Hercules Club

Fantastic experience: As a powerlifter, this is a really nice old-school gym with multiple combo racks - eleiko and ER. Plenty of machines for accessories as well, some of which date back almost 90 years! (Still functioning superbly and feels great)

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, solid equipment, and very helpful staff! Highly recommend

Fantastic experience: One of my favourite places in the world. So many great characters who love to lift and know exactly what equipment to buy. Edited: Thanks for the reply. That's great news that the opening hours changed, I didn't know. I'd love to rejoin.

Fantastic experience: Amazing old school gym. Incredibly friendly atmosphere. All the equipment (and really good quality eleiko plates and bars) you would need

Fantastic experience: Great gym one the best around in Dublin for powerlifting or weightlifting. Some great members who are always on hand for spots or words of encouragement

Fantastic experience: Very friendly and accommodating to both my girlfriend and I, all the equipment we needed to powerlift, and lots of cool history on the walls!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Dublin, don’t mind the snowflake below that can’t handle a couple of rules, come train hard and get it shape/strong without recording every move you make and forgetting to do a bit of proper training

Fantastic experience: Best Gym in Dublin

Fantastic experience: Best and oldest gym in Ireland,

Fantastic experience: As a collective gym of members run by a committee, this is a very interesting place to work out. It is the oldest continually operating gym in Europe and it has that feeling of a place where there is history, longevity and focus. The people I met were very helpful and it took about five minutes for me to sign up for the affordable yearly membership - even though I am in Dublin a week a month. I think this place as the vibe of serious lifting. If you are a casual gym goer then this not not for you (and I suspect you are not for them - or us - either). But if you are focused on power lifting and bodybuilding then I highly recommend Hercules as your place to sweat, grunt and wring out the last drop of growth from every rep!

Negative experience: Gym never opens in time

Negative experience: Two days in a row not opening at time... Some of us have to go to the gym before going to work, and this isn't helping

Fantastic experience: Old School. The best gym in Dublin. If you want to really grow, this is the right gym with the right Environment.

Positive experience: Gostei

Fantastic experience: The very best

Fantastic experience: The best gym in Dublin. Glad to be working out there. Real gym atmosphere. Greetings from a Canadian

Fantastic experience: Great gym old school love it. Bill Healey is the man

Negative experience: I’ve recently cancelled my membership here due to the new rule put in place by the committee which doesn’t allow people to record their footage. I took issue with this for multiple reasons, one being that I have an online coach and need to show him my lifts simply to progress, it’s quite difficult to figure out what’s not going right with training if neither of us can see what the problem is. I also question the citation of GDPR when they put this recording ban in place, from my research it seems to be incorrect. Many of my training partners and I felt ostracised by this rule and after pleading with the committee to try and overturn it as it seemed unfair we were still shot down. It created an unwelcome training environment as a whole. I have cancelled my membership which is unfortunate as Hercs facilities are some of the best in Dublin, too bad the training environment is quite the opposite.

Fantastic experience: Life-changing

Fantastic experience: Loved every second

Fantastic experience: Amazing atmosphere and great facilities

Fantastic experience: Uplifting

Fantastic experience: Really well equipped, and a brilliant atmosphere, best gym in Dublin

Fantastic experience: Brilll as usual

Fantastic experience: Brilliant place no frills and very friendly

Positive experience: This is an old style gym with more than 80 years, specialized in weight lifting, the guys in charge are very professionals cause they dedicated their entire life to this sport.

Fantastic experience: Irelands oldest weightlifting club. A great place for beginners and people who've been training for years, very welcoming and friendly members and committee. There's a great culture and it really feels like a club as opposed to some soulless commercial place like ben dunne or flyefit.

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Negative experience: Great gym and very quiet!! BUT the management(ashbourne) is a SCAMMER. We were paying by direct debit with no conctract.. but when I wanted to cancel my direct debit I just discovered to have 6 months contract that I didn't sign!! Just have a look on google on"ashbourne management" and you will see. Thank's god the owners of the gym helped me to cancel the contract( they even didn't know about this). YOU SHOULD CHANGE MANAGEMENT, because all the people there have a conctract and they don't know!

Positive experience: Old and not too cared for anymore, but a really well-equipped gym.

Fantastic experience: I joined here as a 5 foot 6 60kg guy.... I'm now 6'2 and 130kg..... But seriously amazing club, has everything you need, caters for all sports and people. Most inclusive place I've ever trained. I've been a member for 8 years because the atmosphere is electric and the members are friendly and so strong.

Fantastic experience: Best Gym ever... good for committed people

Positive experience: Good to work out but hard to enter.

Positive experience: Not the cleanest gym, but not crowded. And people are really there to work.

Fantastic experience: Excellent weightlifting, powerlifting and wrestling club. The oldest and arguably the best weightlifting club in Ireland. This club is owned and run by the members, so it had a great community atmosphere. If you're visiting Dublin or live in Dublin this is an essential visit if you're a strength sports fan. Get in here and lift some weights.

Fantastic experience: Best gym around

Fantastic experience: Amazing club with brilliant equipment. Have been to view 2 competitions as a spectator over the last year and they were so we'll organized. The members and club committee members are so friendly. I would happily join if I lived closer to the club but unfortunately it's not convenience to my home or place of work.

Positive experience: Trainer is a bad guy

Fantastic experience: Really good gym for strength sports