Pumping Iron Gym

Fantastic experience: Zak is very welcoming owner and Coach Plamen is outstanding

Fantastic experience: Phenomenal gym, the vibe, the atmosphere, the staff are all just amazing. By far my favourite gym and will definitely be back!

Fantastic experience: Much,much larger than I expected, once you're inside. No fancy stuff, the people I found here had some serious size, all busy pushing weights. Just go in and soak up the inspiration....

Fantastic experience: Pumping Iron Gym has this awesome old-school vibe that really sets it apart from your average fitness clubs. The staff are all incredible athletes who are super passionate about what they do, and that energy is awesome. Everyone is friendly, smiling and inspiring. The equipment is seriously cool—stuff you don’t see in most other gyms. The community here is fantastic, and the atmosphere is just amazing overall. I am so happy I finally found a place like this.

Fantastic experience: Proper old school bodybuilding gym, machines for every body part & cast iron weights. Everyone's friendly & knows what they're doing plus the owner is sound af.

Fantastic experience: Went there today amazing gym in the area

Fantastic experience: I was working in the area and popped in for a workout. The guys gave me my first session for free. They were really helpful. Gave me a full tour. This gym is how gyms should be. Not at all commercial. Friendly vibe. Great equipment. I wished the gym was closer. Highly recommend

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym, great staff! Highly recommend

Fantastic experience: zak is a legend

Fantastic experience: Zak is a gent and the gym is the best in the area for body-building. Thank you!

Fantastic experience: This place 1 of a kind proper old school bodybuilding gym run by a professional body builder Dr zak

Fantastic experience: The Perfect Gym!

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym.

Fantastic experience: Been trying gyms worldwide for almost two decades - this one tops the list in all categories by far!

Fantastic experience: Beautiful.

Fantastic experience: Amazing

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the area by a country mile. Proper equipment. Proper training. Great vibe and helpful, well informed staff. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: A proper gym!

Fantastic experience: An amazing gym, atmosphere is great. Staff is super friendly and helpful. The equipment is immaculate, they have so many old school machines you can’t see in a lot of new gyms. Overall 10/10 experience will definitely be coming back!!!

Fantastic experience: Really a great gym feels like you’ve been transported to the videos with Jay cutler in the old school gyms. Really amazing equipment you rarely see anywhere else, amazing community, amazing atmosphere overall amazing 11/10 would recommend trying it out!

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, owner zak is an absolute legend..

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, amazing equipment and great membership prices! Independent gyms is where its at - Highly Recommend Pumping Iron Gym

Fantastic experience: Best north gym In London, the people are very friendly and helpful if needed.

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out. People are friendly and definitely no ego's. Highly recommended!!

Fantastic experience: Traveled from Kent for another amazing session welcomed by the man himself , a friendly positive vibe with great work ethic , north londons finest thanks Zak see you soon bro Hak

Fantastic experience: Lots of machines, friendly members.

Fantastic experience: Popped into Pumping Iron gym today as I’m getting fed up with mainstream gyms. Met the owner Zak who is one of the nicest guys ever and very down to earth considering his achievements. Felt comfortable and will be switching on Monday so I can take my training serious. Well done Zak on a great personality to go with a great gym.

Fantastic experience: The gym has a cool old school vibe that sets it apart from mainstream fitness clubs. The staff are all amazing athletes who have a genuine passion for fitness. Their dedication and knowledge will inspire you to work out and give your best.

Fantastic experience: This is my local gym and I feel so lucky it is, been going here for almost 2 years now. it is one of the best gyms I’ve been too, the atmosphere is great, everyone is very friendly and welcoming. The owner Zak is extremely knowledgeable of training and diet and it’s more then willing to help out anyone that needs it.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in North London! Big up Zak and the Pumping Iron Fam!

Fantastic experience: This gym has great reviews for a reason. Serious bodybuilding style gym but with a very friendly welcoming atmosphere. Everyone welcome.

Fantastic experience: Great gym and stuff, afffordable and almost empty if you do not go in the late afternoon - evening.

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym

Fantastic experience: I’ve been meaning to go to this gym for a while now it being recommended to me. I phoned up wanting some info, spoke to a lovely gent who was Zak the owners brother. Zak called me back soon after,, he was kind, helpful and it seemed a gentleman. Went there a few days later and they lived up to my expectations. Zak welcomed me, took me around his gym, gave me water and supplants for my hours training. The cost…. NOTHING! He spent his time with me, yes they want new clients but Zak went above and beyond and he did not have to go as far as he did. If you want to take your training seriously, then this is the place to go. You feel like your In a gym in 70,s LA it’s a gem!

Fantastic experience: Best old school gym ever. Nice cal people, loads of professionals and title winning guys. Dr Zak is so down to earth despite his amazing achievements and titles, he's just a brilliant human being ☆☆☆☆☆

Fantastic experience: Live the dream BODYBUILDING PUMPING IRON GYM DR.ZAK'S

Fantastic experience: Back for the second Time Big shout out to the Man on the Front Desk very helpful guy Great to see Zak again catching up. Great atmosphere you don't feel alone or left out No one judges you. Good equipment I will be visiting Once a month as it's a Drive out and far from me. Bought some more Cutler products

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever!!!

