Clay Madsen Recreation Center — Attraction in Round Rock

⭐️The Best deal around! Especially if you buy in January & get 10% off the year! Also if you're over 50yo you qualify as a Senior which saves even more! For one Senior in January for a YEAR is less than most gyms & studios cost for ONE Month!!! CMRC is always doing things to improve. They have nice equipment- lots of treadmills, stationary bikes, steppers, a couple row machines - with a line of nice flat screens in front of these to watch while running or cardio. Lots of lifting machines, Free weights, several old mix & match Kettle Bells, & a few box jumps. They could stand to improve their Very few mats for floor exercises. (Terrible mats). Too small of an area for floor work, stretching, etc. ⭐️Nice large multi use gymnasium for Basketball, indoor track around the whole thing that can be split into two full courts, or 4 half courts. Also used for indoor Volleyball & Bootcamps. ⭐️A few years New - "The Yard" which is a covered outdoor area with ASTRO turf, a climbing rope, 🪜 s, Battle Ropes, sleds, etc. ⭐️I have used the Indoor pool a lot for lap swimming. YARDS, Not Meter Pool. 25 yards one length. Sad that the windows on the East side used to have the sunrise shining in during morning hours, but now the yard is on that side & blocks the nice view we used to have. (Good & not-so-good because at certain times the sunrise would shine in our eyes if we breathed on that side (I Bilaterally breathe), but so nice having it warm & shine in on the clear pool water! I miss that). ⭐️There are Racquetball courts but I have RARELY used those - a long time ago - 15ish yrs ago. Very popular - you usually need a Reservation. ⭐️Outside there is now a Covered (cover is new) Lighted Tennis courts. ⭐️Skatepark right behind CMRC, but no one to monitor from CMRC, so recommend parents stay with their kids. Or close by - in car or sitting/standing watching. ⭐️Also a dirt running path behind CMRC, by SkatePark North that can hook up with Brushy Creek Regional Trail. You only have to run on sidewalk next to traffic on AW Grimes a short (maybe half mile +?) to get to trail going either West (2 different- one older goes to Dog Park & Lake Creek Pool & Park. Newer Westbound trail north of Brushy Creek), or East past Rabb House all the way to Kenney Fort Rd, Kalahari Resort, & BCRT East trail all the way to Joe B Freeman Park along...

I visited friends in Round Rock for a week and needed a place to work out. This fit the bill beautifully. A serious lifter could make the place work for occasional workouts, but it's great for beginners and casual lifters, or those willing to program their work around the things that are not here. There's a decent set of dumbbells up to 100 pounds, pre-loaded "EZ" style bars up to 110, some flat benches, a couple of short Olympic-diameter bars and a selection of plates, and a 'Smith' machine. Plus a bunch of Precor machines and a pulley/cable weight stack appropriate for cable crossovers and curls and pulldowns and such. And a counterweighted dip/pullup station. Read between the lines and you'll see I'm not mentioning full Olympic bars, squat/power racks, and the like. But what's there is in great condition, well organized, with room to work out, and with clientele who have good gym etiquette around each other. For a public facility charging minimal fees for walk-in users, that's pretty awesome. I didn't use any of the other facilities, but they seem to be extensive: pool, racket courts, basketball, etc. The place is in heavy use by the locals, and yet it's clean and tidy. The staff were professional and friendly. Pretty much anything people will tell you about the upsides of Texas hospitality were on display. I felt really glad to find something so convenient so close to where I was visiting; with a little thinking, I was able to keep to my workout schedule without making huge changes to my plans. Round Rock pretty much hits it out of the park with...

Senior member satisfaction has improved substantially. New management at CMRC are more customer focussed. Front end staff friendly. Memberships are still very reasonable with a super deal when you combine with the annual Baca Senior Center membership. However some Baca Staff need some PR Training when dealing with the members. CMRC Special activities include a table tennis room available most days and another room avail on Tues and Thurs evenings with 2 tables. Outdoor and indoor pickleball, and several glass wall racketball/handball/wallyball courts with great lighting. The facility is getting some needed facelifts - new exercise & weight room equipment. Can be very busy at times. Can't wait for the Old Settlers Park center to be built in a couple of years. 5 of 5...