Chris Gilbert

Founder / CEO

As a former athlete and Navy Veteran, Chris was no stranger to fitness, but like many people allowed life’s demands to distract him from his fitness goals. Finding himself at an incredibly unhealthy weight, he re-found his love of fitness through the community that adopted him at a locally owned gym. With their encouragement he lost 70’bs in one year, and become very entuned with his health. This led to the discovery of Prostate Cancer. It was caught early and he has been caner free for several years. Chris will forever be thankful to the fitness community in his area and credits their part in his weight loss to his life saving early diagnosis.

After watching so many gyms go out of business during COVID, Chris decided he wanted to create a way for people to easily find and discover the great locally owned gyms around the country and in their own communities. Now just a few years after starting Gym Informer, he has personally worked out at and reviewed 100s of locally owned gyms.