University of Arizona - Recreation Center — Attraction in Tucson

The changes being made are clearly from faculty who don't lift weights. Most recent changes are new plates replacing perfectly clean/fine plates. The new ones are cheap, don't have rubber coating, have sharp edges that can cut you, and lack large enough holes for grip.

There are far to many ellipticals. This space could be used for specialized equipment like a belt squat, jammer, squat rack, etc. Things that need replacing don't yet we get new weight racks that are bulky and not improving the experience of the gym. People do whatever they want in the squat racks, preventing you from using them.

The hours need to change. The gym closes for every holiday even uncommon ones. Often closed during football games and random employee training days. Overall a month is removed from your membership without you knowing.

Parking is pretty horrible. You either pay for special parking with a an expensive semester pass or pay road parking if you're lucky enough to find it. Most of the surroundings lacks shade so when it's over 100 your car will just bake. The neighborhood is shotty too so don't leave things in your car.

Overall the gym is pleasant on the eyes and has the basics. The management is clueless in charge of equipment is clueless. The gym is over packed most of the year so equipment is hard to come by. People constantly break the "rules" and nothing is enforced. It's closed too often and the...

The equipment here is great - if you can ever get a chance to use it. The place is always packed. And yes, it's a student gym, so you expect it to be busy, but even so, it's too small for the percentage of the student population that actually utilizes the facility. Morning, noon, night, it doesn't matter - there are always hordes of students. Good luck getting a squat rack or bench, and if you do get one, be prepared to be asked multiple times when you are going to be done.

Like most typical gyms, there are way more treadmills than anybody needs and not nearly enough weightlifting equipment. The graduate student gym is also a huge disappointment, as it's open precisely during the hours that most graduate students are unable to use it.

It's a very nice looking building, and it's kept in good condition. There are individual bathrooms with showers that are extremely handy if you hate showering in a communal area. But overall, it's really too bad that despite the huge amount of student interest in using the REC, the university spends millions on a massive indoor practice stadium for the football team instead of expanding the REC to make it accessible to...

This one star is for the swim pool, actually I wish I can give zero star if I can. I went there for swimming with my friend. I know that the pool need make a appointment online but my friend is not the U of A student so she doesn’t have school email and cannot make an appointment online. I don’t complain about this, I just want to go there and see if I got any blank spaces to swim. Instead of making an appointment online I went there at 5:30 and make an appointment with the stuff, she told us that we can come back at 5:55, and there will be two spaces for us. At 5:55 I went back and another stuff told me that the our appointment is from 5:00 to 5:55 so our appointment is expired. They probably mess up the appointment online and offline, but they told me that I misunderstand their meaning and it’s my fault, both my friend and me thought we can begin swim at 5:55, what the hell is this...