Fitlab Hove

Fantastic experience: Dropped in for a taster workout, as I travel and needed to train. Great gym, friendly staff, good equipment and respectful people.

Positive experience: I've been coming here for years, so here's my take: **Pros:** - Great selection of machines and equipment - Dedicated rooms for different muscle groups and stretching - Less busy than other Hove gyms - Friendly staff and competitive pricing - Cool grungy vibe - Decent pre-workout and protein shakes at reception **Cons:** - No air conditioning - No water vending machines (just in toilets and reception) - Some machines need maintenance - Sound system could be louder **Detailed Thoughts:** **Machines:** There’s a room for every muscle group and classes, ensuring a full workout. The leg room stands out for its variety and is usually empty. They used to have a 10m climbing wall, but without trained staff, it’s now a giant chalkboard. A missed opportunity, Fitlab! The machines, possibly from the '90s, work fine but need some TLC for the wobbly pulleys and cables. **Facilities/Building:** As a budget gym, there’s no aircon, so the temperature inside matches the weather outside, making workouts tough on humid days. No convenient water stations mean trekking to reception for a drink, especially annoying during leg day! The building, a former brewery, has cool industrial remnants adding character. The grungy vibe is a nice change from cookie-cutter gyms. They sell reasonably priced pre-workout and protein shakes at reception. Music quality and volume vary, sometimes disrupted by ads, making the gym atmosphere inconsistent. **Clientele:** Friendly and follow good gym etiquette, unlike some other places where weights are left everywhere. It’s mostly guys, which might be intimidating for newbies or women, but everyone is welcoming. Overall, it’s a unique, old-school gym with some quirks but great for those who prefer substance over style.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Brighton, best I've ever been to on three different continents. Get a couple more EZ bars and would be total perfection, but it's pretty damn close as is.

Fantastic experience: Great gym & amazing staff! such a friendly atmosphere, the first gym I’ve ever been to where I don’t feel anxious. 10/10

Fantastic experience: Great gym, all the staff are really friendly and helpful. Knowledgeable PTs with plenty of experience. Other members are welcoming, the gym has a community feel about it.

Fantastic experience: The best gym in brighton, no heirs and graces, men and women working out together . Massive so I never have to wait for a machine. Pure Rocky style gym. Sly stalone would be proud to work out in here alongside the meat factory. Get yourself down there to see for yourself

Fantastic experience: Good gym has everything u need.good friendly staff

Negative experience: Never again

Fantastic experience: Great gym with more kit than most gyms in Brighton & Hove. Friendly staff and easy parking nearby.

Fantastic experience: Recently joined been searching for a gym in Brighton and give area as I’ve just moved back and honestly so happy to have joined this place staff are great and the gym itself is incredible old school proper equipment I love the layout different rooms for each muscle group and cardio instantly feel at home and welcomed chuffed

Fantastic experience: Old school gym with plenty of facilities. Very friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym. You will find whatever you need and prices are reasonable

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Brighton 10/10

Positive experience: Great gym great staff

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Brighton

Fantastic experience: An honest no nonsense gym. Great equipment, immaculate vibes and most importantly, no TikTokers recording their workouts. 10/10

Fantastic experience: Great place to train and workout. Currently introducing my daughter..she loves it! Excellent selection of equipment, great music to train to, and great atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place, great staff and the people who work out there are a great bunch too

Fantastic experience: Huge range of equipment/classes, the staff were supportive and helped me achieve my fitness goals

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, very helpful and a great place to train signed up for a 3 month membership.

Fantastic experience: Well equipped and great service.

Fantastic experience: Great gym! I absolutely loved it here when I lived in Brighton. Will return for a day visit on the odd occasion when I'm about!

Negative experience: This wasn't the cheetahs gym I last went to, signed up for a new membership yesterday and if I knew I wouldn't have, since new owners and there refurbishment to the gym, it really doesn't work and its definitely not what I and so many people that went to cheetahs over the years can get our heads around what they have done to this icon of a gym, very very sad at what's happening to this gym, its a total mish mush in every room and they've got rid of so much good stuff which so many people would use, no showers no changing room , if I knew what I know now I don't think I would've joined..

Negative experience: They ruined what was the best gym in Brighton (cheetahs) place is a mess now they've got rid of dedicated weight rooms and mixed everything up in a cramped and jumbled manner to make way for yuppies and their personal trainers.

Fantastic experience: Love this gym, proper power house. So much equipment and good opening times

Fantastic experience: Proper gym with members who want to work out seriously. Helpful and friendly staff. Lots of equipment. Best gym in England.

Fantastic experience: Old school, no frills,no Sky TV or irritating music in the background gym. First trained here in 92 not changed that much but neither has the membership price.

Negative experience: I went recently and they had given it a make over. Unfortunately for the worse. Numerous pieces of essential equipment is now missing. No dip machine!

Fantastic experience: It's simple. There's no better gym in Sussex. Cheetahs gym sets the bar.

Fantastic experience: PROPER OLD SCHOOL GYM

Positive experience: Good facilities, friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: A great atmosphere with by far the best equipment. The staff and other members are friendly and very welcoming.

Fantastic experience: Really good gym. Nice, professional and friendly trainers. Loads of equipments you need for your goal. There are different rooms for different parts of muscles you want to work on.

Fantastic experience: Lots of specialist equipment for bodybuilding

Positive experience: Love it

Fantastic experience: Great

Positive experience: Need to fix a lot of broken equipment, but I like the older worldy feel of this place.

