PureGym Aberdeen Rubislaw

Fantastic experience: Open 24/7 gym with good facilities. Easy to use app and lots of space inside. The gym does get busy but the app gives live gym numbers and predicts how busy it’s likely to be. Good on site parking.

Fantastic experience: *LONG READ BUT GIVES FULL INFO* I was a regular at another Pure for over a year back in 2022 and lost weight but the vibe just wasn’t right for me so I gave up and gained a lot of weight in 2023. It was a good gym and perhaps fitting around childcare could have been the issue back then and then moving house being so far away. I’ve been a regular here at Rubislaw since July 2024 and it’s by far the best Pure in Aberdeen. It’s the only one where I’ve managed to get to know staff on a first name basis. I will respect their privacy by not mentioning names but there isn’t a single member of staff that isn’t nice to me and always make me feel at home as a chatterbox. I’ve lost two stone in two months working out here because I actually enjoy going and that’s BEFORE taking on a PT. Now it’s time to work on sculpting, form and stamina, I’m ready. Parking is good, lay out feels more organised for an ADHD mind and staff are usually there to greet you with a smile. There was a challenging situation that happened in the gym last week and the staff member I approached for help was so professional and delicate it made me cry with hope that some people really do listen and take action. Recently taken on Jamie Williams as a PT after months of anxiety and hesitation about myself. I feel my first session taught me more about myself than I have tried to figure out myself over the last 4 months. His prices are so reasonable for the knowledge he has inside his head and all he expects is 12 hours notice if you need to change so there’s zero anxiety if you need to move to another day or week. Despite his condition, this lovely young man knows how to deal with EVERY area of the body. Everything I’ve been feeling weak with he recognised straight away without me having to tell him. He’s very observant and adapts to YOUR needs. He will encourage you without making you feel daft if you don’t quite reach what you aimed for. He will give you a quick breather and encourage you again and recognises that things take time to build up to goals. Time goes so fast because you’re having so much fun! I’ve learned how to run with a better technique for my body and endure a higher speed for a longer time. He paces it up over time so your body gets used to it rather than chucking you in the deep end. He’s very clear with instructions and doesn’t make you feel silly if you need to shift your form or change position to get a better workout from your movements. I have asthma, breast related back problems and suspected endometriosis and he’s prepared to listen and seems to know how these conditions affect people and adapt to it. You’re not just paying for the session, he takes a lot of time outside of sessions to cater to his clients and make plans and ALWAYS consults with you on said plan. I also have ADHD but he doesn’t make you feel like it’s a setback at all. He’s got a good sense of humour and remains supportive if you’re breathing out your or feel like you’re going to ! All the PTs are lovely and I consider some as friends now inside the gym but I chose Jamie as he lives and breathes taking life like Barney Stinson and saying “challenge accepted!” Well done Mr Williams, I am so proud of you and I hope to keep seeing you as the months go on. You took my weaknesses after one day and showed me I can beat them. The confidence I feel is amazing after getting to know each other these last few months. I can’t wait for next week and every week following! I’ve attached a photo to demonstrate the good vibes and banter with this gym.

Positive experience: Good gym for beginners, always staff on through the day available for a chat and to help you out. Plenty strong and fit looking people there too lifting serious weights. Good range of weights. When it's busy you'll wait for a space quite a bit, normally Monday nights are the worst but about 2200 it gets very quiet. There's not a great deal of space so some things can't be done but plenty equipment types for all sorts of workouts. Spinning bikes and a separate class studio also which can be used individually if no classes are on. Lack very heavy weights and the music is rubbish. But a good gym for getting fit and strong. It's quite cheap too and 24 hours.

Negative experience: Not worth your time and always very busy. The philosophy of this gym is just to gain as many members and no 1 is willing to help you or speak to you.

Fantastic experience: Fabulous clean gym

Positive experience: Good gym but I don’t see staff ‍♀️. Small change room , not good music .

Fantastic experience: Absolutely fantastic. Enthusiastic and motivating instructors. Highly recommended

Positive experience: Not a massive fan of pure gyms, as swim and sauna are among biggest reasons to gym rather than home train. Place was well equipped, good standard machines, few staff available if needed, very nice open layout. Showers etc were ok. Fine enough gym, nothing to rave about.

Positive experience: They should ban working without changing shoes from outside. Dirty, no one cleans the gym during the day. Alleays very busy.

Fantastic experience: Nice gym, all equipments are tidy and clean. Super helpful staff especially the manager!

Fantastic experience: Love the new management team, incredibly friendly and putting up a suggestion board is a great way for us members to request minor things. The improved lay out and the atmosphere in the gym is great! Amazing job pure gym rubislaw team!!

Fantastic experience: I did visit Puregym Rubislaw a few weeks ago, and i really loved the layout of the gym, everything was nice and tidy, gym staff all very friendly and helpful, the changing rooms were very clean and nicely equipped with showers, hairdryers and everything you need in a gym before and after a good workout. Will 100% return.

