Gym Recommendations in Chengdu?

[inChengdu]

Hi guys,

Can anyone recommend a gym? I will be in Chengdu for the next 6 months and live only a 10 minute walk away from Tongzilin Metro station. I would like a place that I can get to easily, it can be within walking distance or accessible by the Metro!

It would also be nice to have a gym buddy, if anyone is interested! 🙂

 

[kingno1]

why so many foreigners like to live at tongzilin?

[Vincent]

There’s a very decent gym on the 3rd floor above the Tongzilin Carrefour. It used to be “Orient Gym”, but I think they recently changed their name. Maybe not.

Check out these threads, all the info you need is right there:
Working out in Chengdu (Tongzilin gym)
Locating a gym in Chengdu

[inChengdu]

Thanks Vincent! I’ll definitely check the gyms out this week. The one above Carrefour sounds good, I think it’s about a 20minute walk from the place I work. Do you know when the peak times are? Want to try and avoid it!

[Charlie]

inChengdu wrote:

Thanks Vincent! I’ll definitely check the gyms out this week. The one above Carrefour sounds good, I think it’s about a 20minute walk from the place I work. Do you know when the peak times are? Want to try and avoid it!

I’ve been a member at a few gyms in Chengdu and the peak times seem to be weekdays from 5:30 – 7:30pm after most people finish work.

[inChengdu]

Thanks Charlie! That’s good to know. Really want to get back into training and eat better! I feel I eat too little since I’ve been here.

[Matt321]

Hi, sorry to restart this topic but a good place I have found and joined is the Megafit gym in the TopCity Centre, about 20 minute walk from Tianfu Square and close to Chunxi Lu – 688 for 4 months not too bad can’t complain.

[Ray]

Excellent gym, but rumors continue to circulate that it will close later this year. I hope not….

[Matt321]

I’d not heard about that Ray, do you know why it might?

But yeah same hope it doesn’t because it is quality.

[Ray]

@Matt321:
Been persistent rumors for about a year now. One guy told me it was gonna be turned into a restaurant. When I re-joined a few months back they were only allowing 10 months maximum, which kinda suggests that the future is in doubt. But agreed, it’s a good place o train, especially during non-peak times…

[Matt321]

@Ray

Ok thanks for that, won’t be extending it after it runs out then just in case! Though I would hope that 3 more months from now will be ok,

Yeah you do notice how quiet it is a lot of the time in there, back home gyms are never this quiet.

 

[Ray]

@Matt321:
Depends when you go. it can be stupidly crowded in the evenings. My favorite time is when they open; weights are on the racks (that doesn’t last long once the man/children arrive) and i don’t have to constantly ask cell-phone toting guys “are you using this?” 🙂
Ah, first-world problems in a second (third?) world country 🙂

[StormerJack]

Are gyms expensive in Chengdu ?  here in the UK i pay the equivalent of 1800 RMB for 1 year

[Matt321]

@Ray

Yep know that feeling, wherever you go in the world it seems there will be mobile using people at the gym – very frustrating!

@StormerJack

£180 for a year? That’s unbelievable for the UK, I’ve paid between £20-£25 a month at home which is £240-£300 a year and thought that was decent, though £20 a month is a lot cheaper than other gyms around at home.

It comes down to bartering since I got 688 for 4 months even though originally it was 688 for 3 at Megafit. Generally that seems like the average price, though you will probably get better value for a year or 2 years membership paid up front.

[baoluo]

why do all gyms open at like 10am in Chengdu.

Why can’t any gyms open at like 5am for people like me who don’t sleep?

[Matt321]

@baoluo

haha I have the same problem. Especially at weekends not opening till like Midday, it needs to be at like 8 or 9am at least.

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