The Gym was established in 1970 by Ron Ball and Pete Vickery — the latter a successful competitor in Cycling, Bodybuilding and Power Lifting, with a string of trophies to his name.  These two, along with Peter Weeks still operate the gym, but now play less part in the day-to-day management.

Harold Marillier has been Manager for seven years and has really built up the reputation of the Gym via his own and Karen Marillier’s contest results. In addition, he has encouraged and given help and guidance to a string of successful competitors from the Gym in both Bodybuilding and Power Lifting.  We now have more and more competition bodybuilders visiting the gym and travelling 200 miles or more for guidance on diet and contest preparation.    

The Forest Gym has been providing a service for Bodybuilders and Power Lifters in the Crawley area since our founding year and we intend to continue our efforts to improve the facilities available at the right price.

GYM OPENING HOURS

The Gym is open for the following hours :

Monday to Friday

10.30am to 9.00pm

Saturday

3.00pm to 6.00pm

Sunday

8.00am to 10.00am

We are open most Bank Holidays.  Notices are posted in the Gym

The Gym is located in Tilgate Forest on the south side of Crawley with attractive rural surroundings Easy access is available from the A23 and there is lots of free parking outside the Gym.   Get lucky and your walk to the door of the Gym can be less than 5m,  Oh! How we hate these aerobics!

To get full details of how to find us, go to the Location page where you will find a Map and access advice.

Products

We have a range of Food Supplements and Sports Drinks on sale in the Gym as well as some Snack Products

Details are set out on the Products page.

We have recently added the USN products range to our stocks.

We sell work-out and casual clothing carrying The Forest Gym logo as well as some other British and American clothing ranges.

The Forest Gym is visited by more and more top level Bodybuilders training under the supervision of Harold Marillier.   In addition, we are visited by many others who just want to chat about Bodybuilding, Training, Diet and Nutrition — and on those subjects we could go on talking for ever.    Anybody in the area will always be welcome to come in and see us.