Metroflex Austin

Best gym in Austin hands down! Been there 8 months and all my lifts are through the roof! Friendly environment and helpful staff

First off, I am a natural bodybuilder and was so impressed with the Metroflex gym in Long Beach during my business trips out to California, that I looked for a Metroflex gym in Austin, TX on my last business trip which was about two weeks out from my most recent Bodybuilding show.
Yes, in this gym you can find all of us seriously shredded and freakishly big twisted steel looking mofo’s, but I could have saved my money for a day pass elsewhere.
The bad. The gym is a tiny warehouse type building with weights and machines that were below average in maintenance, organization, and cleanliness. Not as if any of the regulars, employees, or owners care, but I will be looking into gyms elsewhere in the area if I ever have to go back to Austin.

Be warned, this is a serious gym! With that said, the people are great and not judgemental at all!
I went here for a push and pull meet a few weeks ago. I fell in love with the atmosphere immediately. I was really impressed with the equipment and the people were real people that were serious about thier goals. Everywhere you looked, there were people (men and women) eating out of tupperwares and working out. The meet itself was really cool and the contestants were real competitors.
The price is solid too, I believe $ 35 a month with no contract. That’s less than I pay at Gold’s, and it’s a 24 hour facility. The ability to go into a gym like this with a key fob any time you want is pretty awesome to me.
I met the owners also, very cool people! They were at the meet just hanging out and talking to everyone. They were very down to earth people and invested in making people their best.
I would definitely recoomend them if you are in the Round Rock area, or if you are a serious bodybuilder and willing to commute up. It’s definitely worth the drive.

Amazing gym! It’s like a warehouse for meatheads. Staff is very friendly. I came to this gym while visiting Austin. If I lived out here this would most def by my gym. Nothing by iron. Hardcore and old school all the way!

The good:
Serious environment for serious training. Decent bars, heavy dumbbells, old school machines (including the Nautilus pullover), plenty of plates. Open doors to the outside so in the summer you get the benefits of training in brutal heat. Loud rap music. IFBB pro bodybuilder and crew benching 500 for reps. Nobody looks at you like a circus freak when you lift heavy.
The bad:
Hardcore here means rusted out and nasty. I’ve been to other Metroflex gyms and they are not run like this. I’ve been to the other two local hardcore gyms and they’re not run this way either. They offer very reasonably priced training services but seem to cater specifically to bodybuilders, so for a lot of folks it’s not very exciting.
The ugly:
This place claims to cater to strongmen, bodybuilders, and powerlifters alike, but really it’s just a bodybuilder gym. There’s nothing wrong with that, but claiming to be more than a bodybuilder gym is lame. If you’re a strongman, they have tires. They do not have logs, stones, axles, circus dumbbells, etc. If you’re a powerlifter, they have a couple of racks and a safety squat bar in addition to regular barbells. They do not have bands and pegs, chains, fat gripz or fat bars, specialty bench press bars.
In the end, this is still a better training environment than any of the 24 hour gyms int he area, but if it’s possible for you to go to one of the other «hardcore» area gyms, you’d be well advised to do so.

A gym that actually feels like a gym.
Green Flag 1. Bay Doors
Green Flag 2. Lots of Heavy Metal (literally & musically)
This is a gym that is actually meant for exercising. It’s definitely not Club-​Med. There are plenty of weights & machines that will develop every muscle group in your body. There are cardio machines too, just not the yuppie bikes with HD TVs and AC vents etc. The staff is great, all very knowledgeable and friendly. Don’t be scared off by the «Hardcore» logo. Nobody is going to roundhouse kick you in the face or anything, they are just folks that are serious about lifting weights.

A HARDCORE TRAINING FACILITY.
Everything you need to reach your goals can be found at Metroflex. Everything from supplements to personal training. Don’t let the «HARDCORE» scare you, it just means that the staff and members are serious about reaching their goals. I have been a member for 2 months now and have found the staff to be both approachable and knowledgeable. I really can’t think of anything negative to say about the gym. I really feel like I am at home.

MetroFlex is not a corporate gym like Gold’s or 24 hour; actually I wouldn’t call it a gym it’s a training facility. No rules about making noise when you’re working out; actually they encourage hardcore training. Everyone working out there has a purpose; from body building to competition fighters. If you’re serious about putting on muscle then this is the place for you; MetroFlex truly is a hardcore place to train.

Great Hardcore gym!!! No alarms at this gym if you drop weight or yell.

DO NOT GO TO THIS GYM IF YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT LIFTING WEIGHTS!!!
If you’re looking for some cardio and light weights, go somewhere else. Pilates? Yoga? Sorry. This place is for people who want to pump massive amounts of iron. That is all. Completely stripped down, it’s nothing but weights and loud music. No candy ass things like core balls and medicine balls and air conditioning. Seriously, it’s an open air warehouse.
Weights. That is all. If you KNOW you can hang, take the one week free membership. If you have ANY doubts, save yourself the embarrassment and go somewhere else.