Skills Fitness

Fantastic experience: My son and I go in the mornings. It's been very nice.

Fantastic experience: “I’ve been a member of this gym for 12 years, and it’s been a great experience. The owners are fantastic—always friendly and welcoming to everyone. It’s a great place to work out with a supportive and positive community!

Negative experience: Still charging me for a membership that I canceled in July. Thanks for that.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely loved training at Skills. The staff we're awesome, very reasonable membership fee and the equipment was top notch. I would recommend Skills to anyone that's looking to better themselves and to train in a great atmosphere.

Positive experience: It's a great place to go to work out get on a regimen or just go feel the burn. Great people and definitely comparable if not better than some larger chains.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym! Kenton is pretty awesome!

Positive experience: Has the potential to be pretty great. With that… it rarely gets cleaned.. The same empty water bottle has been in the sauna and hot tub area going on 10 days. The toilets are rarely cleaned in the mens restooms. Pretty sure if the health department walked in they would shut it down due to it being so dirty. Membership is about $40 a month, you would think they would be able to at least keep it semi-clean. It is nice that there’s not very many people there and that they have a sauna.. dry and wet.. and also a hot tub. I use a dry sauna quite a bit, regardless of it being filthy. The hot tub however, I wouldn’t dare step in. Hopefully they take this review as a chance to get better and clean the place because it could be a great place to work out.

Fantastic experience: This gym has the old school gym vibe like Golds use to be. Everyone is fully committed and focused on improving themselves. The gym is oddly laid out but has multiple sections available. There is a stretching area, machines, cardio, free weights, a class area (away from the rest of it) and a hybrid/crossfit room (costs extra). It’s a very chill good vibe gym and everyone is very nice. If you want to put on headphones and zone out, no one will bother you but if you want to chat people are more than happy to talk. The locker rooms have a sauna and showers and are always clean. This gym isn’t for everyone but if you are into the old school gym vibe then you should move to this gym.

Fantastic experience: Best gym around. Great facilities, not too big and membership is capped to keep machines open and available. Kenton, the owner is very friendly and clearly wants every member to have a positive experience.

Fantastic experience: The best!

Fantastic experience: I'm just posting to say that the hours/days listed are incorrect. It says it's closed Fridays, but I've gone every Friday for 3 months. I also think the closing time is closer to 10/11 PM but I've never been there that late.

Fantastic experience: Ellie did a wonderful job with the enrollment of Renew! Thank you!

Fantastic experience: I really like this gym. The place is clean, the staff is friendly, and there's enough equipment that you rarely have to wait for something in the middle of your workout. Pretty much everything I ask for from a gym.

Positive experience: would be 5 stars but trying to get ahold of anyone is impossible

Fantastic experience: Great gym close to home!

Negative experience: Needed help. Person behind counter was on phone. He was back and forth between the counter and the room next to it. Waited for 35 minutes. Left after being ignored.

Negative experience: I was a member of this gym for many years, wanting to stay loyal to some of the incredible class instructors that I had come to know during that time. I currently Have memberships to four other local gyms, all of which are half the price of this organization with twice as much usable amenities and better, cleaner, more up to date equipment. The gym has changed ownership at least four times with each ownership group seeming to be less friendly and less professional than the previous one. Eliminating hours of use for certain equipment, including having a hot tub for almost a year that was unusable prior to the pandemic. When questioned about this there "professional" response was one lie after the other. I finally ended my membership after all these years primarily due to the unprofessional manner with which their management runs operations. It is one of the least professional and most unethical companies I have ever been associated with. The politics have shown through to their management style. The way they cater to certain members while ignoring or alienating opinions of other members which could be interpreted as an attempt to appease political aspirations is definitely unethical in my opinion and borderline illegal. The four other local gyms I maintain a membership at are all head and shoulders above this one. They are much more affordable than this gym with a much more professional and friendly atmosphere.

