Virgin Active

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This is my home club and is one of the best gyms I’ve been a member of, the floor area of the gym is massive and there is a good balance between cardio equipment and free weights and other strength equipment. The pool and sauna area is also great, as is the café area where you can sit and watch sport

This gym had a much needed refurbishment at the start of the year, sadly the new colour scheme is grey… and grey… with splashes of red here and there… oh how I long for the bright colour scheme of old!
I’ve been a member of this gym for about 7 years now (you wouldn’t think it to look at me!) and things have definitely changed. Sadly not all for the better.
The childrens pool seems to be out of order a few times a month (not a big deal to me, don’t have kiddies but can see it being a deal breaker if you get junior all the way there and they don’t have the fun pool to play in!). Changing rooms are kept pretty clean — you need to have a padlock for your locker — and they’ve tried to keep an area of the changing room child free… though sadly most of the kiddies (and their grown ups!) don’t seem to be able to read the sign…
A victim of the refurb was the ladies weights area. I’m not sure why, it was pretty well used. Clearly the spin studio and ‘skill zone’ areas were far more important to them so now we just have to put up with being amongst the grunty men while we tone our muscles… another downside is that the weights machines do feel somewhat cramped together now as the space has been reallocated for other uses.
The upside — there are lots of treadmills (though at peak times — like Monday evenings — you’ll be lucky to get straight onto one!), bikes, cross trainers and rowing machines… the spin studio is now enclosed so you don’t have to hear the instructor waffling on and on nor have two different types of music trying to seep through your headphones! The skill zone has new and very entertaining trixster bikes (simulates a mountain bike course for those of you afraid of the outdoors like me…) TRX training systems and a skill wall (you know, the lights come on and you have to jump around hitting them off… I dunno the proper name!). There are plenty of tennis courts (book in advance), a large pool with lane swimming,
For the popular classes (like spin) you’ll need to book in advance and get there early or you’ll find all the bikes reserved with towels and water bottles! I haven’t tried many of the other classes, the schedule isn’t great for someone who can’t get there til 7pm of an evening, and having had previous miserable class experiences I am wary of some of the instructors, nonetheless the classes seem popular so I guess it’s just me!
Money wise you’re going to pay for this upgrade in facilities! Current full membership is around £83 a month although you can sign up for a year and reduce that a little (be aware of when your cancellation date is though otherwise you will automatically get rolled over for another year!).

I totally agree with West12 — I have hated other gyms I’ve been a member of, but I actually like this one — nothing more to add except that I’ve been a member here for a while and their recent refurb and upgrade of equipment has made them even better.
And their kids facilities are great. Both crèche and classes.
Current favourite new toy there is the Trixter Xdream videogame cycle — you have a videogame screen in front of you, and you race against computer generated competitors or real people. Resistance decreases and increases according to gradient, terrain and gears.
I should be there now, really, racing against the machine — instead of slumped here, writing about all the food I’ve been eating.

This is a beautiful building. It really is so much more than a gym. There are tennis courts, and outdoor play area for kids, two swimming pools, a huge hot tub room and of course exercise equipment. They have a great kids club and crèche for the little ones with a major flaw. They are always booked. They do activities with the kids which is part of why I joined. The problem is that you don’t just show up when you want to work out and drop your kids off in their area (like the other gym I belonged to) you have to book their time in advance. Which I could get used to if I could get a decent spot, or any spot at all. They take bookings 10 days in advance so you better mark your calendar 10 days out and remember to call that morning or you are SOL. This is a big letdown for me because well, I have kids. I want to work out. I joined this gym for this sole reason. You have to schedule classes or group workouts in the studio this way too. However they have lots of spots and you can book these on line. Again, it would be easier if you could just be there and notice a class, and pop in to try it. But whatever.

This Virgin Active (technically ‘West London’, which is the posh name for ‘between Shepherd’s Bush and Acton’) is absolutely brilliant! I’ve been a member for six months now and I’m as happy as I was on day one.
The health club is hoooooge — there are tennis courts, kids club, two studios, 22m pool, spa with a gigantic hydrobath, sauna, sanarium, steam and igloo, Heaven V beauty bit, café, and the gym, which is brilliantly equipped. There’s a huge amount of cardio stuff along pleasingly with all the most modern weights and resistance equipment — with two versions of most resistance machines, so you don’t have to wait too long for anything.
Virgin are also quite big on ‘exercise innovations’ (which the less kind might call gimmicks) but there’s no less than eight powerplate machines, a TRX thing (presumably to hang yourself on — it looks very odd to me), some wierd bike things attached to a videogame simulator, as well as boxing bits.
It’s got a really good, unthreatening atmosphere, nice changing rooms, generally good staff and it’s very clean. I really would rate it very highly — it’s one of the best Virgin gyms in London, and I reckon they’re the nicest of the bunch by quite some way.