Our garbage gym Lifetime Centreville is ripping out the indoor basketball courts and replacing it with all pickleball

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Anonymous wrote:We live in MD, but does Centreville skew older age-wise? Seems like Lifetime is making the changes only there, and the other locations will still have the kids camps and the like. Maybe it says more about Centreville than Lifetime Fitness in general.

My gut tells me pickleball is a fad. Just like tennis was in the 80s (does anyone walk around in tennis outfits any more, headband and all? look at how they dressed on Three's Company), and aerobics (Jane Fonda style), and shuffleboard, and bocce ball.

I'm the same way too but I compare it more to racquetball, which I remember being real popular a while back. And there's a couple of places that I've seen with racquetball courts that look like they're hardly ever used for actual racquetball.

But I've also been wrong about trends and fads in the past and it looks like there is more support for pickleball. So can be wrong about it.

More people will get hurt if they aren't playing on the right surface for their sport.

What's the right surface for pickleball?

Concrete or asphalt, which is less safe for basketball.

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I stopped going to Lifetime 10 years ago when I realized they were horribly managed.

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Btw, did you start the Reddit post too?

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, did you start the Reddit post too?

There are probably at least two people in northern virginia whose kids play basketball at Lifetime, or they would have ripped the courts out a long long time ago!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I am happy for it. Good move.

Why?

I plan pickleball, I don't play basketball?

My kids play basketball, but I don't begrudge a gym taking some basketball space for pickleball, yoga, pilates, etc. I want a healthy community and I like to see the old people out there enjoying themselves. (I guess the old people didn't like seeing kids playing basketball).
Honestly, yu sound very self-centered.

Stop calling people old

Old is not an insult. Old is just a fact. We only saw old people ever playing pickleball.

The way you are using it an insult. And let me introduce you to Anna Leigh Waters, 16 years old professional player! Not old by a LONG shot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Leigh_Waters

You seem to be struggling with logic. I also have only seen older people participating at Lifetime pickleball courts. Does that mean no young people enjoy the activity, ever? No, of course not. It is probably a wonderful way for children to spend time with their grandparents, since it is so easy to play. But at Lifetime, it is definitely populated by the retired set.

Take a look in the mirror dude. I'm talking more than just your club! You said only old people play it. Not only old people at Lifetime gym!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I am happy for it. Good move.

Why?

I plan pickleball, I don't play basketball?

My kids play basketball, but I don't begrudge a gym taking some basketball space for pickleball, yoga, pilates, etc. I want a healthy community and I like to see the old people out there enjoying themselves. (I guess the old people didn't like seeing kids playing basketball).
Honestly, yu sound very self-centered.

Stop calling people old

Old is not an insult. Old is just a fact. We only saw old people ever playing pickleball.

The way you are using it an insult. And let me introduce you to Anna Leigh Waters, 16 years old professional player! Not old by a LONG shot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Leigh_Waters

You seem to be struggling with logic. I also have only seen older people participating at Lifetime pickleball courts. Does that mean no young people enjoy the activity, ever? No, of course not. It is probably a wonderful way for children to spend time with their grandparents, since it is so easy to play. But at Lifetime, it is definitely populated by the retired set.

Take a look in the mirror dude. I'm talking more than just your club! You said only old people play it. Not only old people at Lifetime gym!

Boomers HATE anyone implying that they are old. Its OK to get older. Beats the alternative. Why not pass the time you have left playing pickleball?

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They are doing the same thing with the Fairfax location! Ironically, they did this after they made a HUGE push in July to get people to pre-pay for birthday parties in the fall....only now you can't have kids birthday parties there anymore. While there are certainly pickleball players who are not 50+, the fact is that's the demographic playing every time I go to Centerville, Fairfax, or Reston. They've certainly made it clear that families aren't the primary audience at either Fairfax or Centerville. Class offerings on the weekends at Fairfax are slim when childcare is open.

