Information about Essex Sport Gym Colchester

University of Essex Colchester Campus
CO4 3SQ, Colchester
+441206873250

Opening hours

  • sunday: 8h-22h
  • monday: 6:30-23h
  • tuesday: 6:30-23h
  • wednesday: 6:30-23h
  • thursday: 6:30-23h
  • friday: 6:30-23h
  • saturday: 8h-22h

Join Essex Sport today! Located within the University of Essex grounds, Essex Sport has a great range of memberships, facilities, fitness classes and more.

Take advantage of our Essex Sport membership packages for Students, Staff and members of the public giving you access to excellent facilities, including the state-of-the-art Essex Sport Arena, a cutting-edge gym, a variety of group fitness classes, and an extensive range of sports.

Our comment from FitFit UK about Essex Sport Gym Colchester:

Essex Sport Gym Colchester is a well-equipped gym located within the university, offering a variety of facilities and classes to accommodate fitness enthusiasts of all levels. Users appreciate the:

  • Excellent facilities including a wide range of equipment and classes, making it a great environment to achieve fitness goals.
  • Friendly and helpful staff who are always available to assist members and contribute to a positive atmosphere.
  • Affordability especially for students, with numerous options for activities such as climbing, squash, and tennis.
  • Overall cleanliness and maintenance, creating a welcoming space for workouts.
  • Energetic atmosphere that motivates individuals to push through their routines.

However, some users noted areas for improvement:

  • Limited equipment availability, with certain key machines missing.
  • The need for refurbishment in some areas due to cleanliness concerns, as well as issues with the gym's booking system.
  • Recommendations for 24/7 operation to better accommodate members' schedules.
  • The need for improved communication regarding pricing and services.

Despite some drawbacks, the gym remains a popular choice for its value and facilities, making it a great option for those looking to stay fit in a friendly and supportive environment.

Essex Sport Gym Colchester: Opinions

4/5 (71 Opinions)
Jack Sun 9 months ago

Negative experience: can not wear runner in the gym,excellent

Just a randomguy 10 months ago

Positive experience: Decent gym but does lack some equipment and also needs to be refurbished as some areas are pretty dirty and not well maintained e.g the equipments,stains on the wall. Also would be great if they can make this a 24/7 gym.

Andrey 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Its a gym, its working as intended, its not expensive, it actually in the uni. Just no drawbacks.

Paul Goff 1 year ago

Positive experience: I like the gym, good classes. You do have to be patient as some people like to sit on their phone when on the machines rather than cracking on with their exercise

Ma R 1 year ago

Positive experience: Buenas instalaciones.

Terry Slater 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Staff were very helpful and it was a very well equipped gym.

Pranav Prashanth 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Well equipped and maintained university gym

adeel iqbal 1 year ago

Negative experience: Very poor service, the staff is not interested in making bookings available to everyone or even attract more membership. They just want everyone with a complaint to quit membership

Caitlin Yardley 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Really nice facilities

Mahbuba Begum (Mehrima) 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome

Raghul Pandian 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great gym but it could have a place to drink water as well.

Gunapala konara 2 years ago

Positive experience: Polite staff and good atmosphere

Dhananjay ghussar 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love it, Have almost every equipment.

Thomas Roper 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym, let me back in after attempted interfamilial identity theft

Anime fan 77 2 years ago

Positive experience: Decent gym but not many machines as well as the fact there seems to be triple the amount of cardio machines to others. Lacks a lot of equipment.

Michael Nixon 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities

Wiebo Grobler 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great watching basketball. Great atmosphere and crowd participation and the little snack bar sells a variety of beers and hot food at very reasonable prices.

Charith Madusanka 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great Place

James Scott 2 years ago

Positive experience: Nice place. But bitter cold inside

Alexander Kirkpatrick 2 years ago

Positive experience: Not a bad gym, free for students and has a decent array of equipment. Tends yo be quite busy

Mat Court 2 years ago

Positive experience: For the money, or even more money, it's a great gym. Can get busy from 10am onwards. One star taken off in Jan 24 for the fact there's not a single locker working in the changing rooms to keep your stuff safe while you work out.

Essex Sport Gym Colchester
Essex Sport Gym Colchester

Hi Mat, thank you for your response, we are desperately trying to get the issue with the lockers resolved. Kind Regards, Essex Sport

Dolly천유 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: good facilities and classes!

Lydia Vogel 2 years ago

Positive experience: It was a little confusing at first, but the gym has some really cool technology connected to it. It's probably the nicest gym I've ever been to. 4 stars because they don't have a pool :(

Денислава Здравкова 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Супер

Kamila Karbowinska-Kagita 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place

Alex Morgan 3 years ago

Positive experience: Decent size gym. I expected more from a university facility, though.

N Butt 3 years ago

Negative experience: They don't offer discounts to families in need or those who referred by GP

Dakshita Mishra 3 years ago

Positive experience: It's a really nice chill place to workout ☺️. Don't hesitate to go even if you don't have a partner, watching others you will feel motivated enough to do your best. Have a fun energetic workout and feel great

Peter Dhendsa 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent Gym, very clean.

