Anytime Fitness Balham

Negative experience: Benefits from a great location, the rest is very underwhelming. Always overcrowded and having to wait for any equipment/machines. The equipment is fairly standard, staff are rarely around, if they are they are generally arrogant and unwilling to offer any assistance. It is a shame there are not any other gyms nearby as this is a waste of money.

Fantastic experience: After frustrating start with key fob, I have to admit it’s a great gym, very clean, equipments all working perfectly fine and spacious, guess what I forgot my EarPods and I got them following day. Thanks for everything guys.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, I've been to a few different Anytime Fitness gyms and they vary in quality, but this is one of the best ones. Lots of variation in machines and the most popular equipment, great facilities and always very clean. The staff even regularly leave out fruit and other snacks for people to take which gives it much more of a community feel. I just wish it wasn't so popular, but it deserves to be!

Fantastic experience: Love this gym, equipment is great, staff are amazing!! 100% recommend!!

Fantastic experience: I really enjoy going to this gym - the staff are really friendly, the equipment is great and it’s always a good atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Great Gym, Nice and clean and great staff!

Fantastic experience: Great gym!

Fantastic experience: Everything is great. Staff super friendly

Positive experience: Massively over subscribed, can’t use the equipment half the time

Fantastic experience: Christian and the team are always super friendly and on hand for any queries/concerns. Great facilities with loads of different gear to workout with. Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Best anytime fitness gym I have ever been to. Staff are really friendly and maintain this gym properly.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym in Balham. Been going here for the past 4 years. Equipment is top class, and the gym is very clean. The staff are very friendly and helpful. 24/7 access. Would highly recommend!

Negative experience: Disgraceful customer experience. A waiting list to join and then they don't let you cancel

Fantastic experience: Excellent spin classes everybody is super helpful.and always find the time to come and have a chat with their remembers.

Fantastic experience: Great gym and really good classes

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the area by a long shot! All staff are super friendly from the cleaner all the way to the manager and are willing to help. Good range of equipment and the gyms always sparkling clean! 5 stars it is!

Fantastic experience: I have been coming to this gym for years, it’s definitely the best gym in Balham! They have the most helpful and friendliest staff. Great machines and ranges of weights. The training areas, showers and toilets are always cleaned and tidy even during busy times! Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: Great facility - has a better selection of equipment than any gym in the area by far. Also has an amazing staff! Malin is so helpful and kind. Highly recommend!

Positive experience: Great gym, but very busy during peak hours. So if you want to do weight training you'll have to come outside of peak hours. Otherwise, it's clean and modern.

Fantastic experience: Great gym! I've been a member at quite a few gyms between Clapham and Wimbledon and this is my favourite. Well equipped, great vibe and always clean.

Fantastic experience: This gym is great! Plenty of machines and the space is kept very tidy. The staff are smiley, friendly and always willing to help.

Fantastic experience: Everything you need & the staff are fantastic. Highly recommend

Fantastic experience: Very friendly staff, very clean. Definitely a jump up in quality from cheaper gyms.

Fantastic experience: My regular gym, bustling community, friendly staff members, and great facilities.

Fantastic experience: Staff/Trainers are super friendly, knowledgeable, and always there to help. Good variety of equipment, free fruit and hot drinks over the weekend and great facilities! Shout out to Elmer!

Fantastic experience: Great gym, always spotless and with all the equipment you’d need

Fantastic experience: Outstanding gym. Clean, well equipped, well-maintained, incredible staff. My only complaint is that the TV in front of the treadmills plays the same ads on loop and there's not really anywhere else to look. Its almost like A Clockwork Orange kinda scenario, so if you're doing an extended cardio session, the ads burn into your retinas until your dreams are filled with nightmarishly happy children playing with dinosaur figurines or the same models applying makeup again and again and again for all eternity until their faces melt into a kaleidoscopic hell of never-ending marketing campaigns that etch themselves into your soul. But otherwise really great.

