Western Student Recreation Centre

Fantastic experience: Fun place to hang with friends and great to workout

Negative experience: Seems really dirty this year

Fantastic experience: Big gym with lots of machines. Gets really busy though

Fantastic experience: It's an incredible facility, wish I could enroll my kids to use it!

Negative experience: People at front desk suck

Positive experience:

Fantastic experience: go at 6:30am

Positive experience: Love going to swim practice there but hate that it’s always super freezing. It’s also sometimes foggy in the water. The lane ropes also always break off.

Fantastic experience: Nice big place. Lots of different sports going on.

Fantastic experience: very good, very nice

Positive experience: Peak hours suck

Positive experience: Please do not play that Dr. Pimple Popper show on the TVs, I felt like I was going to throw up.

Positive experience: Some equipment is old. Very big facility. Does get busy very quickly

Negative experience: Feels like no ac, always crowded, small gym for a big university

Negative experience: Very rude front desk service, Denielle was Just not helpful. She did not abide by and was not knowledgeable about website policy. No superiors on site on weekend to assist with customer service. Used to be student here, but as a non student they treat you very poorly, and disrespectful.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful staff and workout machines

Fantastic experience: good

Negative experience: terrible hours. Absolutely brutal! This is terrible, ref.

Fantastic experience: Was at the OUA swimming meet, and it was wonderful to see the students complete. I found the acoustics very poor and couldn't hear the announcer well at all. Great facility

Positive experience: Nice venue

Positive experience: The gym itself is very crowded but the pool is great. Never too full. The gym has everything you need and if you got on off hours it's not too packed. Overall it's a good gym and it's hours are pretty good

Fantastic experience: There's an incredible 50m swimming pool and also other amenities as well. If you want to stay healthy while studying at western this is the place.

Fantastic experience: Kids swimming there

Positive experience: Good but the weight room is too small compared to the university size.

Positive experience: Great gym, way too many people

Positive experience: The gym/ rec center are modern and clean. Weekly Sunday morning hockey from October through April. The dressing rooms are always clean with serviceable showers. The rooms are older without many updates but serve the purpose. The running track rings the ice rink. The ice is alright, not the best ice but I have skates on far worse.

Fantastic experience: TL;DR: great gym, especially for powerlifters The gym's compact and rugged which I personally like, but I understand that it isn't for everyone. Plenty of squat racks but the safety guards don't go low enough for something like a rack pull. There's no dedicated weightlifting platforms (at least to my knowledge, there might be outside the main gym), but most people just deadlift in the racks since there's so many to go around. Very busy at peak hours but if you go early it's not that bad. Lack of machine quantity but you get good quality (the hack squat machine is especially nice) and the amount of free weights make up for it. All in all a great gym if you're serious about getting stronger.

Fantastic experience: The students at Western have a great facility for workouts and to stay healthy. All three courts were well-maintained for the Purple and White Sr. Girls High School basketball tournament this weekend.

Fantastic experience: very good

Fantastic experience: Clean and modern facilities

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Clean and modern facilities

Fantastic experience: Good for students, alumni and public

Fantastic experience: Well maintained and a great place to workout!

Fantastic experience: Well maintained and a great place to workout!

Fantastic experience: Awesome people and equipment!

Negative experience: Too crowded. Equipment is very disorganized

Fantastic experience: Great staff and facility.

Fantastic experience:

Fantastic experience: Workout

Fantastic experience: Workout

Fantastic experience: One of the reasons I chose to be a Western student.

Positive experience: Right place to get tested

Positive experience: Right place to get tested

Fantastic experience: I called and asked a bunch of questions about how they are running, and got awesome clear and helpful responses. Also a very kind and charming man on the other side of the line. :)

Fantastic experience: One of the finest places to chill

Fantastic experience: It's so huge basketball arena

Fantastic experience: Go Mustang Go!!!

Fantastic experience: 로비에서 공부하는 학생도 많음. 사용한 운동기기를 닦고 가는 매너 좋은 사람들. 사람이 많아 몇번은 이용중인 기구의 사람에게 몇세트 정도 더 할거냐고 기다림

Fantastic experience: Excelente complejo deportivo, envidiable por muchas universidades. Es un honor como estudiante tener este tipo de centros deportivos y gimnásticos.

Positive experience: This facility is absolutely wonderful. If you like doing cardio or lifting weights, they have all of the appropriate gym equipment you could need. This gym also has a mens, womens, and family changing room and olympic sized pool which you are able to use with your membership. The only negatives are that during the university school season the gym can get exceptionally busy during peak times and the memberships are quite pricey if you're not a student although they do provide a variety of membership rates.

Fantastic experience: Go Mustang Go!!!

Negative experience: Gymn area crowded. Weight area, locker room dirty. Lack of parking. Too many students for facility size. UWO has poor athletic facilities for size of university. Western should do better.

Positive experience: expensive day pass entry

Positive experience: Great recreation centre.

