Warrior Recreation Center — Attraction in Honolulu

The Rec Center is a great workout gym for UH Manoa students, staff, faculty & some UH affiliates (membership required). It is 2 a story, fully air conditioned mostly glass walled building in the center of UH Manoa campus near campus center. The Rec Center has 2 locker rooms, an indoor mini track, 2 full length basketball courts that can convert to volleyball courts and a ton of cardio options (treadmills, upright bicycles, spinning bicycles, ellipticals, rowing machines), free weights (bench, squat & deadlift stations and dumbbells, medicine balls) and many machines that target all different muscle groups. It's a super great place with lots of UH student staff available. Equipment can be rented and there are occasional classes offered (i.e. spin, yoga, hula, zumba etc).

Some COVID specific updates, you will need to fill out lumisight and show either the green "good to be on campus" page (they check the date) but this is a really simple app once you set it up the first time (takes a bit of time the first time). They also require a temperature scan and facial coverings. They recently implemented a rule where neck gaiters, bandanas and scarves are no longer consider effective facial coverings. Additionally every machine and free weight are social distanced with tape markers of walking flow on the ground. With that being said, I don't care for the basketball/volleyball courts being taken over by machines but I also understand why they had to do it.

Overall highly recommend this place if you are eligible for a membership and like working out (casually to frequent mid level ish). Might not recommend if you are body builder goals since equipment may fill up and there are a bit of safety...

I dont know why this gym is rated a 4.6. Honestly, this is probably one of the worst gyms I've been to. A more accurate rating would be a 3-3.5.First of all, for the campus size, the rec center is too small. Before covid-19 took into play, the gym was already busy with people waiting to use equipment. I think part of the issue is that there are many cardio and resistance machines but there are more people that utilize the free weight stations, primarily the squat rack area. In addition, there are also a LOT of rules to follow! Which is understandable, but if you're a serious lifter with equipment I would reccomend signing up at a different gym. Before covid, you could not carry your bag around but you could carry your gear. To me, this doesn't make sense because I would have to carry at least 4 of my gear items and put them on the ground. Versus a bag, wouldnt that be a greater hazard? I can only imagine that under Covid-19, the gym has a longer wait line for social distancing purposes. But if you're serious about lifting, this is probably not the gym for you and I would reccomend either buying some dumbbells or look towards...

Beautiful gym although some of the rules are completely, and utterly ridiculous. There is no spotting allowed by the people that work there, so you basically have a bunch of janitors standing around. I think some organization has come in which are separate from the facility that will spot (???) but I hardly see them. No doing anything but running on the track, no lunges, no walking backwards to stretch calves, no handstand walks, no side shuffles...despite that when I go on the track there may be only 2 people, yet still no doing anything but running. No kettle bells on the stair steppers. This place must be wrought with litigation, even so, it is a detriment to the students, faculty, and community that use it, especially the no spotting rule which I've never seen at any...