Bryant Fitness Center — Local services in Glendale

Luke AFB gym. Older military gym with slightly outdated equipment. The desk staff and cleaning staff ensure everything is as close to perfect as it can be. They are pretty awesome and make this a Five Star facility!

Small & inexpensive things that would instantly help improve the gym. Trap bars for deadlifts (the ones with a six inch riser grip). Adding one or more to each free weight gym would add a back protecting option to weight lifters, as well as giving a Farmers Carry option to training. (Your aviation mechanics and ordinance loaders will particularly like this.) Keeping an air pump with a ball filling needle in the basketball gym. 90% of the basketballs in the gym are non-bouncy bricks. This is why many hoopers bring their own balls. But junior enlisted are tossing the bricks that live in the gym. Those gym balls don't bounce back very well, landing with more of a thud on the court surface. The balls that are there are old, but ok. They just need to be pumped up. Let the hoopers do it.

There are other suggestions, but these are two small things that could be implemented quickly & easily, and are...

It’s really not fair when you have the fitness centers open during the COVID-19 only for active-duty reserve national guard but military spouses military dependence are not allowed do you use the facilities. I understand that they trying to protect the soldiers but they also need to understand that the soldiers they live with their dependence they live with their spouses so you’re really not doing anything other than just preventing spouses and dependence from using the facilities its really doesn’t make sense!!!!

We follow our spouses everywhere they go every duty station so we have part in this stop treating us like some stupid civilians that don’t know anything because we have a role in this and start including us into these kind...

Its a bit of a joke to be half operational, tell people to prep for PT tests, take down the use of every other piece of equipment, completely close off the basketball court which is approximately 45% of the square footage of the entire facility, and expect people to call this a good or even great gym. Once leadership can figure out the direction they really want to go in it would likely make the gym more operational. Equipment isn't often broken but when it is its fairly simple fixes. The best thing this gym does is offer 24 hour entrance...