Muscler does London Gay Gym / Sauna SweatBox Soho : Exclusive £5 entry for Muscler Readers

Just email info@sweatboxsoho.com with the subject heading MUSCLER DISCOUNT or mention Confessions of a Muscler in your email for your exclusive £5 entry on your first visit to SweatBox in Soho open daily 2pm-2am...


After lots of interest in the new London gay gym and sauna SweatBox in Soho, the Muscler kindly accepted SweatBox's invitation to trial it for the day. So I arrive at Oxford Circus and head towards Great Marlborough Street, just round the corner from gay friendly gym Fitness First Kingly Street. The building is nicely lit from the outside and u can see the main gym area from the outside whilst the weights room is downstairs. After being greeted by the friendly guy on reception, I head downstairs to the locker room where I walk in to see one of the hunky men from the website in his boxers. The locker room is darkly lit which I found a little odd and the whole building has this red-black funky colour scheme. I use the key to open the locker whilst keeping an eye on mr hunky who unfortunately was just finishing up, and find the following contents in the locker:

- 2 towels: I guess 1 for training, 1 for showering
- 1 x condom
- 1 x lube

My only real issue was that it was darkly lit which I thought was a bit odd for a locker room, but after little sleep on sat night, maybe that was a good thing. I get a smile from mr hunky and step out to explore the rest of the building. So I'm 2 floors deep and look at the other rooms doors surrounding the locker room. The first was a chillout room which had funky chairs, a tv showing 'Friends' and magazines. It's a nice room to hang in and not sleazy but the perfect place for the Muscler to cuddle mr hunky if he hadn't left us to go home and make love to his boyfriend who's probably some equally hot chump... Anyway,we're over it...

So I continue looking around at what is basically my first gay sauna experience. Infact Sweatbox's website describes it perfectly as a cross between gay sauna Chariots and New York gay gym David Barton. Not that i've ever been to Chariots, but let's take their word for it. It's clean, classy and funky. I continue to peak around this floor and open a door to a maze of rooms all clean looking with mini bed things and gym mats on the floor... I then see a sign for a darkroom which I wasn't keen on entering so I head back and enter another area with rooms with mirrors and a very futuristic spacey affect.

I leave the lower base and head 1 floor up where I find 2 toilets- not a mens and a ladies but a urinals one and a poo-ing one. Even these rooms are funky and very clean...





I then keep wandering round this floor which shares the level with the weights room and the huge spa area and showers. There are also massage rooms on this floor.

So I head to the gym, the real reason for my visit. There were only 2 other people in there which was perfect. I would advise anyone who wants to use it to get in there quick, ie, over the next month as it's a great place to workout and will no doubt be taken over by the scene queens in no time and with foam style parties in the evening this is likely to be a big hit with the Soho boys by next summer...I tried to take pictures but because of the lights and the mirrors these didn't come out too well, but gives you a bit of an idea...





So I have a good 45 minute workout in preparation for tonights event at Lo Profile organized by Gaydar called Rome- I'm not quite sure why it's called Rome but I'm hoping there will be hot Italians there...

So I'm training away and am glad to see that most of the equipment which is all brand new and red, is Life Fitness so not dissimilar from what i've been using at fitness first and I believe also true of soho gyms.

My favourite piece of equipment was the pair of fluffy balls... Great to do situps on and even funnier to be able to be able to say 'can I do a set on your fluffy balls?'




So I then head to the weights room and am glad to see a good range of weights, benches and mirrors. No queuing for benches which felt great. I then struggled to find stretching mats to finish off with some situps but took a good run on the running machine. So one concern would be the lack of mats, but with the gym being so nicely spaced unlike overly crowded covent garden and kingly street gay fitness first, there is certainly room for mats, or maybe i didn't see them (or maybe these mats were left back in the rooms for baby making as they had mats!). Also, not that I ever buy any (as i take my own), but I didn't see any fridges for protein shakes etc, but maybe I just didn't spot them. but I was glad to see water machines, to receive towels and nice hot showers...yes the muscler got completely naked and showered in the large open shower area. Yes it was the first for the muscler publicly showering in front of complete strangers...so i'm stood there showering completed naked and then grab my towel as i feel the weight of the eyes looking over at me from the neighbouring showers and enter one of the many spa/steam/sauna rooms. It has a jacuzzi type thing in the middle of the room and I dip my feet in and then start splashing about as i'm alone in the room. Then he enters, yes the celeb mentioned in a previous post...why is he there? he asks me the same thing and i explained that i came to workout, to which he replies 'i'm horny, came to see what i could find'. I get up and go, just in shock that he would so openly say that to me. What did he think I was going to do, bend over? Nope, this flower's going nowhere for the time being....

So how does this differ from Paris gyms? Well the staff at both are very nice and they have more equipment. Whereas Sweatbox is a gym with extras...whether or not these extras will interest everyone is a different story but I enjoyed working out and then relaxing i the spa area. No doubt the evening (since the gym is open 2pm-2am) is packed out with guys in the sauna but no doubt I will need another visit for this...but i'm sure, as always, the muscler will behave. I would therefore strongly advise a visit to SweatBox- a greta place to workout and those of u feeling a little horny from 2 til 2, well worth a squirt. And from the things i've heard about Chariots, at present this is not as busy but is certainly clean which is key. And for someone who doesn't want to train and doesn't want to make babies, well, i'd say Trocadero is the place for you- with pic n mic, a cinema and tons of arcades, you can't go wrong!

So if you want a good workout with good equipment in a friendly atmosphere with good music playing in the background and a nice funky moulin rouge style atmosphere, then SweatBox is the place for you. Alternatively if you are looking for a sauna for some horny baby making fun, then try out the sauna. And if you fancy a bit of both, well then definitely give it a go! And a visit just for the fluffy balls is worth it! I also liked the chillout room, but could certainly see some food or drinks being served in there and maybe wireless access to get some husband material lawyers in to work away whilst waiting for me to finish training before we head to the theatre and for dinner...

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