UCR Student Recreation Center — Attraction in Riverside

Since its inception in 2014, the SRC, or also known as the Student Recreation Center, this has been a facility I have enjoyed every single time I have been here.

From waking up early in the morning to get a quick workout done, to heading over to lift weights with my former roommates after class, the SRC offers a wide array of equipment, weights, cardio machines, and programs students can utilize at their convenience along with a wide selection of sports ranging from volleyball to indoor soccer. To say the SRC has surpassed its predecessor (now known as the SRC North) by an abundant margin would be an understatement. It would not be an audacious statement to make to say that the SRC could surpass the expectations of the average student here at UC Riverside.

One reason I cannot give the SRC five stars is because of its poor flexibility to the response of COVID-19. From what I've seen in different cities across California, many schools have opted for outdoor gyms, allowing students to curtail the drawbacks an indoor gym would pose during a pandemic. In spite of many findings proving the lack of correlation between the infection rate of COVID-19 and gyms, UCR has not made any efforts to work around the current situation within the last year, other than renting weights which seemed very unpopular since its implementation.

In spite of this being a reasonable claim for some and an unreasonable claim for the latter, in the end, only 3 out of the four years I was here was the SRC open for use. I hope that once the COVID-19 pandemic has ceased to threaten our daily occupations of life, many students akin to the fitness lifestyle will continue to enjoy and use the SRC for many...

Five stars cause the gym itself is fantastic and the facilities are bountiful af and well kept. There's like a dozen squat racks which is such an improvement over literally every other gym I've been to that has like one rack, and that's a huge relief.

The few issues I have with the SRC don't detract from the 5 stars cause the issues generally have to do with the other people that use this gym. Here are a few PSA's for those that need to hear it:

a) Y'all need to learn to put your mf weights away when you're done. Seriously you guys are like in your 20s, pick up after yourselves. good lord.

b) Stop throwing the weights down after a set, literally no one is impressed. There's a difference between dropping them because you're tired and literally throwing them on the ground, you degenerates.

There are more but I've lost interest. In conclusion, in the ~2.5 years I've been going here I've seen the rec center staff slowly stop enforcing the rules and I honestly don't blame them cause the amount of people doing dumb stuff is out of control. I literally saw some dude riding around the rec on a longboard and no one said anything to him.

5/5 tho, I still go...

I attended a graduation today, and the university's facilities were very nice. I was disappointed with the event, nothing but anti-USA messages. It was labeled "LA Raza," at face value, they 'promote' DEI yet have a separate event just for Latinos/Chicanos, is this not against what many fought against? They had a female mariachi band that kept on calling everyone Mexicans as if being a Latino is representative of just one race. The message was full of socialist propaganda, victim mentality, and the revolution against the systems designed to keep Latinos down! The entire ceremony represented one country, yet they pretended it represented all Latinos. It is true that today's universities are indoctrination camps. Sad days we are...