JD Gyms Sheffield South

Negative experience: The gym has potential but major improvement needed, the equipment needs improving and the dumbbells are all over the place and missing, If things dont improve soon Im moving to NRG

Positive experience: Pros: good range of equipment open 24 hrs most stuff in working order Cons: staff hide in office nobody is ever around, they just leave the entry gate wide open to avoid responding to the buzzer roof leaks when it rains resulting in buckets to catch the drips all over the place weights dumped everywhere 50% of lockers damaged or broken

Positive experience: Good gym, plenty of equipment and fairly cheap monthly cost. One complaint however is that you would think with all the extra memberships that are been paid for at the minute they would fix the problems in the girls changing rooms- specifically the toilets.

Fantastic experience: Very good gym nice and friendly environment

Negative experience: So many machines out of order for weeks and weeks.

Positive experience: The facility is clean and well-equipped, offering a wide range of machines and free weights. The staff is friendly and always available to assist with any questions.

Positive experience: Love the gym, but the lack of equipment in the studio and the women's area is a pain especially when it's busy. The spin bikes also need some attention. Otherwise all good

Fantastic experience: Everything you need

Negative experience: Dated, most lockers are broken. Not many weight plates around. Definitely needs upgrading!

Negative experience: Not enough weights available in the bench area, so frustrating evne when it's fairly quiet trying to get the right weights. Dumbells are just a total shit show, people hoarding 3 different weights and they're all over the place. Not enough weights in the 14-20 range, most gyms have so many more of those dumbells. No roman chair either, the lower back days are sorely lacking. It's a standard but of equipment in even the small gyms I go to. Would be nice to have that there with the many other machines Edit: three 10 plates in the bench area today! Outrageous

Negative experience: Lot of the lockers are broken or stiff in mens locker room some have just been damaged and others could do with wd40 on the locks to make them work smoother

Negative experience: In terms of equipment, the gym has potential but is a nightmare. Weights everywhere, broken and old equipment. Came to a class that just wasn't on with no notification. Needs a complete overhaul with some staff that are actually visible.

Positive experience: Good gym. A little untidy at times but has all the equipment needed.

Positive experience: Good gym, very good variety of equipment of fertilities. Poor standard of the mens changing room let's it down massively. Not clean and always smells of urine

Negative experience: This gym has so much potential but it is incredibly run down after years of neglect. Loads of machines barely work or don't work at all. Everytime it rains there are buckets littering the floor catching water from the leaking roof. There are nowhere near enough lighter plates (2.5, 5, 10KG). Loads of lockers dont work or are smashed in. If a bit of maintainence was put into it, it'd be an easy 5 stars.

Fantastic experience: Taylor went out of his way to help me with a broken locker. The 5 star is for him and his incredible service and quick thinking! The showers though 0/5 .... if you like the stench of urine you'll love JD!

Negative experience: Emailed about potentially joining and got no response. Decided to go in. Pressed the button. Waited. The gate was open so I decided to go in. Pressed the button again. Nothing. Decided to have a look around. Was able to go in the changing rooms ect. Worrying. Finally bumped into a member of staff on the way out

Positive experience: Decently sized gym with plenty of equipment. Few let downs, not enough cable machines.. these are just hogged constantly and often has queues of people trying to get on it or about 5 people asking you how long you have left as soon as you get on anything. Music is literally abyssmal, just a constant stream of UK grime/drill/rap that is on repeat and way too loud. Broken machines are often out of action for weeks. For the price you can't complain too much though for a 24hr gym this big.

