JD Gyms Salford

Negative experience: Gym has no sanitisation equipment. No one cleans the gym equipment down after use. Don't go unless you want ringworm or some other diseases

Negative experience: This is not a gym this is a war zone crowded nearly 24/7 with only one worker to hold down the fort I purpose a new bank holiday to celebrate the brave workers of this gym 10/10 would not recommend

Negative experience: I was made homeless and needed to cancel my membership subscription so that I wouldn't get charged when I was displaced. I tried to come back to use the gym to help my mental health during this difficult time and to use up the month I had paid for. They would not let me back and said my subscription was voided when I cancelled my direct debit. So I paid a full month but was only allowed to use the gym for one week.

Negative experience: I have joined the gym 2 months back, following are the issues i have noticed: - Gym is overcrowded - It does not smell nice and no automatic fragrance sprays (sometimes smell like some rat has died and it smells disgusting in some places) - weights are old - worst lighting i have seen for a gym, too dark - music is too loud like crazy - during peak hours, difficult to find free weights and machines, long waiting time unless you share it with someone - broken machines not fixed Conclusion: This gym needs serious refurbishment!

Negative experience: The advertised sauna operating hours until 10 pm are not being adhered to. On multiple occasions, I have observed the sauna being turned off prior to the advertised time, typically around 9:45 pm.

Positive experience: Got everything you would expect in a gym and good monthly price

Positive experience: The Best thing in JD gym Salford is Suana bath they have.

Negative experience: Half decent for the price with the sauna but theres no where near enough gear for how busy it is, can't get a bench past half 4 and forget a cable machine, a fair amount of the machines are pretty dated aswell.

Positive experience: Good gym with great range of equipment, some machines need updating with new pads or a good steam clean & labels replacing. It could do with more variety of machines, the introduction of 3-4 new leg machines is great. Very much ram packed between 5-9pm. Cardio machines, benches, resistance machines all taken with 2-3 people already queueing for the equipment or groups of 3-5 people just hogging machines like a social club. Then if you go at 11.30pm onwards its like a club, music is absolutely blasting!! You can’t hear your own headphone audio, think or concentrate its diabolical. Free parking on site which has a 3 hour limit though. Doesn’t have the best pleasant of smells, does need an air freshner on auto spray like other gyms scattered around and should keep cleaning bottles and tissue around because some of the benches have head sweat and cardio machines can always see sweat stain marks.

Positive experience: Too crowded! Equipment are not a lot and they are old!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town with worst information about parking limit on website!

Positive experience: Decent gym sometimes way to busy at peak times around 5 - 8 would love to see it renovated like the one in city centre City centre ones so sick now I rarely go to the Salford anymore

Positive experience: Too busy

Positive experience: The machines are worn, with padding broken or missing. The leg press is so stiff with horrible friction l, haven't been here for about a year still has same problem with missing hand grips now. Shame because I generally like JD gyms. Disappointed

Negative experience: Constantly asking when the heavy bag will be reattached, I’ve never in my life been to a gym that disregards paying members queries or a gym slower at replacing broken equipment. 2 weeks no heavy bag which is one of the only reasons i joined this gym. So at this point im just wasting my money

Negative experience: Far too busy most of the time to get on equipment, weight rack often completely empty with huge wait times to use weights and machines. Loads of broken equipment, changing room often smells like weed, seemed an adequate gym when first started training but definitely time to move on.

Negative experience: Extremely busy and a lot of the equipment is tired and/or broken

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a good selection of exercise machines. Nice & Clean.

Negative experience: Why do they make it so difficult to get the membership number so you can cancel imrmbership online? But yet its easy to find referral code

Positive experience: It’s a nice gym with loads of equipment, huge open spaces on the second floor. The changing rooms are nice with great showers. Also an ice cold shower which is great after the sauna. Only issue I have is the sauna sometimes has a huge puddle on the floor. But not often. But still everywhere else is clean as.

Negative experience: Decent size for the price, staff are always hoovering and it always seem clean. However the equipment seems very old - the labels are all rubbed off the cables - meaning you don’t always know what you are lifting, some cables seem to have a lot more resistance than others making your workouts less consistent. Also slightly less equipment than I’ve had in other gyms such as cables, hip adductions etc. However, good amount of dumbbells. Not the gyms fault, but there’s not a good culture, people leave loaded barbells in the middle of the floor and dumbbells out on the floor. There are no signs to discourage this and although I have seen staff tidying up after people, this shouldn't be a problem if there was a better culture.

