Peak Performance

Location

2795 2nd Street

(corner of 2nd and Pena in Mace Ranch)

Hours

Mon-Thu 5:00am-11:00pm

Fri 5:00am-9:30pm

Sat-Sun 7:00am-9:30pm

Phone

(530)759-SPIN (759-7746)

Website

PeakPerformanceHealthClub.com

Owner

Chris, Jonathan and Patrick Raber

Established

1999-06-01, but new owners 2007-08-14

Peak Performance Health Club provides friendly certified personnel, a wide range of cardio and resistance training equipment, and free exercise classes to suit every level of fitness. This club also offers free child care, a separate fully equipped Women Only workout room, and currently offers two hours per month of free personal training. UC Davis staff and students are eligible for reduced rates. Visit the website for a free guest pass or stop by the gym.

As of 2/20/2008, Peak Performance recently added 35 energy efficient Precor-brand cardio machines.

An article about Peak Performance appeared in the 2007-09-09 Davis Enterprise, page B7.

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2009-02-01 10:05:48   you guys are trippin...why is everything in Davis so damn expensive? i use to pay $24/month at 24 hr fitness sport and $28 at Ballys. You should be able to take home weight lifting equipment for free if you paying $49/month. —MilindIsALiar
It does cost money to run a business. If you like to save money, go to you local dumpster to fish out some weight set and use it in your living room.—khangdefoo

2009-02-11 22:50:51   As a previous employee of Peak I would not recommend this gym to anyone. Chris is the manager that runs it and he is awful. He has no management experience and is a horrible boss. He treats his employees like shit. It's no wonder he goes through so many employees. The gym is rarely properly cleaned. And Chris is also very shady. BEWARE. —sychromom

2009-04-16 09:24:16   I used to be a member for about 5 months. This place was always busy around 5-6pm. At least I'm a woman, so the woman's room was available. Otherwise, have fun trying to find a machine at that time! While working out during a lull time, mid-morning, an older man, perhaps the manager?, was annoyed with the employee's cleaning around the machine. I was on an elliptical and this man tipped the machine next to me to clean under it. He hit my hand and gave no attention to what he was doing. I was sick at how he treated the employee and how he seemed to give no care to the customer. —doggies9

2009-05-28 12:03:14   I was also a former employee at Peak Performance. I left because I got a job offer from a member there. I've worked and been a member at multiple gyms in the past, and this is easily the worst managed. The owner, Chris, is a joke. Someone made a comment about employees talking about how much they hate their job and for good reason. The owner manages out of fear and intimidation. He made it so he could watch the cameras in the gym at his house and threatened us with termination if he saw anything bad (we have had absolutely no history of stealing, etc). We get no breaks, and when we mentioned that state law requires one, he said to stop complaining and be thankful we have a job. To make us work harder, he took away all of our incentives. He doesn't even consider giving you a raise from minimum wage unless you've worked there a year. No one has ever gotten a raise. Its no wonder there's such a high employee turnover rate... 3 new people one month, 2 the next, 3 after that, and SIX the next. When I worked at another gym, my boss (who I called to thank for being so great after having to deal with Chris) wanted us to stay because we knew the members and they knew us. You'd be lucky to see the same face a month later when you walk in. When we had a group meeting about all this, he displayed a spectacle of immaturity by yelling "I don't care!" while crossing his arms and looking away. This shows his intelligence when he's being rude to the people (us) who deal with the member's (your) credit card information. As for shady, I wouldn't say so much, although he did teach how to strategically fold towels so members won't see stains. An old lady had to cancel her membership because she lost her job, and a month later she was able to save enough money for 1 month because she missed working out with her friends there. She came back, and the owner denied her because she couldn't pay the initiation fee again which she ALREADY PAID before. This is the guy who would be getting your money if you signed up. As for the gym, it's pretty basic. I would never pay $50 for that place, but unfortunately your options are limited in this town. I've been to places twice as big for half the price. Member's are always complaining to me, whether it's about how to place went to Hell once Christ took over, or how they can never get the machine they want. The locker rooms are disgusting and always smell terrible. The best part of the gym is the Women's Center, but unfortunately he took the door down. The good thing about Chris is that he's usually there if you need to talk to him. You can find him in his office most of the day or flirting with the 18 y/o child care supervisor. —hook2288

