Madtown Fitness: 24 Hour Gym

Fantastic experience: Madtown is hands-down the best gym I've been to. I went to the Princeton club for about 1.5 years, and as a bodybuilding gym, it's better than the Princeton club in every way. The quality and variety of the equipment they have is fantastic, and they're continually adding more and upgrading what they have to make it better. Even the basics are better; the barbells are standardized and marked, they actually have good knurling, and the they're marked for use for competition lifts. The benches and squat racks are all top-quality EliteFTS equipment, and the dumbbells are all iron, no rubber. If you're a powerlifter, they have Ivanko kilo plates to train with. As a bodybuilder, they have everything you could need. Just for quad training, they have linear hack squats or varying angles, linear leg presses or varying angles, pendulum/swing squats, super squats, squat/hip presses, and leg extensions. The only thing Madtown still needs is a men's locker room. There's currently a women's locker room and a men's bathroom, but the men's locker room is still under construction since the owner has prioritized upgrading the equipment. This isn't a big deal for me personally. Madtown has no business being as good as it is for the membership fee they're charging. If you're passionate about strength or physique sport, Madtown is by far the best gym in Madison for you.

Fantastic experience: Dan is a fantastic guy to work with. He has a ton of options for equipment and has equipment that I haven't seen at any other gym. He's always looking to improve the space and get more options for equipment as well. Definitely recommend!

Positive experience: This is a hardcore gym. You don't need to worry about cleaning equipment after use. You don't need to be quiet. You don't need to worry about wearing a mask at anytime through the Covid years. This is not a clean gym like Princeton Club and its not trying to be that. You will see tobacco chewing bags on the ground, but who cares. If those things are important to you you should look elsewhere. Some of the machines are pretty cool. The bad is at times you start to like a machine and then the next day ownership gets rid of it to never return. Also a lot of times equipment is broken and it takes awhile to fix broken cables, ripped pads, broken pullies and cardio equipment.

Fantastic experience: Easily the best gym in Wisconsin. Pretty sure he'd give those sissies at MadHouse Gym and DMV Iron a run for their money too. Maybe the best gym in the universe now that I think about it.

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms around and that's a fact