Positive experience: It’s good for most part, but it’s too warm in there, need to utilise the air con more ! In turn this can bring out some bad smells a lot of the time. Men’s toilet needs cleaning more often and there’re always queues for the popular machines, another squat rack and peck deck would be handy.

Positive experience: Gym is good for the most part - always clean - lots of equipment , but sometimes very warm and always smells. Try to come between 9-3 or after 21pm otherwise can get very very busy

Positive experience: Decent gym with reasonable price. Can be really crowded during peak hours without any free machine

Negative experience: Tiny gym compared to other gyms out there. Sardines inside. And classes run like buses, whenever they want. Smells like pee in the changing rooms. The studio smells intensely bitter sweat. And yoga classes are more like stretching classes. Nothing to do with yoga. The words used by class runners are rude and not everyone wants to be called a female dog when speaking to the class. I would definitely not recommend. Much better gyms around.

Positive experience: Good gym but it is too crowded in the evening and the afternoon . Best time to for it after 9:00 PM . In general it is not bad but the problem is with the instructions for cancelling your membership with them . It takes about 21 working days and they ask quiet a lot about your info , this is weird and a bit annoying.

Negative experience: To many people in at one time always quing for machines/ free weights absolutely no order whatsoever and aircon never on

Negative experience: Too busy to do anything. Rubbish. I've been going to different gyms for 10 years this is probably my least favourite of all.

Fantastic experience: One of the best gym in GM, not too busy and the best thing its 24/7

Negative experience: Decent amount of equipment and gym is a good size. However, the equipment is not well looked after, half the cable machines labels have worn off so you can't see the weight you're lifting. The leg press feels needs some oil as it is stiff to move. Not the gyms fault this one but people just leave dumbbells everywhere.

Negative experience: Not the best lay out. Equiptment looks old. Not a gym I would ever go back to. Needs refurbishing. Where's the modern look ?

Fantastic experience: Great variety of equipment, but always full, sometimes you are waiting about for equipment. plus also the app for entry and exit was very frustrating it always took a few goes to get it to work

Positive experience: Great gym with lots of equipment (even has a pendulum squat and belt squat machine) and a nice, buzzing atmosphere. Very busy at most times of the day that I went, either midday, after work or even on a Sunday evening, but that’s to be expected with Salford booming. Some of the equipment is worn down such as the bicep curl machine and hip abduction/adduction machine, so could do with some general maintenance/repairs. But overall, I really enjoyed working out here.

Positive experience: The gym is good overall but I had a very poor experience last Saturday. I went in for a late session around 9:30pm and left my belongings upstairs in the changing rooms. I did this because as per the note on the door, the changing rooms don’t close until midnight (I am aware they are locked b/n 12am-5am). There was also a rolling message on the speakers confirming this. Much to my surprise, I was locked out of the changing rooms at 10:30pm… very frustrating. My coat and keys were there so needless to say I had a fun trip back home in the cold. Perhaps next time you vary the closing times if the changing rooms, a note or some other form of notice can be provided. In addition, I find it very surprising that there isn‘t a phone number to call in the event of an emergency (not saying that this was an emergency but what if someone had an accident)

Negative experience: At this day and age, having to send a form to have to cancel your membership and not just a simple button in your online account setting is purely diabolical customer service. Making cancellation of subscription harder is low

Negative experience: Equipment is okay to be fair but this is the most disorganised and messy gym I have ever come across. Couldn’t see any staff at all the equipment was everywhere and really dirty. The changing rooms were atrocious.

Positive experience: Too busy not enough machines available… as per JD response below putting there best answer to this comment ?! I’ve not even put what time I went into the gym ! Bad customer service

Positive experience: Price is good, gym equipment is fine. I have been in and out of this place for a few years now as it is worth the money. For me though, I feel the atmosphere is abit off.

