Now Bolton is not short of Gyms. There are the high cost, fancy pants Gyms and then there is Xercise4Less. I have been a member of this gym now since December 2015, it costs me £10 a month which for a large gym like this is peanuts! In the first 4 months of my membership I think I trained at least 5 times a week, the classes where great, the sizes just right, the types of class were well spread out throughout the week. The facilities good. However, this has gradually changed for the worse. Xercise 4 Less regularly have special membership offers on for new customers, so now it’s coming upto holiday season, the gym has started to fill up and up and up as people take advantage on the cheap price. This would normally be fine, as there are plenty of machines a available, runners, rowers, bikes, weights, steppers, cross trainers etc The classes however have been ruined by a decision to move classes around, remove some classes and to bring in outside trainers to take classes. The classes are now rammed every night with little chance of getting a place unless you sit checking online every second of the day, the trainers sometimes don’t turn up without giving notice either. Staff morale has also taken a big hit. The gym has also started to look shabby, tired and free weight availability has started to become a task in itself. The management need to sort this ASAP as before much longer, the good trainers will start to leave and go elsewhere and people will not renew memberships. It’s a shame because it has great potential in the right hands.