One of the biggest benefits of being a Lifetime member with kids was having the option for school break camps and snow day camps. I wonder if they just don't make enough on camp anymore? It was completely booked this summer and at Spring break so they must really be banking on pickleball getting up huge numbers.

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Did they refund people for the parties? Its not like they didn't know they were planning on doing a huge construction project.

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You play pickleball 7 days a week?

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Anonymous wrote:They are doing the same thing with the Fairfax location! Ironically, they did this after they made a HUGE push in July to get people to pre-pay for birthday parties in the fall....only now you can't have kids birthday parties there anymore. While there are certainly pickleball players who are not 50+, the fact is that's the demographic playing every time I go to Centerville, Fairfax, or Reston. They've certainly made it clear that families aren't the primary audience at either Fairfax or Centerville. Class offerings on the weekends at Fairfax are slim when childcare is open.

One of the biggest benefits of being a Lifetime member with kids was having the option for school break camps and snow day camps. I wonder if they just don't make enough on camp anymore? It was completely booked this summer and at Spring break so they must really be banking on pickleball getting up huge numbers.

Or Dulles! Its wild to me that they are pulling out all the amenities for families in Ashburn. That's family central.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I am happy for it. Good move.

Why?

I plan pickleball, I don't play basketball?

My kids play basketball, but I don't begrudge a gym taking some basketball space for pickleball, yoga, pilates, etc. I want a healthy community and I like to see the old people out there enjoying themselves. (I guess the old people didn't like seeing kids playing basketball).
Honestly, yu sound very self-centered.

Stop calling people old

Old is not an insult. Old is just a fact. We only saw old people ever playing pickleball.

The way you are using it an insult. And let me introduce you to Anna Leigh Waters, 16 years old professional player! Not old by a LONG shot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Leigh_Waters

You seem to be struggling with logic. I also have only seen older people participating at Lifetime pickleball courts. Does that mean no young people enjoy the activity, ever? No, of course not. It is probably a wonderful way for children to spend time with their grandparents, since it is so easy to play. But at Lifetime, it is definitely populated by the retired set.

Take a look in the mirror dude. I'm talking more than just your club! You said only old people play it. Not only old people at Lifetime gym!

Boomers HATE anyone implying that they are old. Its OK to get older. Beats the alternative. Why not pass the time you have left playing pickleball?

I'm not a boomer but, honestly no one likes to be called old. And you know it.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I am happy for it. Good move.

Why?

I plan pickleball, I don't play basketball?

My kids play basketball, but I don't begrudge a gym taking some basketball space for pickleball, yoga, pilates, etc. I want a healthy community and I like to see the old people out there enjoying themselves. (I guess the old people didn't like seeing kids playing basketball).
Honestly, yu sound very self-centered.

Stop calling people old

Old is not an insult. Old is just a fact. We only saw old people ever playing pickleball.

Ageism. What else do you call people that is not an insult?

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Anonymous wrote:If I repeat Lifetime Centreville a lot in my comment, will this thread show up on google results? I don't know how the algorhythms work.
Lifetime Centreville hates families.
Lifetime Centreville hates the Centreville community.
Lifetime Centreville is a gym for senior citizens only.
Lifetime Centreville does not ask for or listen to customer feedback.

Spot the Senior Citizens.

https://www.lifetime.life/sports-programs/pickleball.html

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Anonymous wrote:If I repeat Lifetime Centreville a lot in my comment, will this thread show up on google results? I don't know how the algorhythms work.
Lifetime Centreville hates families.
Lifetime Centreville hates the Centreville community.
Lifetime Centreville is a gym for senior citizens only.
Lifetime Centreville does not ask for or listen to customer feedback.

Spot the Senior Citizens.

https://www.lifetime.life/sports-programs/pickleball.html

Oh honey, that's an ad. They aren't putting someone who looks like you in it.
I know seniors struggle to distinguish between news and entertainment (fox news hello) and ads and real life. Its ok.

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So they are ripping out all the multi-use basketball courts and putting in tennis court surface and installing permanent nets? Crazy.