Rowing Studio Near Me in Earlsfield: Milo and the Bull Summerstown

Milo and the Bull Earlsfield is at 25-27 Summerstown, London SW17 0BQ, a few minutes' walk from AFC Wimbledon's Plough Lane ground, and on Saturday 17 October it ran three Regattas, at 8am, 9am and 10am, one more than Clapham Junction or Peckham managed that morning. A first fortnight of unlimited classes costs £25, so testing it as your rowing studio near me costs less than two single drop-ins.

Earlsfield sits a little apart from the rest of the Milo family. Its booking page states plainly that Earlsfield pricing options do not pay for any other Milo and the Bull studio, and the studio's pricing page adds that memberships bought here only work here. Members of Clapham, Peckham or London Bridge cannot drop in on their passes, and Earlsfield members cannot use theirs on St John's Hill.

The studio also skips one thing the bigger sites sell. There is no Reformer Pilates in Summerstown, so the whole room is given over to rowers, racks and floor space. That makes the timetable simpler to read: every session is Coar, Crew, Regatta, Strength, Circuit, HYROX or the pre and postnatal Strong Mum course, and it has its own Instagram account, @miloandthebull_earlsfield, plus a dedicated inbox.

Monday is Coar day. In the week of 19 October Isabella Morgan coached the 6am and 7am classes, Alejandro Dearsley took 12:30pm and Jack Butcher ran 6pm and 7pm. Friday switches to Crew, with Evie Samman at 6:30am and 7:30am and Alejandro Dearsley at 12:30pm and 5:15pm, the earliest Friday finish in the group for anyone who wants their evening back.

Tuesday and Thursday are Strength, coached by Evie Samman, Izzy Turner, Alejandro Dearsley and Isabella Morgan, with Strong Mum at 10:30am. Wednesday mornings are Circuit, while Wednesday evenings at 6pm and 7pm become HYROX. Sunday is entirely HYROX, three 60-minute blocks at 8am, 9:15am and 10:30am with Alejandro Dearsley, which is 15 minutes longer than every other class on the board.

Coar is Milo's high-intensity format: 45 minutes alternating hard efforts on the rowing machine with strength intervals on the floor. Crew trades sprints for stamina, with longer pieces on the rower and power movements picked to make each stroke cleaner. Newcomers usually find Crew more forgiving on technique, because the longer intervals give the coach time to fix your sequence of legs, back and arms.

Saturday belongs to Regatta. Evie Samman coached all three on 17 October, splitting the room into teams that race on the rowers and then finish floor challenges together before the next leg. The 10am slot is the one to aim for if you are not an early riser, since Clapham Junction and Peckham both stopped at 9am that day, and it leaves time for breakfast on Garratt Lane first.

The trial is two weeks of unlimited training for £25, starting on the day of your first booking, one per person. After that a single training class costs £25 and expires in two weeks. Packs run £110 for five classes over a month, £200 for ten over two months, £360 for twenty over three months and £650 for forty over six months, and a month of unlimited classes costs £220.

Monthly memberships are cheaper per session: £60 for four classes, £105 for eight, £140 for twelve, £170 for sixteen and £190 unlimited, all on a three-month minimum with a month's notice. Skip the £220 unlimited month pack unless you are only in London briefly. The £190 unlimited membership costs less every month, and only the contract length separates them.

Earlsfield's own pricing page lists a recovery add-on. For an extra £70 a month on top of any Earlsfield membership, Revive Recovery adds unlimited infrared sauna and ice bath use, one massage chair session a week and one cryotherapy session a month. It is not available to trial users or anyone on a class pack, so it only makes sense once you have committed to the three-month contract.

Whether it is worth it comes down to arithmetic. If you would use the sauna and ice bath after two classes a week, the upgrade pays its way quickly. If you mostly train Monday Coar and Saturday Regatta and go straight home, keep the £70 and stretch along the river instead, because the cryotherapy allowance alone does not justify the monthly cost.

Classes are booked through Mindbody, so you need an account before the first session, and the studio asks you to opt into its emails and texts so waitlist alerts reach you. If a class is full you are added to the waitlist automatically and emailed if a space opens. Turn up 10 to 15 minutes early, and on your first visit be ready five minutes before the start so the trainer can walk you through the rower.

Earlsfield applies a ten-hour cancellation window. Cancel any later, or miss the class entirely, and you can be charged £10 with the session still deducted from your total. The studio also warns that late arrivals may not be let in, which matters on Saturdays, when a missed 8am Regatta means waiting an hour for the next one or losing the class.

When all three Regattas are booked, the nearest alternative is Milo and the Bull Clapham Junction at 62-64 St John's Hill, SW11 1AD, which runs Saturday Regattas at 8am and 9am, one stop up the line from Earlsfield station. Remember that Earlsfield credits do not transfer, so you will need to buy a single class or a separate trial there.

For a home-studio fallback, swap Saturday for the Friday 5:15pm Crew, the last rowing class of the working week, or the Sunday 8am HYROX, which still puts you on the rower between running and sled stations. Neither has the team racing of Regatta, but both keep the week's rowing volume up.

Summerstown is a small district on the boundary of Wandsworth and Merton, south of Earlsfield and west of Tooting, and the River Wandle forms its edge. The Wandle Trail follows the river's course through the area, so a cool-down walk heads straight onto a riverside path rather than a busy road, and it is flat enough for legs that have just pulled through a Crew session.

A few minutes' walk south brings you to Plough Lane, where AFC Wimbledon's stadium opened in 2020 on the site of the old Wimbledon greyhound track. Heading north instead, Garratt Lane leads up to Earlsfield's high street, with its run of independent cafés, pubs and bakeries clustered around the station, an easy place for coffee before the train home.

Address: Milo and the Bull Earlsfield, 25-27 Summerstown, London SW17 0BQ. Email earlsfield@miloandthebull.com. Haydons Road station, on Thameslink, is the closest, under a kilometre away, while Earlsfield station, with South Western Railway trains to Clapham Junction and Waterloo, is roughly a 15-minute walk north. Tooting Broadway on the Northern line is a similar distance to the east.

Bring trainers, a water bottle and a sweat towel. Rowing classes are 45 minutes and Sunday HYROX runs 60. The Strong Mum sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mornings are a separate course, not covered by the training packs. Book through the Milo and the Bull app or the Earlsfield timetable page, which shows the coach for each class.