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a great atmosphere. Superb and helpful staff. Great classes

Fantastic experience: Staff are great and very friendly! My PT Liv is fantastic, super friendly and supportive with any questions or queries I have.

Fantastic experience: Lovely place to workout - very clean and equipment is always working helpful staff too !

Fantastic experience: Pleased to have switched to this gym recently - it somehow has a nicer atmosphere than other branches - relaxed and spacious. The place is always extremely clean. Staff seem friendly and responsive - Livia Toth in particular has been really welcoming and encouraging, motivating me to stick with my fitness regime.

Fantastic experience: Absolutly fantastic and very helpfull staff members. Manager is open to new ideas and happy to assist with enquires.Very clean enviroment Classes are fab, they are very inclusive.

Fantastic experience: Nice gym in a great location. There was enough equipment for everyone in the gym when I attended. It was very clean and tidy and I would recommend this Pure Gym in Aberdeen.

Fantastic experience: Its really a good gyn in all basis.. 5 Stars

Positive experience: Excellent facility with loads of equipment in both CV and weights area plus bike room with proper multi-adjustable bikes (way better than watt bikes which are no use for anyone under about 5’7”). Much bigger with more equipment than the website would suggest. Downside (and a real bugbear for me): weights not put away and left on bars and selfish people hogging the squat racks/ doing exercises there that should be done elsewhere e.g. bench press (when actual bench press racks are free), biceps curls etc.

Positive experience: It’s a good gym .will be best if we can have a ladies area in the gym where all the ladies can workout

Negative experience: Full of large groups of kids just standing around the machines doing nothing.

Positive experience: 2 benches, 3 squat racks, low ceiling and little ventilation. Busy in evenings after work but not so busy in mornings. Clean gym. Has enough to get by. Can’t do muscle ups as the ceiling is too close to the pull up bare.

Positive experience: Great facility. Hard to fault. Wish there was a pool but you get what you pay for

Fantastic experience: training with a private coach who is excellent facilities great cleanliness great sometimes a short wait to use equipment

Fantastic experience: Brilliant to getvthe stress out after a hard day. Nothing beats it.

Positive experience: The space is pretty good; clean, weights are generally put away properly, decent variety of kit. The people are generally nice, though I have never interacted with the staff, and had fairly minimal interaction with other gym goers. For the price, solid pick. There are, however, serious issues with this gym. The first is the crowdedness. I would estimate that the maximum number of people in this gym before the quality of your workout deteriorates significantly is around 50. I was recently in this puregym at 1:30 on a wednesday, and there were 85 people there, it was near-impossible to use the equipment that I desired. The number of people skyrockets well in to the 120s at peak times. I recognize that this isn't a fault in the management of the gym or the staff or anything, but it still makes it very hard to have a good workout and so should be taken into account when choosing where to lift. Another issue is the grips on nearly all of the equipment. Almost all of the plate loaded or cable machines have grips that I can barely wrap my hands around (for reference i'm around 6'0-6'1, 184cm) with no knurling to speak of. This makes it very difficult to complete a set of any pulling exercise with any kind of weight without losing grip. This is present on the fixed machines and many of the lat pulldown/row/cable cross attachments, though not on the barbells or dumbbells. As a side-note, the plate-loaded leg press is incredibly noisy. Unfortunately, I just can't get a good workout in at this gym. I'd recommend going elsewhere.

Fantastic experience: It's a nice affordable gym, plenty of varied equipment and lots of friendly staff and members. Jason is top tier in my opinion, incredibly easy to talk to, very friendly and professional and really knows his stuff.

Fantastic experience: Decent gym , very clean , staff maybe needs to be a bit frendlier. But rest all good. Keep it up !

Fantastic experience: Cool it's open 24h but around 4pm to 6pm very busy but still got to get a work out done no issues

Positive experience: Gym limpio, espacioso abierto 24 h

Negative experience: Poor System and customer service, I wasted my time trying get access .....

Fantastic experience: Very clean and helpful staff. Free parking

Fantastic experience: Very clean, great number of equipment to choose from, friendy staff and a great variety of classes to suit everyone. Great value for money. The app is amazing and allows you to keep track of your progress and has heaps of things to choose from like healthy recipes, home workout exercises and more. I would highly recommend Puregym

Fantastic experience: This place gets busy but its great during off peak hours. My arms have not really grown everyday since ive started here. It’s probably because i am only in once every two months. But we all gotta start somewhere! Very cheap too and it helps that it is 24 hours for people that are always slaving away at work.

Fantastic experience: My go-to gym! Has the majority of equipment you need to get started and continue. Staff are not really present at times but are always a call away. Classes seem to be great fun but I have never tried. No joining fee events happen quite a lot so there is no excuse not to start now.

Negative experience: Not very clean and the app does not work sometimes, it's pretty cheap tho.

