Motive Fitness MFRC-05P Semi Recumb Mag Cycle

Advantages: Good classes, excellent customer service
Disadvantages: No pool

...at Matalans next door, as there is seperate gym parking to the rear of the club. Inside the brightly-lit building is a reception area leading into the smallish gym and the fitness studio. There are a couple of seats and some drinks machines in reception. Backing onto the ladies and gents changing rooms is the jacuzzi, sauna and steam room. There is also a sunbed room but there's no pool. The club is always spotlessly clean and tidy. The changing rooms have hairdryers and if you forget your towel you can hire them for 50p from reception. Sometimes the floor gets a bit wet in the ladies changing area with people coming out of the showers, but there are signs up asking members to towel off first, so I guess it's more of an illiterate user issue! **Gym** The gym is fairly small, but the equipment is good quality. Even though they don't have... Read review

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Advantages: Good prices, good equipment, video library, free soft drinks and newspapers, free parking, women only gym
Disadvantages: Not central, need £1 for the lockers

...I have been a member of Fitness First for just over four years. I joined in London, and have recently moved my membership to Leicester. Fitness First Leicester is part of an international chain of fitness clubs. Your membership is valid wherever you go, although some clubs abroad charge a small supplement because they offer deluxe services. The Leicester club is next to the Walkers Stadium, so it can be a bit chaotic on match days. It shares a parking lot with a Staples office products store, and you are issued a window sticker without which you can't park when there is an event at the stadium. Joining is easy. You speak to one of their consultants, and they sort out the best deal for you. I had a problem because instead of transferring my membership from London, they cancelled it. But it worked out well because they were having... Read review

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Advantages: Spacious, comfortable, friendly well equipped gym.
Disadvantages: Oh dear, it has a bar!

...which about 5 are recumbent) - 25 treadmills - 6 steppers - 6 arm peddles... (for lack of a better name hand peddle bikes where you peddle with your arms) - 14 x trainers with arm action - 8 cross trainers with no arm action All cardio equipment has CPR programmes and can read the heart rate monitors you can buy from polar etc. It is all in excellent condition. Again all the resistance equipment is Technogym. Spread out over two rooms, there are at least two or more of each machine. There are also some loose weights, and numerous mats with ab machines and an abundance of exercise balls. ENTERTAINMENT All cardio equipment is fitted with headphone socket and station selectors so you can listen to any of the main radio stations or channels such as BBC, Sky Sport, MTV etc shown on several large plasmas. (managed to catch Dr Who... Read review

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