Seven Islands Leisure Centre is a great option if you are looking to escape those pretentious type…read moregyms where you feel you have to go in and look amazing whilst working out! I am a regular here and have to say am very happy. I pay around £46 per month for full membership and am not tied to any contract and also didn't incur any admin charges which makes for quite good value! The gym offers a great selection of classes (my favourite is the Wednesday evening dance aerobics) which are all also open to non members at a price per class fee. The gym itself is ample - you sometimes struggle to get on the cross trainers at peak times but this is generally the case with most gyms. The pool is great and the centre also provides great swimming classes for children. Be warned though, there is no sleek decor or anything ultra modern about this gym (e.g. they are yet to install GHD's in the changing rooms!). It does what it says on the tin and that is just fine for me!

My partner and I pay a total of £75 per month to use all the facilities at Seven Islands including…read more5 other locations. Seriously. You're not going to get that anywhere in London and probably not anywhere in the G7 countries. That's a seriously good value for a pretty darn good neighborhood. There's an air-conditioned exercise studio and the classes are quite good. They also have a small running club and other common sport interest groups. The weight training room is very well equipped and has been recently refurbished using a £1mn investment. There's a water fountain in between the cardiovascular area and the weight training room. The locker room could use a scrub, but all functional. A refundable £1 to use a locker. There's a 33m swimming pool with a shallow and a deep end, and while I don't swim, everyone seems rather happy splashing around. 1 on 1 instruction is also available. Overall, seriously good value for money.

Started going here after they opened up again after Covid…read more I've only tried they gym so far even though they recently opened up the swimming area. The booking system for the gym is working neatly and I never feel like there is too many people cramped in one space. The facility has everything you would want and need. I also really like how the gym is divided into two floors. The first floor being where the free weights are and the second floor having a mix of cardio and machines.

Peckham Pulse provides a one hundred station gymnasium to workout in as well as a very busy class…read moretimetable. You can choose from many of the usual classes you'd find at any gym and a few with a diverse cultural vibe like cardio-bhangra. With the centre also being home to a family planning clinic, the gym holds onto a holistic vibe of community health, not powerhouse bodybuilding.

Its very difficult to rate here. Its a lovely space in between office buildings, with a few…read moresandwiches places nearby. It has little green spaces and plenty of seating. I first discovered it in the winter and enjoyed getting a hot chocolate and enjoying the peace. So, as it was a lovely and sunny today I headed over there on my lunch break with my book. It looked very inviting in the sun and I was excited to have half an hour to myself. Why 2 stars then? Obviously all the smokers had the same idea as me, because everyone, everywhere was smoking. It would not have been possible for me to sit (or stand) anywhere without having smoke being blown on me. As a lifetime non smoker, that isn't what I really want. Like I said - its hard to rate. Unless they ban smoking in all public places, this will continue to be used as a gathering place. I'll be back in the winter!

Yeah not a bad little sports centre. But not a brilliant one. It's got a standard 'New Labour'…read morearchitecture and ethos, so more leisure than actually range of participative lets-improve-our-sporting ability, nationally/individually kind of destination. With the obligatory cafe/coffee shop. So you get aerobics, a gym, badminton courts (but not squash), tabletennis facilities, basketball courts, volleyball courts. They have women-only sessions. Yoga. I suppose there is a lot on offer. It just doesn't inspire me to go down and get active, get fit. If that's what you're after, then you can probably do it here. Not bad, just not brilliant

Whitechapel Sports Center behind Whitechapel market is tucked away and has parking plus bike…read moreparking. This is a duo gym - one mixed and one for ladys only on the back of the building. I do like this -- the gym is spacious and relaxed ( or as relaxed as it can be with music blaring and machines going) There is one main TV set which all the machines are turned to with a matt area and weights near the doors and windows. The showers can be really busy so better to time yourself off peak if you can. This centre is great for kids there is little creche and this can also be rented for party's with access to the football area(all enclosed with own toilet area) The gym is friendly and I have rented out the room.They are very accommodating and flexible --altogether an okay experience.

