S R Gym on the web
Everywhere this gym and its coach appear online, gathered in one place and linked to the source. Some of it we published, some of it other people published about us, and the distinction is marked on every entry so you can weigh them differently.
Where the ratings differ between platforms, they differ because each one holds a separate pool of reviews. We quote every figure to the platform it came from and never add them together.
Press and broadcast
Coverage by publications and channels that have no connection to this business.
Divya Bhaskar · 2020
Gujarati daily. The report names him in the role while quoting him on behalf of gym owners across the state.
Gym Owners Association of Gujarat on TV9 Gujarati News, with the office bearers listed
TV9 Gujarati, via the association · 9 June 2021
The same TV9 Gujarati appearance
Instagram · 9 June 2021
A short film shot at the gym, crediting Brijesh Joshi as owner and personal trainer
Romic Makhija on YouTube · September 2019
Strength Bodybuilding Association South Gujarat
The association publishes its own championship circulars, and those circulars name its office bearers. These are the documents behind the presidency.
6th Man of Steel, Mr. Surat circular listing “Shri Brijesh Joshi (President- SBBASG)”
SBBASG · 19 January 2025
The president's contact number printed on this circular matches the number this gym publishes.
6th Man of Steel, Mr. South Gujarat circular repeating the office bearer list
SBBASG · 3 February 2025
3rd Man of Steel, Mr. Katargam Zone circular naming him Joint Secretary
SBBASG · 13 September 2022
Instagram
Facebook
SBBA South Gujarat channel, with championship footage
YouTube
Business listings
Where the gym appears on directories and mapping services. Ratings differ between platforms because each holds a separate pool of reviews, so we quote each one to its own source rather than adding them together.
S R Gym Adajan, rated 4.6 from 28 reviews
Google
S R Gym Katargam, rated 4.5 from 91 reviews
Google
magicpin
Growfitter
healthFROG
Our own channels
Published by the gym and by Brijesh directly.
Fitness Acharya JB, where member results are posted
Instagram
Fitness Acharya JB, eighteen coaching videos in Hindi covering fat loss, training and nutrition
YouTube
The channel's About text independently records the 1999 founding.
Facebook
Members and alumni
Content published by other people about their own training here, which we neither commissioned nor control.
Background sources
Reference material used to check details on this site, particularly around the 1997 lifting result.
Akhand Anand Arts & Commerce College, Ved Road, established 1992
The college
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, founded 1965 as South Gujarat University
Wikipedia
Explains why a 1997 report uses the older name.
The gym's earlier website, archived in 2019 with the same phone number
Internet Archive
Coaching videos
Brijesh publishes coaching videos in Hindi on his own channel. These play through YouTube's player, and load only when you press play so that the page stays light on mobile data.
Golden rules for the gym
The rules he gives every new member, framed around actually keeping a fitness resolution. The first video he published.
Morning or evening: which workout is better?
On when to train, and how to choose a time you will still be keeping in six months.
What belly fat is, and how to reduce it
What the fat around the middle actually is, why it is linked to type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and how to lose it safely.
The best way to lose weight
A full beginner's guide to fat loss, working through what actually drives it.
Why physical activity matters
On what sedentary work does to a body, and on taking the first step rather than the perfect one.
Free weights, bodyweight or machines
How to choose between the three, and which suits somebody at which stage.
Yoga or gym: the importance of both
Recorded in 2020, and the clearest statement of why every session at this gym opens with yoga rather than treating the two as alternatives.
The role of nutrients in the body
A beginner's guide to what each nutrient does, intended as the groundwork for building your own diet rather than following someone else's.
The truth about six-pack abs
On the promises of abs in ten, twenty or thirty days, and what visible abs actually require.
What happens when you stop training
What detraining really does, and why some people gain weight afterwards while others lose it.
Holi and health
On what the festival of colours traditionally did for health, recorded before Holi in 2020.
Is it really 70% diet and 30% exercise?
A look at the ratio everyone repeats, and what it leaves out.
A home workout with no equipment
A follow-along session recorded during the 2020 lockdown, built so a family could do it together in a front room.
A message to gym owners and trainers
Recorded during the 2020 lockdown and addressed to the trade rather than to members, which is the constituency he was elected to represent.
Twenty-five minutes of yoga
A full follow-along yoga session recorded for World Yoga Day in 2020. The longest thing on the channel and the closest you can get to being taught by him without walking in.
A yoga and pranayama practice
A second long follow-along session, this one taking in breathing practice as well as the postures.
Fitness tips
A twenty-second clip, and the only short on the channel.
Which bodybuilding division suits you
From the coach who runs South Gujarat's championships, on how the categories work.
Credits and how we use other people's material
Every photograph on this website belongs to S R Gym or to a member who gave permission for it to appear. The newspaper cuttings and archive photographs are physical items kept at the gym, reproduced here as photographs of those items.
Material published by other people is linked and credited rather than copied. Videos appear through YouTube's own embed player, which is the mechanism the platform provides for the purpose, and the view count and any advertising revenue go to the channel that published them.
If you own something linked from this page and would like the link changed or removed, message +91 98790 69960 and it will be done.
Corrections
Several of the directory listings above carry details that are out of date, including an old landline, a founding year of 2000 rather than 1999, and variations on the business name. We are working through them. If you spot something on this site that is wrong, please tell us, since a correction from a reader is worth more than an audit.
Trained here and published something?
Send us the link and we will add it, whatever it says.