The Swole Gym training floor under low light

Est. July 2024 · Ripley, Surrey

Built by lifters.
Run like a members' club.

Swole Gym opened in July 2024 to be something the UK didn't have enough of: an American-style bodybuilding gym with a capped membership and a doctor down the hall.

Why we built it

A gym should know your name and your bloodwork.

Swole started as a clothing brand — Get Swole, Stay Swole — worn by the same lifters who kept saying the same thing: the UK didn’t have a gym worth the name. Crowded floors. Missing kit. No one paying attention to actual health.

So in July 2024, founder Max London built the answer. Membership is capped, because “never crowded” shouldn’t be a slogan. The kit is the sort people fly to America to train on. And there’s a private GP on site, because people who train this hard deserve blood work, not guesswork.

It’s a members’ club, strictly for over-21s, on a farm just off the A3 — and it’s run like somewhere that’s glad you came.

What we believe

Four rules we run by.

01

Never crowded

Membership is capped and strictly 21+, so the floor stays calm and workable.

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02

Health before hypertrophy

A private GP on site — consultations, blood work and hormone profiling, not guesswork.

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03

Iron worth driving for

Serious plate-loaded and free-weight kit, chrome dumbbells, American-style everything.

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04

A club, not a key fob

A Thursday run club, monthly challenges and staff who know your name.

The community

Our journey

Year one, and counting.

  1. July 2024

    The doors open

    Swole Gym opens at Valentines Farm in Ripley — and the white neon SG sign goes on the wall.

  2. Since

    The recovery suite arrives

    An infrared sauna and a cold plunge — recovery built into the membership, not sold back to you.

  3. Since

    A private GP moves in

    An on-site private doctor: consultations, blood work, hormone profiling and referrals.

  4. 11 July 2025

    First birthday

    A free-access day with food, music and the whole community in — one year in the books.

  5. Today

    5.0 on Google

    131 reviews and a perfect 5.0 — and the list is still growing.

The team

The people you’ll actually meet.

Max London

Founder

Built Swole Gym to be the gym he and the lifters he knew always wanted.

Josh

Front of house

Runs the walk-arounds — he’s who you’ll meet on a first visit.

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Tilly

Memberships

Sorts the paperwork so you don’t have to — from first visit to first session.

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Lorena

Coach

Leads Booty, Legs & Core and strength & conditioning on the timetable.

Classes

Health first

Most gyms sell you a locker. We built a doctor’s office.

Swole members can see an on-site private GP — consultations, blood work, hormone profiling and referrals — because training hard without knowing what’s happening inside is just guessing.

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Where it started

First the brand. Then the barbell.

Swole began as activewear — Get Swole, Stay Swole — before it was ever a gym. Swole Gym is owned and operated by Swole Gym Clothing, and the range is still going. Looking for the old gym page on the clothing site? It moved — you’re in the right place.

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Reviews and reputation

5.0Google · 131 reviews
4.9Birdeye · 111 reviews

Don’t take our word for it — the reviews are public, and people mention our staff by name.

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Come see it

See it with the lights on.

Tours are free and no-pressure. Come look around, or apply to join the list.

Strictly 21+ · Membership from £99/mo · Ripley, Surrey