2009-06-11 12:36:49   Ok people, keep the comments to the business, not the person. You have every right to voice your experience about a poor business but ya can't slash a specific person. This is bordering libel so please be careful! —SandnTide

• It's also not the best idea to edit other people's comments, especially when you change the attribution. Also, it can't be libel if the person believes it to be true. Keep in mind that everybody's edits are visible, Mr. or Ms. Tide. —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards
  

2009-07-23 15:12:25   As a member of Peak, vs. a former employee I have to concur that the gym is very poorly managed. Some days I feel like getting Chris a book on business management. The thing is, when you treat your employees badly and your customers not much better, you don't endear yourself to people or inspire loyalty ... customer or employee.

Peak has become a "boys club" with testosterone around every corner, which is odd because the gym membership (at least when I'm there) is mostly middle-aged women. There are more and more classes led by young male instructors who offer no modifications for those who aren't 20-years-old. This is dangerous. It's my understading that one of these male instructors isn't even certified.

The equipment in the aerobics room is falling apart. The steps slide all over the floor, the mats have holes, the weights are rusted and the coating is peeling. Again, dangerous.

They have a "suggestion box" but from what I can tell, they don't listen much to member feedback.

Another item, and buyer beware ... Most memberships are billed to credit cards on a monthly basis. The credit card that I used for Peak (and ONLY Peak) was stolen. The next month when Peak went to bill my card, it was obviously declined. Peak wanted to charge me a $10.00 service fee because my credit card was declined. Credit cards are declined all the time for various reasons. It's not the same as writing a bad check, credit card declines are most often out of the control of the user, and very often for security reasons. Trying to charge a fee for a declined card is BAD BUSINESS.

I'm investigating my options. There are a couple instructors and classes I love, but they are getting fewer and my reasons for staying with Peak are evaporating.

Since "suggestion box" comments seem to be ignored, I thought trying this more public venue might get somebody's attention.

—NDS1111

2009-07-31 10:23:01   First off, Im glad my membership is over. Although Im embarrassed I got suckered into a 6 month contract, I can't tell you how many times I've come across people who have had ridiculous billing issues and couldn't get it resolved with the owner- Chris. It seems I'm not the only one's noticed his complete fatuity as a manager. I've actually seen him yelling at his employees in the child care room in front of members!! Don't even try to talk to him about an issue—it's like talking to a child. Most gyms usually have the same equipment so it comes down to how the facility treats it members... this place fails miserably. Overall I've had just a bad experience with the place and it seems to be a common theme amongst other fellow davisites- and Im not surprised. —PedalFaster

2009-08-05 18:03:15   I guess people in Davis do not understand that the U.S.A is in a bad economy and companies are doing their best to take care of their patrons. Peak does everything in it's power to make everyone feel welcome and appealing. —AC

2009-08-05 18:11:19   I am very surprised by the negative comments above. Now obviously a former "employee" is always going to have an opinion on the nature of their departure, but I can say from personal conversations that the gym and its owners have been going out of their way to improve the gym for its members. From the new GREEN machines to the "boot camp" classes...lot's of money is being put into that business. As I've said before, I encourage anyone looking to join a gym to ingnor the slanderous posts and go and see for yourself, otherwise it's all just rumors. —Chad

2009-08-21 11:49:55   having been a member for nearly 9 years, it has been sad to see the general decay of the club especially over the last year. Broken and worn equipment, failure to offer classes requested, and then an attempt to charge an "initiation fee" on my last renewal. This is a small town and treating cliens poorly get around. For Gods sake, you needed to purchase your own jump rope to participate in some of the classes because there either were none or they were in such poor condition they were not usable. After 9 years we are off to another gym. Good luck to the current managment, they will need it. —GregoryB