Fantastic experience: Good

Fantastic experience: Great gym! Those who love ''old-school''' training will like it. I highly recommend this place to anyone who wants to get in shape

Fantastic experience: Great gym.

Fantastic experience: Love training there

Fantastic experience: Obviously best

Fantastic experience: Best gym round here propper old school

Fantastic experience: Very old school in a good way. Great place to train if you're serious about it and want like-minded people around you. Plenty of options on equipment, so even if it's a bit crowded, you can always find a good way through your workout.

Fantastic experience: Probably one of the few gyms I've been where they are not focused on selling. There is passion and dedication behind this business.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym

Fantastic experience: Great gym for all levels - friendly & helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Gym has good old-school equipment mixed with up-to-date hammer strength, gym where people go to train not on phones taking pictures of themselves.the owner is very knowledgeable, champion body builder,whether its building muscle or dietary knowledge you want where better to go then a gym where the owner has proved themselves in the industry

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere and the gym owner is always happy to help

Fantastic experience: Love this local gym! Perfect if you are competing, generally building muscle. Very comfortable atmosphere, All of the machines/floorspace and free weights you could need Professional and very friendly staff/owners, and lots of great local PTs (like me) to get you started :)). Best of all, it is “pay as you go-“ with no contract or can go monthly membership which is extremely reasonable. Get down there it’s the Home of Champions

Fantastic experience: Great old school gym I love it in there!!

Negative experience: Not hygienic, very old equipment and the staff are not friendly. Not a nice atmosphere to train in

Fantastic experience: It is very good a proper body building/weight training gym. I was at pure gym Enfield since it opened and lost interest because it was too overcrowded and it was more of a social get together for people as they would come in groups of 2,3 and 4 and hog the machinery where as at this gym people are in there training and it has a different vibe. This is what I am used to so for me it is the perfect gym. The owner is very nice and helpful as well as rathe other staff.

Fantastic experience: Good friendly family run business. Good equipment all in a safe environment. I recommend the place to everyone.

Fantastic experience: Good old school gym. Plus Chris the Flash works out there so you know it's quality.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym

Positive experience: Good equipment and owner Zak is very friendly. After being a member here for a few years I Findlay got fed up with equipment breaking and not being repaired or replaced. The gym is also far to stuffy in hot weather with no proper fanning systems/air con or a breeze from outside. Sadly this lets the gym down, otherwise it’s a great gym

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym very friendly and motivating vibe

Positive experience: Great gym, can get a little over crowded with limited tight space

Fantastic experience: Best gym around. Real weights. Real machines. Real people.

Fantastic experience: Great place, motivating place, motivating people to get fit or build.

Fantastic experience: Love it

Fantastic experience: Staff are very helpful one of my favourite places to be

Fantastic experience: Easily the best gym in the country and all the staff are very friendly and always there to help you with anything at all. Best gym in the country!!!!

Fantastic experience: Great for hard core gym goers and beginners alike. Good equipment real professionals available on site to help with your goals. Home of champions:) Good music and screens with inspirational videos. Supplements also available and the gym owner is a great guy with ample knowledge.

Fantastic experience: Best gym

Fantastic experience: Super cool iron gym!

Fantastic experience: Went here after i got my quiff from the big ting across the road, little pump up in here

Fantastic experience: Very nice atmosphere in here, a very friendly welcome, when I arrived to see this place. I would definitely recommend.

Fantastic experience: The owner of this gym was a pleasure to meet. The gym was also amazing with a real atmosphere about it. ‘I’ll be back’ . There’s also a parrot which is really cute. If you don’t go to the gym, at least go to see the parrot

Fantastic experience: Very good gym with friendly owner

Fantastic experience: Very organised and clean Old School Gym!

Fantastic experience: My son attends here and he is extremely happy.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym . Atmosphere is very friendly. Owner is very nice man . The behavior of the staff very good and friendly. Clean . Free parking .

Fantastic experience: Love it!

Fantastic experience: I love the challenges that the gym provides me.

Fantastic experience: Excellent well Renowned Gym with an amazing owner and a bodybuilding champion and also a Dr. Excellent healthcare and nutrition and training advice, massage therapy, supplement provider, sportswear clothing, Excellent reputation great machines friendly staff and great facilities including parking. Also serves protein shakes at the bar and protein bars and snacks by Dr.Zaks food supplements and other well known brands. Has also been visited by 4x Mr Olympia Jay Cutler who is also a close friend. Big thumbs up

Fantastic experience: Love this place

Fantastic experience: Best gym in North London

Positive experience: Gym is old and so is the equipment. Many machines have been repaired with a bit of tape, which isn’t reassuring. Some just don’t work. Out of 4 benches (definitely not enough) only 2 had their angle adjustment working. So annoying! It’s hot, dark and cramped. I was lucky I could attend around 10 am when it was fairly empty... tried it once at 5 PM and never made this mistake again. Showers/changing rooms are smelly and haven’t been dusted in ages. Most lockers are dented, hinges worn down and you struggle to open them with a key. Lots of equipment tossed around in corners and covered with dust. Most likely broken. On the positive note, love the staff, their protein bar and the chill approach to customer. My membership expired and I forgot. Yet they let me in with a smile on their face.

