
Information about LA Gym
BS5 0BY, Bristol
Opening hours
- sunday: 9h-16h
- monday: 6h-21h
- tuesday: 6h-21h
- wednesday: 6h-21h
- thursday: 6h-21h
- friday: 6h-21h
- saturday: 9h-16h
Our comment from FitFit UK about LA Gym:
Welcome to LA Gym, a true Bristolian landmark that offers an authentic and friendly workout environment. This old school gym is perfect for fitness enthusiasts, particularly those focused on bodybuilding and powerlifting. Here are some key highlights:
- Quality Equipment: LA Gym is fully equipped with a wide assortment of weightlifting machines and free weights, ideal for serious training.
- Inviting Atmosphere: Users report a great atmosphere filled with friendly staff and a supportive clientele, fostering an encouraging fitness community.
- Affordable and Accessible: With good value for money and flexible options including day passes, LA Gym caters to a diverse crowd without being pretentious.
- Supplement Shop: Enjoy the convenience of an on-site supplement shop where you can access a variety of products to help fuel your workouts.
- Clean and Safe Environment: The gym has made significant improvements to maintain cleanliness and safety, ensuring a positive training experience.
While some users have mentioned that certain areas, like the showers, could use more thorough cleaning, and that some of the equipment appears dated, the overall consensus is that LA Gym provides an unmatched training atmosphere compared to commercial gyms. For anyone serious about weightlifting or bodybuilding, LA Gym is a top choice in Bristol.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
LA Gym: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Awesome gym and great people. A friendly and helpful environment. A true Bristolian landmark. A must for any true fitness enthusiast
Fantastic experience: Lots of good weightlifting kit hopefully use again if passing
Negative experience: Decent equipment but could do with a deep clean. Showers are dirty and half turned into a storage room. Music is blasted at top volume through the speakers. Good range of equipment.
Fantastic experience: Best gym in Bristol, the equipment looks rugged BUT are very high quality and are clearly very well maintained. Great atmosphere, wall art, music too. Miles better than the dime-a-dozen commercial gyms I have been to.
Fantastic experience: Good value, well equipped, unpretentious, and welcoming. A great gym for powerlifting and bodybuilding.
Fantastic experience: Decided to buy a day pass here. Soon as you walk in the walls around full with supplements you can buy, protein bars, drinks etc. once I bought the day pass, the gym is fairly old and rugged looking. However, the machines are high quality still and the metal plates do feel better than the rubber plates… maybe it’s placebo but I enjoyed that. If I lived local I would definitely pick this as my gym as it’s a no nonsense good old fashioned weight lifting gym
Thank you we look forward to seeing you again in the future
Fantastic experience: Real old school gym ! Loved training there. The atmosphere and feel of this raw gym is special
Fantastic experience: Proper old school gym. Love it. Although, there's still too many people filming themselves, but can't win em all Decent value for money
Fantastic experience: Great music, friendly staff, great equipment. Love the atmosphere. You have everything you need for bodybuilding, it's just what I was looking for, after trying out several gyms here in Bristol. I wouldn't go for something else than bodybuilding / powerlifting / fitness though. Crossfitters and weightlifters probably won't find the equipment they need ;) Pure old school bodybuilding vibe !
Fantastic experience: Probably the best gym in Bristol, great atmosphere, amazing staff, great machines ect 10/10
Fantastic experience: Old school gym, great array of supplies and good honest staff! Cheers James!
Fantastic experience: FIGHT KLUB on Monday night is the best hour of my week!
Positive experience: This is a great gym. Reminds me of the gym from Rocky - real people! They play good music and have all the equipment you need. Affordable too, plus you can take a friend as a guest for free on the weekend. Everyone is super friendly and the place has a positive atmosphere.
Negative experience: Nobody bothers to answer the phone email or message back and when they do answer the phone they put it down all I want to know is about an order and four days of trying is far to much
Fantastic experience: Very friendly staff, brilliant environment to train in.
Fantastic experience: Nicest staff, brilliant equipment, great prices.
Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, old school bodybuilding vibes
Fantastic experience: Old school gym, clean, friendly and helpful. Great environment to train.
Fantastic experience: Great old school gym very helpful staff and all round friendly atmosphere.
Fantastic experience: Muy buen gym con muchas variedades para ejercer tu físico
Fantastic experience: Popped in to buy some supplements, friendly guys who served me and they new there stuff.
Fantastic experience: Simply the best gym in Bristol
Positive experience: Full of nostalgia and still sparred in here today. Still needs a good bathroom
Positive experience: Good gym but more for bodybuilding, no free space to do other exercises.
Fantastic experience: Best gym iv ever been to.
Fantastic experience: Perfect that's l I can say
Fantastic experience: Great equipment and atmosphere, not too busy
Fantastic experience: OLD SKOOL GYM WITH A NEW SKOOL FEEL. Perfect for first timers, professional athletes, females couples, young old etc. - What ever your fitness goals are!! Has friendly and knowledgeable staff, sports clothing and nutrition shop also on the premises so you can stock up on all your supplemental needs. Clean, spacious facilities, with a great weight selection and range of cardio and resistance machines you don't find in many of the commercial gyms. What really made me feel at ease is that the site has been updated to be covid safe. There lots of close links to public transport and Bristol town centre. Good space in the car park too.
Fantastic experience: Fully equipped 'proper' bodybuilding gym although it caters for anyone that is serious about their training. Loads of space over two floors, recently refurbished with new kit and a fresh look but it still retains that old school vibe it's famous for. Bristol's biggest & best supplement store doubles up as reception, with all the supplements that you could ask for and a smoothie & coffee bar to boot. Staff are friendly and knowledgeable and nothing is too much trouble. Worth travelling to train here. Love it.