Negative experience: Things get stolen from the gym everyday . Jackets , mobile phones . Smart watches . People get membership then break into lockers and steal stuff. AVOID …AVOID .. AVOID

Fantastic experience: It’s the best gyms

Negative experience: I'm writing to provide feedback about a recent Les Mills Body Combat class experience with Erica Reynolds on 06AUG24 7pm. While I appreciate the enthusiasm Erica brings to the class, I have a concern regarding Erica's unprofessional behaviour and tampering with the music volume that I believe needs to be addressed. During the class, I noticed that Erica repeatedly increased the music volume settings to a level that made it difficult to hear instructions clearly. At its peak, the volume was uncomfortably loud, bass was echoing across the walls making the music muffled, and the pitch was so loud it could potentially risk ear damage for participants. Please appreciate that Body combat soundtracks already has bass boost. When I mentioned this issue, my concern was dismissed. When confronted, Erica denied increasing the gain dial, despite it being clearly visible throughout class. I had to use my ear plugs to stay in her class but at that point, I was demoralised to continue on with the class. Suggestions: Maintain a safe, consistent volume. Management please guide Erica on safe use of the sound system. Erica to address participant concerns seriously, don't lie and deny, it's unbecoming. I have included a picture of the volume settings after Erica's class, clearly the volume gain dial is amped at maximum range. I hope management investigates and corrects this behaviour. Safety and communication are crucial for a positive class experience.

Positive experience: I've sent an email and phone several times . Would love a chat so I can get the answer before I join or not as the case maybe

Positive experience: This is the third JD Gym I have visited this month. It is a large facility, but it is the first where I have struggled to train easily due to the disorganized state of the weights (dumbbells, barbells, fixed bars, etc.), which are scattered everywhere. I cannot stress this enough—I spent about 10 minutes just searching for the weights I needed. Additionally, some of the benches are quite worn. Aside from these issues, it is a very modern-looking gym on the surface.

Negative experience: appalling, a complete waste of money. i signed up and was completely unable to enter the gym, qr code never worked, was never given a pin code to use, no staff around to help. i contacted customer services MUTIPLE times and received no answer. and then, when i cancel, they charge me for yet ANOTHER month of a gym that i can’t use?? never replied to any of my emails and completely unhelpful. save your money.

Negative experience: Damaged and/or worn out kit, probably 80% of lockers in the mens changing rooms are non-functional as a result of vandalism or theft. I bought a water bottle from the vending machine but it didn't dispense my bottle so I rang the buzzer for staff attention a few times and over three visits, no staff ever came and you don't see uniformed staff ever. It's £1.20 for a water so not bankrupting me but I'm PO'd that they can just take money and not give your item. If you forget something in your car you can forget about getting back in as the app will presumably only let you enter once every few hours. Wouldn't be an issue if staff responded to the buzzer but I've covered that... Changing rooms and in particular the showers leave much to be desired, especially hegiene-wise (don't look at the extractor fan grate...). Some things aren't JD's fault, like the people there lacking gym etiquette (not returning weights, doing their sets 1½ inches from the racks, etc) but that comes with the territory of being a budget friendly 24h gym. But damaged and worn kit should be replaced, that's also the cost of running a gym. That includes the lockers. I've raised this directly to JD and have had no response.

Positive experience: Great gym love the atmosphere. the only downside is gym etiquette. Weights are left all over the place

Negative experience: Gym with a lot of potential. Good vibe. Bad culture, people leaving weights everywhere so finding weights is like an Easter egg hunt. A lot of the stuff is very worn and needs a little love.

Fantastic experience: Great place to workout

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Positive experience: It's good, the women's only area is the best I've seen and I've been to a few gyms. Cable machines and everything. Only downfall is when you sit on loo, loo seat goes flying. Really need to sort it as its annoying. I always need a pee cause I drink loads of water.

Positive experience: Perfect place for realizing stress and anxiety

Negative experience: I am member of JD Sheffield South since the opening. The last few months, I have found music excessively loud. All staff is happy to turn it down with one exception. This person affirms is a new gym volume policy? Truth is if I am working out next to the speakers is an horribly irritating experience. Anywhere in the gym, I cannot listen to my music on earphones nor speak with a friend calmly. Can you please reconsider this -new high volume- policy and put it slight down? Thank you.