Oscar Finch 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good environment, not as much equipment as some gyms but all you need.

Lola 4 years ago

Negative experience: Doesn't update their information or advertise their services well enough, communication is generally bad. They don't take constructive criticism well enough either. They wasted my time and money. Once again this university is incompetent, members beware.

Nicolas Strubin 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good for Domino' deliveries

Steve Eliot 4 years ago

Negative experience: Why does Google keep thinking I've been here Not even heard of it.... Get your map location right!!!!

Malcolm O'Connolly 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice local gym

Veer Devgan 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely gym to engage

Richard Willcocks 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is a fantastic gym, very well equipped and never have to queue to use a machine. The staff on reception are incredibly helpful, they really go out of their way to help you and it feels like this is a huge step above the usual gyms in terms of how they look after you. Also very good value for money and lots of excellent classes and courts to book. A definite 5 stars with no negative points.

Jade Elmazi 5 years ago

Positive experience: Good gym with lots of facilities including classes and courts.

Chris thacks 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great day at future cheer comp

Sophia Lovelock 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff!

Ben Wright 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well equipped, clean and tidy. Not busy off peak

David Okoli 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice

K A 5 years ago

Positive experience: This was the gym of my body transformation. I used to spent over 28 hours per week, during my academic life. I have a lot of memories here and I love this place. However, among others I was not happy about this year refurbishment. They made the GYM relatively smaller with less machines.The majority of my friends left, but I could not. Overall, the gym has literally the latest technology you can get in gym equipment and GOD I love the new platforms for deadlift or squats but they remove a lot machines that I found really necessary and the room upstairs. Anyways no hard feelings guys, I wish you all the best.

David Ambrose 6 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly and helpful staff good facilities

BJT 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good facilities indoors and out. However their booking system could be much better as I am sure it is not accurate and you can only book certain activities online. Either all or nothing would be better. Also communication is pretty bad when talking through emails or phone calls.

Coconut Man 6 years ago

Positive experience: Fake account but anyways. I was at the gym today as usual. Bare mandem today still, but no gym workers, like as in the actual people that work there. A massive health hazard. I’ve been talking roadman style but this is serious though. Otherwise the gym is decent

Joshua Beaty 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good indoor climbing wall, friendly staff.

Anya Forrester 6 years ago

Positive experience: It's a good little gym. I've got a year's pass, so can't complain. There's some pretty key machines they're missing though...

Advocate Pratim Bhattacharyya 6 years ago

Negative experience: Not happening

douglas bryant 6 years ago

Positive experience: was great gym until so called improvements a lot of good kit gone more crowded down stairs accident waiting to happen more emphasis on cardio more like a studio now with weights and resistance machines tucked in where they fit nearly got hit with dumbell through lack of room what a shame!

Zuyuan Zhu 6 years ago

Positive experience: No swimming pool, or it would be great

J Crane 6 years ago

Negative experience: Events here are a bit odd, and the gym isn't particularly inexpensive. The university should subsidize student use/expand hours and availability at the least expensive option.

Pijak Thumrongkiatikul 6 years ago

Positive experience: Lacks equipment but that’s natural because the gym is very compact.

Tesseract Orion 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good, if you're a student. Otherwise, not so much.

Jon barrow 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great venue. We go for Colchester climbing club. Great club.

Mohammed Alftayeh 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: A good range of equipment. Other users are very respectful. The assistants are professional and very friendly.

Kristian Marinov 7 years ago

Positive experience: It's full most of the time.

Oritsemofe Onuwaje 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Average

Virgil Stoian 7 years ago

Negative experience: No communication about the changed prices, which have become ridiculous. Went to play basketball and we couldn't even get balls for it.

Mihnea Negoescu & Julia Cannata 7 years ago

Negative experience: Terrible experience. The person at the desk was flat out rude. After paying 5 pounds/person to get access to the bball court (as current or former students) we were told that no basketballs are to be provided!

Alex Constantinou 7 years ago

Positive experience: Has a large space, but sometimes it still manages to gather a lot of people to the point where you must wait in line of 2-3 people to do an exercise.

Kuangyu Chen 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well equipped and valuable!

Luke Hudson 8 years ago

Positive experience: Gym is very well equipped and allows access to extra sport things such as courts and pitches. During term time the gym is packed in the evening which can make doing a routine a little difficult. Outside of term time the gym is great

TheLuxaz 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Has everything but gets too packed in gym most of the time

Danny Cranmer 8 years ago

Positive experience: Very good value for money for climbing, squash and tennis. Climbing wall could be improved, however good for what it is

Frank White 8 years ago

Positive experience: its not 24 hours

Shane Harris 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym and we'll priced

Alina Boboc 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice gym and really good squash courts.

Esteban 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excelente gimnasio a muy buen precio para alumnos

Luca lombardi ledgeway 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym, amazing facilities and for the price as well

Karim-John Sahyoun 9 years ago

Fantastic experience: Perhaps one of the best centres in Colchester and the staff is always available and helpful.

James Hagerty 9 years ago

Fantastic experience: I use the gym quite often at uni! It's a great place to chill out and let out some energy steam!

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