Fantastic experience: Focal point for all Gym's in Bristol, totally revamped and modernised whilst keeping the old school style. Best place to train for all backgrounds. Good and friendly crowd. The shop has a huge range of supplements to support your training, as well as options for post workout shakes at the juice bar. Owners have an extensive knowledge on health, fitness and bodybuilding!
Fantastic experience: Great old school gym that been given a nice face lift :-) With the added benefit of a supplement shop inside. Really nice team and great facilities, really recommend.
Fantastic experience: I’ve been training at LA GYM for many years. It’s always been my favourite place to train but I have to say with the major uplift over lockdown the gym now is providing a lot more under the new management. It’s a great training environment and now with the newly fitted SNUK shop I can also get all my supplements in the same place.
Fantastic experience: Excellent gym, Fantastic value with the best equipment Welcoming and very professional owner and staff 5*
Fantastic experience: So much better now it’s been taken over, also great that it has a proper supplement shop there now as well
Fantastic experience: Newly revamped LA gym is brill. On site shop with all the supplements and treats, parking and lots of good old school machines for training. Love it.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful attitude of the staff ,very tidy gym with good equipments. Also supplements at reasonable prices to support ur training regiment.
Fantastic experience: Nice clean old school gym with all the facilities you need for a good workout
Fantastic experience: Quality old school gym. Amazing atmosphere, loads of different machines, benches and other equipment as well.
Fantastic experience: Great old school feel gym! I attended the first day gyms reopened after lockdown and its safe to say I'll be returning
Positive experience: Great atmosphere old school gym
Thanks Patrick, we are back open with huge improvements made throughout the gym whilst still keeping the legendary old school atmosphere - We look forward to welcoming you back and achieving that 5 star review!
Fantastic experience: Old school gym,helpful clientele cheap registration best equipment
Fantastic experience: Excellent atmosphere ...exellent staff make u well come .......and excellent equipment.....i give this gym a 5 start ....good for all ages .....regards kangal
Fantastic experience: Great priced no nonsense gym
Negative experience: Really unfreindly care taker. I was thinking about joing the gym and wanted to look around as it's just opposit my bus stop to work, he tried to charge me £4 to use the toilet. Very bad customer experence.
Hi Clare, Sorry about your experience here 6 months ago when you came to view the gym unfortunately our toilet facilities are strictly for members only as we have a lot of people every week trying to use our toilets when waiting on the bus stop across the road so asking for the £4 is company policy just as it is in most businesses up and down the country (for customer use only) Regards
Positive experience: Great gym equipment bit dated but everything you need there
Fantastic experience: Polecam
Fantastic experience: Great old school gym with every single piece of equipment you could ever need. Both staff and customers all really chilled...wish I lived nearer!
Fantastic experience: Nice friendly staff, very well priced membership. Diverse crowd, always friendly!
Positive experience: It's okay except some of the equipment is quite old, and not always bin goot working order.
Hi Anthony, we have recently undertook a full refurb we'd love to welcome you back in the near future to achieve that 5 star review!
Fantastic experience: Been going on and off for years here. Proper metal gym. No posers and lycra. Helpful knowledgeable customers and staff. Full range of free weights that go up every 5kg to over 100.
Fantastic experience: Just began training at LA Gym again after the lockdown & it's great to be back! The measures they have in place to compact the spread of the virus is brilliant. They read your temperature as you go in the gym, there are plenty of bottles of disinfectant to wipe down the equipment & benches & there is plenty of space between the machines & equipment to move around for social distancing. There is also hand sanitiser available as well to clean your hands as well as being able to wash your hands in the toilet. Still got a great social aspect & the new management are doing a good job.
Thank you Darren
Fantastic experience: Strong man gym
Thank you Dean
Fantastic experience: friendly place of fitness..... old school gym 4 real keep fit fans.
Thank you
Fantastic experience: Best gym in Bristol. Surrounded by lifters not posers and pervs. Great staff anf equipment. Pay more but gain more never too packed
Thank you Oling
Fantastic experience: This gym has to much Holliday
We can't govern bank holidays unfortunately. You'll find a lot of businesses are closed tomorrow.
Fantastic experience: LA Gym is my favourite gym in Bristol. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The average user of the gym is also very good natured and this gym has an excellent positive vibe around it. Way better than PureGym!
Thank you Tom
Fantastic experience: One of Bristol best old school gyms
Thank you Rus
Fantastic experience: I currently use L.A.gym and it is very good old fashion gym staff are very helpful and the gym has got enough to keep me busy.
Thank you Charmaine
Positive experience: Good old fashioned gym. Relaxed atmosphere. Good value.
Thank you Stephen
Fantastic experience: Old school spit and spawdust bodybuilding gym now largely forgotten but still a gem gym with plenty of equipment and dumbells up to 75kg
Thank you Lee
Fantastic experience: Best gym in Bristol, friendly and great equipment for fitness and bodybuilding
Thank you Ray
Fantastic experience: I used to traino here a few years back very good gym got everything u need nice friendly environment and the staff are nice and helpful
Thank you Isa. I doubt much has changed there since your last visit Hope to see you again soon
Fantastic experience: Best lifting gym in Bristol, friendly atmosphere, great staff. Full of old school equipment unlike most generic gyms. Overall a great experience.
Thank you Dave. See you again soon.
Fantastic experience: If you are looking for a no BS powerlifting gym with punchbags then this is for you. Run by staff that lift, for people that lift. They have pre-workout, protein shakes, energy snacks for sale, so no need to bring loads of supplements with you. Dumbbells up to 70KG and plenty of squat racks; you can even park your bicycle inside if you cycle.
Thank you Malcolm. We aim to keep our gym to provide exactly what our customers want without all the frills and unwanted sales pitches and products.
Fantastic experience: Good gym
Thank you Stuart
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