Negative experience: I went to this gym for two years and am so disappointed with how it ended. I had three friends who wanted to see what the inside of the gym looked like -the gym currently closes at 10 pm and I go at 9:55 so it was almost completely empty except for like 2 other people. We all come in, I give them a little tour and within 10 minutes all of us leave. I then get a $30 charge on my credit card the next day because “I let people 3 other people use the gym”. I tried to explain that we all left quite promptly however they didn’t care. I asked to cancel my three month membership that I was only 5 weeks into, and they refused. (The gym is $35 a month, so basically screwing me out of $70). I’ve gone to their competitor EOS Fitness -it’s only 6 minutes away via car and their gym is massive, 24/7, offers more benefits, friendly, tons more machines, a swimming pool, and 50% cheaper. As well I can bring a guest with me every time. At Skills if you want to bring a friend it’s $10 PER visit. I am so disappointed with how no one from the Skills Fitness staff even attempted to keep me as a customer, or try to make this situation right. All 3 of my friends were interested in joining based on my recommendation but now they all go to EOS due to how Skills handled the situation. (Also EOS has a MUCH better referral program)

Fantastic experience: I have gone to this gym the past few years. It's never too busy and they keep high standards of sanitation! Everyone is professional and respectful, both staff and members!

Negative experience: It’s dirty in more ways than one. You’ll sign a paper when you decide to leave and they quietly charge you a $50 cancellation fee without talking to you about it.

Fantastic experience: Great gym with awesome trainers. If you can get with Kenton he’s amazing.

Fantastic experience: Very clean, very high-end equipment, polite members and staff. Caters to all types of people and their fitness goals -- bodybuilding, powerlifting, crossfit style workouts, and group fitness. Would highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Super Clean and all the equipment needed for Complete Workouts. Quality

Negative experience: It's a good gym. My biggest complaint is they lie to you. What I mean is that I requested a Versaclimber to be brought in and used for all the gym members. First they had me put in the suggestion box. Then I talked one of the managers. He didn't know what it was and had to Google it in front of me. Then I spoke with the GM he knew what it was. Told me they would look into it for next year. This was 4 years ago. I call one or twice a year if they have it. Every answer is a no. Too bad a lot of people would sign up if they had the Versaclimber.

Fantastic experience: This place is so big. And they have so many exercise machines. Plus they have spinning classes,work out classes, and so many more group exercise classes.They have steam, sauna, jacuzzi. They have so much more. They also have a large wall for videos. INCLUDING Work out videos. Imagine that. Private lockers , a kids gym for moms with young ones to play while Mom works out. Man this place is unbelievable. Got to go just to see.But you will want to come to work out, relax, and get in shape.

Fantastic experience: Pretty neat place. The staff is adorable. Even has a place to stash your kids while you go do your thing. Plenty of heavy things to lift, and places to run while not moving. Televisions everywhere, mirrors to look at yourself and at other people, water fountains, and mats to stretch out on. A fine establishment to stretch your hammies and work your glutes for those insta pics.

Fantastic experience: Mark is the best trainer in the world.

Fantastic experience: I love this gym! The group fitness classes are so good. I highly recommend High Fitness and Body Pump. If you want to have fun while you work hard, then this gym is for you!

Negative experience: They said I was done making payments on my account. Came in and signed papers to finalize my cancellation and was told I was done. Hours later I receive a very aggressive call saying how I owed money and we needed to pay. This after ALREADY had someone check our accounts. Just done with this place since a lot of machines were always down and now this. Never going back!

Positive experience: Many machines are not working, after repairing, some of the machine got taken away. Very disappointed

Fantastic experience: This place is awesome! I'm especially excited about the separate sauna and hot tubs in the locker room.

Negative experience: Terrible company. My wife put her account on hold and they continued to charge her account for 4 months. They would not refund us. She went in and canceled it officially and then they charged us for the next month as well. STAY AWAY FROM THIS GYM.

Fantastic experience: Skills is an excellent gym with great equipment and Stockton Archuletta is an awesome personal trainer. He has helped me get in much better shape. I highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: A lot of my friends have come here for years, and I’m definitely a believer in this gym.