Positive experience: Bodybuilders, yes. For everyone, absolutely not. As others describe this is an old school gym, with lots of weights, both machine and free weights. Good for body builders . However for those looking primarily for CV, this isn't the place. CV machines are old, and some don't work. Gym is VERY cramped, dark and hot. Certainly not accessible to anyone with a physical or sensory disability.

Fantastic experience: This is a perfect place (Home of the Champions ) for you to train with the most experienced people in the business. transform your body in to a new YOU

Fantastic experience: Nice old-school bodybuilder gym. Enough equipment friendly atmosphere

Fantastic experience: The best gym in town!

Fantastic experience: No other Gym like it! Home of bodybuilding

Positive experience: Good daily rates, wide range of equipment

Fantastic experience: The best gym in North London!!!!!!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in London... home of the Leshia

Fantastic experience: Great friendly atmosphere, good weight selection, what more could you want.

Fantastic experience: Great place very well equipped and very clean, great friendly staff and a very noleggiabble staff I highly recommend this gym

Fantastic experience: really friendly family run gym ! good variety of equipment

Fantastic experience: The best gym for everyone

Fantastic experience: Would be helpful if it was open on Sundays but a great bodybuilding gym and a great atmosphere to workout in.

Fantastic experience: My favourite gym to train at whilst in London on vacation! It was fairly far from where I was staying but completely worth it. The gym is an old-school gym with some pretty good equipment, real iron weights and definitely an emphasis on lifting over cardio. There is a cardio section but it's not the focus unlike most commercial gyms. The atmosphere here is also pretty awesome. Everyone is so friendly and there is really a family type vibe. The only negative was the layout was a little weird- the main gym floor is upstairs and the cardio is downstairs which is cool but the free weights are also downstairs so I dound myself going up and down a few times but you get used to it. And to be fair upstairs is already packed with equipment. There are some dumbbells upstairs too but downstairs is the main section. Every time I visited I had an awesome workout! It's hard not to in that atmosphere! The price to visit is also fantastic. Great gym. I'll miss it.

Fantastic experience: Very cheap and a great gym.

Positive experience: OVERVIEW: Great gym but very stuffy & always hot. They need a high blast of air con to work in there as it's like working in a sweaty sauna of big gym goers. Zak has cleverly invented Protein bread but it is more expensive here than buying from the source (the gym!) than online. I don't get that one. If they can fix these two points, then it would be much better. ---------------------------------------------PROS------------------------------------ Great equipment! Healthy food at a great price, 2 floors dedicated to real training - very large space EXTREMELY nice really cool amazing people. The whole family makes the place warm and inviting The sale of protein bread, bars, shakes, vitamins and FOOD! :) It literally has a bar for this stuff. Golds gym here we come London. I like how you want to be left alone, you can get on and train unlike other gyms which seem to be social hangouts. I like to 'get on with it' which this place has. It's not full of young teens. Really is the best gym around in the area. Great advice from Dr Zak who is a real pro and the price is right. It's a relaxed place, not uptight in any way and one of those 'classic' gyms full of big people who want to train. Get in, train, get out. Perfect. ----------------------------------------------CONS------------------------------------ No air con? (or maybe it's not on? The place is a bit hot and smelly and needs some air con) I usually like the feeling of walking into a gym and feeling the cool air which makes you train harder. Walking into this gym, there is a strange musk of unwashed sweat…. It needs a good airing out (I'm saying this and it's winter so can't imagine summer) No anti bacterial wipes and i don't see any cleaning of the equipment. Since joining, i've come up with spots all around my neck from lifting the barbells and laying my neck on dirty sweaty benches. The gym needs a 3 times a day anti bacterial *wipe-down* (not just water but chemically). The doctor I've seen says I've got an infection from an outbreak where my skin has been exposed to bars and benches. The amount of men coming out of the toilet not washing their hands and then clasping equipment is disgusting. In other gyms, there is anti bac wipes for the customers to use to wipe down equipment before use. Simple fix. Not open sundays. I can't use the gyn M-F so I get the weekends…which is only saturday as the gym isn't open and evenings which is packed. Every time people ask, they say they are phoning the council. I'd like to see a petition from it's users. No early opening. It opens from 9am so you can't train before work. I'd like a 6am open to get a quick session in before heading out to work. The music is a bit loud and only one variety (no, old rock classics unfortunately). Just a real crap mix of badly mixed club tunes that give you a headache. On the rare occasion, we've got the Rocky soundtrack which is great but otherwise the music is the type made by bedroom acid trip boys talking about guns and slapping women.