Best Gyms in Jacksonville

2022

Achieve Fitness

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

For 10 years, Achieve Fitness has been offering a range of services, including customized personal training and corporate wellness programs. The 20,000 square-foot facility near Jacksonville also provides sports massage therapy and group fitness classes, such as Pilates fusion, body sculpting classes, and barre body and spin classes. Additionally, its Kids Club offers child care for children who are three months old up to 13 years old. Its general manager, Michael Glickman, has been in the industry for 30 years.

Asana Wellness Center

Asana Wellness Center in Jacksonville, offers a full service gym including personal training and boot camps, to area residents. The facility includes an outdoor CrossFit style turf training area, spinning room featuring Spivi Interactive Training, Group X Studio, circuit training room, free weight room with Olympic platforms, all located in a large 15,000 square foot health and wellness center.

Athlete's Choice Fitness Center

Athlete’s Choice Fitness Center in Jacksonville is a locally owned and operated gym featuring a full line of cardiovascular, selectorized, plate loaded, and large free weight areas. The gym also offers group fitness, including scheduled step classes, kick boxing classes, yoga classes, Pilate’s classes, Body Pump, and Spin classes.

Athlete's Choice Gym

• Fitness Classes

Athlete's Choice Gym is a fitness center serving clients throughout the Greater Jacksonville metro area. Its personal trainers help clients choose the exercises and workouts that will help them achieve their fitness goals. It offers a wide range of classes, including Zumba, cross-training, yoga, and Tabata. Additionally, the gym provides a kickstart class, which is a combination of cardiovascular, weight, and high-intensity interval training. Lisa Petrine, one of the personal trainers at the facility, joined Athlete's Choice Gym's team in 2020.

Body Control Gym

Body Control Gym is a new-concept fitness center that provides a variety of science-backed programs, technology, and state-of-the-art machines for Jacksonville residents. Body Control is a unique hybrid facility that offers 1-on-1 personal training, TBC group training, training camp, cycling, pilates, and a full-scale gym floor. Body Control emphasizes results, engagement, and fun.

CrossFit TotalControl

CrossFit TotalControl offers the Jacksonville area two locations of CrossFit fitness, in Jacksonville Beach and Southside. CrossFit programs include WODs, Olympic Lifting, personal training, and a kid’s program. CrossFit TotalControl is a typical CrossFit gym and offers the unique, alternative workouts that one would expect from a CrossFit related program.

Definition

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

Definition is a personal fitness training center that caters to individuals in Jacksonville. The 3,400-square-foot facility offers personalized workout plans through its one-on-one and pair training sessions. It also provides group sessions, which include density, metabolic conditioning, and strength workouts. One of its personal trainers, Melissa Kingston, has been with the center since 2003. She has a master's degree in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology and is certified by the International Fitness Professionals Association and the American Council on Exercise.

First Coast Crossfit

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

First Coast CrossFit is a fitness studio that offers memberships to individuals in Jacksonville. Emphasizing metabolic condition and building strength, this boutique gym offers an hour-long CrossFit training program that involves gymnastics and weightlifting. With a focus on small class sizes and personalized coaching, First Coast CrossFit provides a community-first approach that is welcoming to the absolute beginner as well as the seasoned CrossFit veteran. Members can expect a supportive environment with challenging workouts each day designed to improve agility, strength, and conditioning.

Fitness Lab Jax

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

Established in 2007, Fitness Lab Jax is a personal training studio and gym in Jacksonville that offers training programs to its members. Its services include personal training sessions, as well as TRX, Pilates, and spinning classes. It also assists athletes through its sports performance training program designed to improve muscle power and increase strength, speed, and agility. Moreover, the facility has its own health coaches to guide its members with their health and wellness goals through proper nutrition.

Fitness Pursuits

Fitness Pursuits, located in Jacksonville, serves area residents with a full-service personal trainer at the facility. Fitness Pursuits is open from 5 A.M. till 10 P.M. Their specialties include yoga, t'ai chi, Pilates, kickboxing, traditional weight training movements, and sports specific movements. The personal trainer firm has also developed a series of boot camps designed to help participants reach fitness and weight loss goals. Additionally, Fitness Pursuits offers guided supermarket tours and nutritional counseling to help clients reach their fitness goals.

Florida Extreme Fitness Center

• Personal Training

Florida Extreme Fitness Center in Jacksonville offers a large full service gym and strength room to area residents. Personal training sessions are also available, in both group and one on one formats. The gym’s strength room also features special equipment, such as jerk blocks, yoke, mono lifts, and belt squat racks. Additionally, the gym offers boot camps which are group based classes with a primary goal of fat loss through the building of lean muscle.

Hard Exercise Works

• Fitness Classes

Founded in 2008, Hard Exercise Works is a gym franchise that offers a boot camp-style fitness experience. Its fitness model values physical and mental strength. Its group workouts offer the benefits of HIIT, strength training, and cardio exercises. Its programs also incorporate fitness equipment, including medicine balls, ropes, cardio rowing machines, and tires. The franchise has over 20 locations in Florida, including branches in Jacksonville, Coral Springs, Palm Beach Gardens, Port Saint Lucie, and Orlando.

