About Matty Davies

Matty is a 35-year-old local business owner who has played ice hockey in his local city for over 20 years, playing for the Hull Stingrays in the top league in the country before going on to earn 10 caps as a Great Britain international. After COVID-19, he decided to open his own facility after being one of the top personal trainers in the city, training athletes and fellow professional athletes in football, rugby, and ice hockey, alongside hundreds of regular people over a 10-year PT business. It was time to run a gym and build something for the future.

After opening a 500-square-foot facility and creating the name Graft House with help from his friends, wife, and brother-in-law, who also designed the logos we see today in GH, he went on to double the size of the gym after one year. Two years later, the move to Warners Health Club happened, where we are today: a 5,000-square-foot facility, the largest functional fitness space in the city, and quickly becoming the name in the city for functional training and Hyrox in particular. Graft House was the first official Hyrox affiliate from the city of Hull and proudly has hundreds of people coming each week to train for Hyrox.

Graft House Gym is, and always will be, a place where all types of training happen. The products now on offer include: small group personal training, functional fitness classes, one-to-one personal training, large sports team sessions, S&C sessions, functional fitness for kids, and an onsite crèche, making training more accessible for parents with young children. It really is a one-stop shop for all things fitness and training. With an open gym membership for £30 a month, GH offers the best value for money for the facility and equipment on offer!

Matty is a very proud man who loves his city. Now owning the Hull Seahawks, the local professional ice hockey team that also uses Graft House, he has a lot of input into the community of Hull in the fitness and sports industry. The mantra of Graft House is: ‘Hard Graft Pays Off,’ and these words are ones that Matty lives by and runs all his businesses through. He strives to make the gym a place where anybody and everybody can go to put in their own 100%, improving their lives and making fitness more enjoyable and accessible for more people.