Negative experience: There are only 4 things you need to know about Anytime Fitness Balham: - The gym is amazing for equipment and facilities - It's well located, being right next to an underground station and several bus stops - The staff are friendly and professional - The above three points are essentially moot because of how unbelievably busy it is making it practically impossible to do the workout you actually wanted to do. Especially if you need a squat rack

Fantastic experience: I have been a member of this gym for nearly 5 years and I love it. It is extremely well equipped with new machines arriving quite frequently. It is also very welcoming and supportive - as well as super convenient being so close to the tube station. The gym is noticeably well managed and the manager Christian makes himself very visible and available. As a woman in her fifties I was concerned at feeling intimidated by the fact that everyone was younger but the reality has been quite the opposite . Everyone is very friendly, courteous and respectful. I was also pleased to discover there are members of all ages and at all stages of their fitness journey. There is also an excellent range of free classes . Finally a number of personal trainers work in the club and they are great. My trainer Rob is incredibly motivating and good to work with. A fantastic place.

Fantastic experience: Great gym in Balham. A good range of facilities and classes and the space is always clean. The staff are friendly and knowledgeable. Would recommend to anyone looking for a gym in the area.

Fantastic experience: Thoroughly enjoyed my time training at Anytime Fitness Balham. The facilities are great and everything is always clean. The staff are really friendly and will always go out of their way to help you out. Gym equipment is more than adequate. Multiple power racks, benches, cables and free weights, as well as a massive range of plates and attachments. Cardio section is great and they offer some amazing classes. Lots of small details that make the experience enjoyable, like the free coffee and fruit on weekends and toiletries provided in the changing areas. I am moving away from the area and will miss Anytime Fitness.

Positive experience: The equipment is okay, a bit better quality than Gym group / Pure gym. The staff is friendly, the changing rooms are nice, offers free classes. Concerns - forces you to take long subscription, more busy than aforementioned gyms, weird equipment mix (e.g. only 1 bench for bench press, but 4 squat racks and gazillion cardio options).

Fantastic experience: Really good gym in Balham. I’ve been a member of two other gyms nearby, and based on that experience, I consider Anytime is the best. It is more expensive however the facilities are frankly much better. The equipment is modern and well maintained. There are good classes (including spin), and enough running/cycling machines. Like all other gyms in London it’s busy during peak periods. For people that prefer to use weights, it’s better to go in the middle of the day or very early or late. You also do yourself a favour if you can be flexible with the order of the equipment you want. Having noted this, there are multiple squat racks, doubles of some other commonly used machines, and multiples of commonly used dumbbell weights and benches. This means that even at busy times, I’ve rarely waited more than a couple of minutes. (My small suggestion to the managers is to consider adding an extra seated leg extension machine, though I’m not sure where it would fit).

Positive experience: Good value for money. A well equipped gym for under £40 a month. It is kept clean and there’s never a wait for machines even at peak times.

Fantastic experience: Was a member here for two years before leaving the UK. Excellent gym, great facilities and a good friendly vibe.

Fantastic experience: Good gym. One Brixton anytime fitness should look at as inspiration!

Negative experience: apparently takes a whole month to issue a refund and no explanation as to why

Fantastic experience: Gym is so clean, machines are new (and has heavy up to 50kg dumbbells)

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff, well equipped gym. Great location.

Fantastic experience: Really lovely clean gym, great equipment, loads of amenities in the bathrooms, and the staff/PTs are super helpful. Having to leave because I'm moving - will be sad to go!!

Fantastic experience: The best gym in the area! They really invest in the equipment, always adding new ones - can always get on a squat rack, the showers are lovely with free dry shampoo, deodorant, GHDs etc - definitely feels like a boutique gym. The staff are lovely & really helpful (especially when you forget which locker you’ve put your stuff in!) and the classes are great!

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym and staff, really good classes and the manager Chris goes above and beyond! Would highly recommend to anyone in the SW region!

