So I have a corporate Golds Gym membership and can go to any of the DC area corporate locations. I go to the Golds by my house 80% of the time, but on Mondays for the past year or so I’ve been going to a location between work and home for a 5:30PM Body Pump class.
When I first started going there was a guy instructor that I did not like, I thought he was new at first but learned he’s been an instructor for years. He was just terrible at remembering choreography. We’d have a woman named Penny sub sometimes and she was great, she reminded me a Bebe Neuwirth (aka Lilth on Fraiser and the original Velma in Chicago on Broadway).
So due to work craziness, I didn’t go to this class all summer, but when I started back in September – to my delight – Penny was the permanent instructor for the class. I’ve always been a fan of Monday workouts – start the week off right. Well, a few weeks back Penny said something about “2 more classes or something.” I thought maybe she was going to stop teaching the class. NO NO, I found out yesterday that this Golds location is CLOSING THIS WEEK. WHAT?! They apparently “notified” their primary location members, but only has like 2 TINY signs since last month announcing the closure.
I’m BUMMED. Penny was really bummed, she said she’s been teaching at this location for 14 years. She had us all take this picture end of class and encouraged us to follow her on social media (hence how I have this picture).
Also, one of my Body Pump “friends” who also went to the same 2 locations I did said she is going to switch gyms completely because she went this location more and the one by where we live only on weekends. SAD.
The Golds by me has a 6:30 Kickboxing class on Mondays that I don’t love. I see they have a 6PM RPM spin class, so maybe I’ll do that. But really I’m bummed about saying goodbye to this class and without warning.
