GoodLife Fitness Dartmouth Burnside and Commodore

Fantastic experience: Thanks ANNE for the help Great staff and super clean change rooms

Negative experience: Was a gym member for over 10 years. Had some issue with my bank account while I was away. They refused to let me use my free 3 day pass. In New Glasgow following the hurricane I donated building materials to one of the staff there after a tree fell through her roof and she had no insurance. I just would think after 10 years of being a member, they would let me back in for a few days until I got my membership back up and going. I'll have to find another gym.

Positive experience: Everything good except for the timings.

Fantastic experience: Very nice and accommodating staffs! I love this gym branch since they do offer a women's only gym area (since i'm kinda shy to interact with other gym people lol). Though the people I've had interactions here were very welcoming. I've spent my teen summer here with their free teen access program and i'm loving it!! They offer a lot of equipment (and towels too!) and the people here do know how to follow their wipe after you use the equipment rule. So far I'm loving this place and can't wait to keep up with my gym routine for my summer.

Positive experience: Great gym. Friendly staff. Equipment is well maintained. Only knock is the lockers are a little small,

Negative experience: Worst service everrrrr. Im so frustrated the staff members are scamming here especially the manager. I’ve called them 5 times to cancel the membership as i have moved province and no longer go to goodlife anymore. I dont know what these people need from. Plz tell me how should contact the owner or who else should i ask to cancel the membership. Im literally very upset. I asked the employee to tell manager to contact me but no answer at all!!!!!! This really needs attention now plzzz!!

Fantastic experience: Well maintained facility.

Positive experience: Well kept facility but disappointing and surprising that it closes at 5pm on weekends.

Positive experience: This location (along with the rest) is crazy busy at all times of the day. It can be frustrating because you can never do the workout you've planned due to weights, machines etc... not being available. That being said I’m giving it 4 stars because the equipment they do have is well maintained and the staff are friendly and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Good spot but weirdly always smells kind of bad Edit: it ls been months since my review. It no longer smells funny. Well done. 5 star

Fantastic experience: My favorite gym of the 3 I visit regularly

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Dartmouth

Fantastic experience: Great place

Positive experience: Turn up the heat please (turn down AC). Very large gym, lots of cardio equipment. Guys serious about pumping iron.

Positive experience: Decent gym. A bit dated and hours could be better but it's in an industrial park so I guess those work for most people.

Fantastic experience: Shane and the team at GoodLife Burnside are just fantastic! Super accessible location for folks that work and commute from both sides of the bridge, and we love how awesome the staff are. Very engaged, energized, and committed to local community.

Positive experience: Minus a star because this place smells weird. Not normal gym smells, more like potential mold or mildew? Not sure, but it's throughout the whole place and is hard to get used to. Pretty unpleasant. Equipment and facilities are good, not brand new but solid stuff that works well. All the machines and workout areas you would expect from a GoodLife. Good layout and not crowded in the mornings.

Negative experience: Evening staff is rude

Positive experience: I wish they would fix the AC, as it's getting hot outside and it's harder and harder to lure us inside of this club when it's so warm .. staff is very friendly as always!

Positive experience: The gym is good and staff is nice too, wish it could be open 24 hours.

Positive experience: Would be better if the staff ever filled the paper towel dispensers.. half of them are ALWAYS empty

Positive experience: It’s alright… I worked there for a while, so I really knew how it functioned. It’s high pressure sales and. I hated having to approach people while they worked out.. the gym is great, equipment wise. I don’t mind the layout, but it definitely needs an update. It’s very much the same people, day in and day out, because it’s set up in an industrial area. So if you don’t like the social aspects of the gym, be prepared to run into the same people everyday who will eventually start to strike up a conversation every time you’re in

Fantastic experience: I've been to a few different GoodLife locations in Dartmouth, and this one is by far the best. The staff here are friendly and interested in how your work-out went, and are always available if you ever need assistance or a little encouragement along the way. This location has the best atmosphere out of the ones I've been to. The other members are friendly, too :) It also has a woman's only workout room, sauna, large change rooms, awesome showers (that also include shampoo, conditioner) and hair dryers along with body moisturizer, which is great if you are trying to squeeze in a workout on your lunch break or getting ready to head out after your workout. If you're looking for a great goodlife location, are new to the gym life or an avid fitness buff, this location is great. It feels safe, non-judgmental and fun!

Fantastic experience: I go here 6 times a week! Its awesome!

Fantastic experience: I really like the place. Came from the Lacewood Goodlife 2 weeks ago and my first impressions here are great. Shane the manager is very pleasant and showed me around. The equipment is new and the place is cleaner than my previous club. I haven't found anything broke or dirty. I like the powerful clean showers and the sauna is always clean and working. I have spoken to a few people and everyone is friendly. A real bonus is the free parking and I am only 6 minutes from my door on fast moving highways.

