Information about Strength Asylum

59 Botteslow St
ST1 3LY, Stoke-On-Trent
+447775863388

Opening hours

  • sunday: 7h-21h
  • monday: 6h-22h
  • tuesday: 6h-22h
  • wednesday: 6h-22h
  • thursday: 6h-22h
  • friday: 6h-22h
  • saturday: 7h-21h

Strength Asylum is the UK's leading Bodybuilding and Strongman Gym in Stoke, Staffordshire. Official IFBB & Hammer Strength Affiliated & Gym of Eddie Hall.

Strength Asylum was designed for people serious about training by people serious about training. Our aim was to create the best environment for producing real results, a no-nonsense facility with the best equipment available.

Our comment from FitFit UK about Strength Asylum:

Welcome to Strength Asylum, the premier gym in Stoke-On-Trent. Known for its amazing atmosphere and a community-focused environment, this gym comes highly recommended by visitors of all fitness levels. Here are some of the key highlights:

  • Exceptional equipment catering to both bodybuilding enthusiasts and casual fitness lovers.
  • Friendly and knowledgeable staff who create a welcoming environment for everyone.
  • Constant updates and maintenance of gym equipment, ensuring a clean and tidy space.
  • A diverse membership that fosters inclusivity, making it a comfortable place for individuals of all shapes and sizes.
  • Regular events, including seminars featuring renowned bodybuilders, enhancing the community experience.
  • Excellent selection of fitness supplements available for purchase.

While some users mention minor areas for improvement, such as the need for occasional equipment refreshment and a limited variety of cardio machines, these points are often overshadowed by the overwhelmingly positive feedback regarding the atmosphere and community spirit. Many members have expressed that once they've trained at Strength Asylum, other gyms simply do not compare, making it a standout choice for anyone serious about fitness.

Strength Asylum: Opinions

4.7/5 (168 Opinions)
Henry Ridge 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym around. Would recommend for anyone trying to get into shape.

Liudas Galvelis 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing atmosphere, best gym in Stoke on Trent

trenhead 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym ive ever trained at, fantastic staff, highly reccomended

Charles Bane 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym

liam bowers 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are always on point and best gym around by far no contest

Andy J Chetwyn 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym, been training here 11 years, always updating kit, clean, tidy, great atmosphere

Gareth Walsh 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: 10/10 best gym in stoke

Khalid Asif 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the UK, amazing staff, amazing equipment

Jo A 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Started training here in 2017 and I love this place! I travel for work nationally, using other gyms, hotels, independents and chains, and not one has come close to the quality or range of equipment and holistic gym experience. Machines focus on function and not on gimmicks, unlike the ones found in commercial gyms with those annoyingly artificial rep counter guides. As a female, I have never felt creeped out or judged at Strength Asylum, unlike other gyms I’ve had to train at. You also don’t need to look a certain way to feel comfortable, as there are so many different member types, each smashing their own goals, all of who are different shapes and sizes. Wherever you are at in your journey, you will fit in, as long as you take the scariest step of walking in through the front door! The staff team are amazing, helpful and respectful, being a member is more like being part of a community. The only drawback is that this gym has completely spoiled me, which means I couldn’t bring myself to join a gym which is closer to my home. I’m quite literally an ‘inmate for life’

Szilvia Kiraly 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym in the U.K. The staff is extremely nice and knowledgeable when it comes to training

Luke Fullbrook 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym in England. Equipment, staff, selection of supplements, and very reasonable prices. Very lucky to have this facility in SOT

Frank Zane 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym and staff. Best gym in Staffordshire for sure

Claire Mills 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym. By far the best in the area. Fantastic staff. Wouldn't train anywhere else

Ben Forrester 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Strength asylum is the best gym in stoke on trent the atmosphere and the customer service is 10/10

Scott HAles 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym with the best equipment and friendly staff.100% recommend

Matt Clewes 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: No.1 Gym in all the land! best equipment around, with the best staff!

Callum Pyatt 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym in stoke by a million miles!

Jack Richardson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Outstanding gym, I’ve trained here for just under a decade. Defo the best bodybuilding gym in the area. Constant equipment maintenance, plates always put back, new equipment on the regular. Staff are sound and have always made me feel welcome. Even had the chance to meet the best bodybuilders in the sport with the seminars they hold

Sarah Hall 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym around Friendly knowledgeable staff Ace selection of products Good vibes

Amelia Wilson 1 year ago

Positive experience: Loads of different machines, helpful and friendly staff!

Stoke Driving school 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: great gym for body building and just keeping fit lovely people

Terrill 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Hands down the best gym in Stoke

Tania says 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Well equipped gym, friendly staff very reasonably priced shop, will go again and would recommend

Ant Riley 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: one of the best gyms in Stoke

Lee Brain 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym all so friendly staff very helpful

Nelson Ribeiro 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms I’ve seen in the world. - great environment for bodybuilding -variety and quality of machines - great staff (Let me point Emília and Lauren), really welcoming, AND smiling. Makes you feel even more welcomed. -variety of gym suplements you can purchase, with diferent brands. If you want to make a strong and focused workout, this is the gym for you. Serious people working out. 5stars definetly.

