Information about Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre

E Ring Rd 50
N1G 4Z8, Guelph
+1 519-824-4120 ext. 56253

Opening hours

  • Monday: 6:00 AM – 11:30 PM
  • Tuesday: 6:00 AM – 11:30 PM
  • Wednesday: 6:00 AM – 11:30 PM
  • Thursday: 6:00 AM – 11:30 PM
  • Friday: 6:00 AM – 9:30 PM
  • Saturday: 8:00 AM – 9:30 PM
  • Sunday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
Modern campus center featuring a large gym, sports courts & fields, exercise classes & event space.

Our comment from FitFit Canada about Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre:

The Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre is widely regarded as the best gym in Guelph, offering a fantastic array of facilities for both casual and serious athletes. With its spacious and modern environment, users have described it as an amazing place for workouts, sports practice, and community events.

Some key highlights include:

  • Exceptional facilities: A very large sports complex that accommodates various sports disciplines and fitness classes.
  • Clean and modern: Many users have praised the cleanliness and upkeep of the facilities, enhancing the overall experience.
  • Friendly staff: Visitors have noted the helpful and professional nature of the staff, contributing to a welcoming atmosphere.
  • Variety of activities: Options include basketball, swimming, tutoring classes, and even a climbing wall, providing something for everyone.

However, there are some areas that need improvement:

  • During peak hours, reports of inadequate ventilation have been noted, making some spaces uncomfortably warm.
  • Some facilities, such as the steam sauna, have received complaints regarding cleanliness and maintenance.
  • Pricing may be considered high for non-students, although students find it more affordable.
  • Crowding can be an issue during busy times, which might lead to wait times for certain equipment.

Overall, the Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre is a highly rated venue, remarkable for its services and facilities that cater to a wide variety of sports and fitness enthusiasts.

Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre: Opinions

4.6/5 (95 Opinions)
Nathan Amazin 3 weeks ago

Fantastic experience: got A day pass today the university of Guelph gym and I gotta say how the energy engraves existence, echoes etch eternity presence pulses, penetrates, permeates proximity every set was a sermon syllables synced with sweat while bars bounced like barbells breathing brilliance never forget. Crowd caught in cadence, craning, captivated raps ripple through racks, resonance recalibrated 2nd to none flows fused with ferocity Guelph Gym glows in greatness gravity of velocity. Discipline dances in density, devotion decorated intensity intertwines, inspiration elevates. So this is where momentum meets mastery and motion and every glance, garners gravitations devotion. I hope to comeback tomorrow and sign up in a time to comes thank you so much for the experience. The Staff at the time were great as well and I greatly appreciate their time they gave me. Godbless you all

Matt-o R 1 month ago

Fantastic experience: Go Gryphs

Andreea Burlacu 2 months ago

Negative experience: Student gym filled to the brim with way too many people. Changerooms are nasty with pee, hair, and toilet paper on the ground. Fitness classes are so full you can’t move in fear you’ll slap someone. Only one assisted pull-up machine, which is mainly used by people that do not even use the assisted part. Really an aggravating experience working out here. Recommended for you if you hate lat pulldowns and love being asked how many sets you have left when you’ve barely started on a machine.

Greg McLeod 4 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility and top class machines and equipment

Jason Chen 4 months ago

Positive experience: The west gym is not ACed

CowanFamilyVlogs 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: It's an awesome gym! We love it there!

Abdurrahman Demir 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: The gym is pretty good with variety of equipments and lots of weights. It is just a bit crowded sometimes

NAveed ANwar 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: Went for Kids event, it's good, clean, organized

Brian Cote 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: Nice Facility. Lots of parking. High ceilings, walking track, eating area, rock wall.

Jessica Keats 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome facility!

Rahul jariwala 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym to workout in Guelph, nothing beats this.

Payam Najafi 1 year ago

Negative experience: During peak usage hours (after 5 PM), the ventilation systems in most of the halls are turned off. This makes the halls unusable due to extreme heat and an incredibly substandard ventilation system. After expressing our concerns to the staff, we received astonishing suggestions such as opening the hall doors or using ice packs in case of heat exhaustion. Unfortunately, our complaints are not being addressed.

Mike Gregor 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Visited for my son's convocation. Proud day!! Due to COVID, I was my first day on campus in his four years!!

Jeffrey Zang 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym. A bit too hot inside. Lots of seating in the lobby. Did not bench 225.

The Nameless 1 year ago

Positive experience: Awesome facility. Change rooms are a little dusty and the gym floor itself is busy as hell but great gym overall!

Marcus Talamini 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: This is amazing. Very big sports complex, for all people. You can work out or practice almost any sport there.

Jason 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Nice facility

Dipika Shaw 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Very good place for sports, swimming and gym.

N M 1 year ago

Positive experience: Very expensive unless you are a student.

乔GD 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Like Playing basketball here

Cristiane Tavares 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Go Gryphons!!!!

Anna Reko 1 year ago

Positive experience: Went to see my great niece and her team of cheer leaders participated in a great contest.

Rajiv Singh 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, friendly staff and general a great athletics center.

