JD Gyms Leeds North

Positive experience: Despite the gym being so large most of the time I cant get on the machines I want. And end up standing around so long I end u0 leaving without using them (i dont visit at peak times i've tried all times between 8am - 2pm). The music is also SO incredibly LOUD. I can still hear it over my own and its so overwhelming, sometimes i feel like my head might explode. Its the most unfriendly place I have ever been. Nobody makes eye contact. Nobody helps. You smile at somebody they dont smile back. This goes for staff aswell, which, even if i was stuck I wouldnt approach as it always seems you would be intruding on an intimate conversation. Its just a really unfriendly, massive warehouse tbh. Most of the time there arent any clips for the barbells and last week after struggling to reposition the moveable bench for 5 or 6 mins and it falling off and smashing my phone (£325 repair) did somebody offer to help. Tbh i've paid my membership but will start to look for somewhere else. I did try Spin class as i used to go all the time but I didnt enjoy the classes here, the ones I went to the male and female instructors just seemed to scream and shout, not my kinda thing. Parking onstreet or carpark. I imagine you'd struggle peak times but i've always managed to get parked. So yeah, its ok but not sure i'd recommend it

Negative experience: Lots of broken equipment that takes ages to fix and equipment that isn't well maintained.

Negative experience: Refurbished few years back before covid and like before not been looked after so many machines broken or severely worn. All these signs up since covid and now not a single cleaning station for the machines. Personally, I'm not bothered for covid, but general hygiene is out the window.

Negative experience: I was joining this gym four years ago Still the shower, toilet, the same !! I hope they do something about it because it’s a lovely gym massive fan of JD gym

Fantastic experience: Really enjoying the gym especially the Strong by Zumba /HIIT class with Des.

Positive experience: A smartphone ban would increase the productivity of this gym by at least 50%.

Positive experience: they gym is fine, but please can you put some labels on the matrix machines as you have no idea what weight you are lifting since all the labels have been taken off, it's cheap to do and really important to know what weight I am lifting also please provide more 1.25kg weights so on exercises I can do better progressive overload

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym although I've never spoken to the members of staff before but I'm sure they are friendly the gym is humongous which is useful and the equipment is really appreciated

Negative experience: Thinking of leaving due to lack of leg extension machines. Only one with nearly 10,000 is ridiculous.

Negative experience: Poor quality or faulty Air con in main gym and ladies only.

Positive experience: If you know how to work out, many people aren't a problem but damaged machines are. Many of them should be replaced.

Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment, clean and decent parking. Gets busy at peak times, but that’s to be expected.

Positive experience: Showers r getting worse now

Fantastic experience: This gym is fantastic! It's equipped with everything you could possibly need, and staff maintains it well. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking for a top-notch workout experience.

Negative experience: Past year became a kindergarten gym. All early teens now attending with no adults along. There has been more demanding of people comi g to the gym too. Making it impossible to get a machine free soon. Specially with the children coming in groups of 5. Since covid just came unpleasent attending this gym . They invested in more new machines but in the end doesnt matter. People dont get the support needed, children attend the gym by themselves, bad parking, machines also damaged many times and poor offer of classes as they always get easily fully booked with queues outside sometimes 20mins before class starts. Would not recommend machine at all. Looking to move soon.

Positive experience: Not a bad gym. Running machines could be a better quality brand. Not the best to run on compared to the likes of Technogym and other similar top end brands. It’s very busy, especially at peak times which would be expected; although it’s large enough to cope with the volume of people. Had all the equipment I need. In fact; it has more than any other standard gyms (sled + carpet), excluding the like of Crossfit/Hyrox gyms which is what I want. The changing rooms are a little tight, shower are poor. Half of them broken. And it smells, only grumble is the changing rooms.

Positive experience: Very nice gym, clean, and machinery is spread out pretty comfortably. Important for all the nightly people: the changing rooms are not open 24/7, so plan accordingly

Positive experience: Nice site to exercise, plenty of machines than make you life easy.

