JD Gyms Southampton Bitterne

Positive experience: Great gym, lots of equipment, lovely people around who are always willing to help out. However, …the hygiene really is an issue as a lot of comments say. For a gym of that size, and demographic, you gotta have cleaning stations! By the time evening comes it’s absolutely disgusting - the mats, the machines, benches etc. Other than very late in the evening when they clean the mats and floors, I don’t see any staff wiping down any equipment. Enough people have left this type of review, that maybe it’s time cleaning and disinfectant stations are finally set up! It’s a simple solution.

Fantastic experience: Can you put the Pump sessions on Tuesdays mornings as It was before? Thanks

Fantastic experience: Great gym with new equipment. Better than all other gyms in the area.

Fantastic experience: Nice and friendly gym All diffrent ages attend All different levels of fitness ,no judgements at all , Equipment plenty to choose from .

Negative experience: Overcrowded pretty much every day. Also there is no assistance whatsoever unless staff working hours, not even 1 member of the staff on site during the night.

Fantastic experience: i LOVE this gym. the best gym i’ve ever gone to for sure.

Positive experience: I’ve been going here a few months and idk if I’m being stupid but there’s no floor space? Theres a tiny section by the changing rooms (enough for 3 people) but that’s it. The studio always has classes on when I’m there (peak times) so I’ve never even been in. The bench area is good, but what if I don’t wanna use a bench? I don’t want to take one up if I’m not using it. I see people so squished up in corners trying to do squats, standing exercises etc. Some people just cling to the weights rack itself to use for stability just blocking it entirely. There’s no open space. Great for machines and equipment. Just so busy and no floor space. I compare to Village Gym which has 3 different studios plus a main room. That way there’s always a free room for floor exercises when a class or two is on.

Negative experience: I’ve been to many gyms in my time but this one has to be the worst around. During peak times it’s busier than an Ibiza nightclub (no I am absolutely not exaggerating) you can barely move let alone get on anything without a wait. Equipment is always dirty/greasy/sweaty with no means to clean it off. Then you have to dodge multiple tripods set up in walkways, next to machines, basically everywhere there’s a gap. You may even become an extra in a mediocre “fitness influencers” video which has 4 likes. A lot of the people aren’t here to work out they’re here to film themselves or chat and it shows. I wouldn’t really call this a gym but a social gathering place of 1000+ people in which videos pictures etc are taken. Avoid

Positive experience: Great gym. Amazing kit. Shame there is to many wanna be tictok stars filming themselves. Gym has potential, but need to stamp this out.

Negative experience: Been going to this gym since it opened and although it has great equipment there are big letdowns. Anything that has a bench attached to it has a literal grease patch from where people place their head and haven’t wiped the machine down as there are no cleaning stations! I’ve read a few of the gyms responses to other reviews concerning cleaning, they state that they do have staff members cleaning the equipment. However, in the 6+ months I’ve been here I’ve never seen that and there has always been grease patches on many of the benches, so this cannot be the case. The gym does get very busy but it isn’t the end of the world as there is another very large car park within throwing distance and there is a lot of equipment (especially greasy benches). The main issue is when it gets to 10pm on weekdays and 8pm on weekends as that is when the large changing room closes, leaving ONE toilet for dozens of gym users which is absolutely unacceptable. No bags on the gym floor, but just about anything else is allowed from random bottles to clips, weights, equipment/attachments and tripods. Speaking of tripods, you regularly have to dodge them and god forbid you start to use a machine that’s actually being “used” by the gymfluencer setting up their tripod 3 metres away. For people who want to go to the gym to workout and not end up in a TikTok fitness edit it’s not great. I won’t generalise and say that the staff are rude but I have had two experiences where that has been the case. One where a staff member walked off when I and a separate gym user tried to raise an issue in the changing rooms. And another when a cleaner thought it was acceptable to stare me down because I came into the changing rooms at 9:57pm to use the toilet. Overall it is a decent gym but big improvements are needed hence the 2 star.

Fantastic experience: Everyone needs a neck workout machine at the gym

Positive experience: I would really appreciate if the app showed me how many times with the date and hours I have been in to the gym.

