Nuffield Health Reading Fitness & Wellbeing Gym

Fantastic experience: I have been a member of Nuffield gym (and its predecessor Canons) for approximately 10 years and have no hesitation in recommending it. I, and a number of work colleagues, are regular users of the gym on weekday lunchtimes and have always found the staff to be friendly and helpful. Since Nuffield took over the gym, there have been a number of infrastrucure improvements, notably the steam room and saunas. The gym is well equipped and at lunchtimes the cardio equipment is well maintained and always free to use, although the free weights area can get congested. I would recommend the CXWORX classes at lunchtime and a number of us have just embarked on a personal trainer programme with Luke who is excellent at coming up with varied challenging and tailored 1 hour sessions

Fantastic experience: They have a lovely pool.‍♂️

Positive experience: Staff are polite, facilities are clean and tidy. Gym equipment is very old but works and is well maintained (hence only 4 stars).

Positive experience: Positive: Quality Nice gym , excellent parking, no riff raff or chavs, good equipment, however gym could be hoovered more frequently, quite a bit of hair on the gym floor. Steam and sauna rooms worth their weight in gold, gym classes are excellent too.

Positive experience: Pretty good fitness centre, spacious gym with plenty of modern equipmnet, medium size swimming pool, clean place, some usage restriction due to Covid19, managed well, friendly staff, not very busy overall, but I guess it's due to membership price ~£60, personally think it's worth ~£35, do like the place, but won't be coming back after my current discount runs out, just to much for my pocket.

Positive experience: Nice gym, always clean, staff very friendly. I only visit when it's an open day or when my partner has a free pass from her membership. Communication sometimes isn't great between the social media team and the front desk as often they'd advertise something on Facebook but the front desk aren't aware of it. The steam room is often out of action.

Fantastic experience: Great little gym and amazing personal trainers. Can't recommend enough

Fantastic experience: I find this club run in a friendly, professional and welcoming manner. The recent logistical problems brought about by coping with Covid-19 have largely been solved without any reduction in the pleasure and health benefits received.

Fantastic experience: Good facilities/classes available and it's usually not too busy when I go.

Fantastic experience: Got a free trail pass. Really pleased with the gym. Plenty of free parking in multi storey carpark, sauna, pool, well equipped gym, friendly staff, got a towel as well. Enjoyed it.

Positive experience: No Wi-Fi Average cleaning standard Expensive

Positive experience: I went here after being referred by my GP for back aches. The lovely physiotherapist gentleman fixed my back after years of pain. I haven't been feeling any discomfort since. On top of going through exercises and stretches during the session, he also gave me a list of simple exercises with explanations and illustrations which I appreciate a lot with my memory! Thanks again, I will most definitely return if I find any troubles.

Positive experience: Should have a well working AC, other than this, it is okay.

Positive experience: Great people and super facilities. Poor maintenance sorry non existent maintenance. No disabled facility in gym as lift has been broken for months

Positive experience: So far, so good. I've been a member for around 1 month. Fortunately the times I tend to go to the gym (7pm during the week and 5pm at weekends) seem to be relatively quiet in terms of usage. Shower and changing areas are clean and have sufficient space, though a number of the lockers are non-functional, and the keys don't all have pins to attach them to your clothing - particularly tricky when going for a swim. The gym equipment is on the whole fine, although the lack of functioning air conditioning, like the lack of functioning lockers, pulls the overall rating down! More expensive than my previous gym, but the pool and better gym equipment makes up for that.

Fantastic experience: Brilliant place, great equipment, good people, fun classes. Keep it up !

Positive experience: Only used the pool. Only has two private changing rooms with curtains, and the showers seemed a little dirty. This pool does not have spa or bubble pools, and is often unattended with no lifeguard, but does have an area where someone can sit and watch. Not ideal for those who need supervision but better than Wokingham...

Positive experience: Normally I am using a different location Nuffield (Newbury), but I gave a try for this one. For first, it was’nt easy to find it even with satnav. The parking was a bit confusing but never mind. The changing room is normal as usual, the shower a bit vintage with the plastic curtains. The exercise area is a bit small and a bit overcrowded with equipments. A bit of refurbishing/redecorating would help the place. But most inportantly it is really dark, and the flashing lightbulb made it even wors. The good point is the classes. I attended on 2 classes during the day, and really enjoyed them even though the studio is fairly small compare together with other Nuffields. Overall it is not a bad gym but far from a premium one

Positive experience: Good for people who train after 7:30pm. Between 6 - 7pm is extremely busy. Great pool and friendly staff. Steam room has been out of order for 3 weeks already though and they've now put a sign up saying another 2-4 weeks before any work is done to it. considering the membership is expensive you would expect them to have all facilities working and not take 5 weeks to fix something.

Positive experience: I've been a member coming up on 9 months, my partner has been a member for longer. Overall I've been very pleased. The changing facilities are large enough, showers are good and facilities as you would expect. The pool is a little bit small, an improvement would be to make the lanes slightly wider and reduce the non lane-swimming area. The gym equipment is good, I can't fault the cardio kit, the multi gym and cross fit style stuff is good, however the weights area is a little small. There is one platform for free bar stuff, and about four squat racks/smith machines, which is a bit annoying when you want to do something other than squats or bench press! And an incline bench for sit ups but nothing for back extensions, which is a bit weird. A limitation of the size of the building I suppose. Common sense prevails with times to go, avoid 1730 weekdays, or afternoons at the weekend, as the free weights areas and pool are rammed. Any other time I can usually get to whatever kit I want, the staff are friendly and the few classes I've done have been good. Maybe offer some kind of points based discount system? IE the more times you go to the gym, the more discount you get on food and drink at the café? I might be more inclined to buy something then. All in all a decent gym, if you're south of reading it's fine as you don't touch the centre, and it's got most bits you'll need.

Fantastic experience: Good gym and fitness facilities. Friendly staff.

Positive experience: Great place professional crew, friendly and helpful bexcellent gym well equipped

Fantastic experience: Cosy smaller version of the Newbury one. Clean warm pool, showers a bit awkward but it's a great alternative for when we want to go closer to home.

Fantastic experience: Great health club for all

Positive experience: 2 expensive, no jacuzzi, (there is a place for jacuzzi just next to the pool) no equipment to train ABS or stomach muscles.

Fantastic experience: What an absolutely fantastic team :) We've just completed a charity static rowathon and the guys at Nuffield Health in Green Park very kindly donated us a Concept II machine for the day. Not only that but they took time out of their day to come and support us. Thank you guys!! Hugely appreciated :)

Fantastic experience: Great gym , has all the equipment you need . Friendly staff , very clean .

Fantastic experience: Great equipment, fab classes, friendly and helpful PTs and staff...a great club :-)

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym/equipment and rarely gets overly busy. Spa facilities aren't so great; sauna is essentially a slightly warm room and no jacuzzi, but if you're looking for a quality gym with well organised classes then this is the gym to join.

Positive experience: Good gym, quite expensive