Fantastic experience: Very big gym with lots of equipments and ladies only area

Fantastic experience: Nice gym

Positive experience: Good gym

Negative experience: I was working out when I went back to the changing room to get my coat and somebody had taken it.when I approached a staff member he was rude saying it was my fault this place is terrible don’t go there if your don’t want your stuff stolen scum of the earth

Negative experience: Why are the disabled toilets locked late at night? If there's no changing rooms after midnight there needs to be somewhere people can get changed etc...

Positive experience: Decent gym with lots of equipment but lacking silly things like clips for the Olympic bars. Also the showers are awful, no pressure, cold and smelly.

Negative experience: Went to south sheffield jd gym near London road walked in and my code would not allowe me entry as I pressed the buzzer to get a member of staff to help Antony case I so his name on the board walked in an accused me of trying to sneak into the gym and said he will ban me from trying another jd gym I have been a member for 4 years even before it was jd gym he had a bad attitude towards members and was constantly staring at me while I was traning I felt very let down with this gym and also wanting this resolved

Fantastic experience: Good range of exercise equipment and also has a separate Women Only gym within the complex, which is a bonus.

Fantastic experience: The staff are friendly, clean changing place , great location. I enjoy the non-stop opening time. Machines are in good condition.

Negative experience: 3 machines are out of order

Negative experience: Does anybody ever answer the phone?? Rang every Friday Saturday and Sunday on numerous occasions for the last month, no one ever answers. Went down to the gym in person x2 and couldn’t get in or speak with a staff member, managed to ask members through the gates to look for staff……..they couldn’t find anyone. Literally wanted to have a quick look around before making a decision whether I would joint the gym. Bizarre

Negative experience: Gym is big and was in good condition a while ago but now messy and not looked after. Lots of equipment not working and no way of reporting it. 2/3 rowing machines broken 3/8 Bikes not working. No signage on broken equipment. Barbell and dumbbell weights all over the place. Spoke to trainer who said not his job to fix. Emailed but no reply. Feels so frustrating to be in there.

Fantastic experience: Best service and friendly staff. Machines are up to standard

Positive experience: Sadly the gym has gone down hill. Great space and equipment but it’s always a mess, clientele have no gym etiquette, smells awful at the back in the arms/dumbell section and toilets are always dirty. Hope they sort this and bring it back up to standard.

Fantastic experience: I like the classes, machines and facilities, especially during quieter times.

Positive experience: The gym is pretty good.

Negative experience: Very poor ,too busy and too hot,will be hell in January

Negative experience: I have been a member of this gym for years, back when it was an Xerciseforless and cost £10 a month. Sadly over the past couple of months the gym has gone significantly downhill, I think since it went 24hr. It is so messy, there is literally weights everywhere. I have attached some pictures of what i came into on a Saturday morning around 8am. How do the staff expect you to train? It took me 20 mins to clean it all up! The staff seem to hide away in the office, when CLEARLY the place needs a tidy. There is only 1 guy who seems to care about the place - i think his name is Jason ( a credit to the company ) They need to bring back the rule if you leave your weights out you are banned. There is also litter strewn about ( energy drink cans etc ), not nice. Chest fly machine has been broke for over 4 weeks JD need to either employ more staff to keep on top of cleaning or bring some rules in! Also can you PLEASE get some carabinas people cant take off the machines!!!! its like an easter egg hunt looking for one. UPDATE 7/1/23 After my review JD have taken steps to make sure the gym is tidier and they look to have employed a cleaner. It is 10x better then what it used to be.

Positive experience: I find it wild that this gym has so many negative reviews, it's a fantastic gym, probably one of the best in sheffield if you don't mind not having a swimming pool, sauna etc. All of the people giving bad reviews are probably the same type of people who find mayonaise too spicy, idiots.