Fantastic experience: Very clean and friendly facility

Fantastic experience: Fantastic friendly gym

Fantastic experience: I was hesitant to start going to this gym. I preferred the big brand name gyms. Was I an idiot. Not only does Skills have better facilities, amenities, and equipment, they treat you like family. The amotsphere is much better. You’ll quickly start making friends and meeting new people. Skills Fitness has forever ruined me.

Fantastic experience: This gym is amazing! The staff and trainers and instructors really go out of their way to make you feel comfortable no matter what fitness level you are. This is the way a gym should be .

Fantastic experience: This is a great gym!! The people here are super helpful and fun to be around. It is not over crowded or busy and you are always able to get on the equipment you want. The community here is outstanding and makes it a great place to come and workout with no judgement.

Fantastic experience: I love skills fitness! The culture is unbeatable and super friendly. They have a ton of super nice equipment and are always very clean. The employees and trainers are very knowledgeable and very nice!

Fantastic experience: If your looking for a gym with an incredible atmosphere this is the place to be!! Never to busy, friendly staff that are always willing to lend a hand and the cleanliness of the facility is to the highest standard! They also provide a towel service and have 24/7 access which no other gyms in the area offer these services.

Fantastic experience: Skills is a top notch gym! Been coming here for years and it just keeps getting better. Kenton and Rob run a great gym! If you want a gym who has state of the art equipment and services come to Skills!

Fantastic experience: This gym is a great place to workout. The equipment is new and smooth. Location is great. Just wish the hours were longer

Fantastic experience: Best place to workout in the whole salt lake valley North to South!

Fantastic experience: New member here. Came from Vasa. Skills is cleaner, nicer, less crowded, and overall just a better gym. The layout of the equipment is odd to me, possibly because it's new, but I love this gym already.

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility and especially people running it! You will feel welcome. I recommend this place highly!

Fantastic experience: Good gym

Fantastic experience: Love this place, love the environment, and the classes they have!

Fantastic experience: I have been going now a few years. Great place to workout.

Positive experience: Skill's is a decent gym. Sometimes they're a little slow to fix machines, but they eventually do. I like it better that the recreation center. All in all, there's room for improvement but its the best gym in town

Fantastic experience: Best gym I have ever been to

Positive experience: Good gym, showers are cold and daycare prices are insane but overall good place to workout

Fantastic experience: Clean & friendly

Negative experience: Update 3/05/17 Skills D/C fitness has turned to the darkside. Let me put it to you in an analogy form. It's like a well respected business man giving his Aston Martin DB9 to his jock teenager son. The first thing the kid did was to take all prestige, detail, class and thrown in the trash. To replaced for an Auto Zone testosterone loud droning exhaust. The hand stiched leather seats removed for Walmart "racing seats", then the refined lotus engineered suspension removed for Submit Racing coil-over springs. So now all you have left is a luxury street ricer that won't be serviced by the dealer and laughed at by the valet driver. Their website is always wrong and outdated or misinformation and basically fundamentally lacking. Basically the new owners D/C fitness vision is to turn an Opera house into a Monster Truck arena. If you drink "Brotein" drinks and wear t-shirts with sleeves cut off, drive a 60k diesel construction truck and don't mind spitting on floors this gym is for you. If you don't fit into that mold, go to one of the three new gyms that have sprung up since Skills Fitness turned into D/C fitness.

Fantastic experience: Soul's Fitness is an excellent gym. The employees are knowledgeable and helpful, there is plenty of room to work out and not feel cramped and crowded, and it is beautiful inside.

Fantastic experience: The gym is nice and clean. Their equipment is in great condition. The classes they offer are amazing. The instructors are all very knowledgeable. They have a movie theater room where u can walk on a treadmill or elliptical. I love this place.

Negative experience: The yoga program is that there really is no yoga program, I believe they have three classes, on the same morning with the same instructor, and when they do have class, there is very little regard to the yoga class going on, people coming and going to other classes which is very disruptive.

