I have joined Figurine Fitness, IndiraNagar branch in Jan’09 end week. Looking at the place and ambience, I was quite satisfied with the place. Initially when I joined, I preferred to take a 3 months membership of the club which costed me 5, 150(5000 is aerobics fees plus 150 is membership fees) as it was much cheaper than monthly membership(1800 per month). I must admit that my first month there was good. The crowd is good and the trainers are wonderful. For five days a week, we used to get five different trainers and all are good in their job.
After one month later, i.e. end of Feb, I realized that the crowd is increasing.(Please note that initially I was intereseted in joining 7:00 to 8:00 batch but the receptionist suggested me to take on 8:15 to 9:15 batch since the former batch is crowded). Generally, the space can accomodate around 25 people in one class but the member started pouring in was around 30 each day.
Till the March mid, I noticed that the number of people have increased tremendously. It counted to 39 one day! I reported the issue to the guy sitting at reception but he very conveintly ignored the issue and haven’t take any action on that. Reminders was in vain. Later it came to my knowledge that these ppl are admitting all the persons who are interested in joining what-so-ever batch without checking out the current strength of class.
Now, its like april mid and crowd has increased so much that we cant move or exercise properly since we fear that we might end up hurting the person next to us. This problem has another aspect to it since there is no track as the which person is attending which batch(as compared to which batch timing s/he registered for)! Also, I have seen lot of people who attend 2 to 3 batches of aerobics everyday despite they are allowed to attend only single class per day. Few people also misuse the facilities as they have paid either for gym or aerobics and they are using both of them.
There is no way of tracking by figurine fitness that how many people come and attend which and how many classes per day.
I always wanted to continue with them since they have amazing instructors but got disappointed(and have to discontinue) due to so much of crowd - instructors can’t pay personal attention to ppl. Half of the time either we end up doing the aerobics in the wrong way or cant move properly due to space contraints.
I have tried 3 batches in morning on differnet days i.e. 7 to 8; 8:15 to 9:15 and 9:15 to 10:15 and also 3 batches in the evening 5 to 6; 6 to 7 and 7 to 8 but all are having the similiar issues. I feel like travelling in a bangalore local bus - people are stuffed in to the extent they can bear. So, if u are going for this one, please keep in mind to adjust with the space contraints and the lack of personal attention by the trainers.