S R Gym timings and opening hours, both branches

Closed on Sunday, and why we say so plainly

Both branches are shut every Sunday. For some people that is a dealbreaker, and it is better that you know now than discover it in week two.

If Sunday is the only day you can train, S R Gym is not the right gym for you and we will say so on the phone. If Sunday is simply your preferred day, most members find that a six-day week with a fixed rest day works better than the seven-day plan they imagined they would keep.

Quietest and busiest hours

The floor is quietest right at opening, 5:00 am at Katargam, 6:00 am at Adajan, and again through the middle of the afternoon. If you are new and would rather learn the lifts without an audience, come then.

The evening between roughly 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm is the busiest stretch at both branches, because that is when Surat finishes work. Everything still gets done; you may wait a few minutes for a rack.

Which hour actually suits you

If you are new to training, come at opening or in the middle of the afternoon. Not because the evening is worse, but because learning to squat in front of a full floor is harder than learning to squat in front of an empty one, and the first three weeks are when the pattern is built. Once the movements are yours, the hour stops mattering.

If you train before work, Katargam opens at 5:00 am and Adajan at 6:00 am. That hour is the single most practical difference between the two branches and it is worth choosing on. A 5:00 am session also removes the commonest reason people stop coming, which is that the day ate the evening they had set aside.

If you are lifting heavy or working to a competition, the evening is genuinely better despite the crowd. You are stronger later in the day, spotters are available, and the people around you are doing the same work. Waiting a few minutes for a rack costs less than training at an hour your body has not woken up for.

If your schedule is unpredictable, pick the branch rather than the hour. Both are open thirteen hours a day at Katargam and sixteen at Adajan across a six-day week, which is enough surface area that almost any working pattern fits somewhere. What does not work is deciding each morning; the members who last are the ones who picked two or three fixed slots and defended them.

Ramzan, fasting and training

Members fast at various points in the year, for Ramzan, for Shravan, for Paryushan, and for personal reasons. Nobody is asked to stop. The adjustment that works is training close to the hour you break the fast rather than deep into it, cutting the volume rather than the weight, and accepting that this is a month for holding on to what you have rather than adding to it.

Tell your coach at the start of it rather than halfway through. A programme written for a normal week is the wrong programme for a fasting one, and the difference between a maintained month and a lost one is usually that somebody knew to change it.

What it costs to come in

Membership is ₹1,700 a month at either branch, a visitor's day pass is ₹300, and personal training starts at ₹7,000 a month on top of membership, at Adajan or Katargam. Every rate is on the fees page, and how to join covers the first visit.

Public holidays and festivals

Hours can change around major festivals, Diwali especially. Those changes are posted at the gym and on the Google listing for each branch rather than here, because a website page is the last place anyone remembers to update. Message +91 98790 69960 if you are making a special trip.