Jackie W. 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great venue for a cheer competition! Found parking ok, washrooms close to entrance, found seating too.

victor 1 year ago

Positive experience: Can you guys please fix the steam sauna? The quality has been inadequate since the announcement of COVID-19. It smells soooo bad in there and the steam doesn’t work. I brought my friend one time and he had to walk out immediately. The only reason I stayed in there is cause I’m used to it. Do you guys not clean it anymore? Maybe get a guy to come clean it more often cause even at 10-11 AM that place will smell like things I don’t wanna say. On top of that, the steam room isn’t even hot anymore. The last 10 times I’ve been to Guelph I’ve only experienced the steam go off once. Don’t tell me it resets on a timer because there were multiple times where I tested it and waited an 1 hour so if you’re tryna tell me it takes more than 1 hour to reset the steam setting than that is absurd. When the steam goes off I shouldn't be able to see the person beside me…Overall the gym is a great place but your negligence of the steam room is a vibe killer for most because that is our recovery. All we discuss within the steam room is how it has gone to the ground. Let’s get to work !

Kjeld Noppen 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great school arena, don't have anything like it in the Netherlands

Idrees Khankhel 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: It is what it is.

Tony liang 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: 1

Sandra Bunsch 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: My granddaughters convocation was there

e E 2 years ago

Positive experience: Gym is good, but too many cardio machines.

Manuel Garcés 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place. High quality floors! Beautiful basketball courts.

Ashley W 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very clean, bright, new facilities and lots of parking.

Rob saunders 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Exceptional facility..fitness , recreational and varsity sports

Reay Hutchinson 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: As a community member and UofG alumnus, I thoroughly benefit from this fabulous facility and feel a sense of belonging - both!

Ahmed Ragab 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great Facility! Has everything you need to really achieve your athletic goals, i love it!

Dave H 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility at UG, we were in a basketball tournament - everything was clean.

Iveta Koskina 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Guelph stands out with their university town. Super clean. They have special dogs that chase off the geese hence property is very pleasant. Athletics Center is awesome. Already one big reason this uni is being considered in our choices.

Nastaran Chalabianlou 2 years ago

Negative experience: I give them one star not because of the facilities and the athletic center, but because of the registration process. I have registered for the personal trainer in a group of 3 for 5 sessions, after registration and full payment, 3 weeks has passed and nobody contacted for the sessions. I just received an email that I have to find 2 other people otherwise the sessions are canceled !!! Nobody told me at the registration that it is my responsibility to find other members of the group and it is not written in the website as well. I am really dissatisfied about this service.

S D 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Enjoyed a fundraiser event for the Squash team! Tournament was run very efficiently . Students were friendly, organized and attentive ! Great job to the Griffins Squash team!

Adam Struwing 2 years ago

Positive experience: Id like to start off by saying I love it here, it's a great place and it's helped so many people better themselves. It's cheap for students, clean, and everyone is extremely respectful, I am extremely happy with this gym. There are some downsides of course. There are many machines that are never touched, while there are lineups for other machines or benches. This gym could benefit greatly from having more than 2 leg presses or leg extension machines for sure.

Angelo T 3 years ago

Positive experience: Good gym with good equipment.

Gerb Ding 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great banquet space

Zach Esser 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever

Khalil Nayef 3 years ago

Positive experience: Love this place. Their phone never works though.

Rod Young 3 years ago

Negative experience: Not well orgainized, no booking time for my activity

Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre

Hi Rod, thanks for the feedback, we'd love to hear more about your experience to learn how we can improve. A short survey is available here: https://uoguelph.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9AeDnvVxX25y9Qq

Jaason Dee 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing facility

Jeff Duimering 3 years ago

Positive experience: Convocation was good. Not too long

Lynton Lam 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility, always clean! Variety of sports within, lots to access and do.

Ava 3 years ago

Positive experience: It seems like a good place, just a little hard to navigate around.

Gabe Blew 3 years ago

Positive experience: This place is very feature-complete... but it's built like the backrooms and has barely any maps. Also they have tours regularly walk through the gym, that's pretty annoying. I did end up finding a few maps of the building in the gym, wish these were easier to come by!

Aaron O'brien 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: What a fantastic place!!! I belonged to 5 different universities before UoG, and Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre is the best gym ever!! Go to the gym right away!!!

Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre

Glad you enjoyed the gym! Thanks for the great review!

Heather Macgregor 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: My nephew came from Toronto to play basketball here Saturday and he and his family were so impressed. They claimed it was by far superior to where they played in Ottawa. It would have been nice to have vending machines and even better, food Trucks as we had to leave the campus to eat. But all in all it was a great experience.

Zachary Esser 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever

Chris Choi 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love this place so much.

jazmine 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: As a University of Guelph student, I love having a gym membership. it's a good price for students, and they have so much to offer! there's a regular gym where you can work out on your own basis, and then there are fitness classes with an instructor and it's really fun! I believe you also have an option to get a fitness trainer with the membership, though I've never opted for one. as well, there are recreational sports where you can make use of the facilities and play sports like basketball, volleyball, badminton, and swimming! the rock climbing wall is additional, but I think it's really cool that the option is there! SO MUCH TO DO! if you go to the university or just live around the area, I think this membership is worth it!