Negative experience: Always too busy and poor to no air conditioning

Fantastic experience: There’s a lot to like about this gym. Firstly, the manager and staff are super nice and approachable and always willing to help and listen to feedback. Secondly, for me personally the location is great, as I get off the tube from work and the gym is literally across the street, and it’s also great that after a workout you’ve got Sainsbury’s and Aldi just over the road, in case you need to bag you a quick bit of shopping on the way home. They’ve recently upped the anti with some extra kit in the form of a hack squat, massage guns, and vibrating massage rollers for people who want to work out the knots in their legs and back and such. On the toiletries side they’ve got you covered, taking into account female requirements as well as male, and there’s regular free fruit and hot drinks, so not much more you could ask for. The manager seems to be working hard at developing a community vibe in the place and as such even sets up the odd social now and then, so I would recommended getting involved!

Fantastic experience: Very high quality gym for the money. Very new and modern throughout with a huge range of equipment. Very nice environment to workout in with lovely friendly staff. Given the access to thousands of other gyms worldwide I haven't found another offering that can match this

Fantastic experience: Great gym, wide range of equipment as well as classes available. Friendly staff and always a nice escape from the working day.

Fantastic experience: Been a member for 4 years this gym is great, but lately too crowded. It should start the booking system again, so you don’t have to wait for so long to use an equipment.

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym that offers great classes.

Fantastic experience: Really fantastic gym with an extensive range of equipment and machinery. AF in Balham has a really lovely culture - everyone (staff and other gym users) are super friendly. It has a fantastic range of classes, amazing PTs and it is always spotless! I really love working out at this gym :)

Fantastic experience: Wonderful gym. I use it almost exclusively for the spin classes which are great. Sessions from early mornings to mid-evenings seven days a week. Instructors approachable and knowledgable and classes usually have maximum of 19 attendees. The busy classes do get booked up but I've never had a problem getting in as long as I book a day in advance and they also operate a waitlist which is efficient and usually gets me in if I miss a booking. Highly recommend and it's a great location on the high street, handy for a post-work-out trip to Sainsburys.

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms I have ever used, abundance of machines and equipment, often no wait times to use what you need - staff and users always friendly - great selection of classes and the shower/getting ready facilities ar enext to none - private, spotless and a pleasent experience after a tough workout! Not only the best AF gym I haveused, but the best gym!!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym with great equipment! I always have an amazing workout when I am here the manager Christian is super lovely and helpful too.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I have ever been to! The equipment is amazing, it’s always clean, and the staff are lovely.

Fantastic experience: Such a great gym! Genuinely nice showers, hairdryers, free fruit/tea/coffee and a huge range of free classes. Enough equipment that you never need to wait, even when busy.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, great staff. Love the spin classes with Pietro!

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym, really good equipment that is well maintained and kept clean throughout. Plenty of racks and two sets of dumbbells so never really waiting, with all the cardio you'd need. Separate shower and changing cubicles which is nice. As well as vanity mirror area with deodorants and other products if you need to rush off to work straight afterwards. Team is very helpful too if you need anything, the office is close by for a spot. Would and have recommended to friends!

Fantastic experience: One bloody awesome gym! There’s a huge range of classes on offer, incredible management team, and they’re always looking for improvements and feedback to look after their members. From clean showers to massage guns, free coffee on weekends to quirky instructors, you’ll find some of the friendliest people in London here!

Negative experience: I work 9-6 and this gym is basically unusable. Unless you go at 11am or 11pm there are queues for equipment, even benches. When people do get on the equipment they're on it for 45 minutes, others grab dumbbells and workout on any free square metre of the floor, which is at best annoying and at worst dangerous. I end up giving up and leaving after an hour having done two exercises - it's so frustrating. God knows what it's like in January. Shame because it's clean and the facilities are great.

Positive experience: Brilliantly appointed gym with new equipment and kept clean and tidy. Sadly it is insanely busy as the management have significantly oversubscribed the gym to make as much money as possible. The gym space itself is poorly utilised with a massive over abundance of cardio machines, matts etc which are always half empty whilst the rest of the gym has queues for racks, benches, weights and cables. Please consider redesigning the layout to better meet actual demands especially if you are going to oversubscribe it so heavily.