Negative experience: I don't usually write reviews but what I witnessed today really grinded my nerves. There was a young man working on the squat rack beside me. He was clearly in the military and was wearing combat boots. I assumed he was doing some sort of fitness training for the military. No big deal. He was just getting warmed up and was minding his own business when a staff member rudely demanded he leave because he wasn't wearing running shoes. I watched her threaten to call the cops on him because he was squatting in combat boots. The kid looked confused and pretty upset but he left. I really don't understand what was so wrong about a guy in the military squatting in combat boots. The staffs' reaction to him was also less than professional. The whole incident (and the disrespect for our military) left a bad taste in my mouth.

Positive experience: Very busy but drop In classes are $6.

Fantastic experience: western 大学的健身房，非常大，普通健身，游泳馆，瑜伽课程，冰球场都有

Fantastic experience: No parallel-bars, no souna

Fantastic experience: Favorite London pool and clean changerooms

Fantastic experience: Best of its kind

Fantastic experience: Large student Recreation centre

Fantastic experience: Amazing

Fantastic experience: Good

Positive experience: Great building, mustang lounge is fantastic, unfortunately the food options are poor (insanely expensive and meh food options) also the tims doesn't do any of the regular deals (like the 2 breakfast sandwiches for $5 and the rewards cards)

Positive experience: Great front desk staff. Very helpful and quick at answering questions

Positive experience: The staff are really nice. It’s a decent university gym, but lacks some weight machines to accommodate the students. They also run counters for the weight room, cardio machines, basketball and volleyball courts... although they can be inconsistent. The locker rooms could use updating though compared to other normal and university gyms. For a student, you can’t ask for much more unless you have to come from a long way just to find the weight room super busy.

Negative experience: Ample amount of facilities

Positive experience: Well equipped and huge student gym. Not too busy early in the morning but gets a lot busier during the day.

Positive experience: Great gym, but horrible management. Decision makers are a cabal of friends that are apathetic about needs of members. Something is always broke and often takes forever to fix. Hours are worst in city. They will close for any excuse. Once closed because it was cold. Now shut down for three holiday breaks rather than just at Christmas. Blame school President for reading week hours saying he said "it's for the well-being of students." Isn't regular exercise best to treat stress and well-being? And who says you must employ 100% students? Can we get a scale that works? Scale gives a + 5 lb reading and young female employee says she thinks it's funny. Members may not feel that way. They stripped everything from the men's change room including scale and even the clock! Why you grinching us? Finally, it appears a good decision was made with a much needed expansion. But more basketball courts? I wonder, had a vote taken place among members if they might prefer an expanded workout area. No democracy here, guys. The upper management cling to power. The gym belongs to the students & alumni. Let them decide.

Fantastic experience: Best of its kind

Positive experience: Got everything you'd need for a good workout.

Negative experience: nice but too busy

Negative experience: The bars are super rusty and the floor are so uneven that it's a walking hazard. The gym staff are lovely though.

Positive experience: It gets busy, but the staff do a great job keeping the place going.

Positive experience: Always busy

Fantastic experience: Clean and modern facilities

Fantastic experience: Lots to see and do

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place

Fantastic experience: Always clean, free, employs students, has a booster juice at the entrance, open early and closes late. 5 stars!

Positive experience: Great value if you are Western student, otherwise look elsewhere. Great selection of equipment and weights. Lots of cardio options. Swimming pool is great. This gym gets extremely busy during the academic year. Hours are not the best either after getting cut back in 2017.

Positive experience: 放假的时间段通常都比较少人。游泳场篮球场羽毛球场都能打。我觉得最吸引人的地方应该是他们的力量训练区域。区域的左手边有大量的哑铃杠铃, 同样重量的哑铃至少会有两对，可以满足大部分人群。右手边为辅助性的健身器械，四台绳索机（goodlife里只有一台，而且是给VIP用的） 两台辅助引体向上机是我最喜欢的器械。通俗来讲基本上每个部位都至少有一台机器供你使用。史密斯在最里面有 好多台（腿 pp）。

Positive experience: Lots of machines to use but usually packed during the months of September to April. Have to go very early in the morning to avoid long wait times for machines.

Positive experience: Great equipment, squat racks however it can get crowded

Fantastic experience: A multitude of squat racks are available, 10/10 would recommend

Fantastic experience: Beauty, function, love!

Fantastic experience: Excellent Gym, I just love it!

Fantastic experience: Great facility, the best university facility in Canada.

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool

Fantastic experience: Nice atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place for recreation, swim, gym and indoor games!!!

Fantastic experience: Modern facilities

Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment for working out. Below has squash gyms and basketball gyms. The employees here are very helpful and kind. They always greet me with a smile. I have heard that the gym may be overpriced if you are not a student. So beware. If you have the money, this is a great gym.

Positive experience: great gym,nice pool.lots of equipments.

Positive experience: Of all Ontario Universities I have watched daughter swim at this is by far the brightest and cleanest viewing area

Positive experience: Very nice and clean facility. Lot of different types of machines to use. The place does seem disorganized however. For instance the cardio equipment can be found in several locations in the building. There is also lots of different types of equipment you can rent if you're wanting to play sports and whatnot.

Positive experience: Has everything you'll need, but might have to wait to access it b/c of the massive crowd

Positive experience: Facilities are great but it's always busy