Fantastic experience: Big fan of the female only room, generally plenty of machines available, cold drinking water in the entrance, great saunas in the changing rooms, never too full, basic showers but always very clean

Positive experience: Good gym tons of equipment. However, I go at different times every day and the weights are always all over the place. The changing rooms and toilets are pretty unclean. More often than not there is no toilet roll.

Positive experience: Never had a problem in this gym however today when conducting my workout I was cut short and told I wasn't allowed to be the hall (where all the working ski ergs are because a class was starting. And just to add to that it was a zumba class, so the machines were not being used. Pretty annoying when I'm paying for a membership, and expect to be able to use all the equipment that the gym has to offer.

Positive experience: Pros- Got all the equipment I need including a sauna that really helps my chronic pain - all at a decent price and good parking. Staff are lovely and friendly. Cons - half the showers are out of order or low pressure, broken shower door locks, broken shower lights, no soap or broken dispenser, often no accessible toilet roll, leaking roof. On occasion all the showers break with no warning at reception. The changing rooms are really letting it down and they’ve had months to fix the basics. I don’t need to be thanked for my review, just fix the very fixable problems. When you’ve done that I’ll update the above.

Positive experience: I love this gym, the staff are nice the others working out are helpful when they see you struggling. I wouldn’t recommend going at night unless you drive.

Negative experience: Used to love this gym, they’ve taken on too many people now and you can’t get a parking or get on any runners, bikes or cross trainers unless you go after 7 which isn’t always feasible. Classes are jam packed and not fun when you’re tripping over people

Negative experience: Men’s toilets and changing rooms are unfortunately always disgusting and in a horrible condition, never any hand soap, soap dispensers off the wall, roof always leaking, toilets always a mess and constantly smell.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym

Positive experience: Well equipped modern gym floor, affordable, free classes, sauna and parking are great but it’s only worth going during off peak as peak times are way too busy (which can’t be avoided to be fair other than opening up some more branches) with basically every piece of equipment in use. Other than that the men’s changing room is a unhygienic disgrace and it seems to be getting worse recently with people chucking empty bottles and dirty tissues all over the place like neanderthals when there’s a bin provided, having said that i’ve never once seen cleaning staff which is the main issue. The other issues are the showers are cold which hasn’t been addressed for months despite plenty of complaints and the floor between the showers and sauna is usually flooded which is a slip hazard, the toilets constantly stink, the layout of benches/lockers is uncomfortably narrow, and there’s no water fountain to top up water in the main workout area or upstairs so you have to go by the entrance water fountain every time. Fix these issues and replace all the broken cable machine attachments and I’d give it 5 stars but as things are it’s only ideal using this gym if you can go during off peak hours and avoid the changing room completely.

Negative experience: Very good gym. But biggest downside. It’s too godamn busy don’t even bother going between 4pm and 8pm. It’s horrendous. You ll be wasting time waiting for machines. And won’t have an effective workout.

Negative experience: Changing rooms are unhygienic, every time I go it’s unclean, toilets are BAD when I say bad, they are not cleaned at all, sauna is also not clean. There is an increase in people turning up ill to sauna and everyone else then after using sauna also becoming ill including myself. The floor is dirty the showers are not working for the past 8 months. Where was this refurb? Have you refurbed anything in the changing rooms apart from the mirror? This hygiene issue needs to be sorted and quick because covid 19 should have been an eye opener but clearly it’s not- regardless of covid or not your facilities should still be clean. I would appreciate this if this feedback was to be taken into action and I see an increase in cleanliness and I see signs across the changing rooms to advise people that if you’d ill to kindly not use the sauna as it does affect others massively

Fantastic experience: 2nd largest Jd Gym in the country. Big range of equipment. Amazing staff and gym atmosphere. Professional gym goers with no nuisance.

