

Negative experience: Wasn't there

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym! Staff is very friendly and helpful

Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment. No judgement. Making gains here I didn't at others, and its cheaper for the couple package than what we were paying to be at Planet Fitness black card.

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out and the staff is amazing!

Fantastic experience: Nice place.

Fantastic experience: It is a great gym and has lots of machines. I can choose to hit every part of my body ..No waiting .Best of all the sauna is a plus ...Takes of my lactic acid no soreness after workout.

Fantastic experience: The owners, Matt and Dave, are very interactive with their business. Clean facility, especially in the COVID era. Love the 24/7 access so you can catch a workout when it is a good time for “you.” Strongly recommend-great place to workout. A lot of friendly members as well.

Fantastic experience: What a gym should be

Fantastic experience: Great Gym , rates are reasonable for membership , 24 Hr access, small supplement shop , & plenty of Gym equipment. I would recommend this Gym to anyone just starting out to serious athletes.

Fantastic experience: It's hard to find a better gym ANYWHERE in the United States. TONS of weights, plenty of weight machines, cardio for days, PLUS USAPL power lifting, Olympic lifting, and high quality supplements.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, no fuss about it. It's just a straight up great place to workout. Open 24 hours

Positive experience: STILL many members NOT obeying rule to clean equipment after using! Very frustrating!

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Positive experience: Great space, super friendly staff, great selection of weights and equipment, only reason not 5 stars is some of the equipment is alittle on the older side, but still perfectly functional, highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: I Have been lifting for over 12 years and have yet to find a more diverse gym. I think the greatest part about the pit is the culture. People are looking to improve, plain and simple. If you stick around long enough you will see lots of things that will inspire you from the people that work out there. There is a large spacious cardio area, competition benches, lots of squat racks, several Lifting platforms for olympic lifting, and variety of specialty bars and tools for experienced lifters to use. In addition they have a large selection of machines for bodybuilders, and an ever growing selection of equipment for people interested in strongman training. The Olympic weightlifting area is ran and coached by Wil Fleming a world champion weightlifter. I could not recommend him more if that is something you are interested in pursuing. The gym is superb and definitely worth the drive for college students looking for a more serious workout environment.

Fantastic experience: Really great gym. Love the owner and everybody else I’ve talked to here. Worth the drive away from campus for sure. Actual bodybuilding equipment too.

Fantastic experience: This gym is quite amazing. The staff here is always very nice and helpful as they will answer any questions you may have. Plenty of free weights, weight machines, cardio machines, and free weight equipment. Turf grass area for crossfit activities, sauna, showers, changing room with lockers, and even an on site physical therapist if needed. Plenty of Televisions near the cardio to take your mind off the fact that you're dying. 24 hour key entree is always nice.

Fantastic experience: Iron Pit is a great gym, Matt the owner is such a great guy, the equipment is great there, there is a efficient amount of equipment for everyone to use.

Fantastic experience: The best gym I have ever belonged to!! The staff is amazing and very knowledgeable! It is very clean and has state of the art equipment!!

Fantastic experience: Pretty good

Fantastic experience: Glad to b back..its a start of normalcy for me

Fantastic experience: Best gym around for people serious about fitness! They have everything, from tires to flip and sleds to a cardio area with TVs.

Fantastic experience: I’ve been to a lot of gyms and this one if by far my favorite. Matt is a super down to earth guy and made me feel welcome from the start. I have been traveling into Bloomington weekly and Iron Pit is a definite stop each time! It’s a large gym but still gives you that grunt style old school feeling. Absolute great selection of machines as well. As Simon would say from American Idol, it’s a yes for me

Fantastic experience: Were here to pump you up

Fantastic experience: Great value! A lot of equipment and a nice sauna.

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere and pricing. I would advise buying by the year if you can afford the upfront cost. Gym is very consistently busy, local owners Matt and Doug are a pleasure to chat with. Very clean with daily cleaning staff and modern machines with any equipment you would desire.

