PureGym Oxford Templars Shopping Park

Negative experience: Gym buddy access didn't work and noone was around to help

Positive experience: Nice friendly team here in Oxford Temple Mills. Adequate levels of equipment, clean, pleasant to train in and its not full of posers.

Fantastic experience: cheap and lots of guest passes

Negative experience: IMpure can't flush your excrements nor shower yourself. Absolute filth. For how long can you run a gym and not be bothered to fix your water supply?

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Fantastic experience: Mensalidade acessível, academia com bons equipamentos

Negative experience: Please read! This gym is the worst ive ever been to. It’s boiling inside (presumably to save a few quid on having aircon), it’s always packed, there are only two benches and 3 rubbish squat racks. It’s so difficult to find a machine that’s free. No one puts the dumbbells in the right plac. But worst of all is the toilets/changing room. The always smell and obviously are not cared for enough. I guess it’s so well subscribed pure gym don’t care about fixing the place. Going to stop my membership and find literally any other gym. Btw, it’s not just me. Heed the warnings of the other low star reviews.

Fantastic experience: Excellent experience

Positive experience: Membership is the cheapest in town so it worths the money

Fantastic experience: "PureGym at Oxford Templars Shopping Park is a top-notch fitness facility that offers a great workout experience. The gym is well-equipped with modern machines and free weights, catering to all fitness levels. The space is clean, with ample room for both cardio and strength training. Flexible membership options and 24/7 access make it convenient for fitting workouts into any schedule. The friendly staff and supportive atmosphere enhance the overall experience. Perfect for anyone looking to stay fit in Cowley!"

Fantastic experience: Love it nice people nice place to just do your goals

Positive experience: Good place just the toilets are nasty and so are most of the people using them (as in they don’t was their hands or flush)

Negative experience: Really disappointed from my visit yesterday, waited outside for assistance more than 25 min by pressing the assistance button, no one came to help me ,even the customers of the gym noticed that and try help me by finding someone, I visit same gym puregym in Reading Basingstoke road ,never had issues with the staff and nothing at all,but this one in Oxford Temple Square especially is the worst experience that I had with all my visits to the gyms.

Positive experience: I started going to this gym as this is the one my partner goes to. It gets pretty busy there, but it's generally okay. However, what constantly bothers me when I go is how warm it is! I start sweating before I start, and I’m usually weak towards the cold.

Negative experience: The most stupid cancellation ever. Don’t join because they don’t want you to opt out.

Fantastic experience: Just rejoined after a long period of absence due to medical reasons, but had no Question of where to start my journey back to health and fitness…. I recommend any of the PureGym locations as I have trained in a number of them all over the south of England and I’ve not had a single bad experience!!!

Positive experience: The facilities are a bit good but could be better compared to other puregyms across the country. My pet peeve is that the water bubbler and toilets sometimes don't work. But if that doesn't bother you, then it is a really good gym with all the basics there. It does get full during the peak hours so the machines will require you to wait. The gym people are generally cool about sharing, though. The staff are also friendly though they change every few months but that is the nature of these jobs I guess. The PTs are definitely a huge part of the experience, guiding beginners through the paces.

Positive experience: A gym equipped for all workout

Fantastic experience: Best spin class by Karolis… Amazing workout

Fantastic experience: Cycle with Karolis is the highlight of my training week, always works you hard without it feeling intimidating. 10/10

Fantastic experience: Cycling Excellent!!!

Fantastic experience: I'm newbie to the gym and joined on the advice of my physiotherapist after a bad knee injury. I've always found gyms to be intimidating spaces, so I decided to work with a PT to boost my knowledge and confidence in using the equipment. I've been working with Chris Ntezi and he's been fantastic. He has such a brilliant and positive attitude, and loads of knowledge, which has made the sessions fun and has totally changed my perception of the gym. I've made a full recovery from the injury and have gained so much confidence in a short space of time. I definitely recommend him as a PT whatever your level of fitness. Thanks Chris!

Fantastic experience: Relatively cheap and good kit for a wide range of people. If you could just put a silencer of the grunting weight clanging testosterone junkies it would be perfect...

Fantastic experience: Excellent group session!

Fantastic experience: Karolis is the best fitness instructor, the classes that he does are very good and interactive!