Positive experience: This GoodLife location is where you go if you looking for a workout with no crowd. However the equipment at this location is pretty old.

Positive experience: Stuff extremely friendly. It took only 2 weeks to fix broken entrance electric bar: so no more risk to break your neck when you are 6' and taller. Keep it up!

Positive experience: Great gym. Love that they have DBs heavier then 100lbs. And I like the Plat loaded machine. You don't see that to often an GL's now a days.

Positive experience: Great gym. Love that they have DBs heavier then 100lbs. And I like the Plat loaded machine. You don't see that to often an GL's now a days.

Positive experience: Love the location, easy to go to after work, staff are friendly. Only downside is a flickering light bulb that is really annoying in the middle of the gym.

Fantastic experience: My favorite of all the Goodlife fitness centers I've used. Staff is friendly, equipment is in good shape and seems to be well maintained compared to some other locations (Tantallon)! I use daily prior to my work day, great gym

Positive experience: Love the location, easy to go to after work, staff are friendly. Only downside is a flickering light bulb that is really annoying in the middle of the gym.

Fantastic experience: Staff are great! Well laid out. Always have equipment available. My only feedback is the ladies only area could use some heavier free weights.

Positive experience: Good fitness facilities. Could really, really, really use an upgrade when compared with other Goodlife facilities in the area and around the Maritimes. Rusty metal lockers. Tight quarters in the change rooms not giving people enough room to get to their locker if someone is at another locker. Showers are dark and dingy. Older fitness equipment. I work next door but drive across town to use a more updated facility.

Fantastic experience: Great gym!!

Fantastic experience: This GoodLife is great. Never too crowded, newer equipment, changing rooms, showers, and sauna always super clean. Staff is really nice too.

Positive experience: This location is frequently out of towels and the women's only gets very hot in the summer. Otherwise a great location with great staff.

Positive experience: Quite good place.

Positive experience: Good place for fitness. Staff are friendly except for one lady who i have noticed never greets people coming in or leaving. Has short blonde hair. Otherwise spacious place with lot of equipment.

Positive experience: Facility and equipment is decent at Burnside GoodLife, however there is no AC and 26 degrees. Not sure what scoop is there...very hot

Negative experience: Having to update my review post trainer sessions. Please be mindful and put serious consideration in before signing up for PT sessions. The trainers I had were very unhelpful, quite often cancelling last minute or not bothering to show up at all. Poor health advice given and after a year, I ended up in considerably worse shape than I began, not to mention even trying to get to my goals set out on. GoodLife's catch is "Change your story." Which I guess is true...it just might not be the story you were thinking it would be.

Positive experience: Usually pretty slow in the morning, which is good! Suppertime is pretty busy. Facility is fine, but the showers aren’t great and always smell like mould. You can see it on the walls and on the drop ceiling above. Showers definately need updating!! Yuck!

Positive experience: Before I moved back to NS, I used to visit this gym each time I came to town. I really enjoyed the size of the gym - it is open and spacious and has an adequate equipment inventory. There are times when the gym is really busy, which may prevent you from being able to work a specific routine, without long waits. There are other times when the gym is not so busy and you can get your workout done without delay. When it comes to the Personal Trainers - I made the mistake of purchasing sessions, even though I have always been an avid gym goer. I had an injury, and wanted some advice about 'specific' exercises that I could do without adding any further complications to my recovery time while I healed from the surgery. Because of the surgery, I have some long term mechanical and nerve related issues that have limited my mobility and caused other concerns. Before signing up for the sessions, I asked specifically if the Personal Trainer who would be assigned to me would be able to help in this regard (ie. provide me with customized training related to suggesting exercises that could be done without causing further damage to my injury, and without delaying recovery time). I was told that it wouldn't be a problem - they were capable and used to customizing the training sessions, based on my needs. However, what happened, is that I spent almost 2 full hours being 'interviewed' and 'questioned' as they had to follow their regular questionnaire and process. They asked everything from what made me decide to go to the gym (not applicable), who was going to support me through my 'new lifestyle' etc. even though many of the questions were not relevant to what I needed or relevant to my personal experience. It was nothing less than painstaking. I asked repeatedly to skip this process, but was forced to endure the gruelling 2 hours of irrelevant questions. I made it through the interrogation, figuring that if I withstood the questions, I would eventually get to the place where I would finally get what I paid for. But I was mistaken. At my next session, the Trainer asked about my injury and as I started to identify that I had surgery - I had to listen to the Trainer's personal experience about the injuries that he had gone through. This took the majority of our next session. I was merely looking for advice about exercises to do in order to not aggravate my neck surgery, but that would strengthen the muscles around the neck and back. Keep in mind - I have been working out at a gym for in excess of 20+ years. Needless to say, by the end of my third session, I had wasted 4 hours with no reward and no good advice. Do I like this gym? Yes! Do I like the environment and the workspace and reliability of the staff? For the most part, yes. It could use a slight facelift or freshening up, but it's a solid gym with an open concept environment and has pretty friendly staff. Save your money on the Personal Trainers though! (unless you are brand new to the gym life and want to be treated like a child) I am not denying that this process may be effective for newcomers or for those who really need to be motivated to keep going, or need encouragement. But for me, it was frustrating to have to spend countless hours following 'their' process with little regard for my needs or the money that I had spent to get 'personalized' training.

