Dave's Gym

Fantastic experience: Great gym love the fact you can do day passes.

Negative experience: Hoped to find a PT, what I got was a condescending bloke who told me after a 30 second conversation that my diagnosis was wrong and I'd need to speak to the "large ginger lady" if I managed to call at a time she was working.

Fantastic experience: Friendly atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Great place for power lifters

Positive experience: It's a very good gym but it's opening times on the weekend aren't very good and it's bank holiday times vary and aren't updated on Google maps. It is a very good gym though and it has a great atmosphere. They actually play good music here, not like other gyms around that only play the rubbish in the charts.

Negative experience: Everyrhing in this place is falling apart, incliding the building too

Fantastic experience: I've been going there for a while now and it is a really good gym, definitely recommend it!

Fantastic experience: Dave’s gym is a very special place in Cardiff. In a world all about being ‘instagramable’ and paranoid about safety, Dave’s gym stands unashamedly as a bastion of masculinity. Not that you’d be out of place being a woman, but this is where people come who are serious about getting stronger and improving, not just giving the impression they are on social media. It can be intimidating with the minimalist decor and the serious individuals, but actually there’s a really nice atmosphere and Dave, and the rest of the team, are very friendly. He was super helpful in helping me get a PB on bench. The range of equipment is great, with weights for every level, and you’ll never have to queue for a squat rack. Although it must be said that some of the equipment is ropey. The price for a membership is very good, although you won’t get a lot of the thrills that may come with more commercial gyms. If you’re serious about getting stronger and improving, look no further than Dave’s gym.

Negative experience: This gym is good if your focus is strength gain because there are many free weights there but besides that it's really no reason to go there. The membership cost £31.50 that's fine but this gym open really late and close 9pm Monday - Friday and worse in the weekend 11am-4pm. No changing room, no shower in this gym. They recently announced they will be closed 4 days during Christmas and their reason is the gym nemebers should take the opportunity to bulk up! Not sure which kid said that but let me tell you when bulking up you need to train hard too! The gym will be re-open on the 28 December but will only open 1pm-9pm then close again on 31 December and 1st January!! Aso there are only 7 cardio machines upstairs and most of them don't function properly. Some of the personal trainers obviously inexperienced with compound lifts. One of them couldn't even deadlift properly- I saw one of them bent his arms when deadlifting. I thought as a personal trainers he should know that deadlifting with arms bent can cause bicep tear, it's common knowledge. He couldn't even do lat pull downs right. It only take a few months to become a personal trainers so don't expect all personal trainers are expert in fact many of them have no idea what they are doing. The advices written in the gym was ridiculous lol I'd suggest you do your own research instead of taking their laughable advice (it sounds like it was written from someone inexperience and obviously too lazy to do proper research before putting it there) There are Loads of great training and nutrition advice online you just need to find good reputation authors/coaches. Had enough of this gym we will join a 24/7 gym next week.

Negative experience: Rubbish

Fantastic experience: Good gym with good equipment, friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Wouldn't go anywhere else ❤

Fantastic experience: Good atmosphere and range of equipment. If you're looking to hit your fitness goals this is the place to be!

Fantastic experience: Five stars aren't enough. I'd award ten stars to Dave's Gym. No, twenty! But then I have been training there forever and it's always been the best. Awesome trainers, classes, gym buddies. Incomparable, really! A class of its own.

Fantastic experience: Decent amount of equipment for the price. Good atmosphere and personally loved the fact that they play heavy metal music

Fantastic experience: Friendly community gym

Fantastic experience: Excellent equiptment and staff

Fantastic experience: Really friendly gym with a good sense of community. I was so nervous about starting at the gym but Zoe and Dave made me feel at home and have been really helpful in helping me start my fitness journey. They are also careful and respectful of Covid regulations and take hygiene and the cleaning of equipment between sets seriously.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, great trainers.

Fantastic experience: Best place in the world. Ever.

Fantastic experience: Friendly family-run community gym for both easy workouts and serious gym-rats.

Fantastic experience: The best gym I've been to if you're into lifting, very helpful staff

Fantastic experience: My only gym in cardiff, a real delight to practice all sorts around. Super friendly and comfortable.