Negative experience: I love JD Gyms, but this gym is terrible. Staff are so rude turned my treadmill off Mid run! Didn’t apologise infact found it quite funny, fortunately for them I managed to catch myself before I would’ve slipped off into the wall. At the moment this gym STINKS it smells so bad you have to hold you’re breath everytime you walk in, you can hardly get on any equipment as it’s ridiculously busy with several people waiting at a time for a machine even before 5! And after 9. This gym has its perks but it is a let down at the moment compared to this time last year when it was clean and there was nicer staff. I would like to see some changes made in this gym or I see no other option but to switch gyms.

Positive experience: Gym site is really good the only concern is time schedule of class according to their app doesn’t match and classes gets cancelled without any prior information so its a inconvenience for the gym members

Negative experience: Gym is fine but music is always too loud and obnoxious. you can’t even hear your own thoughts!

Negative experience: Constantly full at all times and most of it is free weights and very few machines

Fantastic experience: Absolutely loving the gym again now I've moved to JD Gym. Never have to worry about weights or equipment being available even during peek times, no booking for classes so you can just turn up without worrying, plenty of space to work out in both studios and mat space available downstairs if there are classes on. The instructors and classes are great, and overall it feels very inclusive and none judgemental or intimidating which some gyms can be. Also an added bonus of having the use of a sauna again too. I think for the price, this gym is spot on and doing all the right things other budget gyms aren't.

Fantastic experience: The best of JD in Manchester. The only one with seated leg curls, a bit overcrowded but... It's because it's the best

Positive experience: Always a very crowded place full of amateurs and just insta-photo addicted people. I have no any other choice to go somewhere else.. it's very close to my home and I'm trying to avoid the crowd with in unusual visits after 9pm or before 8am. As soon I bought my house and move to other neighbourhood I will stop going to Salford JD gym.

Fantastic experience: I love the Sauna, the staff is nice and the mist is the Zumba Class !!!!

Fantastic experience: Working in Manchester just for the day I dropped in to see if I could have a day pass and Craig was really helpful and took the time to show me around. I had a great hour and half workout was a great place to train thanks for having me

Positive experience: Clean and spacious, lots of equipment

Negative experience: Awful crowd, from nowhere a guy started an argument and wouldn’t take no for an answer and wanted me to go out to the parking lot so he can have a fist fight with me. Never again would be going to this gym as I don’t want to get involved in such horrible situations every again.

Fantastic experience: I enjoy the class… my favorite is Zumba. Which is every Tuesdays,Thursdays and Saturdays

Fantastic experience: Not gonna lie by far best gym I have ever signed for, bare equipments every where was very pleased in this gym 100% recommended, quite upset that I can’t really gym anymore as I got involved in car accident but deffo getting back to it once recovered fully keep up you doing great ⭐️

Negative experience: My least favourite gym... The classes are occasionally full, i suspect this is because from my experience there is only 1 decent coach so everyone is trying to get into the same classes... The gym is FULL everytime i go, i actually couldnt get onto anything several times so ended up leaving. Not the frieldliest place, but i have been spoilt cause i had some amazingly friendly gyms over the last few years. Traffic is very bad getting in and out unless you are going at extremely unsocialble hours.

Positive experience: The staff was not really helpful and mostly racist specifically when you see that most of the people using the gym are foreigners, generally students from Salford uni.

Fantastic experience: Very nice gym with a reasonable price.

Positive experience: Really good gym in my opinion. It's got everything you need but there is one slight problem. The Anti-Bacterial spray has been removed from the stations. I would recommend these return as the amount of infections lying around a public gym is pretty astounding. That's the only reason I give this 4/5. Other than that the gym provides what you need to improve, and I like being bale to mind my own business and work out in peace so even better.

Fantastic experience: Nice gym, big and organized, but don't go between 5-8pm because it's very crowded.

Positive experience: Great gym - Mondays are super busy though, but never really had an issue with equipment. I wish there was more classes at 5pm and on the weekend. Other than that, huge gym and good atmosphere! AC also

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym with really friendly and knowledgeable staff. Been in many gyms and the cleanliness here is one of the best I’ve seen.