Negative experience: Play rap music which doesn’t belong in commercial gym I don’t want to hear it but they don’t care and its okay for people to wear socks and sliders or just socks

Positive experience: Great gym, brilliant equipment! Unfortunately the air con fans are set ridiculously high, almost blows your head off! Asked staff to make some reasonable adjustments, unfortunately not allowed to change air con settings! It might be acceptable in the summer, but absolutely not in the winter. The wind will make your training less efficient as you will not be able to concentrate fully on what you are doing. The problem persists! Is it filtered water at the filling station or just regular tap water? Thanks

Positive experience: Overall, a good gym. Equipments could be cleaner, especially benches and treadmills.

Fantastic experience: Lovely gym! Been a member since the beginning!

Fantastic experience: I was just warming up in the best gym of southampton till I got approached by a gorgeous pt asking for a review Very nice gym always clean and tidy

Fantastic experience: Love this place !!! It takes me 30 minutes to get here and there are quite a few good gyms in between. However, this is the best with a SO postcode. One tiny gripe is the policing of idiots. Alot of little boys come in and piss around when there is less staff on duty. Apart from that. JDGym is the best.

Fantastic experience: The best gym around. Got multiple pieces of each equipment so you are never waiting and can always get on and get your workout done. Also the staff are very friendly and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, lots of equipment and clean changing rooms.

Fantastic experience: Very good very nice

Fantastic experience: I really like this gym

Negative experience: Always very busy - can never park at the rooftop car park , over complicated entry system which is inconsistent on whether it will work or not , often have to wait for people trying to get in or out before trying yourself . Lots of equipment but never seem to find any staff to ask for assistance Full of “gym instagramners” which is a little intimidating

Fantastic experience: Actual “gym” where you can scream and bang weights :D

Fantastic experience: Love this gym! Always such a friendly welcome from the manager and team and the equipment is amazing with lots of kit you don’t often see in other gyms.

Fantastic experience: Good vibes, modern kit and friendly staff, what's not to love

Fantastic experience: Great gym, has all the kit needed to work out. Always tidy and clean. Paddy the manager was super friendly, explained how the QR works and made me feel really welcome.

Negative experience: Gym is good .but don't know why they are locking the studio at 9 o clock everyday. On the jd website it says closing at 10 pm but they are locking it at 9 o clock every weekdays. Every day they are closing.

Fantastic experience: Excellent work out classes

Fantastic experience: Such a good gym. Sauna is lush

Negative experience: Ive been asked to leave by rude(racist) manager. I was doing my training and a member of staff approach me and asked me to put my bag in the locker.( I did not know about this rule) I told him that I will do it as soon as I finish the curent exercise. Next he became rude and start shouting at me explaining that this rule is on the contract when you sign up. I told him again that I will put my bag away when I finish the exercise! (Note, there was other people in the gym having bags but he chose me). This is when he asked me to leave the gym or he will call the police. I asked his name but he refused, I asked to have a word with the manager he said he is the manager and started laughing at me. All this happen in front of the gym, him shouting at me and embarrassed me in front of every one. The gym is ok, but this is unacceptable.

Positive experience: Great Gym! Lovely equipment too But considering the amount of adults in here, it's strange they blair out kiddy rap music and grime really loudly. It's MASSIVELY off putting. It's hard to avoid even with headphones on ‍ Ah yeh, plus no drinking water. Just unfiltered tap water which is a shame. Apart from that, excellent gym

Positive experience: Great range of different equipment l, machines and benches however as the other comments say no sanitary stations to clean the equipment or hand gel. I know it gets cleaned regularly but when it's busy I would like to clean what I am using before and after use. Yes I can bring my own but end up carrying round 2 towels, 1 to wipe my face 1 to wipe the equipment, hand gel, straps keys phone etc which would be fine if you could have your bag on the gym floor but really annoying when you can't. I am sure it's more of a tripping hazard with all the various things you have to carry on the floor when working out. Overall good gym for equipment but could be better.

Negative experience: They rather have wrist wraps , waist belts , knee sleeves, trainers lying around in gym floor and people putting tripod to take videos and be trip hazard then allowing people a small bag to hold the kits .

