Bally Total Fitness

Pros: Low cost.
Cons: Unethical.

Bally is closing clubs with little warning. They have announced closings of some clubs in California and Washington this month with only a few weeks notice. They even took new member signups at these clubs only days befoe the announcements.

While they do have other locations in the same metro areas, those clubs certainly aren't as convenient for me or many of the other members.

Pros: NONE
Cons: They hire anyone off the streets. 

My best friend joined the Bally Total Fitness in Alexandria, VA on October 2008. She needed help with her fitness and assumed she bought the second best package they had. Along with the 3 year contract she was suckered into came a free personal training session. The FREE personal training session was with Eyaya Fetene Zeleke. It went great and he was a very knowledgeable trainer according to her. She didn't buy the personal training package that day but was considering it. A few weeks after joining this animal contacted my friend and told her he had a cancellation from one of his clients and asked if she wanted to take advantage of another personal training session. My friend agreed. That day she was brutally raped and sodomize by this monster. He was recently convicted and sentenced to 30 years on March 5, 2009. Since than my best friends life has been in ruins. Doesn't anyone conduct background checks anymore?

Here is the weblink to this monsters sex offender page: http://sex-offender.vsp.virginia.gov/sor/offenderDetails.html?regId=26277