SURFCORE Fitness

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Hugs of gratitude to our sponsors, friends, and everyone that made it out to our fundraiser over the weekend!

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We have amazing swag from World Surf League at the fundraiser on Saturday night! Be there at SURFCORE Fitness on La Cienega (just off the 10) at 6pm to eat, drink, and be merry!

Check out the Swellmagnet.com swag we are raffling off this Saturday at our fundraiser! We'll be at SURFCORE Fitness from 6-9 and feeding you dinner & soft drinks & providing awesome entertainment. $10 at the door or catch Apryl at Porto for dawn patrol this week and you can get a discount and some stickers!

Party at Surfcore!

Where do I even begin? First off - this place deserves every star I'm giving it!

Below, one guy mentioned a negative experience during that class, and I want to clear one thing in Carlos' defense. I actually was in the same class with him he's venting about. I've been going to Carlos for almost 8-9 months now and every single time I've gone, the timer has not once had a glitch. It could be a "coincidence" that the same time in the rotation with the same people around the timer, it malfunctioned - or maybe wasn't a "coincidence" at all? Regardless, it was dealt with by the couple as a joke and it wasn't funny at all - especially to someone having to go through the same set yet again due to that "funny mistake". Regardless of this unnecessary what could be seen as a negative experience, my experience as a member is only beyond positive.

Carlos takes pride in creating a fun and warm welcoming gym. He goes off of Hawaiian values, which connect with everyone in some sort of way. I've gone to a ton of different boot camps and classes in the greater Los Angeles area and quit all of them because nothing felt quite personal to me and my fitness growth. After coming here, I felt like I had a trainer who actually cared about ME and my health.

Immediately as you step into class, you are personally welcomed by Carlos (the owner), and when you become a frequent member, you'll start to see the same faces and become friends with everyone. I'm used to going to fitness classes and not saying hi and standing in the back waiting for the class to start. At Surfcore, it's totally different. I actually WANT to meet people and am interested in all the exercises.

My favorite classes are the MetCon ones where Carlos integrates more of a personal training type of style into his workout. Once leaving the gym, I ACTUALLY feel like I worked out. Body is sore and tired, and I get a great night's sleep :)

If you're a newbie and are looking for a intimate/personal class with someone who cares about your fitness growth, definitely try this place out.

I quit all my classpass, bootcamps, etc. packages and joined as a full time member and have seen results in my body that I haven't seen before!

5 stars all around for Carlos and Surfcore!