Positive experience: Showers haven’t worked properly for the past 6 month and the actual gym is turning in to a youth club with kids just messing about on the equipment, other than that it’s decent

Positive experience: Good all-around gym from cardio to weight lifting. It's hard to get on equipment when it's busy

Fantastic experience: Only what's missing at this Gym is a safety squat bar, apart of that I love it.

Positive experience: Good gym but let down by the showers

Negative experience: Massive upgrade this year so the Gym floor is great. However, let down by the changing facilities. Cramped, outdated, only half the showers working at the minute.

Positive experience: Very good but they only let you go once a day which isn’t ideal. They should change that as it’s annoying especially if you leave something in your car and then if you go back you won’t be able to get back in without waiting for someone to let you in which isn’t ideal.

Positive experience: Gym itself is great. Would be 5 stars, but the showers are awful.

Positive experience: The equipment is fine, but the exchange room and toilet are very dirty.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, big and clean, generally tidy too. Props to the staff for keeping it friendly and welcoming

Fantastic experience: Love the gum. It’s clean and the atmosphere is perfect for me. Classes are super. And my personal trainer Dan. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: I’ve been a member since they opened and have found this gym chain to be the best value for money around. I’m so glad this is my home gym as the equipment level is excellent and staff are always helpful. After using other chains JD is easily the best.

Fantastic experience: Excellent. Not been to this one in a long time, but they've improved it dramatically since I was last here. Only problem, I pay to use all the jd gyms but couldn't get entry until someone let me in. Luckily someone was here because it was pre 3am. If you pay for a service you should be able to access it.

Positive experience: Nice place to train. Have all the equipment but atmosphere is a bit unfriendly and cold

Fantastic experience: Just went for a look around today. Impressive set up, but more importantly, good people working there. Max showed me round and explained everything. I’ll be signing up tonight.

Fantastic experience: First time here. Found staff to be really helpful

Fantastic experience: 5 stars to Beth the manager for being amazing regarding a complaint I had with a PT. If I could rate a PT with the initials DB I would give a 1 out of 5 as I had a shocking experience and found it happened to a few others. I have ended up being out of pocket due to the situation and I wouldn’t want anyone else to experience what I did. I nearly cancelled my membership all together due to my bad experience with him but thanks to Danny Pickup my new PT I’m super motivated and happy to be training again

Negative experience: The cleaner at midnight (fair skin chubby foreign guy) needs to be sacked. Made me feel really uncomfortable as I worked out just staring at me from start till finish and almost felt like he was following me around my work outs.

Fantastic experience: Cheap and has excellent facilities

Negative experience: Used this one instead of the Castleford one for a change as heading straight to work afterwards. Upon entering signs had been put up to say no showers avaialble for a week!!! Not on the website or communicated before people travel to use the facilities. Will stick to the Castleford one from now on as just poor

Positive experience: Good gym, new bodyweight training rig, gymnastic rings, climbing rope and punch bags are a great addition! Only issue is that you can only access the gym with the app, so if your phone dies, or data runs out and there's no staff you basically can't get in. Thanks to Gaz for showing me around the gym, really friendly staff member!

Fantastic experience: Good gym, plenty of equipment, it’s a bonus to have the boxing bags and the sauna. Recently refurbished and with plenty new machines.

Negative experience: If COVID 19 was to recirculate and spread viciously. It would start from the men’s toilets/showers in this gym. Vile and disgusting. Needs immediate refurbishment.

Negative experience: Does anyone apart from staff actually put their weights away… the usual well equipped jd gym put my god the weights left out!

Positive experience: Good range of equipment. Occasional waits to use some items. Personal trainers available for a fee. Open 24 hours. Good value, but a few niggles over time it takes for machines to be repaired.

Positive experience: 10/10 gym but the showers are horrendous. In all but one of the showers the water pressure is poor and comes out in small amounts. The sauna door doesn’t work properly as you have to slam it to make it close, I don’t know why because in other jd gyms the sauna door closes correctly without an issue. Staff are very friendly and helpful. The only outstanding issue is the showers water pressure.

