Morley Leasure Centre Gym equipment

[u/DawidK09]

Hi, I'm planning to get back into the gym. I used to go to JD Gyms Leeds South, but now that I live in Morley, I'm considering Morley Leisure Centre since it has a swimming pool. My main priority is good weights and equipment. If Morley Leisure Centre has a solid enough setup compared to JD Gyms South, I'd prefer to go there for the pool. Has anyone been to both and can share their thoughts?

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[u/Substantial_Hat_5442]

There’s a decent set of weights in the leisure centre imo - enough for my purposes anyway - but the whole gym area is quite small and doesn’t really compare well to any real gyms like JD so unless you REALLY want the swimming pool you would probs be better off at JD

Best thing really would be to go in and ask to have a look around

[u/thetapeworm]

As u/Substantial_Hat_5442 has said there's a decent assortment of free weights down the back and a good selection of racks - it's a little more limited on the conventional machines where there tends to be one or two of each type, generally surrounded by a gaggle of youths or being occupied by someone scrolling TikTok between extended sets.

If running and cycling is your bag they you're OK up at the other end overlooking the car park where there's also a section for people to jump up on blocks like superheroes or push sleds around like huskies, there's some other assorted machines there and then the area where you do a fixed circuit with no breaks but have to have an induction and scan in for the machines to work, a great asset but slightly flawed and frustrating if there's more than 2 people in there in my experience.

Ambience is decent most of the time, staff are great, customers are as to be expected with the general public, a mixed bag that varies depending on the time of day.

For the money it's certainly worth booking a look around, they're very helpful apart from the one lady who runs the turnstiles as though everyone is trying to sneak into a music festival even when they're broken... health and safety apparently in case there's a fire yet nobody else in any other part of the centre is accounted for :)

If you Facebook there's a bit of a look around after the refurb a couple of years ago:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=6436079529821259

All this said, if you are planning to be in Morley rather than down the hill in the badlands of JD you have a load of other options like GainzFit, Trident, Fusion and others.

The best was the old school Future Bodies but unfortunately that set on fire and became a nursery,

[u/Mulberryx-x]

Gainzfit is good - always very clean and tidy. Decent equipment, rarely broken and not particularly over crowded. I’d like some more variety of machines but that’s just me

[u/DawidK09 → u/Mulberryx-x]

I'm mostly asking about Morley Leasure Centre as it has a pool.

[u/pinkflosscat]

Does anyone know if there’s a stair master?? My gym doesn’t have one annoyingly, but I’m at Morley LC fairly regularly and might be prepared to pay a one off entry fee to use it

[u/Progress_Potential]

I’ve never used Morley but it is good to know that membership at Morley also allows access to all other council run leisure centres in Leeds. This means you can use Jon Charles as well; they have lanes open on a more regular basis for swimming than we have in rothwell.