Fantastic experience: Always love the Thursday L,B+T class with Aaron!

Fantastic experience: Spinning on a Saturday morning with maxine is a breath of fresh air.

Fantastic experience: I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience with the cycle cardio gym class. The energetic and motivating atmosphere created by the instructor makes each session both challenging and enjoyable. The well-curated music playlists keep me engaged and motivated throughout the workout.The cycle cardio class has become a highlight of my fitness routine, and I look forward to each session as an opportunity to push my limits and improve my overall health and well-being.

Fantastic experience: Really enjoy Aaron classes and advice

Fantastic experience: Karolis

Fantastic experience: Amazing classes and very friendly staff!

Fantastic experience: I come most mornings, the place is always clean and tidy except one time i found poo on the toilet lid.. lucky the cleaner is very polite and friendly and cleared it up straight away with no issues seen him workout after his shifts, Dude keeps me motivated. The gym staff are always nice never had a bad interaction with them. Always smiling and saying hello. Keep it up PureGym

Fantastic experience: Awesome ️‍♀️️‍♀️

Positive experience: Perfect place to get some quick gym time

Negative experience: Worst gym I've been to including other puregyms. Massively oversubscribed, weights all over the place, poorly maintained equipment, nasty toilets, whole gym stinks especially upstairs. Absolute shambles, wish I checked before getting a 1 year student membership instead of assuming it would be as good as the other puregyms I've used.

Positive experience: Great atmosphere, freindly, spacious. had a great PT here but mens changing room smells of rotten piss

Positive experience: Good gym always clean but not enough classes for the membership you pay and no pilates at all

Positive experience: good gym! But with some problems...

Positive experience: It's a clean and sophisticated place equipped with enough training materials. It's a nice place anyone could even go.

Fantastic experience: Good and organised

Fantastic experience: Very nice gym, clean and with plenty of machines and courses. Free parking for the first 3 hours too!

Fantastic experience: This gym always has friendly staff and has a pleasant atmosphere. I never feel like I'm competing for equipment and the classes are excellent

Negative experience: Worn out equipment & incredibly dirty. But a good selection of machines.

Positive experience: It's got everything you would expect from a PG and the staff are nice enough but I've been to 5 different PGs this year (work/travel around a lot) and this is by far the filthiest/ messiest one. Hardly a free weight is in its right place, or else left on the floor, bottles lying around everywhere, toilets stink, chewing gum on the floor... Definitely needs a tidy.

Negative experience: This gym is a headache. Confusing website, app is region locked to the UK so if your device is from another country, forget it. Even ripping the apk from a UK device didn't work. Form requires you to fill out a LOT of personal info and their use in the privacy policy is unclear. Pin is supposedly sent "immediately" but took quite a long while to be emailed. Clean gym with great atmosphere and cheap entry fee, but poorly equipped, feels disorganised and slightly unsafe, and lacks disabled access (the one wheelchair accessible toilet in the women's was out of order, a plumber was supposedly supposed to come fix it within four hours, never came). Loads of equipment for cardio, but lack of proper freeweight workout support: you WILL NOT find dumbells below 5kg. There aren't many proper dumbell racks and many dumbells are placed on very low shelves which I'm pretty sure are not made for that (and will ruin your back). There are five adjustable benches total in the WHOLE two-story gym. The machines also require you to load them with actual barbell plates, which could easily injure you... Decent for heavy lifters, experienced gym-goers and people who only do cardio I suppose, but if you're a beginner lifter, or trying to target an underdevelopped muscle group, would not recommend. Also, if you do not want to have to dodge dumbells scattered across the floor, come during staffed hours. I'm glad I only paid for one day. If you have no other alternative within your budget, by all means go for it, but personally, I will be going to a different gym next time.

Fantastic experience: The vibes are immaculate! The staff are fantastic; - Aaron and Adela are awesomely adept athletes. - Chris is a caring clear communicator. - Emma is enthusiastic and exemplary. - Jack and Jake are both jaunty and jacked. - Karolis is kindhearted and knowledgeable - Liam is a legitimate living legend. - Rory is a reasonably rambunctious, remarkably radient coach who is reliable and rapidly responsive. - Tom is tremendous. But the male toilets could do with increased airflow, a clear oversight by the architects.