Negative experience: This gym is just... ok. Some of the staff are really nice, and some are not friendly at all. The building itself is pretty run down. It constantly needs maintenance, the ceiling leaks a lot in the winter and causes issues in the fitness class rooms for obvious reasons. Right now the front entryway smells disgusting, my guess is due to water damage in the ceilings. I feel like 80% of the machines need fixing or replacing. Either stuff is broken off of them or they dont work properly, if at all. The womens gym portion is tiny, dingy and very warm (no a/c). The attached pics are of the womens portion of the gym. The classes are always packed to the point where theres not a lot of room to actually work out, so I've stopped going to the classes. The instructors are really good though.

Fantastic experience: I personally like coming to this GoodLife because the staff is helpful and the gym is always clean.

Fantastic experience: Great staff

Fantastic experience: Awesome people who work there they always treat people like family members who goes there they always give it a %200 effort to ensure the best of quality service to all of their customers they serve every day they do not get paid enough for what they do for people who go there awesome people awesome place

Fantastic experience: IF YOU LOVE FLEXING YOUR MUSCLES THIS IS A GREAT PLACE. AWESOME STAFF AND GOOD EQUIPMENT!!!!

Positive experience: The people at the Burnside location are great! The location is a bit small but has everything you need. Kody Lee has been my trainer since September...she is fantastic! A lot of fun...we laugh a lot but she pushes me hard! Highly recommended!

Negative experience: Equipment is old and the club is outdated

Positive experience: Older club with great staff and a handy location for those of us who work in Burnside

Positive experience: Not as congested as some of the more popular locations in the hrm

Positive experience: So so busy at noon on a Tuesday!

Negative experience: A lot of the Equipment is outdated

Positive experience: Lots of equipment.Good place for a workout!

Negative experience: Nine times out of ten there is nobody working the front desk, but you can find two or three employees hanging out in the office if you have a question or comment. Decent equipment and the layout is great though.

Fantastic experience: Im new i was not sure if i would like it but i do the gym is not over crowded and the staff are very nice,so dont be shy join up

Positive experience: Great staff. Small washrooms.

Positive experience: Today was my first visit to this Dartmouth location. I usually go to the Larry Utek branch because it's close to where I live, but today this one was the most convenient for me. It doesn't look like much from the building entrance, but once inside it's pretty big. The whole gym is segmented into different areas, like it started small but they kept adding rooms. It's a little confusing but you get the hang of it. There definitely is tons of cardio equipment. Of the things I like, I really like their abdominal/core exercises section, and that they have towels. Water fountains are far and wide in between and difficult to find on your first visit. I'm betting this is to encourage sales from the large vending machines they have highly visible near the entrance. There is really only two water fountains, which can become quite crowded when busy. One thing I really didn't like was the men's locker room. It is small, cramped, low ceilings and very hot, humid and clausterphobic. You start sweating again like crazy the moment you step out of the shower. There is not much room to move about without colliding with others. Other than that the gym was really spotlessly clean and the machines were moderately up to date (nothing fancy). If I didn't have to shower and was in the area again, I would likely return to this location...but otherwise not.

Positive experience: Great staff, equipment is always working. Can be busy around 5.

Positive experience: It's small, but the people that work there are very friendly.

Positive experience: Pleasant staff and gym is always clean. Lockers rooms are a bit small.

Negative experience: Staff was very rude to me when I went and it was definitely the worst GoodLife I've ever been to

Fantastic experience: Im new i was not sure if i would like it but i do the gym is not over crowded and the staff are very nice,so dont be shy join up

Positive experience: I'm still getting back into the swing of a fitness routine, but I find the atmosphere here welcoming and the staff to be willing to help out with questions I've had about using the equipment and proper form.

Fantastic experience: I've been to a few different GoodLife locations in Dartmouth, and this one is by far the best. The staff here are friendly and interested in how your work-out went, and are always available if you ever need assistance or a little encouragement along the way. This location has the best atmosphere out of the ones I've been to. The other members are friendly, too :) It also has a woman's only workout room, sauna, large change rooms, awesome showers (that also include shampoo, conditioner) and hair dryers along with body moisturizer, which is great if you are trying to squeeze in a workout on your lunch break or getting ready to head out after your workout. If you're looking for a great goodlife location, are new to the gym life or an avid fitness buff, this location is great. It feels safe, non-judgmental and fun!