Hyperswole

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

Hyperswole is a sports training gym located in Jacksonville that caters to children and adults as well as high school and pro-level athletes. It helps clients build strength and obtain their weight goals with its customized workout classes. Its youth programs include general fitness workouts and sports camps that promote speed, weight loss, mass gain, and coordination. The facility has professional trainers on-site and offers 24-hour access. Owner Matthew Thornton is the head strength coach and designer of the gym's training programs.

Jacksonville Strength & Athletics LLC

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

Jacksonville Strength & Athletics LLC is a facility that is focused on transforming the body and mind. It offers a wide range of services including Olympic weightlifting, athletic performance, HIIT, and advanced Olympic weightlifting. Different class options are also available such as remote coaching or programming, trial class, personal training consultations, and training packages. The gym's founder, Chad Cahoy, is a U.S. Navy veteran who has coached and trained hundreds of athletes for more than 15 years.

Ken's Fitness & Nutrition Studio

• Personal Training

Founded in 2013, Ken’s Fitness & Nutrition Studio is a local gym serving clients in Jacksonville. Its founder, Kenneth Jenkins, is a fitness trainer who worked with different gyms before opening his facility. The gym offers in-depth personal training to help individuals reach their weight and fitness goals. It also offers group classes, sport-specific training, and physical therapy sessions. Its trainers educate clients on proper nutrition for weight gain or weight loss. Mobile personal trainer services are also available.

Ludus Martial Arts

Ludus Martial Arts is a fitness center focusing on martial arts personal training for Jacksonville area residents. This fitness center is a mixed martial arts school dedicated to providing excellent martial arts training programs from various disciplines. These disciplines include mixed martial arts, Gi/no-Gi Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, wrestling, kickboxing, and strength and conditioning.

Lynx Fit + Well

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

Fitness by Fronk is located in Jacksonville and offers a unique personal training studio that specializes in one-on-one training, boot camp training sessions, customized nutrition education and effective motivation. Boot camps, also known as semi-private training, typically include 2-5 individuals sharing an intense workout session. Fitness by Fronk offers cardiovascular conditioning, strength training, balance drills, interval training and our personal training also includes nutrition education.

Meridian Fitness

Meridian Fitness is a TPI-recognized fitness center in Jacksonville that offers personal training services in the area. The gym caters to personal fitness and health needs, as well as golf fitness. Its programs start with thorough assessments and goal-setting and move on to one-on-one or group hourly sessions that are available individually or in corporate packages. The company was founded in 2003 and is currently the longest existing personal training studio in the area.

Positively Fit For Life

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

Positively Fit For Life is a fitness center serving clients in the Jacksonville area. It offers daily fitness classes and boot camps and personal and group private training sessions. Its fitness classes include yoga, HIIT, Zumba, toning, and stretching. The facility has a rooftop studio, locker rooms, and private bathrooms. Positively Fit For Life uses the Myzone heart rate technology to help clients track their effort levels in real-time. Its trainers can communicate in English and Spanish.

Temple Builders

• Personal Training
• Fitness Classes

Temple Builders opens its gym facilities to the residents of Jacksonville. Its group sessions include the REFIT cardio dance program, line dancing, Aqua power for cardio and toning in water, and Step-It-Up step and core workout. For seniors, it has the Silver Sneakers program for strength and conditioning and Aqua Fit that aids with chronic pains. Some of its other services are personal training sessions, massage therapy, and nutrition guidance. Temple Builders' vision is to deliver a balance of good physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

The Gym

• Fitness Classes

The Gym is a physical fitness gym that serves clients in Jacksonville. It offers a variety of physical fitness classes, including a full body and non-impact workout, whole-body conditioning for muscle strength and tone, and a combination of Pilates, yoga, and isometrics. The gym is also equipped with turf workout areas, weights, and cardio equipment. In addition, the gym has received positive feedback from its clients for having well-maintained equipment, accommodating staff, and a clean environment.

Verb Jax

Verb Jax, serves Jacksonville as a full-function gym. The gym offers a full service weight room and cardio area, and also includes a children’s club with adult supervision to watch member’s children while they work out. Additional amenities include a variety of massage services as well as personal care services including clothing steaming and laundry, and personal lockers, and a full range of grooming products.

Workout Anytime

• Personal Training
• 24 Hrs

Workout Anytime is a 24/7 full-fitness gym that serves clients in Jacksonville and the surrounding areas. Its polypropylene anti-microbial flooring allows for different training, including reACT and TRX trainers. It also offers hydrotherapy, 3D body scanning, and Ergoline tanning beds. In addition, the facility also provides personal coaching that builds customized programs for resistance training, cardio conditioning, and nutrition guidance. Workout Anytime's community involvement includes Augie’s Quest to Cure ALS and the 9/11 Stair Climb Challenge.