Regular to this gym, welcomed friendly service, cheap prices for a workout. Good range of equipment…read moreie runners, free weights, rowers, toning machines. There are wide range of aerobic classes on and sunbed centre within the gym which are very competitive priced. Toilet/showers facilitys are clean and drinks to enjoy after your workout. Also members are friendly and will help you out if you need it.

As I have to stick to a budget, my decision to choose one of the cost driven gyms was mandatory, I…read morehave been a member of pure gym and namely have been attending the one on bury new road for quite sometime. However. Lifestyle fitness in Whitefield provided a breath of fresh air and has plunged me into a new health-kick. For the same monthly payment of £18.99 they have additional steam room/sauna/aromatherapy room facilities. Additionally they have more squat racks/smith machines and benches than that of my old pure gym, with the added bonus of their appearing to be less people who use the gym. (This is good for all the lifters out there) Unlike pure gym, Lifestylefitness has staff actually working in the gym! These members of staff are very friendly and polite and they help give the gym a sense of community.

After being a member here for a good while now I can certainly recommend it…read more Situated within The Printworks, this gym and fitness centre is a stones throw from both where I work AND where I live. Excellent. It is a very large gym with all the usual equipment you'd find and a great exercise space for free weights and routine gym work. When you join you get a complimentary health MOT - a 12 point health inspection that covers every aspect of your fitness you can think of. It definitely gives you the motivation to keep going, especially if the results deem you quite unfit, as they did for me :/ The pool and sauna / steam room / spa are excellent and usually quiet and the changing rooms and shower facilities are state of the art and very well maintained. There are personal trainers wandering around the gym most of the time, so it's really easy to grab them for advice or even book them for a PT session. Classes also run daily and are included in the membership. I can't fault this gym.

So this was Holmes Place health club. Then Virgin Active. And now it's Nuffield out with the red…read moreand in with the green. So some staff have hung on in there from both clubs before but nice to see some fresh faces. There has been quite a lot of cosmetic change. Much needed shower refurb. Some new equipment. And better use of the space. They have also developed a new health and fitness centre where you can get MOT done and check you're still alive lol. I also think they have listened to us old timers or loyal members as we like to be known. And they have introduced the coffee shop with juices and healthy snacks and for the city centre it's very reasonably priced. I like the vibe. And the atmosphere. No offence To Virgin but it's less electronic tag and more cooperate membership now!

Withington 'Baths' is a seriously old school swimming pool - and has played host to entire…read moregenerations of South Mancunian schoolchildren who have been dragged their by their teachers in the pursuit of being taught how to swim. I should know, I was one of them (as was my Dad). I still have incredibly fond memories of the place - this huge Victorian monument to the pursuit of health, which towered over Withington belching out steam and chlorine fumes. The changing rooms smelt of feet, and our swimming teachers ranged from the disinterested to the downright sadistic. I still have nightmares about having to dive into the pool in my pyjamas in order to locate a plastic brick from its slimy depths. I still go to the baths occasionally for a quick swim, as well as to sweat out various accumulated impurities in its sauna. Not much has changed since my primary school days. The main tiled pool still looks slightly dilapidated, the lockers still look as though someone's been going around headbutting them, and the building still looks like an old Victorian sanitorium for the mentally disturbed. Yet, it still provides a vital service to the local Withington community, and is great value for money. And, it's nice to know that whilst Withington may be changing all the time, the baths is still a small moment of the past suspended in time - always different yet always the same.

If you're looking for an affordable place to keep fit, or just want to go casually for a swim/gym…read moresession/fitness class this place is ideal. I'm not one for being tied down. In gym contracts I mean. So, this centre is great for me. You can pay monthly for under 30 (student and Manchester city council workers have discounts) or just pay as you go. There'a pool, gym with free weights as well as cardio equipment, and a dance studio for classes. Everything you need really minus the swanky changing rooms and posh jacuzzi. But then, you're not being charged the Earth either!

