PureGym 4+

I’ve been a member for 15 months now and enjoy how convenient the 24 hour access is, plenty of equipment for all types of workouts, always people cleaning, and good self cleaning points, music could be of a slightly higher volume especially at weekend afternoons & evenings, staff are very helpful at the Halifax gym that I use, I notice that there are people from all walks of life, and all levels of fitness & I’ve never heard a single unpleasant remark about someone’s effort or appearance it’s truly inclusive, so if you are in anyway in two minds, don’t be the staff will help you with anything, they even gave me exercises to help a long running shoulder complaint that fixed my problem, all this and the price is the best out there 👍👍👍

So I joined Pure gym today and hit the road running,,,,,,went straight to my home gym ..... One of the main things I didn’t like at my home gym was the lack of staff for help with just the basics ! It was about 1300 in the afternoon so I would have thought there would be plenty of staff !!! Anyway regardless of this I did eventually manage to navigate to my chosen part of the gym . The app is really useful, after choosing a workout it gives all the instruction needed and necessary gym equipment needed , absolutely loved this , being a total novice to gyms I found this really useful. I do wish you didn’t have to pay £5 for the extra workouts !!!!!! That’s a bit cheap to be honest , but then I guess when you pay so little for the gym you got to pay for all the extras..... I have booked 3 spinning classes via the app with no trouble at all , and unlike some reviews have said I have been able to choose which calendar I save the dates to . I do think there is certain information that is missing which would be useful when first using the chosen gym , like for example , parking regulations , a map of the gym layout rather than struggle finding everything , and maybe more free workout sessions. All in all not a bad app and a pretty good gym .

There are a lot of reviews with new feature ideas. However there is one current feature that doesn't work properly. Once you book a class and 'add to calendar' you cannot change the calendar it gets saved to. If you try the app just crashes. Instead you have to save it in the default calendar then close the app, open your calendar then update it there. Please take a look into this bug!

An even simpler idea would be to publish the calendar as a public calendar (and internet calendar subscription) - that way you wouldn't need to add it to your diary and therefore may improve turnout at class if they show in your diary with even less effort. (Ie. If you didn't add it to your diary it'll still appear in your calendar to remind you).

My only other suggestion is have your instructors take attendance at classes through a tablet. It's pretty impressive how paperless/electronic the whole PureGym experience is - until you have to tick your name on a printed class list.