Positive experience: old school gym,loads of kit never stuck,great price and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Fantastic staff. Really cheap fees. Lovely atmosphere. Private ladies gym room too. Brilliant!!!!

Fantastic experience: A great gym with excellent equipment and facilities. Including a great selection of punchbags :-)

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, extremely helpful and cheeful staff and thats not to mention the best equipment and supplements in the business. Visited because it looked cool, returned because it worked cool too.

Fantastic experience: Just joined, no frills or anything fancy, I love it :)

Fantastic experience: It's a building with heavy things in it to lift. Friendly staff. If you want a kale smoothie and a good place to take a selfie for insta then this probably isn't what you are looking for. If you want somewhere to lift crazy heavy dumbells until you feel like you are going to bleed out of your eyes then this is definitely the place for you. I've had 2 years out of serious lifting due to severe injury and I went there last night and got right back into training and there was zero judgment or attitude from the other folk (I'm a big fatty at the mo so was a bit self conscious ) . Really good selection of cardio equipment too. 10/10

Negative experience: Quite apart from the state of the gym, I actually cannot believe that you stand by and tolerate abuse. Another member was abusive and rude, I told you about this and you did nothing. Is it ok for people to be racist? Sexist? I'm not sure where you draw the line, but I won't be back. Absolutely appalling that in 2019, you'd just ignore something like this.

Fantastic experience: Great place for serious gym enthusiasts. Lots of improvements and new equipment. Loads of different classes to fit everyone's personal goals.

Fantastic experience: Cheetahs is one of the best places in in hove

Fantastic experience: Polite staff. Good atmosphere inside

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Brighton & Hove. No bulls*it, just weights.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Brighton. Great range of equipment and never too busy.

Fantastic experience: Great old school gym with staff who know their stuff...

Positive experience: Needs a bit of tidying up, doesn't look like LLoyds but good people and great atmosphere

Positive experience: Great

Positive experience: Highly recommend

Positive experience: Sports massage by Helen is highly recommended pre and post race

Fantastic experience: It's not posh - We just push !! (and pull and lift)

Fantastic experience: Best gym experience in the world!

Fantastic experience: Very good equipped gym... very big.... old fashioned.... Better for men.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to work out. People are great and the facility's are made better by their spit and sawdust charm. It's like training in the golden days.

Fantastic experience: Proper old school sweat and sawdust Gym!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in brighton

Fantastic experience: Really good gym and friendly

Fantastic experience: Proper hardcore gym, none of that fancy high tech stuff. For serious gym goers.

Positive experience: A bit pricy but a good gym

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym, lovely staff too.

Positive experience: Cheap, not locked in to a contract, nice staff, decent equipment and lots of it. Not a fancy gym

Fantastic experience: Can never get a training session quite like you do at cheetahs. The atmosphere is brilliant and makes you want to push that bit further!

Fantastic experience: Great staff, very friendly and helpful, standout point is all types of equipment is separated into sections. Will be back again

Negative experience: Seriously poor experience if you're a woman. Such a poor and shabby tiny gym (broom cupboard) for 'women only', incredibly sparce and grim changing room. Communal showers with no privacy at all anywhere. I will say the cardio equipment was good, and lots of it. But some niceties like a little privacy go a long way...oh and a water cooler would be useful!

Fantastic experience: More equipment that you'll ever need, no nonsense service. How all gyms should be.

Fantastic experience: Good gym friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Biggest and best gym, totally old school!

Negative experience: The worst membership contract possible. Tried to cancel and got burdened with a £300 bill!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Brighton !

Fantastic experience: Good staff. Safe venue

Fantastic experience: Because is the best

Fantastic experience: Lift heavy or go home.

Fantastic experience: Perfect gym couldn't ask for much more in there

Fantastic experience: For a long time I avoided going to this gym because I had heard that it was full of macho weight-heads and the kind of people who you might not want to mix with. I really wish I hadn't listened and joined many years ago as the truth is that this is actually one of the friendliest gyms I have ever been a member of. Its true that there are no frills here, there are no TVs, no A/C and no sauna/swimming pool etc but what it does have is LOADS of equipment, all kinds of machines and weights, many different rooms including stretching, weights, dead-lifting, boxing, ladies-only etc etc. You don't get many posers here, people come to work out and work out hard. So if you are looking for a serious gym with a lot of equipment at a reasonable price then give Cheetah's a go, you may be pleasantly surprised like I was.

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym loads of equipment d

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Been going there for over 20 years! No TV's, saunas, air con or attitude - just weights!

Fantastic experience: Jó a közeg, és bár nem beszélek angolul ha bemegyek érzem a spor szellemét ami motiváltak tesz.jó érzés.jó felszerelt.

Fantastic experience: The best gym in brighton

Fantastic experience: Straight forward and no nonsense. There's a cardio room, so good for warm ups… and then lots and lots of weights - be it free weights or machines. Okay, so you won't find a jacuzzi or flash brand new equipment but you will have plenty of kit and choice.

Fantastic experience: Love this place, like walking into the 1960's. You won't find any Plasma screens or Jacuzzis here, just big free weights and trusty machines. If you're serious about your training this is the place for you!

Fantastic experience: I love this place. I spent many years going and it has everything you want from a gym. The equipment - some of it as old as I am - is in perfect working order. The staff are intelligent, knowledgeable and helpful. The location is perfect. The members range from international level to beginners. There's a real spirit here!