The Gym Downtown

The Gym Downtown has been a downtown Orlando landmark for more than three decades. It has seen multiple owners throughout that time. Still, Anthony Addante and Katy Addante acquired it in August 2021 and are glad to continue this tradition. The two take pride in their gym ownership and work intimately with their staff to always seek new ways to elevate the gym's status and performance.

Reviews of the gym are positive, with a common theme of recent improvement and attentive, invested, and friendly ownership and staff members. Members commend the gym for cleanliness, equipment maintenance, and updates as one group of gym members experienced the necessary change for the better after the facility was purchased by Anthony, Jason Kasheta and a diligent staff led by Preston, and owners. Many equipment and operational improvements have made the gym popular. The complex has a nostalgic feel of low frills, no talking - and muscle, niche powerlifting equipment like a Buffalo, with a lot of the gym's attracting industrial weights being a draw. Other members credit the gym for being worth visiting in Orlando, reasonably priced, and ready with some of the best powerlifting gear they had ever experienced. So, they recommend it to a friend. The employees and included are Isabel and Syokouup who are praised too for their helpful, personable attitudes. The front desk staff is upbeat and the masterminds for everything hitting different advertising spots are reviewed as welcoming. One member said the free-form fighting reminds them that their ideas are just as appreciated as letting them have the equipment they need. The gym is seen in retrospect as more effective by the second reviewer James T. as he begins to work it into his usual schedule.