Negative experience: This gym has gone downhill in recent months for a number of reasons - The music is either terrible or too quiet. - The place is a dump, the staff don’t put any of the equipment away or encourage others to, so it’s literally everywhere in all the wrong places. - You can never find the weights or equipment you need, you spend half your time hunting for it. - The staff are barely seen, they spend most their time in the office, if they are out the office they just walk around aimlessly. - When the gym is cold they have the aircon on, when it’s warm no aircon on, where’s the logic!? Seriously debating moving gyms.

Negative experience: Hello there can you fix the pec fly machine its been more than week Bless

Negative experience: Hello there could please fix this machine? Its been 6 days now. BTW this is the only machine here

Positive experience: It's a decent sized gym with a variety of equipment and lots of benches. 5-7pm is very busy (like most gyms) so the cables, machines and benches are often difficult to get onto at these times. There's also the major issue with frequently broken and missing equipment. These are mostly broken cables (that seem to take a decade to repair), cable handles, and missing pins. The staff are really friendly / helpful and the place itself is fairly clean. Overall it's good value for money but I'd strongly recommend to monitor for broken / missing equipment and to ensure replacements are managed asap. :)

Negative experience: Is it really dirty gym and there is no hand wash no toilet paper being 4-5 days really dirty

Positive experience: It's an Okay Gym with a very outdated gym kit, sadly. Honestly there is always something wrong especially the Spin bikes and the audio system in the studio is unbearable, cable machines... so with a bit of investment and TFC this place Potentially could be better.

Fantastic experience: Nice

Positive experience: The gym is just OK compared to other jd gyms. I have the upgraded membership so use a few different gyms. This one used to be sound, however over the last few months it seems to becoming abit tired. Everytime I go on a machine the weight pin is missing. Makes me laugh when I see other people having to borrow one from another machine. Oh and it's freezing in there at the minute. Roll on Summer. For £25 a month to use any gym its good value but I'm starting to consider paying that bit extra and going to Virgin gym

Positive experience: Just curious to know, is this a member’s gym? I would actually like to do strength training. If it is, then what are the membership charges?

Negative experience: The toilets were locked other morning. No one there to help. Not happy at all when you pay 22 quid a month!!!

Negative experience: Not enough carabiners for all the cable machines despite 1/3of the cable machines having snapped cables. Carabiners literally cost £2 what a joke. Have to do an easter carabiner hunt every-time I want to use a cable machine

Negative experience: People recording their workouts do not worry about the privacy of others .

Positive experience: I really like the women's only section of this gym, good facilities for a decent price

Negative experience: Doesn't make sense. Great gym but very very cold in winter it’s like training outside, it even rains inside sometimes… but in summer they put all aircons on warm lol

Positive experience: I use this gym from a few months. Its ok but sometimes too busy and could be more clean also some of equipment should be changed for new, like a rope attachments.

Negative experience: When you join a 24 hour gym you expect it to be open 24 hour. So when I get up at 4am to train over the Christmas period and it's closed is a terrible way to let your customers down . Also what kind of gym doesn't let it customers use the showers or changing rooms between the late hours . Ridiculous.Using them Works for every other 24 hour gym out there . You've lost a customer on this one . I'm going back to pure gym . At least I can rely on them to be open and have a shower .

Positive experience: Cheap and basic, so you get what you pay for, but it is very understaffed, which is potentially unsafe.

Negative experience: All machines out of order. You need your smartphone to get in and out, if have not internet you can't get in, if you are in, you get trapped. No staff to help with the access. No option to use a password to get in. Only can get in once a day.

Negative experience: Honestly absolutely no chance having a decent workout after 5. Way too full. No weights / weight machines free

Fantastic experience: Enough equipments for everyone

Positive experience: Decent gym, but old and damaged equipment, too many youths training in groups. Too many people filming and taking photos

Fantastic experience: Spacious, well equiped, 24/7, not too crowded, good price. What else does one need?