Negative experience: By far the worst gym I have ever dealt with!! Don’t ever come here and good luck getting a refund you’ll never get one. I have tried for 3 WEEKS STRAIGHT just to get my money back and no one bothers to even return your emails/calls. They will just lead you on. It is also very dirty and not well maintained. They should fix their customer service. If you sign up good luck getting your money back, especially being college it is very unfair that they don’t follow their policy for a refund. I can’t tell you how upset I am.

Negative experience: Far too busy and the equipment is outdated. Not enough dedicated equipment and constantly have to wait for stuff

Negative experience: Like others have pointed out, it just gets so busy that its nearly impossible to workout. I’ve wanted to leave on a few occasions because it was so damn busy. Come on JD! Build more gyms in Manchester.

Negative experience: you can’t bring your bag with you? I’m even not blocking anyone, why I must need to put my bag into locker? that totally not making any sense. when you can put your water bottle and phone to the floor, then why I can’t put a small bag on the floor? will that more tidy when I putting all the stuff on the floor? I already bring my bag with me for a year. I never disturb anyone or use my bag to use two equipment at the same time. I just don’t want to waste my time go upstairs, find a empty locker, when I need to leave go up and take it. It is just wasting my time. If the role is make sense, I will follow it 100%. but this role is only for “look more tidy” seem really nonsense. Sorry but I think that’s true.

Negative experience: the equipments are good maintained. Not so busy if visiting at the morning time. The PT is very kind, diligent and helpful. Although, DO Not expect immediately have a shower after training, there may be long queues outside the bathrooms which is unusual in the gyms.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, lots of equipment for chest and back.

Fantastic experience: Free car park for 3 hours. Plenty of equipment at the spacious gym, facilities such as shower, toilet and sauna included.

Positive experience: Good gym with lots of equipment, machines and side rooms to do you own thing. Generally pretty clean and staff are nice too. But, what really let’s it down is just how busy it gets in the week. I like to go after work between 5-6pm which I get is going to be a peak time, but when I first joined about 2 years ago it was nowhere near as busy as it is now, you could still get on most of the equipment if you were patient. Now it’s so busy you can barely even get a treadmill at this time, every single piece of equipment and free weight is in use and every square inch of floor space is taken up. It’s insanely busy to the point where you cant follow any sort of routine because you don’t actually get the chance to use half of the equipment because they’re constantly occupied. Shame really but JD have prioritised maximising memberships above all else.

Negative experience: Not a fan of gyms that have people there trying to prove something put me of going. In reply to you answer, this is why other like my self do not attend your gym, it puts us of using a gym where people think there something great nothing more off putting.

Negative experience: My husband went during peak hours as this is the only time he can go due to his working hours. It was overcrowded, my husband was working out in the weight area laying on the bench lifting weights, another gym member was working out behind him dropped very heavy weights that fell hard right next to my husbands head! The bench trembled and my husband was left shaken up. A huge safety concern leaving my husband feeling traumatised that he could have been dead if he had moved his head by a few inches it could have turned out very badly. When speaking to the culprit, he responded in an agressive way with no remorse, for the rest of the workout he kept staring at my husband trying to intimidate him. My husband reported this to the team who said will speak to the guy to inform him not to do it again. However, this kind of behaviour should mean pass should be revoked immediately! If you dont want to control the crowd during peak times, then atleast don't allow bad behaviour especially when safety is a concern. We should feel safe when going to the gym. Please revoke his pass, why should the rest of us feel unsafe.

Negative experience: Was a member for a couple of years but it’s rapidly declined. Due to religious reasons I cannot uncover my body infront of men. There was an occasion where I was sat in the women’s only sauna and I suddenly was interrupted by a male PT. As you can imagine this caused me a lot of stress. This is unacceptable. If it’s a women only space, only women member of staff should enter!! Never set foot in this gym again. Not to mention they’ve turned off the aircon so it absolutely stinks and is humid inside. Equipment was out of action for months. Very very poor

Fantastic experience: definitely one of the best gyms in Salford.

Positive experience: Great gym. Very clean overall. Just wish the air con was alot stronger or turned on around the cardio section. Often find myself sweating before I’ve begun a workout

Negative experience: It's very well-equipped, but it is always crowded, so the equipment is often unavailable and smelly since there's nothing around to clean them up. I always come back home with stinking clothes from other people's dirty arses. Edit: According to the gym, it's only busy during peak times. If 10 am on a Monday is a peak time, when is it not?

