Fitness & Gyms in Carthage, MS

“Tbh I'd rather give this AF a high 3 stars but that's for reasons beyond the gyms control so I rounded up instead of down.This gym is pretty basic but I don't mean that as a bad thing. It has a pair of squat racks, a good variety of machines, your cardio area and a good amount of space. There's something to be said for a lack of bells and whistles and shiny things. Unfortunately there was a lack of plates but that might have just seemed the case in a point I'll get to later.The bathrooms are nice and spacious which makes me wonder why the showers are anything but. With so much space they made the shower stalls about 2' x 2.5' and when you add the curtain and the amount of space for the shower head it's close to 1.5' x 2'. Down right claustrophobic for any average sized man and almost cartoonist for someone of size.But that's not the biggest knock against this gym. That would be with some of its members. I came in on a Saturday morning, weights everywhere, not reracked and that's an annoyance but one meathead came in and decided to ego lift more than he can handle and spent his entire without throwing down/dropping weights and those things traveled. I know this because if I wasn't in between sets one of the 90lb dumbbells would've broken my ankle as it sped toward me.Maybe in addition to reminding people to wear shirts while lifting (telling that you even have mention that) you put up a couple about repacking weights and not dropping them.To the owner, in case you're curious, 6/17/23, morning, light blue shirt, blonde hair, spends the entire time dropping weights like he's Atlas shrugging off the world. If I wasn't so mad at almost being crippled by this kid I would've told him not to ego lift weight he can't handle. But that's your job.All in all a decent enough gym. Won't reinvent the wheel but not bad for a small town.”