Negative experience: Absolute nonsense Gym!!!!! Can’t give 0 star doesn’t even deserve one Was doing bench press on racks been approached by gym staff looks like manager to me no hi no hey “you can’t use bench on racks because it puts scratches on platform and walks away. first of all be professional if u r really working in gym even approaching dont be silly say hi be professional stay home if u can’t be the one. Secondly it’s a gym not a show room obviously it might put scratches on gym kit if this is how’s its gonna be this gym might ban deadlifts or working out because it might put scratches on equipment. Thirdly give me time to explain why I’m on racks ok!!!!!! It was just I can’t take the barbell off from the gym bench pressing racks because it’s way to high for me and my arms can’t reach. Anyways I have cancelled my membership. No paper roll to clean the equipment after use. Literally everyone can see you from the outside at night near treadmills no privacy. Changing room closes early where I’m suppose to use toilet in emergency only one toilet open at night. Is it a joke or what. No hand washing liquid to wash hands. Too many staff working with no intention to make sure members are happy there. I would rather go in a gym where I feel respected than working out here just because of good and various type of equipment.I HOPE I never get to return to this gym again I’ve cancelled my membership.

Positive experience: Good gym with lots of equipment. However I do not like that the changing rooms close overnight and there aren't enough lockers outside the changing rooms. There are no cleaning stations either so you can't wipe down dirty equipment before or after use.

Fantastic experience: Love the sauna and the Studio! Staff is great and you can always see someone around, which is reassuring. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Positive experience: Great kit. Really disappointing that you are not allowed to take a kit bag around with you and stuff expect you to carry everything with you, straps, drinks bottles, chalk, belts etc. The explanation was “ you might steal kit” Really disappointed about this and will cancel my membership as a result. Minho to to train and not be made to feel as though I’m a thief.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town. Sauna and shower experience is perfect

Fantastic experience: Great gym, very big, plenty of machines and equipment, plus very clean and maintained.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic new gym! Clean, plenty of equipment to cater for all, functional area is brilliant! Suits all my needs for training All resistance bands seem to have vanished, far to many people filming themselves, the croc brigade are at large (not a safe shoe to be working out in my opinion)

Positive experience: Nice gym, great choice of equipment, and would have rated it more if they did something about the narcissists filming themselves. There is however a major safeguarding issue that needs addressing, the windows to the gym face straight onto Bitterne, and at night provide no privacy what so ever. Now that might not bad if the machines right by the windows weren’t the step machines. How long until some weirdo is caught doing something outside that they shouldn’t be, especially when the nights close in and you won’t be able to see who’s watching you from outside. This also creates a problem where potential threats can see into the gym if any vulnerable users are in there by themselves and when they’re leaving. Tinted windows required to keep our women safe if you ask me.

Negative experience: Great gym. But… It’s not acceptable to turn off the sauna an hour before the advertised time! You can’t use it after 15 minutes. It’s either on at the advertised time or it isn’t. Make up your minds please. If you want to do your cleaning at a specific time then bring the closing time forward. Otherwise you are offering a diminished service for your customers. It’s so unprofessional. Also It needs another leg extension machine. It’s always busy.

Positive experience: It’s a good gym but I would love some V bar attachments for the cables !

Negative experience: The gym doesn’t offer day passes!! I don’t want a month’s worth membership to try out a gym. Ridiculous.

Fantastic experience: Really well equipped, some of the stations are not available in other local gyms that I have tried. Good atmosphere and great value for money at the current price point.

Negative experience: I sign in long before then open gym in Southampton because was only £5 first month. The worst my decision. New gym oficcial open 11.06.2024. I never used this gym because live now in Eastleigh so 07.07.2024 I tried canclel membership before next month start but I have to pay now £23 for another month because they send me email about give them 30 days notice so I should give the notice before gym start existing. They are use unfair practice, thieves.

Positive experience: Good gym but could do with a few tweaks There should be a dedicated cold shower to use after the sauna or the hot/cold should be available in all the showers. At the moment we're having to wait whilst members use the only cold shower to wash hair/showeretc is ridiculous. Maybe just take the door off that shower and make it cold only! Today I forgot my phone, pressed assistance button 4 times but no one came, so i came home. Maybe staffing levels need looking at.