I only come for the pools; can't comment on the gym. Both pools are clean & in good order…read more The changing rooms need a clean as do the floors throughout. They do provide shoe/foot coverings though. Kids all over the gaff. All the time, every time. Time demarcations need to be tightened up.

One of the first pools we visited in our search for great leisure pools fifteen years ago beyond…read moreour local pools (we have 2 within twenty minutes walk). This had 2 large flumes, bubble beds, wave machine, large jacuzzi pool, beach style, short swim round the island and I remember using it a few times as the best pool we knew. Well, it was till the next year we discovered Waterfront in Woolwich and didn't go back. Last summer though we were looking for new flumes for my youngest daughter who was then aged eight and decided to go back so she could sample. Probably best not to revisit past loves. The first time we went after school practically everything was unavailable because the large swim school basically took over the whole pool. No slides, no wave machine, no bubble beds, no swim round the island (permanently gated off, jacuzzi pool broken - had been for a long time). Not much fun..... Gave it another chance though and went back on a Saturday morning.. The flumes were rubbish, the queues were the longest I have seen (bizarrely it had been like a massive scrum just to get in the centre - no idea why....)and you had to sit on a mat with a single water jet - not as they used to be.... Not a pool I will be visiting again but no doubt if we lived close I guess we would use it. The whole area was in the middle of a massive regeneration programme a year ago and they had just built a rather nice 25m lane pool which was great. Not sure if they have spent money on the leisure pool - there were rumours they were going to. The poolside showers were the worst I have ever experienced but I am guessing they have been sorted. I like the idea of the library being co-located with swimming pool - seems a good one to me. I know we would combine the two if we lived locally. I know we wont be back unless we hear the flumes have been refurbished and worth the visit.

Out of school hours this place turns into a big sports and leisure complex, right next to the city…read morein Whitechapel. I played football here the other day - outside they've got 3 Astroturf pitches which are in as good a condition as any I've seen lately. Lots of London leagues and clubs run out of Mulberry, mostly for it's location I assume but it's got a really good range of facilities - including a nice size gym. I think in most cases you just pay for the equipment you use and for how long rather than actually joining up. Parking can be a bit tricky as it's down a little cul de sac off Commercial Road but there are plenty of single yellow lines you can stick to in the surrounds. A good one to consider if you want to get involved in a league and have a bit more of the social side than the usual sports club or gym.

Set back from the fragrant streets of London's finest curry district, Mulberry Leisure Centre was…read morethe setting yesterday for my first encounter with the London Rollergirls (http://www.londonrollergirls.com) . Eschewing the slightly inadequate bike racks out front for the great big metal fence (adorned with posters advertising cycle thieves in the area) I secured my ride and lugged my heavy skate gear in to the foyer where I was welcomed by a gaggle of Rollergirls, dressed to the nines in fishnets, patterned knee socks and hefty padding. Down clean, brightly lit corridors I walked to the changing rooms, where I threw on my own slightly less glamorous outfit of surfer shorts and stripey socks, donning my new Riedell R3s gingerly and stumbling out to join the throng of newbies, all raring to get started on our eight wheeled adventures. The main hall was big and welcomingly warm after the bitter cold of outdoors, less school gym than American sports hall with score boards and room for a reasonably sized skating circuit with extra training happening in the centre. After having skates checked by the more experienced we were off right away, encouraged to warm up around the circuit. I was amazed to be skating so quickly, my rusty pre-teen skills resurrected in a flash and new ones picked up throughout the course of the two hour basic skills session (held on the first Saturday of every month). As I left the leisure centre, bashed thighs still sending a warm current around my body, I looked back from the pitch black forecourt at the white light of the entrance hall and smiled, galvanised. London Rollergirls here I come!