Tucked away in Dunscar Business Park in Bolton, I hadn't heard of this place before, but it's a…read morehidden gem. I've been going for about 5 weeks now as my football team booked us in for weekly strength and conditioning sessions and they are some of the best I've done. I've played football to a pretty high level and along the way have had some great and some shocking fitness/strength and conditioning coaches, but Alex down at Kept Fit is probably up there with the very best. He's knowledgable and attentive to your goals and makes specific plans and training sessions to aid what you're there for - for us to be fitter on a football pitch, and it's most definitely working! You can go down for private sessions or book on to a group class if that gives you the added motivation to work harder. Definitely recommend to anybody looking to lose weight, build muscle or just generally improve their fitness without the added pressure and uncomfortable nature of the big gyms! Also worth noting we haven't lost or even drawn a game since we've been training with Alex!

Target Fitness offers four different membership packages with the most expensive being about 35…read morepounds a month. It offers a pretty good selection of classes, and has two swimming pools, a large and a small. The gym itself is upstairs cardio machines and weight machines and mats with freeweights, with a more hardcore weights room next door. Most of the machines are pretty new and in good working order. A few of the exercise bikes need some TLC and a couple of the seats dont adjust anymore on the weight machines. The cross trainers are excellent and have some really challenging interval settings on them. Don't expect all the heart rate monitoring plates on the machines to work either. The free weights area has a good range of weights benches and balance boards, including those irritating vibration plate things. As for classes they do all the usual Body Pump/Vive etc as well as yoga, tabata training and Spinning and many others; all are available on the website for you to look at. I attend the Spinning most frequently and you can pretty much go every day of the week if you are a sadist, though you have to book early but can get the odd last minute appointment if you're lucky. The instructors are friendly and make the classes fun and I would really recommend them. I haven't used the pool but I mean it's a pool it looks ok. Blue and splashy. The female members changing has three showers, two cubicles and a lot of lockers. All good here. Opening hours are pretty good, 6:30 till 10pm in the week, 9-5 on saturdays and open till nine pm on sundays SO hard to find excuses not to go. So if you are looking for a midprice gym that is there when you want it I would recommend Target, but if you can afford more, you can probably get better machines at a posher gym.

Absolutely loved the stay here. Two of us stayed here for 2 nights. The facilities here are…read morephenomenal, everything is clean and working. For the money we paid we were able to use the all the facilities. They offer a £1 burger me on Fridays where you pay a couple pounds for a whole meal. It's definitely worth the money. It's a very pretty place and the location is phenomenal. There is a 15 minute walk to some absolutely lovely shops and cafes. My personal favourite is the fresh cafe apposite the Istanbul grill. If you want a brilliant experience don't just run to the costa down the road. It's a lovely family-run business that's great in terms of service and quality. I loved the smoothies there. It really helped us enjoy our stay at the village. It's a lovely little place in a brilliant location. I really enjoyed my stay.

What a fab hotel, very reasonable deals for rooms, even at short notice and what you get for your…read moremoney is great. The rooms are clean and spacious with lovely brightly lit bathrooms for getting ready. The pool and spa area is all included in the price and is really well set up. Got little areas in the pool with loungers and trees as though you are on holiday, spacious sauna and steam room, two jacuzzi and very family friendly with a child's pool. Seating area in reception is inviting with a log fireplace and sofas. Provides a bar/restaurant and a starbucks to meet variety of needs. It is a £20 taxi into Manchester but worth a stay even if not visiting the town.

I have heard good things about this Judo club from people who have been there previously. I have…read moredone Judo before and i am looking forward to getting back into it. Will be able to comment better in a few weeks possibly. Though having done research i was suprised to see a lot of Martial arts places popping up around Wigan and specifically Mixed Martial Arts following the explosion of the UFC, should anyone with to begin learning Mixed Martial Arts there is healthy choice. If any information is needed send me a message.