Fantastic experience: Good stuff The IKEA of gyms because they are all ears.

Fantastic experience: I love to work out here. The gym is well equipped.Trainers are available to help when needed. The gym is mostly busy, but there are quiet times

Negative experience: Showers never clean windows cover in bird poo and not nice to look out the window cos they always dirty

Positive experience: Great team of staff members, who are all very friendly and knowledgable. Most equipment works but can be times when equipment is out of use for a while.

Negative experience: Been coming to this gym for a long time and it’s honestly sad to see how neglect and a lack of investment has affected it. Not enough equipment, too many members and not enough space to train in. They now run multiple classes simultaneously obviously to get more money in, but that means there isn’t adequate space or equipment for non class members to train. Staff are unhelpful and rude - when speaking to a manager about it the response was essentially “nothing we can do”. Really poor, just avoid it if you want to train seriously.

Positive experience: Full fledged gym with good equipment

Fantastic experience: I love my local PureGym. This one isn't my local. It looked great from the outside, but wasn't included in my PureGym multi-gym membership (read the small print, folks!) so no Oxford workout for me

Fantastic experience: Amazing.

Positive experience: Overall very decent gym for the price you pay. They have lots of equipment and a range of classes. I just wish that the classes were longer and they had more classes in the early part of the afternoon. The trainers are great, I had an introduction to weight lifting for women from Adela and she made me feel really at ease, I now feel very confident to use the free weights area. I would recommend her and her classes in particular.

Negative experience: Very rude staff. Never help or got time for anyone. Last time there was a new guy he wanted to join the gym and was waiting by the door, he asked me to ask one of the staff that could come out and help him. I went inside and approached the manager, i asked her there is a new guy waiting outside by the door needs help she got really rude to me and told me off. Later I found out she is the manager at pure gym. Couldn't be bother and decided not go there again. I would rather pay few pounds extra but never ever go there again.

Fantastic experience: great

Fantastic experience: Nice location and well maintained

Fantastic experience: Great gym and top PTing with Wendy and continue hitting my goals

Positive experience: Good open layout. Is far too busy in the evenings and you end up waiting for ages.

Negative experience: The air conditioning is turned on too strong. If you sweat too much and stay under the air, you risk having a nice headache

Fantastic experience: superb clean and well equipped and timings are so cool 24/7

Positive experience: Oxford Templars Square. Generally a good gym with a lot of equipment. However, as a guest user I was denied access with the code when I went 2nd time with someone who put me as his gym buddy. The code didn't work. We had to go back home and sort out a new code and went back the next day. Another issue is cold showers. This is something requiring immediate attention as cold days are here and there's nothing worse than a cold shower on a cold day. This is a reoccurring issue at this gym, I've seen other people complaining about this too. Please fix it and you may have more people signing up for membership.

Fantastic experience: Good gym

Fantastic experience: Nice gym

Fantastic experience: Magnifique

Fantastic experience: It's a good gym with lots of equipment and a relatively large training area. One can also avail services of personal trainers. People are very respectful of each other.

Fantastic experience: An amazing gym, highly recommend for people of all shapes, colours and sizes.

Positive experience: The main benefit of PureGym is national access and generous opening hours. This gym in particular has all the equipment I like, a boditrax scanner, clean facilities and a positive atmosphere. The PT's are approachable, though I haven't had the chance to book a class yet. Edit 27/10/2022 @ 0212am They have now removed the boditrax scanner, though the rest of my review still stands. Edit 27/07/2023 @0734am Still no boditrax

Fantastic experience: I love the classes esp the ones by Liam, Phoebe, Emma and Karolis! If you are new to going to gym like me, highly recommend starting with going to classes!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town 24/7

Fantastic experience: So clean. There was a gym floor guy cleaning the area I was in and I had to tell him how amazing it looked compared to alot of other pure gyms I'd been to. Hats off to him

Fantastic experience: Emma’s spin classes are awesome

Positive experience: Consistently good classes with Liam Wain, and great PTs generally, thank you!

Positive experience: Great sized PureGyms, loads of equipment, plenty of space. However, getting very tired, could do with a refresh, looks shabby compared to newer PureGyms in the area. Pet peve the dumbbells are horrifically out of order, not the gym's fault, lazy users

Fantastic experience: It's a great place. No complains.

