EasyGym cardiff

[Jamie555]

At the turn of the new year, cardiff had a new gym open - an EasyGym. A friend of mine asked me to go with him, and I was not expecting what I found.

I went with the preconceptions that a gym with few staff, long opening hours and palm scanners, that it would be sparse on kit, however they seemed to have packed a lot of kit in there - 2 squat racks, 2 variable height cable cross overs, lots and lots of variable cable stacks (at least 8 that I counted), at least 6 pullup stations, at least 6 benchs, heavy bag, medicine balls, kettlebells, vibration plates and more cardio machines than I could count. They had a lot of unilateral cable rows too, and the weights stacks on the machines went a lot higher than DW. Plenty of Oly bars and weights too.

Opening hours are 0600-2300hr Mon-Sat and 0800-2000hr on Sundays.

There were no annoying adverts blasting out, of the type that they run constantly at DW Fitness Cardiff.

The downsides:

No pool, sauna, etc.
DB upto 50Kg
Low number of showers to maximum membership capacity - 4 showers in the mens.

Price: £17quid a month with no contract.

All in all, I was quite surprised and impressed by the whole place. It seems to be strong on the function side of things - lots of good kit, and no frills. I am giving it a run for a few weeks whilst the new years resolution folk invade the gym at DW, and whilst my expectations were for a short stint, the way things are going, it maybe longer.

J

 

[Njf1988]

That sounds a great gym for the price! All the gyms in my area only go up to 50kg dumbells apart from mine which go up to £60 unless you want to go to a hardcore gym which is cheap but no parking etc.

id say go for that with the price they are offering! Is there parking?

 

[Jamie555]

That sounds a great gym for the price! All the gyms in my area only go up to 50kg dumbells apart from mine which go up to £60 unless you want to go to a hardcore gym which is cheap but no parking etc.

id say go for that with the price they are offering! Is there parking?

Actually there is 2hr free parking in the multistory next to the gym, and the gym is right in the centre of town, so I expect it would save a bit on parking when going into the city too.

This evening I discovered there was another little section of plate loaded machines there! Unilateral plate loaded seated row. There was also a load of Precor Icarian kit for doing cable shoulder press instead of DB. Its going to open up some new training opportunities, and some of the Icarian kit should be a good substitute for DB over 50Kg.

J