Fantastic experience: Hi everyone, This review is going to be a bit strange. The gym itself is nice. Never had an issue with anyone but today I saw something that is not acceptable. When you are coming in, you are expecting a nice and clean environment. Is not only the dutie of the gym staff/cleaning team to keep the gym clean, is yours as a gym member. Clean after yourself when you're using the toilet/shower. You have toilet brushes next to each toilet. It's absolutely disgusting to expect others to clean up your mess. Have some respect! As Joey Swoll would say, be better.

Fantastic experience: Great Location and easy to access for quick workout.

Fantastic experience: I came to the gym with my sister this afternoon. I can't usually go at this time of day because of work. It is the ideal time it is not too busy and I could get the equipment that I wanted to use

Fantastic experience: A very well equipped gym very clean will friendly staff.

Negative experience: I would go in to detail but it would be inappropriate of me. I already logged a formal complaint when incidents happened so I imagine you already have the details. If you recognise me, flag me down and we will have a friendly chat about the situation to see if any further action is required to be taken :)

Fantastic experience: Thought it was an excellent gym. Clean, friendly and a nice place to exercise

Fantastic experience: Clean lots of equipment and friendly staff.

Negative experience: Too busy

Fantastic experience: Nice place. 10/10

Positive experience: New equipment and clean gym

Fantastic experience: nothing pure about this gym :( except my muscles. everyone was nice though and I appreciate all you did to save me from the other gym

Fantastic experience: Great gym just try to avoid busy hours One hour of workout in early morning (really early) becoming a two or more hours of workout right after 6-6:30am. So it's pointless,time eating to workout in peak times ⏱️

Fantastic experience: Great gym, staff always cleaning equipment.

Positive experience: Some people not cleaning down equipment after use, the Pure team clean too but gym users need to take more ownership. New messages required as people are becoming complacent

Positive experience: Good size gym, got all the equipment you would need.

Fantastic experience: Smallest gym compare to the other 3 gyms that Pure has in Aberdeen. Parking space tho if its not overly busy

Positive experience: It does what it says on the tin.

Positive experience: Its a gym. Clean, busy good choice of machines.

Fantastic experience: This gym is way better than most with alot more equipment and generally a better place to train. My favourite gym, top marks guys love the place.

Fantastic experience: Great that I can go and work out anytime I fancy doing so. Great choice of equipment and the place is nice and clean. Highly recommend.

Positive experience: Excellent gym and equipment and price, can be quite busy however. Parking is available and plentiful. Open 24 hours.

Fantastic experience: Love that it's open all hours

Fantastic experience: Quiet gym and has plenty of equipment.

Fantastic experience: Great classes and plenty of parking. Located in quieter area.

Fantastic experience: Great place! Got a wide range of equipment in plenty of quantity so you don't usually have to wait for someone else to get off the machine you want to use. Best part about this gym (just like any other puregym) is they are open 24/7 so it's very easy to manage your health routine with your work life. Vending machines inside will allow you to buy assessories like padlock, towel, and water bottles and there is a wide range of protein shakes, bars and energy drinks as well if you fancy them. I wish there was a way to buzz someone in though as I have usually never seen staff around. There are personal trainers but they are usually in the office or busy training people so not sure if you can walk in and take a stroll if you want to take a feel of the place before you sign up. The way it works with members is that we all get a pin code to punch in and get in through the door so if you just want to visit I would highly recommend you call up the place and arrange a time first to ensure someone let's you in!

Fantastic experience: Good range of equipment, very clean and tidy including the changing rooms. Looking forward to more regular visits

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Positive experience: Perfect amount of gym equipment, almost completely empty most of the time and at weekends, times to avoid are 5-8pm week days, any other time this gym is basically empty. With that being said even when the gym is empty the WiFi, struggles to stream music as well as this it drops out all the time and doesn't cover the whole building. Would be nice if they installed a proper WiFi setup perhaps unifi AP's.

Fantastic experience: Well equipped gym

Fantastic experience: Is exactly what it says, pure gym nae messing

Fantastic experience: just started this gym, so far its great. i go early in the morning as im a bit body concius but the 24 hour helps alot. lots of machines, now time to lose some weight.

Positive experience: Perfect except there’s no cold showers, only one button for hot on/off

Positive experience: Good gym all the essential needed plus classes helpful staff . Only thing you will have to remember your code number or you won't get in ,necessary for 24hr use & price is affordable . No hassle with parking free recommend .

Positive experience: UPDATE It's much better now, a lot of new equipments, and I learned that apparently in the UK you pay to be weighed everywhere haha Sometimes it's really busy but you can check the app to see how busy it is. -------- OLD --------- They forgot a lot of equipments. They charge to be weighed.

Fantastic experience: Great location near Hazelhead Park with all you would expect from PureGym

Negative experience: Expensive

Fantastic experience: The gym was clean and well run.