Negative experience: Women staff constantly come into the men's changing room and there's no cubicles. Sometimes I'm listening to music so I can't hear them come in. Also only one cold water shower. Other than that, the gym is amazing

Negative experience: 07/20/24 19:30 Southampton (Bitterne) JD gym an employee entered the changing room and turned off the sauna , and started to clean the shower and make noise with a vacuum cleaner, then opened the door to the sauna and told that they were closing at 20:00, you need to hurry up. When I entered the sauna I placed a full bottle of water right next to the door, but when I left sauna I didn’t find it there. When I asked him where my bottle, he replied that the second worker had thrown it into the bin while cleaning. Dear JD, please explain to me if it is written in your contract that the sauna and shower closes at 20:00, why do your workers start turning everything off at 19:30 and start cleaning, they don’t even let members use the shower, the wires from the vacuum cleaner on the floor prevent me from walking, what about safety precautions if the wire is damaged somewhere and it lies in a puddle of water where people take a shower and plugged in socket. This is the disregardful behavior of workers and no respect for all of us clients.

Fantastic experience: For this price is the best gym in Southampton. friendly staff, clean, big and new equipment. The only problem is they close studio room and sauna too early as many people are working till 9-10pm so we can't use those .

Positive experience: This is a great gym. Equipment is really extensive and loads of space. The classes I have attended were really good and there's loads of variety for classes. On the flip side the gym manners not so good. The plate loaded machines are left loaded up by people and therfore I have to spend time taking off loads of weights before I can even use a machine, these are not being cleared by staff when I have been in and I think the gym should have a better community attitude and police this within the gym ensuring people understand they should off load the weights. There is also no facilty to clean down Equipment there's no sanitiser stations and therefore sweaty people leave the machine disgusting and I have to now bring a wipe with me. It was so nice being able to train somewhere that is clean and organised I just hope that time doesn't diminish this.

Positive experience: The gym is okay however the booty area is way too small was waiting 25 minutes for someone to get off the machine. Wish there was a screen around the booty area as a lot of people like to look in that direction and makes me feel uncomfortable so I didn’t go back.

Positive experience: Just started this gym a week ago. It’s great tbh in terms of equipment and space. I’ve tried machines that I have never even seen before and they feel great. You can tell a lot of thought has gone into this gym. Decent amount of cardio sections and weights are spreaded in the gym evenly. Only downsides is I’d prefer for a code rather then the phone qr code system. Hard to scan on first try at time. Other than that. Great gym. Especially the parking area.

Positive experience: The PureGym killer. Always wanted a sauna Always wanted natural light Loads of machines and space and platforms Good price. Needs some cleaning equipment, sprays etc for hygiene and Covid. Needs CCTV on the bike racks (maybe it has?) Would prefer being able to have a cold shower.

Negative experience: Membership cancelled. Your "no bag policy" is an absolute joke. Don't tell me having your belongings strewn about like a dog house is less of a tripping hazard and looks more "tidy". Also you have a massive pool of water in the ladies change room you may want to attend to. Shocking for a brand new gym.

Positive experience: Please tell that fat black employee to stop giving advice to people, especially when people have headphones in. I am much bigger and look way better than him but he came up to me and gave me unwanted advice on how to "properly" perform the exercise I was doing. I didn't want to be rude and just agreed with him

Fantastic experience: Big new modern gym 5/5

Negative experience: I would give NO stars but sadly google makes you leave at lest 1 star which the gym does not deserve. I used the gym once, thought I would use the sauna, silly me left my swimsuit hung on the shower door. I went up less than 24 hours later and someone had stolen it. first and last time I have used this gym. I rather pay £60 plus and ensure my belongs are returned to me. also comments below are a joke i spent an hour trying to phone but no bothered to answer and then staff couldn't find it in the lost property. so clearly another dirty member has stolen it. says a lot about the customers coming thought the door!!!

Positive experience: Good facilities and free parking. Very busy during peak times though! Toilets also shut on unmanned hours which is annoying if you need to pee lol

Positive experience: I would love to give it 5☆ but there are some points that need to be highlighted, even for those who know how to correct them. especially because I believe it is a gym with great potential, and yes, I think it could really be number 1/5☆. Points I observed in the first week that I'm training at this gym. I was very embarrassed, when I was changing my clothes, and a guy came in to clean the bathroom, I asked to leave, he apologized, but after a while, he came back, saying he needed to clean. I thought it was completely disrespectful for a man to clean the women's bathroom. Another point is that the classes are very disorganized in terms of schedules, etc... and finally, I really missed the spinning classes. For me, that would be what would make this gym complete, perfect, 5☆. I checked that other units have spinning classes, so I hope that in the near future, there will be a room just for spinning. Thank you, congratulations and success

