VIU Gymnasium

Thank you Noel! Glad you enjoyed the Graduation ceremony and congrats to your brother!

Hi Ryan! Thank you for the support of our VIU Mariners teams.

Thank you Tyler! Much appreciated

Thanks Joshua!

Hi Amandeep, we are also opened to Alumni and Community members.In terms of your second comment regarding closures:1. The Gym cannot be opened if there is no power, unless you know a way2. Snow - "little snow" definition is different from person to person, but the health and safety of our users is more important than keeping the facility opened at all cost.3. Public Holiday - yes, employers Canada are required by law to observe statutory holidays as per federal, provincial and territorial labour regulations.4. Exam Season - due to the amount of students writing at the same time, final exams have to be held in the Gymnasium as well. During this period, it is important to create an environment in which students can write their exams in peace while not having to worry about other users using weights and creating noise.Game Day - certain Friday nights and Saturday afternoons have 2 rooms taken as changerooms. You might prefer these athletes changing in the hotel or their bus, but there is a certain standard that needs to be followed. The majority of the weight room is still available on those days.Feel free to list the other 100 reasons you mention in your post.Also, a friendly reminder the VIU Gym is a student gym which is free for students. You are more than welcome to get a membership in any other Gym in Nanaimo, yet we still see you in our facility on a regular basis.So seems it hasn't gotten that bad yet. "Don't soil your own nest"

Thank you Mary! Always great to have our varsity teams enjoy support from the local community!

Thank you Bill! A lot of work went into transforming the Gymnasium into a Convocation Ceremony Venue :-)

Thank you Aguila for the feedback and rating you have given us! we hope to see you again soon!

Thank you Grayson! Yes, nothing but W's here :-)

Hi Ivan! Thank you for sharing your positive experiences with us. It is our pleasure to serve students such as yourself.

Hello, thank you sharing your honest opinion. We try to remind all our new and returning patrons to sanitize equipment after each use. We will try and keep an eye on Jeff and his buddies. Hopefully you will have a better experience upon your next visit. Yes, unfortunately due to space limitations there is no room for individual changerooms besides the washrooms and six shower stalls provided. Jessica is just jealous at the gains you've made during your continued workout program. Come see us after the summer - there might be some new equipment for you to use :-)

Never too late to get some tips/feedback from users on how to improve services in the limited space of our operations.Thank you for your feedback, thanfully some things have changed in the meantime:a) Old equipment - we have since dedicated an entire room to new equipment with 4 Rogue Squat racks with new barbells and plates. In the main weightroom area there is a new 5 in 1 cable machine with a variety of attachments provided. There is still a lot of old equipment, but we also function within a budget and are not a commercial gym, but primarily catered to students.b) No trap bar - we have since bought 2 new trap barsc) Lots of other machines missing/very small - not sure what machines you are referring to here, but hopefully the 5 in 1 cable machine helps with that. Again, we are limited with our space and not much can be done about that for the time being. d) sad-looking place - hopefully all written so far shows otherwise, if nothing else, our staff at the front desk are ready to assist and hear you out.e) No bands/rollers - there is a variety of resistance bands/bands with handles/mini bands available to you. All we ask in return is student card or item of value to you as collateral. There are foam rollers in each of our workout rooms.f) No cable machines - There is a total of 7 cable machines available for you to use.Hopefully everything written might bring you back to us and potentially give us a better rating/review. And even if it doesn't, well at least we tried

Hi Dennis, unfortunately not much can be done in terms of the size of the weight room. What used to be a Squash court has been re-designed into a room with 4 sets of Rogue squat racks. There is also R115 (Multi-purpose room) for free weight training with drop-in times in order to accommodate additional space. We try to use the area we have wisely considering the space and budget limitations. Hope your leg is better after receiving First Aid from our trained staff and your team does well in Soccer Intramurals tonight!

Hi Edwin thank you for your review. We welcome a wide range of facility users regardless of their age and physical conditioning

Hi MZ, thank you for your feedback. Open Gym Floor time should primarily be used by students, but is opened to alumni/community/varsity athletes. The gymnasium floor should be shared amongst all user groups on a first come-first serve basis. Inclusivity is very important to us and we encourage you to speak to one of the Gym Attendants working at the front if you have a similar experience in the future. We hope to see you again soon and hopefully get a better rating/review from you.

Thank you Chris, especially for the staff comment #blush

Thank you Ashwin! Glad you had positive encounters with our staff

Thank you Cory!

Thank you Jared!

Hi Aditya, given the size of the facility, the pec-fly machine would take up too much space. We try to focus on equipment that can have multiple forms of use. Thank you for the feedback!

Thank you Arjun!

The facility should definitely be larger given the amount of people using it. Thanks for your feedback!

Thank you Umesh!

Straight to the point, thanks Erik!

The size of the weight room is unfortunately limited by the Facility capacity. Female Hours is something we have discussed lately due to the wide range of facility users. Thank you for your feedback, regardless of our late response.

There is nothing we can do about the size of the weight room unfortunately. However we are the only Gym which is free for VIU students!

Thank you Crystal!

Thank you Tanya!

Hi Jakob! Things have changed since your review. Give us another visit and maybe we can earn another star :-) The squash court has been turned into a squat rack room

Thank you Jon! Give us a visit, maybe we can earn that extra star for a review

Hi Caelen! As you know, we have 6 squat racks now! And we always have that weight belt ready for you. Unfortunately, we can only work within the space given, so the best we can do is to manage that space well. Maybe it's time to revisit this review and give us that extra star?