Negative experience: Most of the time all of the equipment is taken

Fantastic experience: Really clean and friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Good

Fantastic experience: Good gym. Very clean and staff are friendly.

Fantastic experience: Solid gym, good equipment and great staff. Very reasonably priced too.

Fantastic experience: Girls looking cool, guys looking sexy, smells nice, dumbbells are not greasy. Best place in town ngl

Negative experience: It's a busy, tiny gym with no booking system. I've cancelled my membership because 80% of my visits were met with queues for benches and most machines. Sometimes there isn't even space to queue. I've had to completely reconfigure my life so that I can arrive at esoteric hours, and it's gotten so bad that I've joined a different gym in Clapham despite it being a 30 minute walk away from me.

Positive experience: Very clean and efficient gym. Own shower rooms as well. Click in and out using pass or temp pass. Staff helpful and gym suited to a wide range of users!!

Negative experience: Avoid - cancel your contract and they send debt collectors!

Fantastic experience: A bit busy, but clean and fresh!!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in south London

Positive experience: Really good gym but too busy all the time

Fantastic experience: The first gym I’ve managed to keep going to. Been a member for over a year and they have made me feel welcome, not judged and encouraged me every step of the way. I’ve a personal trainer Micha and she’s been excellent and the rest of the team are always really helpful and loads of classes to chose from that are not huge so you get real guidance if you want it. Wish I’d have found a place like this years ago!

Fantastic experience: Just fantastic!! In comparison to other AF that I have visited, Balham rocks!! Clean, friendly, professional. Proud that it's my home club!

Positive experience: Love it. Only wish it was bigger as it can get busy in the evenings.

Fantastic experience: Great value for money in my opinion. Equipment is very good and they just redid the functional fitness area as well. Facilities well looked after. Staff make themselves visible at all times I've been at the gym. Fruit and coffee freebies from time to time.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, everything works, clean and can always get a workout done even when busy, and also smells great.

Fantastic experience: Great experience at this very friendly, well equipped gym. Staff are helpful, in particular Christian

Positive experience: Gyms in Balham are very limited. Anytime is fine but it’s far too busy, especially at this time of year. Too much of the space is dedicated to cardio and stretching mats relative to the actual demand at peak times. For example, all the squat racks will typically be taken whilst the cardio machines are at less than 50% capacity. The central area with a few yoga mats is basically unused dead space and would benefit from more machines or squat racks. The space could be easily optimised to better serve customers, but at the moment it is falling short.

Positive experience: I have been to gyms all over the world.. and honestly I think this is one of the busiest I’ve ever been to…. No matter the time of day, it’s either busy.. or EXTREMELY busy.. To the point where you have to wait for most equipment. The gym is nice and well equipped but they could add even more free weights considering how many people they have signed up… Sometimes quite dissatisfying

Fantastic experience: A good gym to train at

Fantastic experience: Been going for a few months now and I have to say I’ve enjoyed my experience. Great facilities, friendly helpful staff, 24 hours so very convenient. Would definitely recommend.

Fantastic experience: This is the only gym I've been able to find that still offers 60 min classes with a decent variety (and at a reasonable price). The instructors are great, the gym itself is really well equipped and all the staff are lovely. Would definitely recommend

Fantastic experience: I've always been pleased with my visits to my gym in Balham, even more so now that I don't have to book slots for my visit! The staff are always really friendly, whether it's helping with email enquiries (I always get a fast, Friendly response) or inside the gym (people at the door are always smiley and welcoming). I've recently started going to more classes and I've been really impressed by them; the instructors are great, knowledgeable and make me feel comfortable.

Fantastic experience: This gym is pretty much perfect: from the vibe, clientele, staff and equipment. Always looking to improve and asking for feedback. Spotless. Free tea/coffee on the weekend , fruit on Fridays. Good choice of classes as well. New Pelaton bike has arrived. I find it hard to take a day off!

Fantastic experience: Best gym I've ever been to - great class options, good machines and different weights areas, amazing shower rooms. Using the beauty station with GHD hair styling tools has even become part of my weekly routine. Definitely recommend joining!!