Positive experience: Wow I love this Gym everything is great the only thing I would ask for is more cold showers as everyone wants one after the sauna and I only have cold showers normally anyway. Still great though Dan

Negative experience: Equipment is great but there’s a number of things that need addressing. 1. Cleaning down of equipment. There are no cleaning stations in the entire gyms which all large commercial seem to have except JD. Appreciate that it’s a member responsibility however when you have someone in front of you that wants to walk away from equipment without cleaning it, it’s not great. 2. The tripod situation. There are a LOT of members in there taking videos etc and personally I would rather not be in a video and I know a lot of people that have said the same. 3. The bags not allowed on the gym floor. Taking the aforementioned into consideration, if I am carrying a towel, keys, water bottle, straps, wrist wraps, phone and dettol wipes, and a foam pad around you can bet your bottom dollar, it’s going in a bag! I hope these are just teething problems that will be addressed going forward.

Negative experience: I haven't had access to the gym at Southampton Bitterne since 20th June 2024. I have already paid my membership fee for this month expiring on 11th July 2024 - yet cannot access the gym. I've been in touch with customer services who give me pre-set templated responses which do not address the issue I am having i.e. lack of access so this poor customer service experience means I no longer want to be a member and am pursuing a refund. There is another good quality gym less than 100 yards away from this one. It is a shame because the gym is a nice environment with new equipment.

Negative experience: Cold water in the showers and the floor is covered with water

Positive experience: I really enjoy working out at this gym, lots of equipment and a nice friendly vibe in there. The gym is very clean and well maintained. The only thing that would make the gym better would be the App. It would be great to know my daily activity and timestamps of visits but also a number count and busier times and quieter times. Sometimes you have to wait for machines and I don't like to jump in while people are focusing on their sets. So quieter times would be better for me. If the app could give an idea based on head count, that would be awesome. Overall best gym in the area.

Fantastic experience: Do you have some playing area for kids?

Fantastic experience: Very good gym best in Southampton

Negative experience: Most unhygienic gym I have been to. It’s a shame because the weights and resistance equipment are great, the treadmills are very basic it seems like they have tried to save some money there. But there are no wipe down stations in the whole gym, I asked a member of staff for some blue roll to wipe down a machine and he said we advise members to bring their own towel, fair enough but that doesn’t disinfect it. It’s rubbish and quite frankly disgusting going to use a piece of equipment when it’s covered in someone else sweat. Just provide some paper towels and antibac spray, not much to ask. Edit: I have since contracted ring worm on my hands from this gym and lowered the review to 1 star. It seems every time I visit the gym it gets dirtier and dirtier, in a couple of months it’s going to be more revolting than it already is. Due to the gym being so unhygienic I am going to cancel my memebership. It’s sad something so simple and basic can ruin something good.

Positive experience: Gym is amazing. The fact that the changing rooms aren't open till 6am and there's 1 toilet to field around 150 people till 6am is the thing that let's it down

Fantastic experience: Pictures don't do this place justice. Really Impressively sized - which only seems to grow as you move beyond the squat racks. Atmosphere is great with everyone focussing. High quality Eleiko equipment which gym lovers fully appreciate and cost a fortune. Plenty of cardio machines. Really clean and obviously no broken or damaged machines with it all being brand new. Definitely worth a try. Couldn't fault the place. Traffic arrows on the car park ramp would be helpful as some visitors were fully in the middle which might lead to an accident.

Fantastic experience: Having experienced decent body building gyms. When I moved to Hampshire I was gutted at the lack of nice gyms, I didn't live near enough to the one I would choose to go to. Finally a gym that has a great vibe and doesn't feel cliquey, looks amazing, has a sauna and keeps up with industry with a glute dedicated area. Yay! Motivates me to want to train all the time!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town, loads of equipment and big space. Despite a lot of people joining the gym it is clean especially rush hour when I'm in. The sauna is amazing. Best decision to move from another gym around the corner.

Negative experience: Looks great

Fantastic experience: Looks class from the photos. Can we get an official opening date though ? Early summer could be any when

Fantastic experience: Opening on the 11th (updated) June 2024! Cannot wait to see this new place opening. Having seen the photos in the Daily Echo app it looks amazing And, the first month is only £5! when you register by email via the website.