John Slack 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great place, fantastic atmosphere, friendly staff, plenty parking, spotlessly clean and very well looked after, plenty machines for all and not full of intimidating thugs either like most local places. Definitely recommend.

Maddie Rowlands 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely atmosphere and the nicest people in there! Definitely worth the travel, the best gym I’ve been to yet and I’ve been all over the uk.Very highly recommend!

Matt Bradbury 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: A great place with great staff great owners and great equipment.

Barron Wright 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Easily one of the best gyms around. Everything you could ever wish for under one roof!

Martina Tučková 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Really great gym, I wish we had a gym like this in my country. It has everything you can wish for and more.

Gareth Phillips 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the city bar none. Exceptional equipment. Friendly staff and great atmosphere.

Gavin Morris 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym - attended for a leg session was deffo worth the travel , I keep coming back

George Wrighton 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Stoke, likely best gym in UK. Has a variety of equipment but is definitely focused on hard-core bodybuilders and strength athletes, not for your zumba classes, posers, and casuals, but very accepting of beginners and visitors. Staff are outstanding, shakes, coffees, protein bars, and supplements are all available, and you can even have lunch here.

Sonu Kasera 2 years ago

Negative experience: Bad Gym and management

cameron nichol 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym.

Robert Hayes 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, great atmosphere, amazing kit. Helpful and friendly staff well worth the 4hr round trip

Alex Energy 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: My favourite gym.. no politics like most gyms in Stoke... friendly and tons of kit for all levels

Ken Sturgess 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really well equipped friendly staff

pommel wommel 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Super großes Gym mit einer riesigen Auswahl an Geräten! Ganz liebes Personal und super Stimmung! Die Musik war gut und nicht zu laut! Absolute Empfehlung, auch für einen kurzen Stopp

Sharon Graham 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Visited the gym today with my powerlifting group, what a great place. The staff and members were so lovely, friendly and chatty. The equipment was fantastic, (some of it I’ve never seen before) we all had a great time, definitely worth the 2hr round trip, we can’t wait to visit again and wish it was closer

Joe H 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym around, busy but so much equipment that you can always get a good workout

Marc Martinez 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms I’ve been all over the world. Great music, variety of machines and dumbbells.

Tom Bennett 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: What a gym! Staff were lovely and welcoming and the equipment was exceptional. Will definitely be back when next in the area!

Alsadiq Sabone 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: منذ مكان رائع يساعدني في تحقيق أهدافي الضعيفة والعضلية اللياقة البدنية تحتاج بعض المعدات إلى التحديث لكنها تفعل ذلك بأسرع ما يمكن لكنها دائمًا نظيفة ومرتبة فريق العمل ودود للغاية ومتواضعا لن يذهب إلى أي مكان آخر الآن

nathan pinn 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really great gym, welcoming staff, great atmosphere, and all the equipment you could possibly need for a goodd workout

Giorgia Orchid 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym I’ve ever been so far. Lovely staff, great equipments, you won’t find anywhere in Stoke machines like here.

Vytautas Danilevičius 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best gym I have ever seen.

Danny C 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Like an adults playground!!

Lauren McConkey 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic Gym

Jack McDonagh 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Incredible gym

Ryan 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I've always gone commercial gyms and found them very underwhelming, however when I moved house I switched from exercise4less to pure gym, and found it to be just another commercial gym. I eventually got introduced to strength and I've been there for a year and what's can't praise it enough. The staff are always willing to help when you need them and the gym goers are all in it for the long run. To put the experience into perspective, I had a fellow gym goer giving me advise on how I could improve my technique which really meant a lot. I 100% recommend this gym if you're looking for a solid gym that feels like a family

Jesse Mcniven 3 years ago

Negative experience: Strange no tripods allowed..

Iain Abraham 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really well kitted out Gym, lots of machines and variety, friendly staff and a gym for people who want to work on themselves not just sit on their phones.

B B 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym with so much choice !! Would recommend

Clare Taylor 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Probably one of the best equipped gyms in the U.K. , incredible!!!

Mase 08 3 years ago

Negative experience: Terrible gym. Went there last week and the owner was really rude. Up the tripods!

Mark Sirrell 3 years ago

Negative experience: Average gym, nothing special. There is better ones to go to, just look about.

mo7ammad mushtaha 3 years ago

Negative experience: Don’t ban tripods again

David Wells 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: This gym is so so good. My second visit. Hammer strength kit fits me and works the muscles you want, so many machines, loved every one I used. Such friendly staff and gym goers. Great choice in the shop and good prices. If you are serious about your gym and getting bigger then this is the place, clean tidy, great music. Only fault is they need to move it closer to where I live so I can get more often. Maybe I should move to Stoke. I will be back.

