GR Fitness

Negative experience: GR fitness has transitioned to an unmanned gym. For me this fundamentally changed the service. CCTV is not a substitute for actual staff. The gym itself is still adequate. But given the massive change in the service it provides I no longer felt it was the gym I joined. I didn’t feel comfortable and secure going there. Having staff onsite to help with form and technique is hugely important to me and I felt the lack of staff a lot. Since the transition there have been power cuts, non members allowed in, water leaks and equipment left untidy. If there is any injury or any other incident the cameras won’t help in the moment. When I and others have raised this the concerns were dismissed. The management’s communications via emails are almost always snide, passive aggressive and dismissive. They’ve named members of staff in emails they’ve felt have let them down. They’ve quoted private emails from members that raised concerns and labelled these unprofessional and unwarranted. I totally lost faith in the management over those last months.

Negative experience: A truly negative experience.

Negative experience: *** EDIT 01/10/24**** So I did have a student membership which was £24 a month which has now been revoked as I’ve graduated, which is fair enough. However, the normal cost of this gym is £40 a month for a rolling contract, which is just ridiculous for the quality of the gym. So two stars off the review and honestly, I would recommend you find another gym anywhere else to go to instead. ************ I’ve been going to this gym for about 3 years now and here’s a full breakdown of pros and cons. Pros: - Staff are really friendly and happy to help with exercises and correcting form. - The equipment, although old, is diverse and plenty of secondary equipment for more popular machines. - Cost. It’s fairly reasonable to cheap with some student deals on. - Staff regularly wipe down the machines. Cons: - Cleanliness. This place has a massive problem with mould (what looks like black) all around and there doesn’t seem to be much effort to clean it up or stop it coming back. - The music. Like all gym playlists it’s a bit rubbish, however, the real problem is the volume. You can easily hear it through inner ear headphones and to be honest, it’s just incredible annoying. - Facilities. Toilets and showers are very grim, do not use if you can avoid it. Overall, I go to this gym because it’s very close to my home and it does have some good things. You may be better heading somewhere else though if the cons above put you off.

Fantastic experience: Just started I’m very much enjoying it going 6 times a week. There’s a wide range of equipment and the staff are very friendly much better than my last gym.

Positive experience: Good selection of machines, just needs more space. Staff are nice and helpful. The toilet isn't great and the showers are awful.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, everything you need

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Great atmosphere/musc. Fantastic range of equipment. Good value membership. Can't fault it.

Fantastic experience: Great staff, well equipped. Was new there but felt welcome immediately. What are like most is the atmosphere. Everyone is training seriously which pushes your training as well

Fantastic experience: The owner is very friendly. This is a welcoming gym with lots of space.

Fantastic experience: Really good gym, all the weights and machines you need for body building.

Positive experience: The gym is decent. Good range of equipment. I quite like the wide range of dumbbell weights available. Off peak experience and membership price is very good. I’ve not really spoken to the staff, as I haven’t needed to, but they seem friendly enough from what I’ve seen. Equipment is well maintained. Everyone puts weights back where they belong (major plus) Few things I think could be better. The pull up bars are terribly located - I’m either at risk of hitting my head, hitting the wall or plates with my feet or having to do pull ups in a squat rack. There is way too much equipment in some areas. It’s like they’ve bought new equipment and not sold the old stuff or just went on a crazy gym machine spending spree. It can get in the way of movement and use. The music has been almost constant DnB. Please change it up.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, really friendly staff and more than enough equipment so you are rarely waiting to do the exercises you want

Fantastic experience: Great equipment! Love the music in there, too! Thanks, specially, to Jack. He has been my PT and he has helped me a lot: cheering me up to do two more reps or adding weight when I felt I couldn't; giving some hints to improve, recommending specific materials and where to buy them to be able to workout also at home, etc. Also, he is funny so it is cool to talk with him.

Fantastic experience: Good gym. The older man on reception has a nice beard.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, staff and equipment! I highly recommend

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym, lovely atmosphere, lovely people

Fantastic experience: lovely gym with nice staff, equipment and good music

Fantastic experience: Really nice gym great staff great equipment

Fantastic experience: Easily the best gym on Gloucester Road. Clean and all of the equipment you could want. The manager Phil is really welcoming and happy to help, and so are the rest of the staff. 5 stars.

Fantastic experience: Staff are all very friendly and helpful. Gym is well kept and new bits of equipment are frequently added. Whatever your training style this gym will have something for you, couldn’t recommend enough!

Fantastic experience: GR fitness is a great gym with great staff. The team are approachable and always happy to help. Lots of equipment and classes to choose from. Would definitely recommend!

