text: I became a member of LA Fitness in the beginning of October. The original sign-up was very pleasant, and I was offered the 'free' personal training session for the following day. Although I declined this, the club insisted I enjoy my free session, so I agreed. I was trained the following day, by two trainers who were overly friendly during the session. After we finished the training, I thanked them so I could carry on with my own workout. They instead brought me into their 'office' area for a hard sale. The two trainers began their very rude and hard sales tactics to get me to sign up for personal training. I thanked them, and said that I actually have a good friend who trains me, and I had originally declined their free training for that reason. The main trainer continued to attempt to hard sell me, badgering me and using my insecurities on why I joined the gym, against me. The trainer even 'pretended' to get his manager on the phone and offer me a very 'special' discount, where the trainer fees are removed, and I only pay the base price. Again, I thanked them for their time, and again said I would have to think over the personal training offer. The trainer would not let off, and finally I simply had to walk out of the gym and remove myself from this situation. Due to their tactics, I did not sign up for any personal training sessions, not wanting to pay the gym for, and subject myself to, an hour of this behavior. The next few times I went to the gym, these trainers were generally rude, and I continually saw them watching my workout and seemingly 'judging' it negatively.\n\nThis is not the end. I had originally signed up for 2 month membership, as I was moving out of the area the beginning of December. The two month membership was prepaid by me the day I signed-up, via debit card. At the end of November, I started seeing charges to my account for monthly memberships and personal training sessions. This was also a problem since I had recently removed all funds from the account, to place in another checking account. I had all but closed this account, and therefore also received 'insufficient funds' fees from my bank. I had to call the gym and speak with the account manager twice before she fixed anything; this was with my pushing her along. She did not sound at all surprised that they had 'accidentally' charged my account; as if this is common practice. I then had to follow-up with her that they had removed the monthly charges, and taken my card off file (which should never have been in their files). I then had to follow-up with my bank twice to credit my account the overdraft fees. \n\nI have been told by others, including friends, professionals, and my personal banker, that they have heard this and the banker has closed more accounts for customers due to this unsatisfactory gym practice, than for any other reason. I felt that I had a duty to find an appropriate course of action to make the gym accountable for their gross sales and accounting actions, negligent or intentional!\n\nDon't patronize establishments who buid a business this way! There are too many good gyms out there.