Xtreme Couture

This is the gym I’m currently a member at and I’ve gone back and forth on what I would write in my review for them. But each time I would muster up the courage to write something I would avoid doing so for fear it’ll reflect poorly on my experience moving forward. However, at this point, there have just been too many negatives for me to hold back any longer, and hopefully if someone reads this they’ll address some of my concerns so I can update this review to a higher level.
Staff
For the most part I would say the reception staff and some of the sales people are friendly, but there have been more than enough times when I’ve asked questions about classes and no one seems to have a clue what’s going on. My main issue is with the guy they send you to for your MMA assessment when you first join. They call him MMA Jay. Jay is responsible for doing a fitness assessment, measurements (setting your bench marks), and assessing your skill set/​experience in Mixed Martial Arts. Having no experience I expected they would tell me as much and then suggest personal training, which Jay did point for point. My issue was, this was all he focused on, I was never given a fitness assessment, never given my benchmark, just basically told I didn’t know what I was doing and that I needed to take personal training. I would have bought sessions anyway but the blatant sales routine was what irked me.
The MMA trainers have some bright spots, the ladies boxing coach seems to be an incredible teacher, as is the beginning Muay Thai teacher and one of the other Muay Thai instructors. Past that I’ve found that the other classes have a certain level to them and the instructors don’t do very much to show you the ropes, it’s basically sink or swim. I had wanted to do the 2 hour Muay Thai Class but after one class with the instructor catering to his advanced fighters and leaving the rest of us to our own devices I was done with him (so that limits 2 – 3 class options a week). Similarly, I went to try BJJ during the day and the same thing happened. An advanced class with very little instruction, mostly student to student lead. I’ve yet to take another BJJ class. And then we come to boxing… something I would have loved to have tried but after two failed attempts I’m pretty turned off. On my first attempt the teacher didn’t show up and a sub showed up 30 minutes into class who was also an Muay Thai coach, the same one who I mentioned earlier who catered to the more experience fighters and left the rest of us alone. The regular boxing teacher came up to me another time while I was putting my wraps on before class and because he had never seen me before in his class, told me if I wasn’t hear for boxing class I had to leave the area because they had the area booked off, and then walked away before I could explain that was precisely what I was here for; so now I can scratch Boxing and BJJ off my list along with ¼ Muay Thai teachers. I will say that the beginner MT instructor as well as the new Tuesday night instructor and 90 minute Monday class instructor are all very good and have been the saving grace for this gym (they earn the gym it’s full two stars on their own, so kudos to them)
Classes (MMA)
As I mentioned above, many of the classes offer little basic explanations and your must either sink or swim. If you’re going to run a gym like this, you need to offer levels so that it doesn’t just cater to regulars but welcomes new comers as well. My biggest gripe with this gym is that all the MMA classes are on weekday evenings. The only early options are the mid day BJJ classes which I can’t go to anymore. I’d really like to see some morning classes as that’s the time I work out usually so it doesn’t interfere with work.
Fitness Equipment
I’ve only used the exercise equipment a few times, and that’s mostly because anytime I’ve attempted the gym has been packed and you cannot get a rack or weight to save yourself. The weights are in such a state of disorder I you’ll spend half of your workout looking for the match to the weight you’ve got in your hand. There are many machines out of order and a fair number of gym rat douchers sit around «reserving» machines and weights in between sets. Xtreme Coutours staff… I don’t know what they do here, most of the treadmills and everything is a mess
Facilities (bathroom/​change room)
Bare bare bones. Concrete floors, busted up/​rusted lockers, many of which are reserved and/​or covered in stickers. The showers are the scariest thing in my opinion, as I know they are cleaned but they certainly don’t look the part.
The Farce:
Someone else mentioned this, but aside from maybe when the gym opened neither Randy Coutour, nor any other professional fighter has ever come and done a class here, however looking at their website would have you believe that their presence is a regular occurrence… nope.
Maybe they’ll make some changes, maybe not, but I think when my year is up, I’ll be done… that remains to be seen.

First off: THIS GYM IS NOT OWNED OR ASSOCIATED TO «RANDY COUTURE»
They just use Randy Couture’s name on it.
Second: Membership price is decent, but classes are complete crap.
The barely have a martial arts class until the evening. They promise” Muay Thai, Kickboxing,
Boxing (only two classes per week. lol). But good luck if you can’t make it to the class at 6pm.
I had to change my plans several times because they only offer one class of each per day. That means: today there will be a class of muay thai, but no kickboxing, tomorrow there is a class off kickboxing but no muay thai. Forget the mornings. They only offer Hot Yoga and one other aerobics class.
If you like martial Arts esp Muay Thai: join «Krudar» on Spadina. Boy o boy are those guys determined. every instructor is built of pure muscle and flexibility.
Xtreme Couture just sounds good, nothing else.
p.s Don’t waste your money if u enjoy martial arts classes.

Gym is ok. Fitness membership is a decent price and so is the MMA membership. Equipment’s alright, but a lot of roids dudes overtake all the weight equipment. Yoga instructor Sandy is really good. Come here if you want to see a lot of strippers working out. I go there because the two Goodlifes in the area are filled with mould and are gross.

I love coming in this neighbourhood gym because it is no frills and the cardio machines are never overtaken by a mob of cardio die-​hards. There is space for me to do free weights and there is a great play area at the back where you can turn gigantic tires, handle mokey bars and punch your frustrations. If you are serious about fitness and just need a space to get your work-​out done then this is the place for you. Did I also mention that you pay half the price of those «other» gyms? They are very good with pricing and always have promotions that are easy to take advantage. And if you are lucky you might even see some of the MMA fighters practice in the MMA area. Free show with your workout. Heck yeah!

Great Gym, and great people.
Always friendly. Clean and no attitude.

A very big 33 000 s.f. facility.
Owned by the Ultimate fighting legend Randy Couture.
It is great for people who just want to work out and for MMA fans.
Professional UFC fighters are part of the traing staff.
You can choose just to get a gym membership, or Gym + MMA training.
The Gym membership is reasonably priced.
The equipment is fantastic and brand new. The workout area is HUGE!
Plenty of space to exercise.
Special zones with tires and monkey latter.
Kettlebell classes, Spinning, Yoga and more in the Gym section.
The staff is very friendly.
Juice bar
Merchandise, equipment and supplement shop.
FREE DAYCARE! –Awesome!
So far it was never too busy!
Con:
— to get a good rate you have to sign up for a year.
— Location