Fantastic experience: Simply the best gym in Cardiff, with the added bonus if being family run, so Dave is always around to offer some words of real wisdom....and one of the oldest yoga studios in Cardiff is there as well....the Yogaloft has been around for almost fifteen years, giving the best quality yoga in Cardiff.

Fantastic experience: Best 'proper' gym in Cardiff - if you like actually training rather than posting Instagram stories.

Fantastic experience: Great space for powerlifting, good access to equipment and not too busy

Fantastic experience: Awesome place, everything you need and cool staff always on hand to give advice and assistance.

Positive experience: Good, local gym.

Fantastic experience: Don't have preconceptions, pay them a visit and you will get a warm local welcome.

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff who are always helpful if asked for advice. Really good value for money I'd say and a good atmosphere as people who go there are mainly interested in what they're doing so you don't feel stared at or intimidated.

Positive experience: Best gym in Cardiff !! Great friendly community

Fantastic experience: Been going for about a month, it's excellent, have gotten a lot of help from Dave with strength training.

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym, well equipped and a wealth of experience from the owner. Good friendly atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Simply that's how a true Gym should look like. Dave is master of the art and he always keen to help and advice

Fantastic experience: Great gym for general use, but if you're into weights and crossfit - then it's an AMAZING gym! Dave and staff are really friendly and very experienced. Happy to help those who haven't stepped foot in a gym through to those who are competing

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the world. I went here for years and participated in boxing, Thai boxing, MMA, powerlifting, strongman, Highland Games, kettlebells, and all kinds of other strength and conditioning training. Amazing owners and staff. I miss being able to go here.

Fantastic experience: Bad ass gym, I wish I could also spit on the floor but anyway 5 star experience.

Fantastic experience: Perfect for proper strength training as well as all the other usual suspects. Plenty of squat racks and lifting mats.

Fantastic experience: Great local gym, good prices for students and a friendly atmosphere from everyone.

Fantastic experience: Lovely people, good equipment and local

Fantastic experience: Been going here for 8 years. Best gym in Cardiff

Fantastic experience: This is a manly ass gym, son. Great music (not just techno trash). Not busy even at peak times, and really good equipment and bar variety. Best gym I've ever gone to. Not great for cardio but no one cares about cardio.

Positive experience: Very good gym. Basic. Good atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Great gym, great members and great staff!

Positive experience: Good little gym, mma classes are great

Fantastic experience: Loved Dave's. Only left because I moved house. Awesome staff, super helpful and friendly. Great for weights, I'd never really been in a gym before Dave's but they taught me how to lift and how to train. Aleks sport massage upstairs is also excellent.

Fantastic experience: Very good I been David gym since 2005 is very helpful very nice people staff and you will building good body in Daved gym

Positive experience: Great gym, especially if you like lifting. However it's small so gets rather busy at peak times. Martial arts tends to be non contact .

Positive experience: Staff is incredibly friendly and helpful. Everything else is just average. It's a little pricey to join, and it is mostly a weight lifting gym. There are only four cardio machines upstairs. It's pretty clean and small. It's close to where I live though, so I like to go.

Fantastic experience: The greatest gym in the Universe! Caters to all levels of ability, from beginner to elite in a number of health & fitness related discaplins. Great atmosphere, great friendly team and great music too. There truly is no other gym like it, get down there and get lifting!!!

Fantastic experience: Ever since i've joined up at Daves gym i have enjoyed every minute of it, the staff are really helpful and kind and are always happy to give you tips and feedback on whatever you are choosing to do at the gym aswell as giving you programmes to follow that have helped me ever since i've joined to understand what i need to do in order to improve my performance in weight training etc.

Fantastic experience: My home away from home. Great staff, facilities and atmosphere. Love lifting, love Dave's :)

Fantastic experience: Before I left cardiff I was a 9 stone weakling with no confidence or idea about fitness I joined daves gym the classes were always awesome, staff wrote me some really good programs and Got me into muay thai. this gym inspired me to become a personal trainer and when i move back this is my first choice of gym to train at.