Want to get fit, focus on your wellbeing, engage with your spiritual side, or all of the above? With plenty of excellent gyms and yoga studios, Marylebone is the perfect place to start. We’ve taken a look at the best in fitness and yoga that the area has to offer, from ultra-luxury boutique gyms and specialist boxing studios to calming yoga and meditation spaces and beyond. Read on for our pick of the best gym and yoga facilities in Marylebone.
Gyms in Marylebone
AMP
AMP is a personal training gym in Marylebone, centred around the idea that having a coach helps with your accountability, motivation, and progress in a way that changes the way you train for life.
AMP’s training programmes incorporate cardio, strength, mobility, nutrition and recovery. Members can take part in small group training lessons, group fitness classes, and one-to-one personal training sessions. We love that members have dedicated wearable fitness trackers, which track the effort that is put into workouts. Coaches have access to these results to ensure that their clients get the best results.
AMP’s brand new gym space, near to Marylebone High Street, has a huge range of state-of-the-art equipment including a 30M sled track, Concept2 rowers and Keiser M31 Indoor bikes, and has facilities including fully equipped changing rooms and a medical centre with medical experts and soft tissue specialists on hand.
Currently AMP’s offering is online. Their introductory offer to AMP TV- which gives you access to unlimited live coached sessions and unlimited on-demand workouts, as well as an online body assessment- costs £149 for unlimited access for 30 days.
Third Space
Third Space is a chain of luxury health clubs throughout central London, with the Marylebone branch truly providing a boutique, ultra-luxury fitness experience. The gym offers a huge range of ways to work out: members can try their hand at swimming, spinning, signature group fitness classes including functional training and combat, personal training and more.
Facilities at Third Space are truly state-of-the-art, including an 18m pool, a training space compete with functional rigs and a dedicated strength area, a calming space for Pilates and yoga classes, a cycling studio, and changing rooms complete with natural beauty products, ironing boards and hair straighteners. Lockers are also available to rent, and they offer a wash, dry and fold service to keep your kit fresh in between sessions.
Currently, members can get their Third Space fix on the gym’s app, which offers virtual on-demand classes. A new selection of these is uploaded every week to keep things feeling fresh. Membership for the Marylebone space starts at £180 per month and comes with extras such as two guest passes worth £50, money off treatments at the Third Space spa in Canary Wharf, and a personalised assessment.
BXR London
Based on Chiltern Street, BXR London is a high-end boxing gym offering professional athlete standards of training to its members. Boxing is the gym’s central focus, but it offers a wide array of ways to train with a selection of London’s most respected boxers and trainers.
Sweat by BXR offers classes under the following disciplines: Boxing, Versaclimbing, Strength & Conditioning, and Yoga & Mobility. Classes are boutique-sized and suitable for all abilities. If you want something more personalised, they also offer personal training and individual combat coaching
The space, spanning 12,000 sqft, has space for combat classes on the upper floor. On the ground floor is a members’-only gym, offering the latest in facilities with free weights, fixed weights and cardio conditioning equipment. The studio also houses a professional size boxing ring, state-of-the-art changing facilities including a steam room, sauna and ice basin, a rehab clinic and a club lounge.
BXR offer two introductory offers; either 3 classes for £30 or four for £40, which promise to get you hooked. After that, you can buy from a selection of packages to suit your lifestyle. If you’re after personal training, a taster session will set you back £65. BXR’s online offering can be bought in a monthly package- £99 for unlimited classes in a month- or on a pay-as-you-go basis: one class costs £5.
Yoga in Marylebone
Kanga Studio
Located on Marylebone Road, Kanga Studio offers a huge selection of yoga classes and healing therapies. With founders that have over 30 years’ experience between them, it’s the place to go to improve wellbeing and spirituality in Marylebone.
Kanga studio truly has a class for everyone, with yoga classes including Asana, Kanga, Vinyasa, Yin, Hatha and more available. For those looking to delve into the healing and spiritual side of things, give Verdic philosophy, Kirtan or a vortex healing session a go.
Kanga Studio has a lovely space with all the equipment you could ever need in a yoga class. There is also a shower if you need to freshen up post-class, and lockers available for your valuables. Members can enjoy herbal teas, mineral water and fruit in between their sessions.
Kanga studio is currently running online classes, which are donation based. Attendees can choose to donate between £5 and £20 to take part. If you’re an NHS or Emergency Services worker, the studio won’t charge you for your class.
Total Chi
Total Chi is a gorgeous boutique studio offering yoga, reformer and equipment-based Pilates classes. Located on Baker Street, it’s the perfect haven for Londoners seeking a respite from the bustling streets of Marylebone.
Total Chi has something for all tastes, whether you want to stretch out with a soothing yoga class, tone and condition using the reformer, or experience the variety of an equipment-based Pilates class. Private classes are also available for those who want their training to be a bit more hands-on.
Total Chi’s high-end space is everything you’d want from a yoga and Pilates studio: it’s a modern, calming space which mimics the peace of mind that members are striving to achieve. For those in need of some new threads, there’s also a small boutique selling the finest workout gear.
If you want a taster of Total Chi, an introductory class will set you back £15. After that, you can pay-as-you-go or purchase a pack of classes to be used as you wish. For those wishing to give private lessons a try, a first session currently costs £70 (usually £115). Buying a six-month membership for £99 gives you an ongoing discount to class prices.
Indaba Yoga Studio
Indaba Yoga Studio believes in the positive benefits that stepping away from daily life and reconnecting with ourselves through yoga can bring; as they say, ‘great things can happen when you feel good’. They focus on respecting the traditions of yoga but also embracing new styles to create a yoga experience which anyone and everyone can be part of.
There are plenty of yoga classes to choose from at Indaba, with a selection including rocket yoga, hot yoga, acra yoga and pregnancy yoga. For those committed to the practice, they also offer yoga teacher training courses.
Mats and any necessary equipment are provided free of charge, and the studio has showers with high-end beauty products and towels available to rent. There are also lockers for personal belongings. Rooms are available to rent out for those offering treatments such as massage or one-to-one bodywork.
While gyms and yoga studios in Marylebone are closed, Indaba is offering a selection of on-demand classes for £10 a month as well as a selection of live classes taken over Zoom for £7.50 For those wanting to practice in-studio, when it opens again an introductory pack of six can be bought for £30. After that, a drop-in class will cost £16.
This blog post was written in March 2021, when all gyms in the UK were legally required to have closed their physical premises. Please head to their websites for information on classes, prices and current offerings.
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