Fantastic experience: Great staff, amazing atmosphere, a lot bigger than you'd think initially, plenty of opportunities to better yourself and meet amazing people along the way

Fantastic experience: I hadn’t been to the gym in a long time and they made me feel really welcome. Really enjoying the classes and have become a class regular. Staff are really knowledgeable and helpful. Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Great staff. Friendly atmosphere. Love the classes. Sometimes have to wait for equipment at busy times but I think that's the same any gym you go to.

Fantastic experience: Grf is easily the the best gym I’ve been to in Bristol, the staff are brilliant, very knowledgeable and always happy to lend a helping hand. The overall atmosphere is spot on and very welcoming, there is a variety members training at different levels of fitness with different goals. I’d 100% recommend giving it a go.

Fantastic experience: Very friendly gym, staff know your name and are always ready to help! Great range of cardio and weight equipment, have highly recommended to a lot of friends

Fantastic experience: Great gym, awesome classes and fab staff

Fantastic experience: Really friendly and helpful staff, especially Phil.

Fantastic experience: Really good equipment and fun atmosphere!

Fantastic experience: Lovely manager with the best beard in the business!

Fantastic experience: Very well equipped gym, opened every day from early till late even on bank holidays! The staff is the nicest I’ve encountered in a gym. Highly recommend it!

Positive experience: Good equipment but very poor opening hours, particularly on the weekend (10am opening time on Saturday and Sunday is far too late)

Fantastic experience: Great Gym , great people ️‍♂️‍♀️‍♀️

Positive experience: Nice clean place

Fantastic experience: Great local gym with everything you need and a really friendly staff (appreciated it as a newcomer)

Positive experience: Overall the gym is fine. The equipment does the job but the layout of the gym could be so much better. It is effectively lots of separate rooms with space used pretty ineffectively. There is a side room which is closed at peak times for classes, further reducing the already small amount of floor space for non class users as well as another large area taking up by spin bikes. GR Fitness must be running a special youth club promo at the moment as its not uncommon to see groups of 3-6 school kids crowded round one area, mostly all on their phones rather than doing anything which further adds to the frustration. The selection of equipment again is fine but frustrating in places. E.g Why does the gym have two (pretty awful) preacher curl machines but only one lat pulldown which is only free when the gym is closed. One of my main bugbears (not so much now but when gyms first re-opened during the pandemic) is the completely stagnant airflow or lack of it throughout the entire gym. There is no air con which is fine but they dont even have open windows to let any air through - you can practically see the humidity in there. There is a door that was occasionally opened but has recently been marked with a sign saying alarmed door do not open. Lastly - I can probably speak for everyone when I say absolutely no one wants to see the cross fit games repeated for the 300th day in a row. Overall the gym does the job if you've got headphones, its a Sunday morning and you own a respirator. Weekday evenings is a real struggle so consider looking elsewhere. It is a shame because the gym has potential to sort a lot of these issues out quite easily so hopefully they do and this would be a decent enough gym.

Positive experience: Highly frustrating customer service. I was a member pre covid, and I kept paying throughout the many months when restrictions meant the gym was closed. We were promised verbally and through an Instagram post we would get the months back ‘in lieu’ if you cancel your membership. I recently needed to cancel my membership due to a number of reasons. I enquired about the months in lieu twice to two different members of staff who said they would get back to me, which they didn’t. This is after changing the price of my membership because I didn’t bring in fresh NHS ID to prove my working status, despite not receiving an email request from them to do so. In terms of the gym, it’s okay. You get a wider spectrum of weight machines at other gyms and my frustrations were the large groups of kids aged 14-17 who pile in after school and dominate the machines. I think considering the price, 40 something quid, it doesn’t really make great value for money.

Positive experience: Good gym for weights

Positive experience: Decent gym with plenty of great equipment but the lack of changing rooms is why it doesn't get a 5 star from me. Friendly staff though and banging music

Fantastic experience: Lo mejor de Bristol

Fantastic experience: The greeting visit was free, setup ready, positive and modern attitude. Just unusual if Plugging in chargers.

Fantastic experience: Such a well equipped gym! It had everything from free and olympic weights, all sorts of machines, tyres, studio, medicine balls, punch bag etc - everything you could think you need. It's bright, the other clients were super nice and even helped me out a bit on improving my spinning back kick! Owner was so friendly and polite. A great gym.

Fantastic experience: Good gym , possibly not got everything but everything you need is there

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym ... Caters to all needs ... Amazing atmosphere..

Fantastic experience: Well run and clean gym with great boxing area. Day pass is a great offering for partly healthy people like me!