Adam Pronk 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: The rock wall staff are dope. My favourite place to be

Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre

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Al Parker 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fabulous venue for b-ball and lots of other stuff.

Giuseppe Barbieri 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Get place but fans should respect other people no vulgar language

Abraham Theodore 4 years ago

Positive experience: Good gym with good equipment.

Andrew Godard 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Has been an amazing part of my life even before working there. So #proudtobeagryphon

Nelson Correia 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent. My #1 favourite gym. A bit expensive for people who aren't students at UoG but still worth the price for frequent gym goers in my opinion. Charges by the month with no sign up for non-students and by the semester for students.

FFTW Development 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: We are currently participating in a Futsal League here and University of Guelph has been top notch throughout the whole process. All persons are asked to do a COVID waiver check in upon entering and the staff do a really good job to make sure people are following the rules and keeping their distance during the matches. Very happy with the process and experience in the Futsal League at this location.

Lindsay Wright 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: My daughter's basketball team practices at this location. WOW, could not be luckier. Strict Covid guidelines are followed along with forms completed online prior to entering. Great job!

Dana Lewis 5 years ago

Positive experience: Great facilities, friendly staff.

Stephen McLean 5 years ago

Positive experience: Fine looking females go here. Gets kinda crowded at times

Nicolas 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: New and modern.

Jacoba Marije 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: great prices and services

Alex Fontain 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym to get into shape

Adam Bonnycastle 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility (although shower controls need attention)

Mghomeden G 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: 2019 OVA Provincials great place

Tyler S 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is a great gym. It is kept clean and we'll maintained and the gym floor is large enough to facilitate large crowds. During peak hours it can be very busy so be warned.

Homesteading Heather 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love the variety from badminton to swimming. Red Pool is soooo warm!

Jawad TP 6 years ago

Positive experience: GOOD

Kevin Matthews 6 years ago

Positive experience: Nice facility

J 6 years ago

Positive experience: Small but decent climbing wall. No lead climbing unfortunately

Sebastian Sanchez 6 years ago

Positive experience: Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful facility, but it's full to the brim 90% of the time. Should've planned bigger if they were going to build a gym on campus AND open the doors to public use.

Jason Fowler 6 years ago

Positive experience: Renos have been good. I have been going here for about 10 years. Prices are too high for swimming for a day pass though. Should be a different price for swimming versus using the weight and fitness room since the pool hasn't been updated at all. It jumped from 4 dollars per session to 10 dollars over two years. Also having to sign twice every time I visit and get a day pass is a bit ridiculous.

Eric Grimminck 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: As a student here I absolutely love the classes, recreational Callander and service. It's always relatively clean and well organized.

Edgard Arabdjian 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Go Gryphons go :). The only issue is paid parking! Otherwise, a great place to be.

Jack S 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fabulous

Tiffany Chan 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Huge new renovated gym. It's very nice and clean

Adam Hellinga 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love working out here

Matin Bozorg 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great

Veronica Cheng 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: A beautiful gym with amazing equipment. Everything is so new and refreshing to look at.

Zack Mitkin 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Idk if I was allowed or not, but I took a run on the track they had and it was nice

Manon H 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great brand new gym with good classes!

Jay Jeong 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: I love U of G athletic facilities especially stadium and soccer complex. As an experienced soccer referee, I appreciate their passion toward soccer all the time. Perfect atmosphere for soccer! :)

Maya Low 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The gym is awesome! The yoga classes are high quality it's great that we have so many options to be active at the gym rather than just traditional working out!

Jaqueline Reiter-Saunders 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love this gym, so affordable for students!

Mohsen Mohammadi 7 years ago

Positive experience: A bit crowded

マッカイザックダン 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean. Spacious. Great equipment, and plenty of it for the most part. Pleasant staff. Only thing, is that I'm a taller gent, and need a rack that I can OHP in and not hit any support bars overhead. They have two allowable options here, however they are usually taken and leaves long wait times for one to open up. They have about 6 or 7 other racks, tho all have support bars and I'd get zero range of motion then. Wish that all the racks were open style to allow for it (or at lease pins that can be set on the outside of the rack so nothing is overhead).

Very Wary 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great new facility on the university of Guelph campus. Big new basketball gym, lots of team locker rooms, excellent weigh and cardio gym. Ties together with the old gym and pools in one building now. Has a "universal' locker room in addition to the men's and women's lockers - good for families or anyone not comfortable with the other change rooms and showers. Excellent, friendly staff always. Did I mention the climbing wall?

マッカイザクダン(ダン) 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean. Spacious. Great equipment, and plenty of it for the most part. Pleasant staff. Only thing, is that I'm a taller gent, and need a rack that I can OHP in and not hit any support bars overhead. They have two allowable options here, however they are usually taken and leaves long wait times for one to open up. They have about 6 or 7 other racks, tho all have support bars and I'd get zero range of motion then. Wish that all the racks were open style to allow for it (or at lease pins that can be set on the outside of the rack so nothing is overhead).

Naveen Joshy 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to workout if studying at UoG

Gabby Chan 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great bleachers and large gym

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