Fantastic experience: Good gym, helpful and knowledge stuff. One of the largest gyms in Oxford, Oxfordshire

Positive experience: Good price but busy some times. Staffs are down to earth.

Fantastic experience: The gym is generally pretty okay. It gets a bit busy after 6pm on weekdays, but otherwise it's a good gym.

Fantastic experience: Really nice gym would recommend it to a friend. Good value for money

Positive experience: It's okay, good to just get in Shape. Not really the full gym experience. No steam room or recovery room

Positive experience: Lovely gym, not keen on the studio. The 3/4 height walls don't block out the music from the gym floor and therefore it's difficult to hear anyone speaking without a mic!

Negative experience: Avoid Avoid Avoid Trouble gym rude useless staff Very low place dusty no clean

Fantastic experience: You know what you're getting when you visit a Pure gym. The Oxford gym is well equipped with a range or weights and cardio machines. It's easily accessible from the town centre. I will certainly visit again while away with work in this area.

Fantastic experience: Really big, very spacious, much less crowded than the city centre one. Just don't go at 6pm and you'll be fine. Best gym in Oxford.

Positive experience: Awesome place to train

Fantastic experience: Lots of space. Equipment is very well looked after. Staff is friendly and approachable. Great location next to shopping area and cafés if one wants to grab something to eat and/or drink post-workout.

Positive experience: Pure gym in general a have a good standard equipment so its all the same but I'd prefer City center one as they are less crowded than this one

Positive experience: It's a good pure gym. The changing room (men's) is good and was clean and tidy when I went. The cardio and weights machines were in good condition and the cardio stuff had screens between them. First time in a while I have seen pure gym staff, they were helpful.

Positive experience: If people put there weights and accessories away afterwards it'd be better. Nearly tripped over a few times. Otherwise clean and well looked after.

Fantastic experience: Have been going to this gym for 3 years , always clean and great range of equipment, The staff are friendly and there’s a good range of classes. PTs are also very good especially Liam

Negative experience: Couple of machines desperately need a service. Sanitation stations virtually empty both times i went. Didcot puregym much better managed

Negative experience: l don't know l did not go there

Fantastic experience: It's very large and givo you 3 hours free parking

Positive experience: Favorite pure gym location in Oxford. Staff are great and the building is spacious and large. Although busy at times, there’s always a free machine. Covid restrictions were applied especially the headcount.

Fantastic experience: Nice

Positive experience: Inside is ok but why 15£ plus if you want an monthly contract?

Positive experience: I mostly enjoy going to this gym, it has all the necessary equipment and is vibrant. There is a good range of classes. On the downside, it is very crowded at peak times and it is difficult to get on to the exercise equipment, the toilet often tends to be horribly messy, use your imagination! Clearly, there are members who are not respectful of the facility. On the point of dodgy members, my wife had her new Samsung cell phone S20 going missing on 31.05.2021, it appears someone managed to open her locker in the ladies changing rooms, the locker had a Pure Gym padlock. The thief also seemed to have taken pictures of her credit card without removing it from her wallet. The phone went missing between 5pm and 7 pm and by 7.10pm, our bank alerted us that someone was trying to use the banking app. At around the same time someone tried to use the credit card to buy £320 worth of clothing. Fortunately, both attempts were blocked by our bank. Clearly, this shows that experienced thieves are operating in the gym. They have the capability to break phone pass code, open pad locks and try to conceal the event for as long as possible so they could commit fraud. Note that the changing rooms do not have CCTV cameras and presumably, the thief was aware of it. We requested CCTV examination of the two hours during which we lost the phone but this seems to be beyond the staff duties. The police said they would only be interested if there was actual footage of the theft. My advice, don't take valuables into the gym, don't use the lockers in the changing rooms and don't use a Pure Gym padlock. The staff are young and active and try to help, mostly they are busy with their clients. Having said all this, I am not aware of a better gym in Oxford in terms of costs and benefits, if there was something better then I would move. So I am still giving three stars.

Fantastic experience: Everything super maybe except information about closing locker's at night. On the door should be details about it. Besides this gym is really nice and have everything you need to train properly