World Gym

Okay people, if you expect World Gym to be like 24-​Hour or LA Fitness, then this gym is NOT for you! If you want to work out with people who are athletes, people who take bodybuilding, weight lifting, and fitness seriously, then you found the right place. This place is not for the sensitive types, and people who get offended that there is sweat on the floor, or smells sweat in the air during peak periods. The smell of sweat speaks for the level of commitment of the individuals who trains at this gym, and no one just comes here to use the treadmill to do cardio. Weight lifting is the primary form of exercise done at this gym.
It motivates me when I come to this place to work out. I see all the women and men who are hard-​core trainers, and lifters, there are not many places like World’s gym in North County. The people who work here are super down to earth, helpful, and knows their stuff. They live, breath, and walk the fitness lifestyle.
There are so many options of equipment and weights that you can use here, and the atmosphere creates the space for serious lifters. I recommend this place to work out versus the spa-​type gyms like 24 or LA. I’ve had memberships with these two gyms, and it was a waste of my money.
I do recommend that you ask to work with a personal trainer at this gym. They do have amazing fitness coaches here (look into Everlast Fitness), and they can create a plan to maximize your workouts here at World Gym.

Hardcore, old school gym. They make the most out of the layout by having a smaller room filled with back equipment, another smaller room filled with leg equipment. Then you have the entire main weight room plus an upstairs that has cardio and some machines. Last of a dying breed, so enjoy while you can. Glow-​bow mega gyms are taking over, but this little gem is something to cherish. I would give it a 5^th star if they had AC. I know, it ain’t too hardcore to have AC, but it was only 85 out and it was swealtering inside. Perhaps some HUGE fans would be a nice addition.

Very unprofessional management. These guys are crooks. I explained to the guy I wanted a month-​to-​month membership pretty much pay as you go and they kept on charging my card after I was done. READ THE FINE PRINT. CROOKS!!!

Great gym, but hard to get a workout in during the early hours, as there is group circuit training that takes up many of the benches/​machines. Will probably go back to 24hr in April, even though I otherwise love the gym/​culture there.

Awesome gym with a great vibe. I went in today looking to change gyms and Toney showed me around. I loved that people left you alone to work out and reach your goals. It definitely has that old school no frills feel. Toney told me this is the type of gym that females come in and take off their make-​up, as opposed to putting on make-​up to work out. Totally true there:)
The membership fee seems fair and I feel like I’m really going to like my membership there.

I happy to say that I’m back to this gym. I like the new owners they seem to understand the needs of their members the place needs some help still l, but they are working on it the place improves everyday. The new owners had to pick up the pieces and clean up the mess the old owners left behind. I do have a request for the new owner, please don’t take off the punching bags upstairs.
The place is nice great equipment and awesome personal trainers.
I highly recommend would gym here.

I’m so Glad I walked into Worlds Gym Vista! I Joined the same day. Owners have made great positive improvements to the Gym and Staff is Super Sweet. I Love the atmosphere, nothing compares.

Great gym. Heavy weights. Not too crowded.
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For the few months I’ve been in California I’ve gone back and forth between this one and pacific beach both great gyms!
I built my body at these two gyms. The atmosphere is great, and I owe much credit to the gyms and the members.

TRAINER MONICA LOPEZ TRANSFORMED MY LIFE. I had a lot of stress that kept piling up and I gained a large amount of weight.
My marriage was suffering to a point near divorce from my mood swings & taking them out on my husband.
SHE IS A LIFE SAVER ! !

World Gym is by far the best hard core gym in Vista. If you looking for a serious gym with history I definitely recommend them. I did a month membership to see if I liked them and I ended up loving it! From the equipment (real equipment) to the atmosphere, it’s an awesome gym!

Many gyms these days. So you understand each gym has a different feel. This isnt any Hollywood gym so wearing make-​up dosent make since. If your looking for a good workout this is the place.
Everyone is very helpful even the people that workout here. The cardio machines need some upgrades but all in all its your above average gym were you work hard to play hard

Great gym with an old school feel. This isn’t a fancy gym but that’s not why I’m here, also the atmosphere is a tough feel that is great for getting in the zone. If your looking for something fancy go to a fitness center. Big thumbs up to all the world gym family hope they can continue to do big and great things… after going to this gym for almost a year I felt like there was a lot «jackassary» truthfully, and I feel like the arrogance here is pretty high from what I’ve seen. The only person I can really say that was pretty cool to me was a guy named Anthony who works there big props to him. Other than that the whole gym seemed like they were screwing each other out of the gym (nothing wrong with that) and some of the trainers I saw looked like Godamn jokes as well, got one guy eating while training his clients like he’s got to eat that bad, dude you’re a clown and on a scale of 1 – 10 you would count for being a jackass. The atmosphere was alright but a lot of the people in the gym f*cked that up… sometimes I even wonder why I went to this spot which was kind of out of my way to do so.

So To UPDATE Everyone I decided to have a friend of mine go check it out to see if the place is still as DISGUSTING as before Well IT IS …
Last time mats were dirty saw a huge dead roach all equipment covered in dust and smelled so bad!
Well my friend took pictures to prove the amount of filth and laziness of the staff Clean Gym?! Ha Thats a joke So my friend saw gum on the floor! dead moths! and nasty stains on the floors
you know its sad when your staff have bad attitudes then on top of that they don’t keep it sanitary! why have the cleaning supplies when there never used as i claimed before this place is gross and false advertises classes and a total joke the owner should be embarrassed!!! negative 5 stars Save Your Money!!! !!!