Positive experience: Huge and extremely well equipped, so glad I moved here from pure gym as it’s much, much better for functional/sport s&c training. Loads of Olympic lifting racks, sled track. My only complaint is the music- don’t like the playlist and it’s too loud so I can fully hear it above my headphones!!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic Gym Value For Money. Knowledgeable Staff. Friendly And Inviting Atmosphere. Highly Recommend..

Positive experience: The gym has recently been refurbished with new equipment which is very good, but the air conditioning wasn't working on Monday and it was almost unbearable. Hence only 3 stars

Negative experience: Update May ‘24 Gents bathroom is still disgusting, ceiling still leaking. Work has not started. School kids use the changing room for lunch and to vape. Changing room is a health hazard. Update April ‘24 Gents bathroom still filthy and roof still leaking. Gym floor is becoming a playground for teenage kids schooling in groups with street clothes on playing with their phones and holding on to equipment. Update March ‘24 To my previous review: you got to sort the male bathroom. No functioning soap dispensers and once hanging usually out of soap, and FYI the roof is leaking, the changing room and bathrooms are filthy. I saved you the more embarrassing photos. No need for counter comment, just sort it. Photos will speak for its own. Will re-review in a month. Too crowded, you can't do a decent scheduled work out, you're just lucky to get hold of a machine. On top of that the site of people yawning and playing with their phones between sets is not encouraging at all, and if you ask to do a set in between they take offence or never heard of that concept. Furthermore it seems this gym has become a hang out place for people who have nothing else to do, you see groups of students loitering and just chilling on the mats or in the locker rooms. Once in the gym put a max 2 hr time limit, hang signs that equipment must be shared.

Positive experience: Unfortunately there seems to have been a drive to get more new members and it’s become extremely busy again it’s busy from 6am onwards

Fantastic experience: Good gym with plenty of equipment. Staff are very friendly. Major problem is men's showers. Engineer not solving issues of cold intermittent showers. Issue with showers is a long term issue ( 12 months or more ) NEEDS SORTING ASAP.

Fantastic experience: Great experience at JD Gyms - North. Beth the manager was extremely kind and helped me get a water bottle from the vending machine as I didn’t have my card on me and only had cash. Also when I was in the female sauna I noticed Beth again and she was cleaning the girls shower area and I thought she was working very hard. It’s nice to see staff like Beth at the gym, who are hardworking and kind.

Fantastic experience: Much better after the new refurbishments. Still gets really busy

Fantastic experience: RECENTLY RENOVATED SUPER GYM. This excellent gym has been open for a while, but now they've renovated it with new machines and equipment and it's a MEGA gym now! They've done away with a Burn Studio and replaced it with an all-new Eleiko Functional Training Rig and Weightlifting Platforms. Gone are all the old cardio machines and brand new Matrix ones installed. They've also added a few new weights machines and redone the exercise studio. The layout is generally the same, you still get nice changing rooms and saunas, but it's now much better equipped for people who like functional training. Oh, and it's now open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - so if you're looking for a low cost gym that you can train anytime, this is the place for you. WARNING - on first instance, it's not immediately obvious where to park. There are free parking spaces around the gym and an overflow car-park opposite the entrance. But you have to DRIVE PAST the turn in, and turn left into the overflow building to access the covered car park. If you miss it, you have to drive around again, as it's a one way system.

Negative experience: The main section i cannot fault but the ladies only section is ridiculous and outdated. It’s very small, not many dumbells and the equipment is very outdated in comparison to the main area. There has been a lot of new equipment and a lot of money clearly spent to upgrade the gym but it’s clear nothing has changed with the ladies only section. The main section will obviously be a priority however i think it’s unfair to leave the ladies gym unattended. I almost fell off of the stair master at one point as it is so wobbly. The cable rope is worn down and a lot of the machines are rusty. Alongside this i believe the more “sexualised” machines in which us women like to use to grow glutes and legs are somewhat on display in the main area as it’s in the middle section and i believe a lot of people will agree it’s not very comfortable to workout there. We have one squat rack with a very limited amount of plates and one hip thrust machine which is broken 90% of the time. Going into the main area which is obviously male dominated can be rather uncomfortable at times as some men have made remarks when walking by or mid set- i understand this isn’t the fault of the gym but there is a ladies only area for a reason but it’s too outdated to do majority of workouts.

