1610 King Alfred Sports Centre

Great friendly staff always willing to help, I try to go at least once a day, sometimes twice. Parking is a little awkward as based in a school so in term time at 7am have to park near the main entrance and walk up. No biggie except when it's pouring down!

Gym facilities good but they still lack an ab machine fully 2+yrs after the refurb,, sadly like most oldies that's where I need the help. I have a pretty strict 30 minute regime of cardio up to 150bpm then all of the resistance machines...said because that brings me on nicely to the next point

The only negative is other gym users who can sit on machines inactive for minutes at a time engrossed on their phones, no doubt updating their social media status or chatting (playlists don't take that long!) They seem genuinely shocked when I ask them if they're finished. Most say yes and move, occasionally they say no and then start using the machine. Note I'll only do this if it's my last machine to use, so am not a complete dork!.

The funniest was a lady who had left her towel on the leg press whilst she used free weights, so I commented that "this wasn't a Turkish resort that she could reserve a seat with a towel...anyway she didn't look German!" :O)

Come on people have more respect for other gym users who may not be on the relaxed timescale as yours...thank you

Oh, why does the school insist on parking the school buses outside of the gym at evenings/weekends/holidays ??

Excellent place for gym and to get extra fitness classes.. The staff is good. I found a few things to improve the cleaning and the sauna is not working.

Not bad facilities but the interior could do with some work especially the sports hall which besides being really scruffy is freezing in the winter and boiling in the summer has a leaky roof and desperatly needs some sort of sound suppression.

Fab Gym. Good variety of classes. All staff extremely helpful and approachable. Very comfortable atmosphere.

Small gym. Friendly staff. Good classes. Good selection of modern fitness machines.

Great gym, everyone there is friendly and it's such a good environment to work out in. I miss going with covid around ):

I go to 1610 to play football with a great bunch of friends we are all over 55 so if anyone fancys coming along we at 6.00 clock Thursday evening for a kick about great fun 😀

Good gym, lots of equipment and very helpful staff. Because it's based on a school campus it has some limited opening hours and access is a bit of a faff. The classes are great but the selection is a bit limited, plus some of the machines are looking like they need a bit of maintenance. Definitely worth joining though.