Any recommendation from current members and ideas on monthly / joining fees?

Used to be a member or TotalFitness on Winwick road but it went badly downhill just before I left (unrelated reason).

DW fitness (JJB) is good value - Its about £31pm for full membership. You can also use any of their other gyms like Widnes, wigan or st helens without any extra cost. It never gets to busy in there either. Ive been a member of 10 years and I dont think the price has ever gone up.

Select Leisure (council) @ Birchwood isn't bad & if you are a council employee is cheap @ £14.50 per month, plus half price swimming at the other leisure centres

Also recommend DW Fitness as well, they have good facilities and the price is very good value.

Recently re-tiled the steam room and showers since it became DW, and most of the equipment was replaced just before it became DW.

I used to go to Total Fitness but it was too far out of the way to get to so I didn't go as much. With DW being in the town centre I get there at least 3 times a week and sometimes I do 5 days.

Hard labour gym in latchford. ive been going there years. just pay as you go (£2) for aslong a sesh as you wont. no contracts or anything so if you decide you dont wanna go you wont be out of pocket.

Village hotel leisure's good, good staff and regulars!

Avoid the council gyms, they're really basic and there's nothing you wont outdo within 6 weeks.
DW's pretty good and as long as youre not planning going at night times in the week then 24 quid for off peak memberships pretty good value.
If you work in town you can usually get a discount on that too, have to ask.
Total Fitness is probably the best in and around town but its expensive unless youre paying full wack at JJB, which not many do

I pay 40 quid a month at the Village hotel, This give use of all the gym squash courts , pool, sauna , steam room jacuzzi the lot ,all day none of this off peak usage only that some memberships offer.... good staff and superb facilities...

its £25 for a 3months at fordton leisure (council) preety basic but there's enough thing's in their for different workouts

Just watch out for Purple Aki

Select Leisure for me. Just opposite work so easy for me to get to.



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Can either go there or have the choice to go any of the others in Warrington, which is fine by me.

Wouldn't go DW on principal, and TF is very good, but expensive and out the way for me. I'm sure most will let you try them out first, if just once.

Agreed...good atmosphere in there and limited sted heads

Have to agree I go there every day top gym with no steroid knobs !You can get a Leisure card if your on a low income or on the dole and it then costs £2 a week if you pay 3 mths upfront !

Select Fitness for me too, well, when I was able to go to the gym.

Used to go Total Fitness, but it was always packed, plus you'd have all the morons in "Roid Rage Corner" so you could never use any of the manual weight machines.

Alive and Well in Birchwood is a small but well equipped gym with a good atmosphere and excellent trainers plus there's a lot of rl fans which go so the banter is always good.. I pay £35 a month for full membership.

Total Fitness is gash, full of posers and cliques and the staff don't give a stuff.

I go to the village hotel, £36.50 a month corp though it im sure it was meant to go up to £40 in October. Good gym, friendly staff and no scary muscle men!

Yeah it did go to 40 Quid .. still good value

I'm a DW girl myself, lovely staff and ood facilities and you can use any of their gyms not just the warrignton one. i go to widnes mostly

Back to the err student thing - £249 for the year at Total Fitness

Hard Labour, best gym by miles!

I'd recommend David Lloyd........to those people in Liverpool that won the euromillions

Select leisure student thingy is
Select All Student

5 fitness suites and a choice of over 130 fitness classes at five sites, sauna & steam, FREE swimming for £25.00 per month Direct Debit. (Evidence of a full-time course must be supplied at time of application for membership)
Annual payment in full: £250

Was a member at David Lloyd from openning up until this year. The best by miles, but ultimately £70 a month was just too steep. Haven't joined another yet, but fancy DW i think. Would venture up to Hard Labour, but i'm not a juiced up monkey shouting at weights....

It really depends what you want. Total Fitness is probably the blue print for Fitness Centres, having a nice selection of free weights in 'roid rage corner, multiple resistance machines, loads of cardio space, plus studios and regular classes, ranging from beginners spinning to Boxercise, plus a swimming pool and a jacuzzi. It is a bit pricey and they tie you into a 12 month contract that you can't get out of, regardless, which is a ballache, so it's probably best to look ahead 12 months before signing anything. Seems petty, I know, but I know a fair few people who signed up for the sake of going to a gym, then within couple of months had stopped going, moved home, gone to Uni, etc etc and still had to pay their monthly membership fee.

Hard Labour or O'Malleys are great for the old school 'weights monkey'. Interesting aside, O'Malleys was where Mike Gregory trained when he was at Warrington, and also where Davey Boy Smith trained before emigrating to Canada.

DW and David Lloyd are poor versions of Total Fitness and both place more emphasise on Customer retention and the corpate image than actually training. Don't expect any of the Fitness Instructors in any of those three to actually help you if you look a bit lost; that'd be too much like hard work for them. There is probably more work done to make the bar and chaning rooms look all nice and shiny than there is helping their members progress. They do have first rate resistance machines, but DW's actually weight area is tiny in comparison to Total and even David Lloyd. Hard Labour, I would say, is possibly the best atmosphere of all the gyms Very few regulars would have a problem giving you a hand if you need spotting or any training advice. A training programme template is available, too, and the staff have no problems helping you along the way.