Dodge Physical Fitness Center — Local services in New York

I am a fellow member at the Dodge Fitness Center and must share honestly that the state of the gym reflects poorly on Columbia's importance of mental and physical health. As a member of the community who uses to gym to have maintain good physical and mental health the poor state of the gym is a direct reflection on how Columbia values the importance of a well maintained gym and how it impacts the overall health of the average community. The weight center is extremely overcrowded with very old and rusty instruments which make it undesirable and very difficult to use with long wait times. Additionally, the pool locker room areas are rusty and smell horribly with poor maintenance. Additionally, the gym has a very crowded small space for stretching before or after a workout. The running track is quite fascinating however, it is larger than the entire weights/treadmill/fitness center combined and does not even have many users at times when the other parts of the floor are overcrowded. In summary, it seems as if Columbia designed this place poorly and fails to update it which reflects very poorly on their view of the community physical, emotional and...

My wife works in the university and we wanted to go to the gym together, so she bought the membership for a year. Today I decided to try only one day’s membership and we went together there. But outside the gym they can’t allow me to pass inside, so I am too upset because we wanted to go there only together. My wife also doesn’t have motivation to go there without me. I tried to get the refund but it was unsuccessful, the support can’t help us. It’s not fair to not have information about it on their site. She bought the membership only because we wanted to go there together and it is possibility to buy membership for spouse but no information about the prohibition to go inside the gym for people like me. I lost money for the day membership and my wife for the whole year because she definitely won’t go there without me. Why don’t post information about it on the site? What should she do, go to another gym with me and pay for another annul membership again? I am really upset that support unable to refund my money that I lost today. I paid for the service that I didn’t get, it’s...

I thought people were exaggerating when they said avoid Dodge at all costs. They weren’t, This is the absolute worst gym in my life. The equipment to people ratio is absolutely insane. If it’s not an elliptical or treadmill, there is like one of each workout machine which always has a line of people waiting to get on the machines. To give you an idea of just how little equipment there is, there are like five floor mats and weight benches for the entire gym. Mind you, this school has thousands of students. It makes no sense

The layout is also horrendous. You have to squeeze past people doing their workouts because they reserved such a small space for workout equipment and it’s always packed. The fact that there are three different floors, albeit each with tiny workout sections, tells you how wild this layout it. Whoever designed the place should really think about how poor a job they did.

I don’t understand where the money is going because it’s definitely not here. I have to wonder is physical and mental health important to the admin if this is how they treat their...