Andy, wow, sounds like the Polaris gym took a nosedive with a quickness. What you've said about LifeTime sounds great, though. It may be worth the extra drive time for me to go to the one on Henderson when it opens as opposed to going to the rebranded gym in Hilliard.
Yeah, totally agree. I was disappointed with Urban Active. I did a trial membership thing at the one on Hilliard Rome Road soon after it opened. If I was into running on treadmills, then that seemed like the place to be, as they had like 4 trillion treadmills. However, free weights, not so much. Way too small of an area - it felt cramped even if there were like four people working free weights.
Completely agree on widening a workout by including those other things.
Also, I think there is only one LifeStyle gym that has a pool, which is the one on Sawmill, but the pool is fairly small/narrow.