CompleteBody 19th Street

Fantastic experience: It has everything you need to work out and the staff was very pleasant to me.

Fantastic experience: I've been training with Alex Ustinov for the past few months and he’s absolutely spectacular. So knowledgeable and encouraging, he genuinely cares about helping you hit your own fitness goals. The class he runs “fight club” is the best part of my week. His approach to boxing classes is hands on, rigorous, exceptionally challenging, and unique. 100/10 would recommend, he’s the main the best part of this gym and definitely the best boxing trainer in the city.

Fantastic experience: I've been working with Alex Ustinov and taking his classes and he is the best trainer I have worked with. He is an expert in fitness, changes up classes every week and training, and has increased my coordination, strength, and overall confidence. He picks up on one's level of fitness to tailor your workouts while pushing you to work hard. His unique workouts have made me so much stronger and leaner. He has a great attitude and sense of humor and makes working out fun. If you're looking to transform your body and improve your well being Alex will help you get there!

Fantastic experience: A real grunge gym experience, no chain, cute boutique gym that evolves more around "lifestyle" comfort vibes and latte conversations. You come here to work out and you among serious weight trainers, body builders and powerlifters. You put you phone down and it's about putting in work like everyone else is. This is not your Blink or Planet Fitness easy peasy "Starbucks" vibe like gym. Here is a real gym. It doesn't need to be pretty it just need to be effective a d the vibe setting, not a social gathering. Want results and willing to pay for it this is where I reccomend. Not for everyone. However if you truly serious about seeing changes, motivated you come here. Want to look cute go to Blinky Winky or Planet Barney Fitness.

Positive experience: Okay let’s be real. I enjoy CompleteBody on 19th Street a lot, and I have visited it while in New York for at least FOUR of it’s reincarnations. But the gym has not been updated. That is not a bad thing – it is well equipped and kept decently clean. But as it is long in the tooth and it EXCELS as a weights gym – a true bodybuilding space – I jokingly call it Complete Ripoff, because the price seems high for what you’re getting. BUT, I have many positive things to say about the space. Starting with how it is a haven for those who want a gym to feel challenging or aggressive. if wanting to dig in motivates you – if you like the feeling of a room buzzing with testosterone and well built dudes going at it – this gym will often accommodate. In a sea of options slowly veering towards an upscale and anodyne vibe, this gym maintains an older school environment. The vibe here is muscle, muscle, muscle, in that aesthetics type of vein. While you could get serious power training done, this place is about the beast bodybuilder look, not the performance athlete. This is not your CrossFit box; this is not a space intended for strength and performance wonks. While there are clearly highly knowledgeable and skilled muscle builders, this is a “bro splits and heavy machines” type of facility. You will feel a moderate amount of pressure to up your game – and that is a good thing! If you want to feel comforted and placated, this is not the space for you. There’s lots of dudes on gear, and lots of gay guys who think specifically explaining that they are “masc” gives them some sort of edge. (Congrats you have reached the satirical and sarcastic part of the review.) Yes there are clearly straight dudes and women in the space, but the “butch gay” performative-masculinity boys are always present, and often in a wave. You know the types – the types that so much effort into “not looking gay” that you can totally tell they’re gay. It’s mostly a dim background static an shouldn’t disrupt someone focused on training, but worth a mention. If you’re looking to throw weights and its about a lift go here. Keep in mind even a day pass is dumb expensive, and a membership does not fuck around. There is a palpable irony to a place trying to look so gritty and labor class charging prices aggressively out of range of the labor class. Haha. But the price point (which I believe they justify because of the location) is the only major flaw for this “true aesthetic s bodybuilder” gym.

Fantastic experience: Completebody is a great place to train and the staff are very friendly. I’ve trained with several trainers and never had results they I do with Ray. He is one of the best trainers out there! I love that he is professional and serious about your health & physic. Ray’s power pump, old school ways I just can’t get enough of! Check him out, you won’t be disappointed.

Fantastic experience: I’ve trained in this location since the ‘90s when it was called Better Bodies Gym. Excellent array of equipment and the staff is great! If you need help from weight management to resistant training, your go to trainer is Leo, “hands down”!

Fantastic experience: Great no frills gym

Fantastic experience: Positive: Communication , Professionalism , Quality If you like the history and atmosphere of real bodybuilding and be motivated by talking, asking for advice and looking at pro athletes and clients achievements - this gym is certainly for you.

Fantastic experience: Positive: Communication , Professionalism , Quality As an Indepent Fitness Trainer, this is a great place to train clients. Centrally located, reasonable fees, and well equipped.

Fantastic experience: Classic, Old School, HardCore Gym

Fantastic experience: Easily the best gym in NYC.

Fantastic experience: Rock solid gym. Traveling in NYC, and this gym has plenty of space and equipment for a great powerlifting/bodybuilding/strength/conditioning training session. Friendly staff and customers.

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym for serious lifting — there’s a wide variety of equipment, plenty of squat racks, and the DBs go up to 150lbs. I love the hack squat and all of the Hammer Strength machines. I highly recommend training here!