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere. Great staff .. Great people

Positive experience: This gym needs another leg extension machine. There s always a que to get to that. There can't just be just one in such a big gym .

Positive experience: Overall, this is a great gym with plenty of equipment to handle normal busy periods. There are two reasons why I’ve not given the 5th star. First, sometimes the gym is very messy as employees are not reinforcing/reminding about re-racking etc. second, it is always expected to have a January peak period with “new year, new me’s”, however, offering no join fee along side a £5 first month promotion has caused an over surge in my opinion meaning I’ve switched from evening training to early morning (4am) just to be able to train without long waits for equipment. No join fee= YES severely low first month payment= NO Fantastic staff overall with friendly and approachable attitudes

Fantastic experience: Everything you want from a gym, including lots of parking.

Fantastic experience: The equipment is state of the art. The gym is usually quiet on an evening which is perfect time to train.

Negative experience: Unacceptable and rude behaviour from member of staff. Over the last few months I have been pushed off a machine by a member of staff there on two separate occasions. Yes, pushed off. The first time he pushed me away on my shoulder. The second occasion he grabbed my hand and physically moved it off the equipment. On neither occasion did he say anything, ask if it was okay for his client to use the machine, or speak to me in any way. He just used physical contact to force me off. The first time I was shocked to be honest, and just walked away. The second time I was really cross and challenged him directly. He just laughed at me and didn't respond, acknowledge me or apologise in any way. I have submitted a formal complaint, but the local management have been completely uninterested and unsupportive. I have asked for the complaint to be escalated, and weeks later I am waiting for a response. If you want to join a gym where there's a chance you will be physically removed from a machine by a member of staff, and where any complaint you raise will be treated with disdain, complete lack of interest, and lack of support, this is the gym for you. If you don't, please go somewhere else. I can't see how to add a reply to JD gyms and the comment they have made below. Can I make it clear that, no, a manager did not meet me in person to discuss. I had a first phone call from a manager some weeks after my original complaint. The manager promised to phone me back to work towards a resolution after two days. He didn't call back that day, but did eventually call several days after he promised. I don't particularly want to go on about this, but I'm not happy for JD's reply to contain falsehoods. These are all signs that management there has problems.

Negative experience: I joined a couple days ago for the first time and was very disappointed. The staff were extremely rude and disrespectful. The gym itself was very unhygienic, especially the showers. Obviously they do not hire cleaners and with the price I paid you would hope they did. If I could give it 0 stars I would. I definitely do not recommend going to this gym!

Positive experience: It's ok. The rowing machines often have flat batteries for their displays. Change rooms are clean and airy.

Negative experience: I guess you get what you pay for, its an ok gym, but is in desperate need of a deep clean and then regular cleaning, the changing rooms look and smell disgusting, be prepared to hold you nose if you dare to use the showers.

Positive experience: Nice gym along with a great selection of weights and machines. Good sized lockers and plenty of them to choose from. The gym is clean however the reason i would give this only 4 stars is because of people not re-racking the weights in order (8kg-50kg) and sometimes not re-racked at all. Along with plates (weights) can be all over the place. The gym i went to before had this organised and i think every gym should. Apart from that it's a good gym. The new machines and how it's been laid out recently is nice and some added space so it's not as crowded. Nice new design and feels a bit more modern.

Negative experience: I used to like jd gyms but lately getting rough . Probably will leave and try pure gym thorpe park. Maybe better standard of people

Negative experience: Women's gym area really small. The one time I tried the 'main bit' I was asked to leave main training area by a PT doing a session so no place to do weights / strength training, made me feel really inferior and not worthy of the area. Also PTs video record in the green main bit so you can't even work out without getting recorded.