Positive experience: Great gym, loads of equipment, can always get a good workout done even when it does get busy between 5 and 6

Fantastic experience: Great gym, local and well equipped. Classes are very exhausting which is what you need, friendly and knowledgeable instructors. An experience that is worth your time, money and health!

Negative experience: Experienced homophobia from another member and reported this to staff. Despite reassurance this person would be banned, they continue to attend the gym. Received no support or update from head office so you can imagine my surprise when I arrived at the gym to the man who called me a “faggot” still present. I queried this with head office and asked to be released from my membership but received no reply. Do not attend this gym if you are LGBTQ+ or if you care about corporations challenging and opposing discrimination. I cannot believe in 2023 people can still use these slurs and get away with it. Says a lot about JD, the staff, and the clientele that attend this gym.

Positive experience: Really good gym. Clean with good equipment but a big let down is that the studio is usually used until about 9pm for classes and is then closed at 10pm despite JD Gyms being advertised as a 24 hour gym

Positive experience: Decent gym with sufficient equipment for the most part but it's nothing special. Also a very busy location, if you like quieter gyms unless you're willing to go pretty late this isn't the place for you.

Negative experience: Avoid! Broken equipment left to get worse over the course of two years, leg curl has been out of action for over two months now and extension is falling apart, members not cleaning up after themselves because they know they'll face no repercussions. This place only gets worse, actually can't believe I'm saying this but Puregym and the Gym Group are better

Negative experience: So far I have had a great experience at JD Gyms Salford. Everyone has been pleasant. However recently there has been a couple of occasions where I have have found myself disrespected by one of the personal trainers called Adele Meade. Whenever we have spoken in regards to use of equipment. She has spoken in aggressive manner. She also uses terms such as ‘bloody hell’, when she speaks to you and asks about use if equipment. You go to the gym to relieve stress, not too gain it. No one should hear this language in any place. Not to mention the aggressive body language that is used against you. And i wont recommend her as a personal trainer to anyone.

Negative experience: Clean gym with a good range of equipment but it's got way too many members and is only getting busier. It's packed from 6am to 9pm almost every day.

Negative experience: Used to be a great gym pre-lockdown when everything was new and not 24 hours. These days it's reached 3000+ members and it's packed even in the daytime.

Negative experience: As soon as I walked in, I noticed a strong, unpleasant smell that made it difficult to breathe. I soon realised that the gym had turned off the air conditioning, which caused the air to feel thick, suffocating, and unbearable I couldn't help but feel disappointed that the gym would prioritise saving money on their electricity bill over their customers' health and comfort. It's simply unacceptable for a gym to operate in such a manner, and it's clear that they don't care about their patrons' well-being.

Fantastic experience: We did a 1st Hyrox style comp here. Lots of good equipment Staff really friendly and helpful

Negative experience: I used to like to come here, but that was before this became so harmful for my hearing. The music every evening is as loud as almost in a night club. As you can see in my attached measurements the music is near 85 dB on average tonight. And this isn't even the highest, on one occasion I measured 100db as well, and then it was lowered to this ~80db level. You want to listen to your own music, podcast, an audiobook... No matter how good noise cancelling earphones you have, their sh!tty RnB is the only thing you can hear whether you like that particular music genre or not. I wrote two complaints letters about this and asked the staff several times to lower the music to tolerable levels but it only lasted until the next time I came here. I'm getting tired of this and several people mentioned this in the reviews here as well. Is this because they already suffered hearing loss and can hear anymore how loud the music is? Or is this a technique to chase people into cancelling their membership because it's unbearably busy in the early evenings? In this latter case it might work because I started to look around for other gyms nearby. Why is this such a difficult issue to resolve and what can I do if raising complaints and speaking with the gym staff is not enough in an issue that should be common sense.

Negative experience: Sauna has been closed for days!! My husband really only goes for the sauna and in the last 6 months he’s come back several times saying it’s broken down and each time it takes around 10 days to fix! It’s really disappointing for what us otherwise a good gym. They need to ensure that these facilities are fixed quickly rather than taking weeks. It shows bad management.

