Ultimate Fitness

"Great selection of old school equipment. Ideal gym for a bodybuilder"

"Moved to Otay Ranch from Orange County recently, and this place is THE BEST GYM if you're a bodybuilder. Even during after work "rush hour" it's never packed, and you don't ever have to wait for equipment because they have so many variations of each one. Everyone is nice and there for the same purpose, no groups of kids standing around on their phones, no wannabe "influencers," everyone picks up after themselves. They have so much unique equipment that few other gyms have, I feel like a kid in a candy store. The "old school" vibe is not everyone's cup of tea, but if you like Gold's Venice or The Gym in PB you'll love it here. Worth making the drive every time I come here."

"I guess the "Old School" vibe they tout refers to 75% of the equipment being broken or in disrepair. Or maybe it's how all the surfaces (including the carpeted floors) are filthy/dusty and the only way to clean any of it is with a few dirty rags + spray bottles. Oh there are paper towels dispensers ...that do not dispense paper towels because they're broken or they just never bother to refill them. I don't know. Maybe that's what Old School means. Like back in the day before standardized cleaning products were part of the gym experience? They also don't have functioning water fountains because from what I heard the owner didn't feel like it was cost effective to fix the issue. I guess they'd rather their customers bring their own source of drinking water to avoid dehydration. But hey, they DID put signs over the drinking fountains to let you know not to put anything down the drain, probably because they didn't want to clean it out. It was nice to look at them and dream, though. The MOST "Old School" thing about this gym, however, is how all of the weights and weight machines are rusty, filthy like everything else, placed seemingly at random and in disrepair or broken. Like roughly 80% of this stuff has something that either SHOULD be fixed or NEEDS to be fixed. Every day I went I was watching out for that one jagged, rusted piece of metal that was going to tear into my skin and give me a disease. Yeah this place is "Old School" alright. Like a crypt. But even crypts that have been in service for a few thousand years are somewhat hospitable to human life."

"I have been a member for a little less than a year now and I would not recommend this gym to anyone. The machines are always dirty the free wights are filthy, the restrooms always have flies in them and it smells very poorly, I have never seen the showers ever work or been used before nor have I seen the water fountain ever work. I mean if someone pays $30.00 a month least you could do is make the water work for your customers. The only thing I have seen them do is add a couple calisthenic workouts outside when they should be investing that into flooring for the gym. The windows are filthy and you can barely see inside. I payed the same amount at La Fitness In Eastlake and it came with a pool sauna lockers clean restrooms and weights basketball court boxing room and water fountains that work. I would not recommend this gym to anyone."

"I’ve been a member here for two years now. Everything here is old, which is fine, as long as things work. Cable machines are fine, but the electronic equipment lacks. Consistently. They keep promising (since I’ve been a member) new, updated or repairs on current equipment (treadmills, stair steppers, etc). All the treadmills are either gone or broken, and have replaced them with hamster wheels. There is only one working stair stepper at a time. Hard to want to go to the gym where not many things work."