1 /5 Nick Murja: Update: 8/20/25
ATC responded saying they were going to watch more. It hasn’t gotten any better. Last night three kids played around the new workout part of the track upstairs while their mom worked out. Today, I quit my workout after a mom brought her kids who had been having fun swinging on the TRX ropes to do gymnastics on the turf right in front of me.
This isn’t a daycare. It’s not safe, it’s time to look for a new gym.
I’ve been going to ATC for years. When I started my kids were under 10 and had to either sit or had to be in the kids zone.
In the last year I noticed kids, sometimes like 4 or 5 playing on equipment while their parents workout. This week I worked out probably 5 or 6 days and there was not a single day that I didn’t work out near or next to young kids right now there is a young girl playing on the smith machine type structure like monkey bars. She has weights out, a band, a box and is running back and forth between her mom lifting and playing. Another day this week I had to weight to do the stair climber while a dad let his kids no way they were older than 5 and 7 get through. They then went back and forth from the bikes and treadmills playing for an hour. Another day a mom came in and literally took up 6 treadmills between her and her little kids. I’ve seen someone give their kids a TRX and 3 bossu balls to play on.
I get it! I am a parent and it’s hard. I love that the kids want to exercise, But it’s not safe. I’ve seen machines fall on heads, weights get dropped on people, kids get seriously injured. it makes parents who are near have to worry about the kids getting hurt and it interferes with people trying to get in a legit workout.