Negative experience: I can understand the main changing rooms and shower being closed at midnight but I was assured the disabled shower would stay open to cater for overnight training.. but no, theres no shower facilities after midnight. They are locked so I had to cancel work and go home after my workout because of no shower facilities after a 2 hour workout. I even asked before I joined whether they would be open and I opted for the multiple gym subscription because of my working hours, imagine if I was at a jd gym 100 miles from home and couldn't have a shower after my workout! Other 24 hour gyms like Pure gym and gym group have these facilities to cater for people who work odd hours. Time to look for another gym

Positive experience: Overall I'd give this gym 3. 5/5 at best. It has a lot of potential, but that's if they actually fix the issues I've highlited in my review. Side note: It tends to get super crowded during peak hours, so try and attend during off peak times if you're not a fan of sharing every machine. With that being said, please see the points below for a more in depth review, starting with: The Good: - Has multiple calf machines - Great location - Tons of lockers - Has hair dryers in changing rooms - Nice changing rooms - Has showers - Millions of cardio equipment - Really warm inside, especially during winter - It's a cardio bunny's safe heaven / paradise The Bad: - 65% of the gym is dedicated to cardio machines and spaces - Free weight section is always crowded - Old machines - damaged padding on some machines - Trash Tier gym playlist - earphones are a MUST - Worst gym lighting I've ever seen - dark and dingy - Lack of mirrors - Broken machines/equipment have no ETA for fix - Needs more space and mirrors for free weights - only has 2 Smith machines in the WHOLE gym - it tends to get really warm inside

Fantastic experience: Best place to workout and enjoy the sauna feels like I'm on holiday in that sauna ngl. Well worth the price

Fantastic experience: Good clean gym, staff are very friendly and equipment is always kept in good working order.

Positive experience: Clean gym, a few machines are broken though. The trainers there are overall friendly, but there are one or two people working there that will bother you about putting dumbbells and stuff back to place even if you found them left this way

Negative experience: A male PT called Mo there took my training fee without give training sessions. He suddenly disappeared and did not refund my money back. Although I reported it to the gym, JD gym Salford just ignored my message and email. Gym is good but the management is a bit irresponsible.

Negative experience: Some women pt are too desperate for men attention lol. So embarrassing

Positive experience: Great gym has all the equipment you could possibly need to sweat like a mofo in the middle of winter I choose them for the punch bag unfortunately they haven't put in place a kick bag yet, even though I've recommended a few times.. or I'd be giving them 5 star's. People are nice, staff are welcoming and there's always cleaning equipment around if you don't want a sweaty machine. Also I don't personally use them all the time but have once or twice, the shower facilities are not bad, push system pretty standard, but they were clean which is the main thing!

Fantastic experience: A good gym with good equipment. I love the variety of classes here.

Fantastic experience: Great gym with excellent facilities, the sauna is really well sized too. The staff are also extremely friendly and helpful, massive shout out to Jermaine who went above and beyond to help me find an item that I lost at the gym.

Negative experience: Disgustingly hot. Either the Aircon is broken or they’re choosing to save cash. It’s like a steam room in the free weight section, you’re breathing in other gym goers sweat. As far as JDs go it’s pretty small and has naff cable attachments.

Negative experience: Quite cold in the gym, it definitely doesn’t do any good for your health to train under such low temperature with air conditioning blowing on you.. found showers and sauna often closed which is quite disappointing as I sometimes come to the gym just for the sauna and I just waist half an hour for nothing…

Positive experience: Such a great gym, the classes are great. Really recommend spin classes with Danielle, her energy is unmatched! Only thing I’d love to see is the weighing scale option to be in changing rooms or a more secluded part of the gym, it’s super daunting to use in front of everyone right at the front of the gym

Fantastic experience: I've been a member of this Gym for 3 years ,I only do most of the classes, lately I've been wanting to use weights, machines , weightlifting etc, however the area is always full. I lack confidence in the weights area, ( not that anyone from JD has made me feel that way, ) I've just recently joined NRG, only because they have a Women's only room. I hope Salford will open a Women's area, like NRG. Overall it's great, it's clean , majority of the staff are friendly

Fantastic experience: Good facilities and equipment. The multi gym membership from JD is a good investment. Just £5 more a month and you can use any JD Gym. Parking at this one has a 3 hour max stay which can be annoying.