Fantastic experience: If you are struggling with your fitness goals and just don't know where to begin,Skills Fitness will fill the bill. I am in my fifties and just can't do what I could do in my twenties. I went to Pilates taught by Helina and it strenghthened my core and gave me more flexibility . Helina also helped me as a personal trainer to see where my weaknesses were. She helped me to balance my activities and strenghthen myself. I am able to go to the body pump classes again and do group weight lifting with Kyle on Mondays and Ashley and Emily on Wednesdays. They are excellent teachers who have helped me with form . They are positive and encouraging. I have increased my muscle mass and decreased my fat. All documented with the technology at the gym that measures progress. I love this gym . It is also a great social outlet . The members and staff are extra friendly.

Fantastic experience: Skills Fitness is my most favorite of gyms that we've belonged to. They have excellent, well-maintained equipment and their fitness professionals are the best!

Fantastic experience: This is literally the best gym in the state of Utah. It's clean, it has towel service, the staff is warm and welcoming, and they have round-the-clock cleaning services to tidy up the entire gym. I would highly recommend this club, because you also have full access to the club for a small price. It is in a contract, but you can cancel if you move 25 miles or more without a cancellation fee. I would say go for it!

Negative experience: I had a very similar experience to what Stephanie Smith describes in her post regarding the management. It used to be a great place when I signed up four years ago, but they have since lost their personal touch that made them so great. It's all about the mighty dollar now. They enroll more members than their facility can accommodate. It's difficult to get a spot in their classes so you have to come 15 minutes early to get in. Frequently equipment is broken and or poorly maintained and takes months of repeatedly reporting the problems before they are repaired. The theater room is also frequently out of order and they employ staff that is young and inexperienced. I'm saddened and disappointed with my recent experience with them. Beware, they are not all that their shiny exterior portrays them to be.

Positive experience: Skills Fitness is a great facility. It is a top-notch place but we know, it is all about the people who work there. Lisa Erickson is the quintessential example of a top-notch employee. She is a perfect example of health, fitness and one who sincerely cares about you and your wellness goals. If Lisa is "the face" of Skills Fitness then they would do well to keep her around! As for the gym, I (foolishly) left for a new gym in town and could not wait to get back to Skills! There's nothing like Skills Fitness.

Fantastic experience: If you are looking for a clean gym with a wide variety of classes, great cardio and top of the line weight equipment Skills Fitness is it. The health club has a great vibe with extra friendly staff and clients that are motivated to work out. I feel that Skills maintains the club really well and rarely do you see equipment not working as I’ve seen at the other clubs in the area. The personal training staff has always been very accommodating when I’ve asked questions about technique and proper form, plus always willing to explain other methods to achieve various results. I highly recommend this health club.

Fantastic experience: Clean gym, nice equipment, friendly staff, great pro shop that makes delicious protein shakes what more could you ask for?? If you haven't been in yet poke your head in, get a FREE 3 day pass and you will be hooked! I recently moved and don't work out here any more but I miss it— you don't know how good you have it until its gone.

Positive experience: Quality service, equipment, training, and a nutrition shop on site. Classy place with classy people. I'm a fan.

Fantastic experience: If you are interested in a great place to work out 24 hours a day in Davis County then swing on by and get with the cute girl up front that goes by Sam. What you get for your money is a clean gym that has almost all the equipment you would want. Lockers rooms are nice and have everything you need for your before/after workout needs Cardio Cinema is great for long runs during bad weather Lots of premium touches like the wood flooring and lockers Lots of cool people out to get in a work out. However, if you are looking for the guys in the MC Hammer pants and fanny packs you won't like this place.

Fantastic experience: Skills Fitness! Where have you been all my life? At such a great price, wonderful location, and the variety of classes and equipment, I don't know why I waited so long to walk in and find out more about your facility. Open 24 hours, I have no reason why I can't go to the gym. I am always greeted with a smile, I feel welcomed and excited to be at the gym. I never thought I could feel excited to be a member of a gym! My goal for 2014 is to be healthy, I am on my way there and Skills Fitness is there to help me.

Negative experience: No way to e mail the center directly so must do a review. Publish the hours closed for holidays on the website. The club is not clean like it used to be, it is getting run down. Bathrooms rarely cleaned and stocked. Towel service is weak and rarely are there enough or any towels to use. Not enough large plates for the number of machines. No more ice water. What started as a Premium facility is no longer one and for the monthly fee, no difference or increased value than that of any other Gym.