Positive experience: Sick gym the independent gyms are the best, it's one of the only gyms to have assault bikes, big tyres and sledges, long ropes for climbing and gymnastic rings, would give it 5 stars if there was better quality punchbags

Fantastic experience: good

Fantastic experience: It's great!

Negative experience: Good equipment, weird vibe, used to love this gym but didn't feel welcome.

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym..amazing use of space

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, a non-commercial feeling gym. Everyone is friendly and staff are lovely too. I have been going here over a year now since moving to Bristol

Negative experience: ‘Cancel anytime’ offer is hardly cancel anytime with a 4 week notice period considering they don’t even start taking payment until the 19th of every month. Upon trying to cancel staff unhelpful, rude and give wrong information. When I tried to pay a remaining balance over email staff extremely rude despite being blatantly in the wrong and being unable to provide me with the correct bank details and instructions for transfer. Gym itself is dated and limited. Equipment often not available for use due to it being broken if not half way to being broken.

Fantastic experience: Love the way this place is set up, it is exactly what you need from a gym without the fluffy bits or an enormous price tag. Staff have been super freindly and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Lovely little gym, great use of the space, lots of things to do and not over crowded. I was made to feel welcome and other users were really friendly too.

Fantastic experience: Been enjoying this gym for almost a decade. Very good service / atmosphere.

Positive experience: Great gym - one of the best in Bristol for BB equipment. Lots of plated equipment, lots of room for heavy bar lifts, 3 bags to work on, plenty of DB’s, lots of cardio equipment and a sauna. Only left to move to closer gym to home. Leaving review because of baffling negative review from Tony Robbins - utter nonsense.

Positive experience: I've been a member here for quite a few years now and whilst it's gone through a few changes it has always retained its core values of being a friendly, approachable and non judging gym with a strong community vibe. Very supportive of all forms of fitness and all levels of ability. It's a great location and a reasonable price. I'd give it a deserved 5 stars if the raw equipment (bars) was better and if it was open a little earlier and a little later. However, on the whole having trained at lots of gyms the balance of good equipment, a great location and a very friendly, enjoyable and supportive atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: A friendly, local gym with great staff and facilities. You're made to feel welcome regardless of experience or ability.

Positive experience: Been going to this gym for over 2 years. Staff are friendly and always willing to advise. There is a huge range of equipment to use whether you like lose weights or machines. Another bonus is I've never had to wait for a machine as there's plenty there. The only thing that would improve it is it could do with bigger changing facilities. Its always been welcoming for me as i work away from home.

Fantastic experience: I love this gym. The atmosphere is so motivating and everybody is really helpful and friendly. I also LOVE the classes - if you haven’t tried Go-Flo yet then you have to try it!!!!

Fantastic experience: I love this gym! It is so much bigger than it looks from the outside, has lots of rooms dedicated for different types of training. The staff are great and spot me or help me whenever I need it. I would recommend this place for complete beginners as well as pro lifters who want a local gym vibe. Everyone seems to know each other here which is nice and the sauna is a great feature that you can't seem to find anywhere else.

Fantastic experience: Fond memories of this gym! Its amazing to see how far its come from the opening! A piece of history for me and some pure diamond friendships made here. All the best, Sam.

Fantastic experience: The gym is very clean and refurbished to very good standard . There is some amazing art inside gym love it . The staff is helpful and friendly. The owner is really nice man and keeps the gym updated and clean . Lovely place to exercise

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff. Very Clean. Amazing equipments. Great atmosphere!!!

Fantastic experience: I like very much

Positive experience: Great Hammer Strength stuff

Positive experience: Love the gym and the staff are nice, however the changing facilities are terrible. I am not having a shower in a changing room shared with men, in fact I'm not taking any clothes off in front of strange men. Really lets the place down.

Positive experience: If you're looking for a fancy gym than this is not for you. This gym is for lifters both beginners and advanced. It's a no frills attached gym. I would say the changing facilities could be better. Other than that it does the job.

Negative experience: AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!! Would highly recommend having a lawyer present when signing the membership contract. Cannot be canceled after the time period specified, staff are extremely unhelpful with payments and all in all worst experience I have ever had at a gym. SAVE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE AND DO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH THIS GYM!!

Positive experience: Nice local gym with plenty of equipment for the number of users.

Negative experience: I was over charged for 6months and the manager refused to give me a refund and was very very rude also no changing rooms u gotta change in the shower other than that the gym has everything u need and more the younger staff members are very friendly and helpful unlike the manager

Positive experience: Lack of changing facility for ladies. Other than that good gym and nice and quiet