Positive experience: The team are fantastic at Anytime Fitness Balham and really care about their clients. The gym is done to a good standard, kept clean and well spaced out. This does make it a popular gym and so is very busy during peak times and you struggle to get on to certain machines. Have suggested they move the class dumb bells to outside the main studio so that there are extra for other gym goers to use if there is a limited selection when it's busy.

Fantastic experience: Very well kitted out and clean gym, plus never too busy even at peak times.

Fantastic experience: Really great selection of classes and lovely team

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Balham. Been a member since 2020 and I just loved. Staff are amazing, all the instructions are super good and friendly!

Negative experience: Gym always full, there’s always a queue for any of the equipment you want to use, unless you head down after 9pm… Good selection of equipment, but there are just far too many members. Also nigh on impossible to get out of a membership even though the gym isn’t fit for purpose

Positive experience: Great gym next to the station ,would you guys add the hack squat machine by any chance?

Fantastic experience: Jerome at Anytime Fitness has been great. He always welcomes me in with a smile and makes me feel welcome and comfortable in the gym which has been an issue in the past coming into other gyms and feeling confident. Jerome has encouraged me along my fitness journey.

Fantastic experience: World’s busiest gym. Lovely staff and always super clean.

Positive experience: Basic gym equipments. Reasonable sized gym floor but can be packed at peak times. Friendly and helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: Anytime fitness balham is the best gym in South London,the cleanliness of amenities as well as the availability of workout equipment is second to none,all the staff are welcoming and approachable and will endeavour to assist you with any questions or requirements one has,the gym listens to its clients and constantly upgrades and adapts to their needs,good work ,Reideen,Jerome and Rob and all the trainers and staff at anytime fitness BALHAM

Fantastic experience: Definitely the best gym in the Balham/Clapham area. Great equipment and fun/productive classes. Since joining there seems to be a lot of positive changes, so they are definitely listening to their members. Great vibes, and not as busy as other local clubs. Staff really friendly and the gym manager Christian is approachable and very helpful. Suggestion: more drum and bass music would be great to help push people during their workout sessions!

Fantastic experience: Great gym, close to Balham station which is ideal. Got lots of kit and classes to pick from. Special mention for the manager who was amazing in looking after us on our first visit to the gym.

Fantastic experience: I just can’t describe how good this gym. The staff is very friendly and professional. The cleanliness is exceptional - the place looks spotless. I really like the layout of the place - instead of typical open space gym, it have various separate areas (cardio section, stretch, machines) so the place never feels noisy and doesn’t feel crowded even during busier times. It also has a section to sit and relax (there is even a coffee machine here) as well ‘a vanity area’ where there are mirrors and hairdryer in case you need to get your hair or makeup done. Showers are also great and clean. Considering how great this gym is, I feel that the pricing is very reasonable. For many years, I’d been a member of a different gym and I can honestly say that this one is so much better. I highly recommend it.

Negative experience: The second WORST gym in London. Monday to Wednesday you still have to book a slot. It absolutely make sense as this gym is overloaded with new members for its capacity. After 6AM it will be no piece of equipment available unless you come for treadmill (some days even that is not guaranteed). It’s ALWAYS busy. And of course racks to squat and deadlift will be used for bench press or hip thrust. Very basic machines and equipment. Very poor hygiene, toilets are disgusting, everywhere is dirty regardless you come in the morning or afternoon. There always will be paper towels, antibacterial spray or wipes missing around the gym (I was told that it was an issue with supplier once, but as time goes by it seems to be ongoing problem). Managers are just as useless as letter G in word lasagna, any request you have will be referred to “gym policy”, not to mention that they are really rude, disrespectful and not willing to help at all. Personal training is just as poor as gym hygiene. Honestly, there are better places.

Positive experience: Great gym with very modern feel & up to date equipment. Perfect location in the centre of Balham with very friendly staff! Not 5 stars because it can get VERY busy at peak times leading to difficulty finding space and available equipment. However, would highly recommend, plenty of free classes to try so good value for money!