Barry's Bootcamp

Spear’s Review

First established in 1998 by Barry Jay, Barry’s Bootcamp offers high-intensity classes ranging from 45 minutes to one hour. With a varied menu ranging from treadmill classes and outdoor running to cycling and body weight training, the boot camp claims to be suitable for both newcomers to the gym hoping to improve their fitness and the skilled fitness junkie looking for a challenge. 

Barry’s Bootcamp opened its first London facility in 2013, and it is now known as one of London’s hardest workouts. The company claims that its high-intensity interval workouts can burn up to 1,000 calories and simultaneously develop endurance and muscle. It has long been celebrity favourite: one friend of Spear’s reports being in a class with the unusual pairing of David Beckham and George Osborne. 

With boot camps across the world from Los Angeles to Singapore, Jay says that he created the gym in order to ‘establish [his] own brand of military-inspired exercise with the atmosphere of your favourite night spot’. When it comes to the classes’ popularity, he notes that ‘the reality is, Barry’s is so fun, you’ll forget that you’re working out’.