WellNest Gold
WellNest Gold is a physician-led longevity clinic on Bree Street, and the gym is one part of a larger building that also holds consulting rooms, diagnostics and a cafe. The training floor is deliberately small and quiet: high-end racks, good lighting and few people on it at any one time. The day pass is the […]
Velocity Gym Hout Bay
Stronger Together Cape Town
Stronger Together is a strength studio on Sussex Street in Woodstock, built around barbell training rather than machines or cardio. The two standing programmes are Olympic weightlifting, covering the snatch and the clean and jerk from first principles up to competition technique, and a progressive strength programme aimed at building muscle and physical capacity. For […]
SWEAT 1000 Sea Point
SWEAT 1000 is a fifty-minute group class rather than a gym, run on the third floor of The Point on Regent Road in Sea Point. The format combines treadmill work with weights and bodyweight stations, and the whole thing is coached from the front, so you follow the room rather than plan your own session. […]
Long Street Baths
Planet Fitness De Waterkant
CityROCK Cape Town
CityROCK Cape Town is a full-scale indoor climbing centre in Paarden Eiland, and a serious training facility that a visitor can simply walk into and use for a day. The scale is the first thing you notice. Sixteen-metre walls run the height of the building, with 180 top-rope anchors and sixteen auto-belay stations, alongside a […]
Horizen Gym
Horizen is a small strength studio on Main Road in Sea Point, a few minutes from the promenade. It is built around barbells, racks and coached group classes rather than rows of machines, and it makes a point of being a place where beginners are not left to work it out alone. For a visitor […]
HangTime Bellville
Bloc11 Paarden Eiland
Bloc11’s Paarden Eiland gym is the operator’s second Cape Town bouldering venue, in an industrial block on Auckland Street between the harbour and the N1. It is a ropeless climbing gym: the walls are low enough to jump down from, the floor is deep matting, and there is no belaying to learn before you climb. […]