Positive experience: £25 a month is very good value. I love the variation of classes and the times generally suit me. I've managed to make quite a few friends through the gym classes. Ellis and Alia's classes are great and Zoe's spin classes are always fun. The showers are generally okay but the maintenance that they do every now and then, does not improve them. There's black mould, in most of them (mostly on the ceiling and the edges of the sealant there) and some of the locks don't work.

Positive experience: It's a good gym. Open 24/7 which is great for me. There is a bit of out of service equipment for months with no change like leg press. Time for some action guys. They also have some good which is not configured to it's full potential like tread mill screens. Having state of the art kit but not connecting it to network and not configuring it right is bad.

Fantastic experience: Excellent value for money. Great equipment and clean

Negative experience: It was good once I got in after having some abuse and bad language from a asian youth

Positive experience: Nice clean gym, lots of variation in terms of equipment, recently a few of the treadmills have become unusable which isn't good as the gym is busier although there is a planned refurb so hope it's addressed

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym, and amazing price for what you get! Had a great first session and an in-depth tour with Andy. Highly recommend if you’re on a budget, but want good facilities and even a sauna!

Fantastic experience: Accessible. Clean. Good range of equipment and classes available

Fantastic experience: Excellent place to go . Knowing best time to go so you can get on machines you want to use. But good atmosphere. People are polite . Staff and gym users .

Fantastic experience: Absolutely incredible GYM, was really nervous as I haven't used a gym before but Beth was fantastic with me, showed me how to use the machines correctly and made sure I felt comfortable! So glad I chose this gym to be my gym!

Negative experience: The gym itself is decent, spacious, clean and good value for money, however, you lost 4 stars for the state of your showers. It's like showering in a urinal, the floors and sides need a good scrub as there is grime everywhere, it really is disgusting. With the showers you to deep clean them daily, and have them cleaned regularly as there is a large number of customers going through there daily. If you sort this issue I will restore your 5 star rating, before then I will have to leave you at a 1 star.

Negative experience: The showers are cold and stained with urine Cleaners are rarely seen especially on weekends, Broken parts on equipment takes ages to replace Can never find handles for cable when you can find some there usually broken Prices increased without notification Staff who work there try to stop you using equipment that no one is using Management team don't act on reported issues

Negative experience: Mens changing rooms extremely dirty

Fantastic experience: Great space, clean, lots of equipment and sauna!

Positive experience: Decent gym, large and open not crammed like some others. Would like to see more resistance equipment though.

Positive experience: Good gym but can be busy at times

Negative experience: Upgrade my membership so I went to JD North for a sunna in the changing rooms very dirty not clean had a sauna did not feel comfortable. In the busy time of the day .very disappointment nice machine down stairs but you would think with all the covert going on it have a cleaner .did not see one cleaner in the hole of the time I was in the changing room and sunna

Positive experience: Not a bad gym, gets busy at certain times. Only bad thing is when classes changes or gets cancelled they don't put it on there site or Facebook page!

Fantastic experience: It’s very massive gym with all necessary equipment. Good atmosphere only one small problem is that you can’t get anyone to help with understand equipment usages. Maybe needs same uniforms for personal. Otherwise all good

Positive experience: It's cheap at £20 a month and good value for money, lots of equipment, includes classes and a sauna. It does get rammed at peak times and its overwhelming. The music is literally blasting your eardrums out even with headphones on. But for the price, it's got everything you need and open 24hrs.

Fantastic experience: Great gym and Sauna too!

Fantastic experience: Great gym, well kept equipment and plenty of it along with great classes

Positive experience: Why isn't there a system that encourages people to clear away there equipment, once they have finished using it. It's down rite annoying, frustrating and dangerous to other users of your Gyms. Not to mention the idle staff, stood around that seem un-interested or un-faised about the situation. I can only assume that health and safety is not an essential requirement for your staff, as it is, with so many other gyms I have visited in my professional career.

Fantastic experience: Great gym everything you need for a full work out