I don't know where to start. This review is the mother of all reviews. So please while reading, be patient and bear with me. Full disclaimer, I will be hitting a few different topics while stating my opinions and point of views. While at the same time stating pure facts.
In the month of April of 2017 both my girlfriend and I found surfcore Fitness and its owner Carlos on Groupon. I reached out via email introducing myself and asking to set up an appointment to attend the class. He reached out quite promptly being very friendly and inviting us to one free class to try it out before we signed up. My girlfriend and I and Carlos hit it off right away.
He was a very outgoing and friendly person and him and I had the connection of being Hawaiians here in the Los Angeles area. We enjoyed his class while and during a killer workout that lead us to be so sore we couldn't return until a week after. That following week is when we officially signed up. My girlfriend and I we're going for about four solid months, no less than three times a week. Through that time I lost 30 pounds and my girlfriend almost 20 pounds.
During these four months our friendship continued to grow. With us introducing him to our son and all of us hanging out outside of his gym as friends. After the four months my girlfriend and I stop going due to an injury that I had. But while we were not going we were still keeping in touch texting & stopping by to say hi here in there.
Then 2 weeks ago my girlfriend and I decided to go back. With me being okay enough for gym activity and deciding to get back on track physically. We attended one class and the same thing that happened the very first time around happened again. Our bodies were so sore we weren't able to return back for a couple of days. So a couple of days later he attended another class.
Now during this class everything was going smoothly. However during one of the rotations of his workout, his timer had stopped. Because we were right next to it my girlfriend and I noticed and she yelled out to Carlos to get his attention about it. Laughingly he thought it was us that were playing around with this timer. Asking us to not do that.
Laughingly and lightly because we thought that's how he was being we told him of course we did not touch it. He said okay no problem and everyone continued on with their workout. A couple of minutes later the timer went off again while my girlfriend and I were in its general area. This time another client in the class noticed it and yelled out to him about it. The two of us had to yell out to him because his workout music was quite loud.
Carlos quickly walked over to the timer to reset it but at the same time muting his workout music. My girlfriend and I were on his bikes right next to him. Then some drama really started. He obnoxiously and demeaningly stared down the two of us while raising his voice as if we were children telling us to not touch his belongings. Embarrassing us in front of the other clients. My girlfriend and I we're trying to interrupt him to explain to him once again that we did not touch his timer.
He would not listen to us. While he was scolding us once again as if we were children he did pause to say that if it was an accident then he apologizes but if it wasn't to not do it again. Which in our opinion was obviously not a sincere apology. My girlfriend started getting quite annoyed and was arguing back that we did not touch it. While he kept arguing back saying that this is his gym and to respect it and that he would never go to either of our workplaces and be rude to us.
I told him straight forward once again Carlos we did not touch your damn timer. He then turned around press play on his music and everyone proceeded with their workout. At that moment I told my girlfriend after this round of workouts we will be leaving. In my mind I was expecting an immediate apology from Carlos during what I would have assumed to be a one-on-one, friend to friend conversation about what just occurred.
But at the end of the class Carlos did not approach either one of us to talk. And neither did we. I felt there was nothing for us to approach him about because he was in the wrong 100%. As well as continuing to talk to the other clients during a stretching session.
What's my girlfriend and I got home I thought any moment now I would be receiving either a phone call or text message from Carlos giving an apology and or once again trying to talk about the situation. At some point none of those assumptions came true. So I went ahead and I text him letting him know that my girlfriend and I will be waiting on our apologies and explained to him how baffled her and I were that he would think the two of us would do anything to be rude to him and or his class. Knowing how long we've been friends in and out of his gym.
A few minutes later I received a text message from him not offering an apology nor asking for a moment to speak about the situation in person or over the phone but telling me that he will be issuing us a full refund and terminating our memberships. I responded letting him know that that is exactly what I was going to ask for if I did not receive an apology from him. And that it worked out what he was doing. Also letting him know in a separate text that if this was a bigger issue then he should have spoke to me face-to-face about it while I was at his gym still less than an hour and a half earlier.
Aside from all of this part of my ultimate review and conclusion of surfcore fitness and Carlos are as follows. As good of a person and gym owner as he is, he is also a man who talks behind almost everyone's back. During our year of friendship in and out of his gym we've heard him talk to us in conversation plenty of times about classpass clients and other clients that have rented out his gym. Rudely talking about there workout habits and routines. Referring to them as basic b******. His exact words.
Which obviously lead to my girlfriend and I discussing amongst ourselves how we can only imagine the trash talk he was saying when the two of us left his class. And of course would have continued talking two other clients that know the two of us. Trash talking about both of us and the incident itself.
The class itself is fantastic. However Carlos is a trainer that will get lost in conversation with his clients during their workout. Which of course for those who are trying to focus and concentrate could be a distraction. I know firsthand that all equipment is not cleaned in between classes. Which of course is not sanitary. His gym restroom has no hot water and no heater. Which are hands-down to must have necessities.
Ultimately my girlfriend and I I've never been so humiliated and felt so belittled and disrespected before. Obviously as a human being and as a man I got heated and offended but still held my composure. Thinking that this would have been taken care of as adults and Friends. So if you are someone who can find themselves just focusing on their work out then this is a place you could check out.
But if you are someone who doesn't like to surround themselves with distractions and rude and disrespectful human beings, then avoid this gym. There are plenty of other neighborhood, privately owned gyms in the Los Angeles area that are much cleaner and nicer. Please trust every word you have just read. They are not just my opinions and views but they are facts as well. To help prove my points I will be attaching a photo screenshot of my last conversation with Carlos.
I hope everything I have wrote and you have read helps one way or another. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to message me here on Yelp and Facebook. I am an honest and open book with nothing to hide about my experience with this gym and Carlos. Have a great day.