This gym is clean, inexpensive, and rarely busy at all. I see HUGE guys, normal guys, old guys, young women, and middle-​aged women: a total mix. All are there to work out and for serious, but no one is ever rude. If you are looking for classes or to hang out this is not the place. If you are looking to actually work out in peace, they have pretty much everything you could need.

I used to go here when I lived in North County. It is a very good gym! The staff is super friendly, they offer a lot of classes (I took boxing, it was quite a workout and I lost a lot of weight and the instructor Mark was very supportive). The gym is always clean, they play good music, its never too packed, and its a very comfortable gym. The locker rooms are pretty small, but not a lot of people are there at once. They have a nice electronic scale, and those vibrating machines that you stand on for after you work out which are awesome. The staff is always helpful and they always made me laugh. Such a warm friendly atmosphere. I enjoyed working out here and I miss it!

Awesome gym. When i called and asked about their deadlift policy, dude told me, «you better lift some heavy ass weight.»
Came in, signed up. I should note that this is my secondary gym, I frequent the PB World Gym a lot more. But I still hit up the vista location on tuesdays and saturdays (location and scheduling reasons). It does suck that they are separate locations (franchises) but both were affordable enough that I have a membership to both places.
NOTE: I am gym only, I do not MMA because i r scared.
i don’t wanna wax superlative on every positive about this gym (but i’m gonna); if you are serious about weight/​resistance training, this gym has everything you need at a very affordable price (150 initiation $ 10/​month or 50 initiation $ 20/​month).
1. it’s not as busy as the PB location.
2. There are some STRONG people who train at this gym.
3. everything but the showers are super clean (and if you REALLY have to shower at ANY gym, i feel bad for you son). by the way, i shower there once a week, but i’ve learned the art of sucking it up.
4. it’s a fairly new gym, so it’s only gonna get better and better.
5. they people that work there seem to actually care about the place.
my biggest disappointments with the Vista location are:
1. the barbells all have knurling in the middle, my neck skin isn’t tough enough to handle it on front squats. this literally seems to be a problem for solely me; my front rack position may need work.
2. the 45 pound plates aren’t «standard» sized, which makes every deadlift a deficit deadlift.
and that’s it. seriously minor issues which i’ve already worked around. and let’s be real, to the majority of people, it’s irrelevant.
now, i’m not gonna lie, i prefer the PB location. it’s older, it’s got more character, it’s bigger, it has a better selection of equipment, etc. if you put a gun to my head, i would choose PB over Vista. But the vista location is still leagues above any commercial gym if you’re serious about getting in shape in a hardcore atmosphere.

these guy’s are crook’s. charged me an additional $ 19.99 for the month after i canceled and wouldn’t even re-​credit my account.
be sure and read the fine print before you sign up. be sure you give them enough notice before you cancel or they can (and will) just charge your bank account anyway. so unprofessional i will never recommend anyone to this facility. as for the staff at the desk who answer the phones they were both clueless and argumentative. that was no surprise after speaking with gabe their manager who justified charging the extra month. what a poor way to conduct business. hope my experience will help others not make the same mistakes. and by the way 24-​hr fitness prorates from your time of cancellation.

I have been a loyal member for about a year and a half now, and I think I’ve finally seen and observed enough to write a detailed review. (FYI, I have worked in the fitness industry for 5+ years, so I’m not talking out of my ass here).
First off I’ll start with the cons:
I dont know if this is a weightlifting gym or an MMA gym or both. It seems the owners are putting all of their focus into the MMA portion of the gym and neglecting the weightlfting/​cardio portion of it. In the year and a half I have been a member, the same two machines have been broken (never fixed), the same treadmill has been broken (never fixed) and numerous treadmills are unusable (skip when you try to run on them, wont decline, etc). As a matter of fact, I have never seen an equipment tech there working on or maintaining the equipment since I have been there. Half of the time you walk in the door, there is no one there to check you in or greet you. The other half of the time, someone is there but is too busy on their laptop to acknowledge you at all. A simple hello and goodbye go a long way. The trainers… holy beejesus… where do I begin? Besides Todd and Norm, the trainers there are atrocious. Having their clients use terrible form, making them do assinine exercises and workouts. One trainer trains primarily younger ladies (20 – 30) and has them wear a weightlifting belt at all times… during pullups, biceps curls, etc… You can’t make this shit up. Definetly a bunch of people who have no real world experience training people but rather paid some money for an online cert so they would be «qualified» to be a trainer. They have one group exercise class, a TRX class, but you wouldn’t know it unless you asked. And last but certainly not least, the gym is also home to HERBALIFERS!!! Who want nothing more than to sell you their shitty «health» products within the first 30 seconds of saying hi.
Now the few Pros:
My membership is only $ 10 a month. This might be the ONLY reason I still work out there. The gym has relatively everything you need to get a good workout in. They are lifter friendly (i.e. allow chalk, deadlifting). They have a woman who comes in and cleans the gym everyday, so it stays relatively clean for a gym. As far as positives go, thats all I can think of.
I still workout here to this day, but if something the same price or even a bit more comes along I am gone with the wind…

I was a member at LA fitness for quite some time but recently starting going to World Gym and I am glad that I made the switch. Its not a «global gym» type facility but has more of an «Average Joe» feel to it and that is what I like about it. The equipment is clean and the treadmills have a personal TV on it so that you can watch your favorite shows while burning some calories. The mens locker room is more of like a high school locker room with a Sauna but for 19.99/mo is well worth it and for 79/​mo you have full access to Boxing/​kickboxing and jujitsu classes. The best thing about this place is that all the people that work there are very friendly and make you feel at home with a «hello» when getting in and «have a great day» when you leave.