Fantastic experience: This gym is like my second home for many many years and more to come!!

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Fantastic experience: Thank you to Erving at the front desk for an outstanding customer service. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: Old fashioned workout gym for people serious about working out. None of the frills and lights

Fantastic experience: This gym is definitely a throwback, but with SUCH a cool vibe. I'm always super impressed with the variety of equipment and how clean they keep the gym constantly. I started going to Complete Body because my trainer, Marcela, trains her clients here. She's the best trainer in New York City...and I've had a few, even from Equinox. Nothing compares! Every time I visit the gym, the staff are so nice and they're doing a GREAT job with COVID protocol. I feel safe here. It's THE ultimate gym to join if you're looking for body building!

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a great staff!

Fantastic experience: Complete body is a wonderful gym with organized, thoughtful, and friendly staff. I joined the gym recently having been referred to train with the fabulous Marcella. I’ve played sports and exercised seriously my entire life and somehow find myself learning something new about my body and strength every time I train with her. Marcella finds a way to blend innovation into the most classic of movements. At Complete Body, I feel safe, sexy, and psyched to challenge myself with every workout.

Fantastic experience: I first went to workout with Marcella Melo. The gym is solid, has 1-2 of every piece of equipment known to man, but Marcella is a gym wizard. She can give you a transformational workout and knows exactly how hard to push you for a break through. I can't recommend working out with Marcella highly enough.

Fantastic experience: CompleteBody 19th Street has some of the best staff in NYC. Constantly ready to help and assist with COVID Check Ins and procedures. One trainer, Marcella, is the best in the business. Cleaning machines left and right to insure client safety. Creating communities between trainer and clients for the entire gym. No one works as hard as her, and the gym knows that. This is the best place to lift in 2020!

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out

Fantastic experience: One of my fave gyms w my fave trainer, Marcella. She pushes me like none other and the gym itself helps make that happen. It’s a perfect no frills, get-it-done gym. The old school equipment can’t be found anywhere else and the energy there is great for those looking to lift hard. They also keep it clean and have done really great job spacing out equipment to allow for social distancing. Complete Body, thank u!

Fantastic experience: Brilliant underground bodybuilding gym. Don’t go expecting saunas and swimming pools - go there expecting to work hard.

Fantastic experience: Try once

Fantastic experience: Nice variety of weightlifting equipment

Fantastic experience: Great gym! Hardcore equipment and a great bodybuilding environment. Highly recommended!!

Fantastic experience: Awesome local gym. Great selection of equipment. (Some new some older). The trainer, Vincent was a great help in getting me started.

Fantastic experience: If you are serious about training. This is the last real gym left in Manhattan.

Fantastic experience: The juices at the complete body are delicious. Raymond provides the clients with high end hospitality and service.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in NYC

Fantastic experience: This is where I'll lose all my weight at

Fantastic experience: An Amazing Place to Train Hard and Stay Fit! Every one helps Every one! At Complete Body your more than just a customer your Family! Thanks Complete Body @Gwarrior777

Fantastic experience: Hottest gym and trainer hands down love it there

Fantastic experience: Great gym. 1st floor has smoothies, protein shakes and other things. Downstairs is the gym . The trainers are awesome.

Fantastic experience: Bodybuilding temple. Serious iron gym without any BS, yet surprisingly welcoming to anyone. Improvement over the old 19th Street gym.

Fantastic experience: I was really intimidated the first time I had my training session. It is a real bodybuilders gym...and I am not a bodybuilder. However, from the moment I walked in everyone was really nice and so supportive. The really help you stay motivated. Not only does my trainer Thaddeus Harvey make me work extra hard during my sessions. Everyone in the gym is always giving great advice to stay on track! There is a men's and women's locker room with showers and kept very clean. The staff is really great as well. It gets really crowded during holidays, after work etc. but you can always find a machine if you are not working with any of the trainers.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, great equipment, inspiration everywhere. Great choice for a good lift.

Fantastic experience: The best trainers. No frills. Machines may not be the newest but it’s all you need. The trainers and members give the right inspiration unlike the trendy corporate gyms!

Fantastic experience: Very nice spot..

Fantastic experience: Great gym, thoughtful staff and a healthy cafe at the entrance.

Fantastic experience: Dungeon gym with a suprisingly clean environment. Tons of equipment to get diesel! Many professional bodybuilders on hand to train you in the way of the iron culture. Come and get brolick here!

Fantastic experience: Great space for mostly free weight workouts

Fantastic experience: I love this gym! Great equipment and excellent trainers, especially Jacques* Really good juices and plant-based energy from the juice station upstairs

Fantastic experience: Look for Milovan Mika trainer if you want to have personal trainer one of the best fitness instructors actualy he is the best. Gym is great and big you will be amazed...

Fantastic experience: Very nice gym to work out and juice bar is great!

Fantastic experience: A real gym. With weights. Where you can work out and use real traditional equipment. It's not "old," it's "tried and true." You can get a day pass for $15. Don't be surprised to see a couple bodybuilders.

Fantastic experience: Nothing totally outstanding, but it's an affordable place to grab a quick, healthy bite.