Shayne dkt 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Sick gym!!!

DR vids 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym , awesome staff and banging tunezzzzz

Bethany Granton 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Honestly this Gym is great. Your first impression will be that it's a gym full of meat heads who will judge you for not being able to lift like them, but the truth is the opposite. Every single person I have interacted with there has been so nice, they are encouraging and so welcoming. People of all shapes and sizes go to this gym and you will not be judged, just welcomed.

Jordan Wilde 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym I've ever been to amazing to see all the signatures of famous faces that have passed through and the amount of hammer strength kit is mind blowing def going to have to make the hour long trip for a nasty leg day soon

Victoria Katherine 3 years ago

Negative experience: If you require the assistance of a personal trainer I would give Luke a widebirth. Not only did I have to continually text and call him, speak to the owner of the gym, even after he had promised to call me again, when he did he was more interested in selling me parts of a plan I didn't require or could afford. Obviously everyone needs to make a living, but I found him dismissive, uninterested and a nightmare to contact. I've been very unwell for 6 years now and have gained weight and lost my endurance and stability, so reaching out took courage, and this was not the kind of experience I needed. I will however not give up . I can't say anything about the gym as I haven't been myself, but Andy ,the owner, was very helpful over the phone and prompted Luke to call me.

Kristijan Despotov 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: best gym on the planet best people all best

Daniel Ball 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: A**** best gym in stoke

Matt Stackwood 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Loved it

Joe Collins 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Absolutely one of the best gyms iv been in! It has everyfink and it's all really well layed out? Highly recommended strength asylum, staff are great and friendly as well!!!

jordan smith 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym I've been to

Marina Solltani 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice gym I like it

Jordan Simcock 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great Gym to go to and everyone in there is really friendly. Scott my PT is incredible to, he works there and is the best PT I have ever had, would recommend both him and the gym to anyone

Gareth Parton 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym I have ever been , amazing staff and has all the equipment you need , cannot wait to visit when I'm back in stoke

David “Jax Demon” Spencer 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: The only place to Train in Stoke-on-Trent

kim hall 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Incredible gym with a none intimidating atmosphere. There's equipment for all levels of fitness and people of all levels go too. Friendly helpful staff on hand should you need anyone. One of the best gyms in Stoke i say!

Daniel Elkin 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym. Great to be back

Sharon Patalong 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome . Good equipment good staff . Very clean

Matt Sargeant 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best kit Best staff Best vibe Simple really.

David Woolley 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean and we'll controllef

Hans168 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym. Very friendly.

Amy Rizza 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, equipment is the best you can get. Huge place. The supplements and clothing are impressive also!

Mikki Sixx 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean gym, everything sanitised before and after use. Weights all put back after use (never seen any other gym do this) great music to top everything off rarely need for headphones

Andrew Woolley 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever

James 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym has all equipment and deadlift platform and squat racks in abundance, staff helpful always and polite, merchandise in stock, wouldn’t look elsewhere

Ishmael Hudson 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Such a good gym it literally has everything

Darren Jenkins 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best all round gym in the area by far

Mark Quartly 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superb gym - probably the best I've used in 30 years of training - new kit on a regular basis - great staff and always clean and tidy

Cezar Birleanu 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym in Stoke on Trent.

Dan Hamilton 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym around. Clean. The best equipment for all styles of training. Friendly staff.

deus tezza 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym

Anthony Simon 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym I have ever been I normally go to commercial two commercial gyms so this one was unreal I did back and buys and I only went in one room out of the four they're. absolutely fantastic

John Barker 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is a amazing gym. There’s everything you need and so much more the staff are really friendly and I would recommend this gym to anyone from beginner to the most experienced. Best gym in England

Leanne Foyle 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym I have ever been to. Loads of equipment, everywhere is immaculate and the music they play is brilliant. Wish I lived in stoke for this reason!

Matthew Cooke 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awsome place helping me to my waight and muscle / fitness goals love it. Some equipment needs a refresh but they do it as fast as they can. But it's always clean and tidy. Very friendly and down to earth staff wouldn't go anywhere else now

Christopher Jeffries-brindley 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym

Matt Howell 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lack of cardio, but an abundance of everything else

Ant Wild 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Went in for a one day training session with a friend , staff were welcoming an the gym itself is awesome , so much equipment , I think once my current membership runs out at my other place I'm going to be signing up to here for sure , good to see the WR deadlift bar as well

Luke Woodbridge 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Haven't been yet but I'm pretty sure 5 stars isn't enough

Terence Pointon 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent equipment

Leigh Thomas 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the UK by a mile. Best equipment and atmosphere. Everyone makes you feel welcome.

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