Fantastic experience: I've been with this gym since just after it opened (Going on three years now). I worked for Sizzler for a while and would do healthy promotions with local gyms around the area so I got a ton of free memberships and trials. I can say without a doubt that Skills is by far the best gym in the area for what it offers. Four Pillar is directed to those who want a personal trainer from beginning to end (John does a great job and takes really good care of his customers), Anytime Fitness is for those who just want to work out with no frills, Golds is for those who want to get seriously bulked up with others who are similar minded, the South Davis Rec Center is a joke of a gym ( way dirty, the lockers are way too hot and steamy, and the equipment is in awful shape), and the soon to be Planet Fitness are for those who aren't comfortable working out (a Judgement Free Zone, yeah right...). The equipment is in working order and any issues are resolved very quickly. The only issues are in the men's locker room, occasionally the steam room will not be working (they are getting a new part so the issues will be nill, as they told me) or the hot tub jets won't work or will be stuck on. These are minor inconveniences to me as they aren't the core reason for me being there. The gym itself is very clean, Jeff does a good job at keeping the place clean. The free weights are always organized and even the plates are almost always organized on all the different benches. They have cleaning wipes all over the place so everyone usually cleans after they are done. The towel service is a definite plus! For a while they would always run out (but they would look for you and get you a towel when they did get some) however I haven't had that issue lately. There are many other positive parts about this place that I don't really take advantage of, such as the great classes included in the membership, the hidden room in the back hallway with crossfit equipment and a punching bag, the cycling room, yoga room, as well as the nutrition center. The only complaint I really have is that they aren't open on Sundays, I wouldn't have to have two gym memberships if they were open on Sundays! As per many previous reviews, Big Rick wasn't as awful as most people say he is. He would be walking about the gym asking his guests how things were and he would interact with all the employees. As someone with many years of management experience I can tell you how important it is to me to have a manager on the floor running the show as much as possible. I could tell he had a darker side however I never saw it myself. The new manager, while always there, is rarely ever seen walking about. He does make it a point to smile and talk to the members however. I usually see Paul walking about and checking on things as well as greeting you at the entrance. Overall great gym and I recommend anyone at any fitness level to join! -Nick

Positive experience: I was with this gym for two years during that time I saw many employees come and go. I really could tell a difference when the board fired Big Rick, the positive atmosphere left, the employes stopped smiling and stopped being positive, employes started leaving and the place stopped having a progressive attitude. It became a glummy place to workout. Big Rick us to walk around and shake hands, the new manager stayed in his office and rarwly came out and the employes got grumpy, Jeff even threatened me one day in front of my kids!!! That is why I left. The place looks nice on the inside, the equipment choice is ok, but for the price I expected a swimming pool and some courts. There will soon be a better choice in Farmington.

Fantastic experience: Top of the line equipment and a LARGE selection. The best and also the cleanest gym in Bountiful. Also has respectful members and not annoying gym rats.

Positive experience: The center itself is great, the classes were enjoyable and I never had a hard time getting on equipment. My issue with the gym is primarily with the booking/management. While I realize that I could have caught my issue and resolved it early I also feel they could have contacted me right away. In November of last year my credit/debit card was lost or stolen and I had to get a new card. I remembered to change my card with every place that I do business but forgot to contact Skills. Then I went into the gym in February to put a hold on my account because I was having financial problems and needed to save the that money each month. I filled out the paperwork and left believing my account was in good standing and would be for 6 months until I could decide if I wanted to continue my membership. Then this last week I received a bill from Skills for $120 for December, January, February and March's fee's. They hadn't suspended my account because I owed money, which I was not informed of when I went into the gym in February to put the hold on my account. The bill not only came as a surprise but it also stated that if not paid in full immediately it would be sent to collections. Seems like a crappy way to do business. I will be going in to pay this off and cancel my membership and I will let everyone know how horrible I was treated.

Fantastic experience: Always clean, friendly staff and nice equipment.