Gold's Gym

Gold’s Gym was founded in Venice, California in 1965 by Joe Gold, and the original Venice Beach location became one of the most famous fitness addresses in the world through the bodybuilding culture that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbu, and the other competitive bodybuilders of the 1970s made legendary in the film Pumping Iron. The Gold’s Gym brand, which expanded nationally and internationally from that Venice Beach origin, has maintained its association with the serious strength training culture while developing the full commercial gym program that the contemporary fitness market requires.

The Georgetown M Street location at 3222 provides the Georgetown fitness community with the commercial gym infrastructure that the training commitment requires: the free weight section with the dumbbells, the barbells, and the benches and racks that the strength training program uses; the resistance machine floor that provides the isolated training that the specific muscle development program includes; and the cardio equipment that the Georgetown runner who wants an alternative to the canal path on the winter morning or the rainy evening uses as the indoor training option.

The group fitness program at the Georgetown Gold’s Gym extends the gym experience beyond the self-directed training floor to the instructor-led classes that the Georgetown group fitness participant prefers: the cycling class, the strength class, and the aerobic formats that the group gym’s class schedule provides create the social and motivational dimension of the fitness experience that the solo gym visit does not include.

The Gold’s Gym operates extended hours, from 5am through 11pm on weekdays and 7am through 9pm on weekends, providing the Georgetown early riser and the late-evening trainer with the gym access that the commercial schedule requires. The Gold’s Gym Georgetown at 3222 M Street provides the Georgetown fitness community with the commercial gym infrastructure that the diverse training programs of the Georgetown population require: the competitive powerlifter who needs the full free weight room, the Georgetown runner who needs the treadmill on the rainy morning, and the Georgetown group fitness participant who needs the variety of the class schedule all find their training needs served in the single Georgetown M Street facility.

The Gold’s Gym personal training program extends the gym’s services to the Georgetown client who wants the individual training guidance that the commercial gym’s equipment and classes do not provide on their own. The Gold’s Gym certified personal trainer who works with the Georgetown client at 3222 M Street develops the individual program using the full equipment range that the commercial gym floor provides, which gives the Georgetown personal training client the most complete tool set that any single Georgetown fitness facility offers. Hours run from 5am on weekdays and 7am on weekends. The Gold’s Gym Georgetown at 3222 M Street NW provides the Georgetown fitness community with the commercial gym’s full infrastructure at the M Street address that is accessible from the M Street commercial district and from the surrounding Georgetown and Foggy Bottom residential neighborhoods. The extended operating hours from 5am through 11pm on weekdays and 7am through 9pm on weekends accommodate the Georgetown early riser’s 5:30am strength session and the Georgetown professional’s 10pm after-work cardio with equal accessibility.