About
A club we wanted to exist, so we are building it.
Magnolia Park is the idea of founder James Griffiths: a place in the valley to train, play, recover and work, without any of the things that make most gyms a chore.
The best clubs are not really about the equipment. They are about the day you have when you are there.
Magnolia Park started with a simple frustration. Plenty of gyms have good kit. Very few are places you actually want to spend time. The lighting is grim, the coffee is worse, and the moment you finish training there is nothing to stay for. You come, you sweat, you leave. That is not a club. That is a car park with dumbbells.
So the plan for Magnolia Park is different. Take the best of a serious gym, add padel and a proper wellness setup, then wrap it in the things that make a place worth being: fresh air, good food, a real bar and a setting you would happily drive past your old gym to reach. Somewhere you arrive early and leave late, and bring your friends.
The setting
A valley worth building around.
Magnolia Park sits in the Hughenden Valley, just north of High Wycombe. Real grounds, real greenery and real quiet, a few minutes from town and an easy run from the M40 and the trains to London. The kind of place that turns a workout into a reason to get out of the house.
Rather than squeeze a club into a retail unit, we are building it into the landscape: two indoor gyms with the hills through the glass, an open training area on the grass, courts among the trees and a sauna and hot tub on a terrace made for evenings.
The founder
Built by James Griffiths.
James Griffiths is a master health and fitness coach and the creator of the D.O.S.E. Health Method, with a career spent making complex change simple. He has coached everyone from four year olds to Olympic athletes, and he is bringing all of it to Magnolia Park.
- Steve Backshall's coach for 20 years
- Featured on the cover of Men's Fitness
- Former England's Strongest Man, under 80kg
- Creator of the D.O.S.E. Health Method
- Best Fitness Coach in the County
- Coached toddlers to Olympic athletes
Before this, he built Wild Training
- Best Gym in Buckinghamshire
- Best Independent Gym in the UK
Magnolia Park is a new club with its own name and its own identity. It is built by the people who did that.
His approach is refreshingly simple: real progress is not about extreme, short term fixes, but about mastering movement, balancing your physiology and building a routine you actually enjoy. That is the club he wanted to train in himself, and the one he is building here.
Twenty years of it
James Griffiths' Wild Training coaching system is exactly tailored to your needs, innovative, challenging and best of all, fun. For me, it's the perfect physical training regime.
James has coached Steve Backshall for twenty years, keeping him strong, mobile and injury free into his fifties, through first ascents and first descents in some of the least forgiving places on earth. The same thinking runs through everything at Magnolia Park.
Founder memberships open
Seventy people get in first.
Fifty individual spots at £100 a month, twenty family spots at £250, price-locked for the life of your membership. Registering your interest is free and commits you to nothing.