Positive experience: Only complaint is no aqua bags for boxing. Well set out and equipped

Fantastic experience: Nice place

Positive experience: Very crowder , equipment okay, staff friendly, plenty of room, a lot of friends , but long time to wait for serviced equipment

Positive experience: (Update - July 2023) Honest review below. I've trained at 6 or 7 gyms before and none of them beat this one. - Anyone saying its too busy clearly needs to time their workouts. Of course it will be busy in the evening, that's pretty obvious. And usage of space is great. Squat racks are slotted well into most corners. - Functional area is great. A lot of barbells, plates and other pieces of kit. - It's 24 hrs now which is great. Changing rooms are clean and well maintained. - Large dumbbell rack and plenty of benches. No commercial gym is going to have the dumbbells put back in the right order so stop complaining Only problem - please get a new TRX cable, the current one's handle is broken.

Negative experience: The only reason I would go to this gym is because it's closer nothing special about it and costumer service training urgently needed here plus you have to download their app on your phone even if you don't want to.. I'm happy to pay for it and I only use it 1 hour a day why force me to have your app on my phone

Negative experience: Moved from pure gym to this gym few months ago as this one is closer to me.. i get my entry code and started trining never delt with any of the gym staff as i never needed them but as this gym is changing to 24h gym i realised how poor and lack of costmer service experience they have 0 Communication with members even thought there is a hand full of them walking around.. as i tried to enter the gym today friday 1/07/2022 8:45am the code keybad didnt work and i was forced to download thier app on my phone talked to like i work for them.. my last day today back to pure again me and my wife ..more staff training needed here Invest in that

Positive experience: I am trying to call but there isn't any social media to get in touch with and they don't answer calls even during the day. I'm sure it has great facilities just the customer service seems to be terrible. I had to ask Sheffield North why this is the case.

Positive experience: Some of the duplicate equipment has gone meaning you have to wait quite some time for a specific workout. Cardio area is good and also free weights are plenty.

Positive experience: Very happy with this gym. No waiting for equipment, friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Great Gym! Been coming here since before it was converted from exercise for less back in the covid days. Peak times are very busy afternoons not so much and anytime after 6pm ish when the after work rush has gone great choices in equipment & friendly staff with great PT sessions

Negative experience: They really need to clean up the weight racks, I spend half the time looking for weights, they're not even labelled, it's a complete contrast compared the Chesterfield's no idea how they can't manage it.

Negative experience: Great gym but needs to be open 24 hour

Positive experience: Great..crowded at times..might need to wait for popular equipments but still missing some vital pieces but do offer alternatives

Fantastic experience: Amazing range of equipment, friendly staff, clean and tidy, free classes. Couldn’t ask for more

Fantastic experience: Amazing

Positive experience: Had my first yoga class. The instructor was a lovely lady. The gym was very clean with lots of equipment

Fantastic experience: Love this place. And the free classes are one of my favourite

Fantastic experience: Great gym plenty of space and equipment. Good atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Excellent experience

Fantastic experience: Great gym can't fault it

Fantastic experience: fantastic

Positive experience: Decent, affordable gym. Has pretty much everything you need. PTs can be a bit pushy

Fantastic experience: Such a bummer isn't open 24 hours

Negative experience: I had very bad experience with JD gym , especially with customers service very rude, also it's always busy you can't even finish your exercises ,I would never ever go back

Fantastic experience: I didn't want to review because at the moment it's not rammed full. There's a great Calesthenics / CrossFit section which when I go is all for me, at the moment, yay. Great selection of cardio machines, weight and cable machines, squat racks and big meathead section. Plenty of room upstairs if you need peace. Decent gym at a decent price. But please stay away, lol.

Positive experience: Nice place, plenty of excellent equipment for all types of gym goers, the JD gyms instructors I spoke to Jay & Leo are polite, knowledgeable & helpful.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Sheffield