The Gym Group Birmingham City Centre

Very clean and well presented gym. Glad I joined. By the looks of things the machines are working pretty good. Nice location and easy to spot. Only negatives are one lift in use, one is out of order! Also would have liked hair dryers in the Mens changing rooms which would make things so helpful! Apart from that its all wonderful 🤌👏🏽

I’ve been at this gym for a couple years now and I thoroughly enjoy coming. The atmosphere is welcoming and there is enough spaces for everyone to have a good workout! The gym is well maintained however the changing rooms can sometimes be problematic but I do see an effort to improve this as the staff does regular checks. The trainers are always willing to help and offer advice. I’ve worked with Adrian and he’s absolutely wonderful. He greets everyone and is always looking of ways to improve our experience at The Gym. I’ll encourage anyone and everyone to join :) You won’t regret it!

Pros - it's a big gym with lots of equipment. There's dumbbells both upstairs and downstairs, and there are loads of machines, some of which there are more than one of. It does get very busy, and at busy times, squat racks are often all taken but you can get on all the machines. Cons - there's only one con but it is a major con. I have never ever been to a gym with such bad etiquette. It's very understaffed (which I understand is part of the business model) so staff never ever tell people off for this. Equipment is always all over the place because a lot of people don't put it back and it's often really messy with equipment that people aren't using. The other day, I was next to a couple of lads using a barbell and some dumbbells and they literally got up and left them there. The gym has a 10m track and a sled, sandbags etc. which is great. But unless you're there early in the morning, you can forget about using it. It's always full of people doing exercises that they don't need to be on a track for, even though there's a space for those exercises which barely has anyone there. If there's only one person on the track, it's easy to tell them to move, but it's usually 4+ which makes it quite hard and staff don't tell them either. Today, I wanted to use the track and there was someone doing bicep curls, two people doing yoga, and one person doing core exercises like sit-ups. Meanwhile there was a space next to them with mats laid out which was empty.

It's getting harder and harder to train in this gym, from 24h to 6 - 23 at the same price. Changing room are always in bad conditions, machines always faulty and air-conditioning is disgusting. Most of the time it is put on hot air or turned off, as well as full of dust in the vents making it difficult to breathe when training. Most of the equipment is broken. The app says that when there are 160 people in the gym it is only the 50% of capacity when actually you cannot even train as there is not enough space or machines.