Fantastic experience: This is a great place for exercisers of all types to get a work out. They have great cardio machines, lots of cable machines, free weights, a powerlifting corner, and an olympic lifting area. Despite having some serious bodybuilder types, it is not an intimidating place to work out at all. Everyone is really friendly that I’ve met here.

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym. Has a great vibe and clean environment . Welcoming staff and management.

Fantastic experience: Matt runs a great gym. Always helpful and the place is always clean.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, tons of equipment, new location.

Fantastic experience: Great trainers and equipment!

Fantastic experience: The new facility is incredible

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff! Matt made us feel right at home when we dropped in for the day while in town. Loads of racks & even a Sauna!

Fantastic experience: Best public gym I've been to, and by far the best gym in the area if you're serious about lifting. Can't think of a single complaint.

Fantastic experience: Best gym that I’ve found in Bloomington for powerlifting. They have plenty of space, squat racks, specialty barbells, deadlifting platforms, and lots of weight. The gym itself is very clean and well maintained. The people that work there are top notch too. I’ll be back.

Fantastic experience: I'm so glad my friend (who is been a member of the gym for over 10 years) recommended me this gym. It has everything you can ask for and the owner is extremely friendly and helpful.

Fantastic experience: The only gym in Bloomington that is truly helpful, caring and friendly. Join the IPG family

Positive experience: Most well equipped gym in Bloomington. The sauna is spectacular! The women's locker room is lacking a bit, however the rest of the gym is super pro!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town! Equipment is all maintained and clean. As a female weight lifter I feel safe and comfortable going into and leaving this gym by myself. Everything one could possibly need in a true lifters environment you can find here!

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Fantastic experience: The best EVER

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Bloomington. Lots of equipment, never too crowded, friendly staff and gym goer. Excellent power lifting facilities with a decent amount of machines and cardio equipment.

Fantastic experience: Locally owned. Owners are knowledgeable, experienced, and friendly. Gym is clean, and offers 24-hour access.

Fantastic experience: Nice place and God people

Fantastic experience: One of my favorite places on earth. I've been at Iron Pit for about 5 years now. It's a clean, affordable, no-funny-business sort of gym. They get the basics really right, instead of trying to go with kitschy themes or trendy nonsense. Matt and Doug have created a truly welcoming environment for the bodybuilders, the powerlifters, the sportsballers, the operational athletes, and those newly embarked on a fitness journey alike, by providing versatile tools and a friendly place, instead of trying to play to one stereotype. I started lifting at Iron Pit when my joined my first civilian search-and-rescue, and realized I no longer had a bunch of well-muscled soldiers to back me up. My son started lifting there at age 12, as a geeky autistic kid, and Matt took a lot of time to help him feel confident in the gym, and random strangers even pitched in. Now I have a 15yo who values fitness and is really learning to take care of himself.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town with the best community of members.

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out. Nobody who works out here comes in to show off their new "spiffy" work out outfit, there is no fancy cafe attached to the place, no tanning booths, it's a gym folks. You want to work out with people who have the same idea, this is the place to be. Need some advice about some workout issue, ask Greg, he's there a lot as a personal trainer, oh yeah did I mention he is a world champion lifter as well as teaching at IU. Matt and Doug are great as owners, always there and also always part of the scene, Doug is in the middle of the power lifting scene most mornings. One final thought, if you are old, fat and out of shape as I am, nobody is going to make fun of you and your efforts to get better, in fact it's the exact opposite at the PIT you get encouragement .

Fantastic experience: Best workout place!!

Fantastic experience: This is been one of the best gyms around since 1995 when Matt and Doug open this place this has been nothing but great for the community. If you truly want to have a good workout and have some great personal trainers also this is the place for you 24-hour access and a great sign up if you need to shower afterwards there are three showers in the Mens room not sure about the women's room since I haven't been in there

Fantastic experience: Favorite gym in town. Have spent countless hours here. Iron Pit for life!