Rowing Studio Near Me on Bermondsey Street: Milo and the Bull London Bridge

Milo and the Bull London Bridge opened in January 2023 at 168-170 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ, roughly ten minutes on foot from London Bridge station, and it is the brand's youngest studio. Rowing here is concentrated on Monday, when six Coar sessions run between 6:15am and 7pm, and Friday, when two Crew classes start at 7:15am and 8:15am, so anyone hunting for a rowing studio near me in SE1 should plan the week around those two days.

Milo and the Bull started in Clapham Junction in 2019, founded by former Harlequins player George Lowe and rower-turned-strength coach Richie Steele, and London Bridge was described as the newest site when it opened. Unlike the Battersea flagship, the timetable here leans hard into Reformer Pilates, which fills every Saturday slot from 8am to 11am and runs alongside the training classes most weekdays.

That shapes how a rower should use it. In the week of 19 October the training room ran Coar on Monday, Strength on Tuesday and Thursday, Circuit and HYROX sessions on Wednesday, and Crew on Friday, with only Circuit on Sunday. If you want the rowing machine every day, this is not the right studio, but two hard rowing mornings a week fit neatly around office life in Southwark.

Coar is the faster of the two. Expect 45 minutes of high-intensity intervals that switch between hard pieces on the rower and strength work on the floor. Raffaele Ragno coached the 6:15am, 7:15am, 8:15am and 12:30pm Monday sessions in mid-October, with Rory Troughton taking the 6pm and 7pm evening classes. The 7:15am slot was down to four places a few days ahead, so it fills first.

Crew is slower and longer. Pulls on the rower stretch out, and the floor movements are chosen to improve power and efficiency through the stroke, so it suits anyone training for a 2k test or a charity row. Rory Troughton led both Friday Crew classes in the same week. Milo programmes its training in twelve-week blocks, so a Friday regular will notice the intervals lengthen over a term.

Here is the honest drawback: London Bridge does not run Regatta, the team-racing Saturday class that the brand is best known for, because Saturday mornings belong to Reformer. If the social side matters to you, take your Saturday class at Clapham Junction or Peckham Rye, both of which programmed Regatta on 17 October and accept the same training memberships and packs. Earlsfield ran Regattas that morning too, but it sells its own memberships and London Bridge credits do not work there.

Peckham Rye, inside Market Peckham at 133a Rye Lane, is the closest of the three by train from London Bridge. Midweek, the Wednesday HYROX Training Sessions at 12:30pm, 5:30pm and 6:30pm are worth a look if you are building towards a race, because HYROX includes a 1,000-metre row among its stations and the class sits within the standard training membership.

The studio provides changing rooms with showers, towels, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, hair dryers and straighteners, and lockers come as standard. One quirk is specific to this address: the FAQ notes that Reformer clients at London Bridge shower across the road at what Milo calls its home studio, so expect to cross the street if you combine a Reformer session with a training class.

Bring a water bottle and a sweat towel, wear trainers, and keep your top on, since Milo runs a Tops On rule in every studio. First-timers should arrive 15 minutes before class. The door closes once the instructor starts, so a 6:15am Coar means leaving London Bridge station by 6am at the latest, ideally earlier on a wet morning when Bermondsey Street pavements slow everyone down.

The published price list covers Clapham Junction, Peckham Rye and London Bridge together. The intro offer is two weeks of unlimited training for £25, timed from your first visit, and a combo trial adds four Reformer classes to six training classes for £49. After that, single training classes cost £25, ten cost £200 and forty cost £650, with expiry dates that lengthen as packs get bigger.

Monthly training memberships run from £60 for four classes to £190 for unlimited, all on a three-month minimum, and Reformer is not included. If you only plan to row on Mondays and Fridays, the eight-class plan at £105 matches that rhythm almost exactly. Live members also get 25 percent off any additional class pack at checkout, which helps if a friend wants to join you occasionally.

Classes open 21 days ahead on the Milo app or website, while ClassPass users can only book seven days ahead, which matters for the popular 7:15am Monday Coar. Cancel at least ten hours before class to avoid a £10 fee, and note that a no-show costs £15. A late cancellation also removes the session from your pack or membership allowance.

Waitlists shut two hours before the start. Joining one counts as a commitment, so if you are moved into the class and do not appear, the usual fees apply.

Bermondsey Street is one of the most walkable streets south of the river. A few minutes north of the studio, the Fashion and Textile Museum at 83 Bermondsey Street, founded by designer Zandra Rhodes, runs changing exhibitions in its bright pink and orange building. Further up, the street is lined with cafés, wine bars and small restaurants that open early enough for a post-Coar breakfast.

Back at the southern end, close to the studio, St Mary Magdalen Church and its churchyard gardens make a quiet spot to stretch. On weekend mornings, when there is no rowing here anyway, the food stalls of Maltby Street Market along Ropewalk are a short walk east beneath the railway arches, and the Thames path at Tower Bridge is about fifteen minutes north.

Address: 168-170 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3TQ. Nearest station: London Bridge, served by the Jubilee and Northern lines plus national rail, about a ten-minute walk; Borough on the Northern line is a similar distance. Rowing classes in mid-October ran on Mondays and Fridays only, with Saturday given over to Reformer Pilates.

Download the Milo app to see each day's class types before booking, since the mix shifts across the week. Pregnant clients should email the studio first and tell the instructor before each session, and the Strong Mum Reformer class on Wednesday mornings welcomes babies. Membership pauses are allowed twice a year, for up to four weeks in total.