Sport Central

Fantastic experience: Sad to see maybe the last independent 24hr gym facility go. I had a great time using the gym late at night and having lots of room to move around with plenty of machines available and not to many people around. Hopefully I can find another place like this.

Fantastic experience: Great place for Cricket

Fantastic experience: Nice gym

Fantastic experience: Huge facilities and lots of room to workout, hit the cage, or do really anything.

Fantastic experience: lots of squash courts

Negative experience: Hey the faculty is nice but you guys need to ask the staff to wipe the basketball court in the evening. The court gets very slippery even with basketball shoes on. Maybe leave a dust mop near by . Also the asian/filipino man who works the front desk leaves the desk unattended at times and is unapproachable and just seems miserable . Thank You

Negative experience: Need to fix their womens washrooms, been out of service for a while now and has not been repaired.

Positive experience: 24hr access and not as overwhelming busy as other facilities, makes for great workouts with great people

Negative experience: First aid kits been all used up. Seems weird for a sports facility. I guess they spent all their moneys on the cardboard patch job for the gym walls.

Fantastic experience: Very spacious

Fantastic experience: Very nice gym . All you need is there. Feel like home with the right people .

Positive experience: 24 / 7! Great sauna. Lots of room for weight lifting. Mix of bumper and weight plates in squat room is a bit of a mess to sort

Positive experience: Just awesome to have a place open 24 hours / really late

Fantastic experience: Open 24/7 , basketball court ! Great prices as well Richmond

Fantastic experience: Great gym has a sled and basket ball court

Fantastic experience: Cheap, large, and has tons of squat racks.

Negative experience: Called in on 2023 July18th 4pm to cancel my membership, being told “done, bye” and hang up. Didn’t even get a chance to ask questions. Other than this, cool gym and nice community. Some of the front desks are mean but others all kind and loving.

Fantastic experience: The only real 24 hour gym in town. You go you work out you leave. Nothing fancy. Nothing fancy needed.

Negative experience: Membership cancellation isn't possible even if you move across the province . If you complain a lot and make bad reviews, they may accept the cancellation in exchange of removing the bad reviews. I went to the club, paid everything I was asked to pay to be done with them. Have to pay more to cancel it. It was already cancelled and paid in full in person at the gym. Everything was in good standing according to the club itself, account was closed but and threaten you to send your account to collection/damage your credit score.

Fantastic experience: 老板人超级好，壁球场非常空！

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym with all facilities

Positive experience: Good place for net practice. Light is ok but not bright enough.

Fantastic experience: I love the grunginess and the variety of facilities the gym has to offer.

Fantastic experience: An excellent gym with lots of space, good equipment and kind, helpful staff. The manager (DS) and staff (Sukh etc) are kind, compassionate and obliging. They made us feel safe during the pandemic and made a special effort for all, including the elderly, to participate safely. My family and I have been members for over a decade. We will never go anywhere else. This gym is too good to leave.

Fantastic experience: People here are very focused on exercise, once you come in this place you will love exercise. Must try, good price as well.

Positive experience: Nice

Fantastic experience: Great spot!

Fantastic experience: This gym is great. Lot’s of instruments.24/7 basketball court. You can’t ask more with the price of 300 dollar full year pass. The front desk is pretty chill guy letting me in taking photos.

Positive experience: It was ok 24 hrs is nice to have

Fantastic experience: Great Squash courts, always space there. Big space with a great veriaty of equipments. Armando is a great Squash Coach too. Will keep going there

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym! Lots of equipment. Very spacious!

Positive experience: Bubble soccer was good. The staff was helpful and nice.

Fantastic experience: Reasonably priced, open 24/7, and the staff are nice.

Fantastic experience: I made a critical review a while ago about how clean the gym was. I must say they upped their game. The men’s shower area could use a better clean job but overall, for the deals they offer, this gym is great. I would suggest moving the main dumbbell area for it always gets too congested there. 3 to 4 benches is simply not enough for the volume of people that visit. Join the two dumbbell areas into one, along the squat rack mirrored wall would be ideal, just saying. Also, too many people still are not putting equipment/weights back to there proper areas however the gym is at no fault for this. The staff are very friendly and there is usually enough equipment to go around for everyone.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym with all the workout equipment you need, including specialty equipment you don't find in other gyms. At last count 8 free weight squat racks, 6 flat bench press and 4 incline benches so you're never having to wait for equipment.

Fantastic experience: Love the staff, the environment, the people. Some equipment can use some love but overall Sports Central a Vibe

Fantastic experience: Best gym honestly, if I didn't live in Vancouver, I'd definitely get membership here! Has all the bodybuilding equipment you need! Best part about it, it's 24hours ! Highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Huge space, good machinery. So much room for everyone and never feels crowded. Has basically anything you would need for a workout

Negative experience: Worst gym ever… Took away my money and no refund I asked about put a freezing on my account but no reply

Fantastic experience: My favorite gym. Great, super friendly staff. Awesome hours 24/7.

Fantastic experience: Nice open space

Positive experience: Nice squash courts and only 15 CAD for drop in games for non members

Negative experience: Every third machine has something wrong with it

Fantastic experience: Great place to exercise.

Fantastic experience: Hands down the best training facility in Richmond. Ask For Darren Shane. He's the GM, tell him Lucious sent you.

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff big place good crowd

Positive experience: Its Manager is a little rude but overall the facilty has a large variety of services it provides.

Negative experience: COVID-19 RISK. Too many people not wearing their mask properly. Huge covid-19 risk especially when huffing and puffing while lifting weights. Besides that the gym would be great but your life is in constant danger. Staff does not care about mask not being worn unless you quit your workout and walk to front desk to complain. They need to be checking the security cameras and be on these people. Also guests not wiping down weights and other equipment after use.

Negative experience: I signed up and tried the gym same day, kindly emailed them asking for a refund as I had just moved into town and I found a gym that’s closer, cheaper, and overall works better for me personally. They said no and said the best they can do is to have me “sell my membership to a friend” I’m struggling right now, out of work in a pandemic. I tried to find a cheaper fit so I can try to save money to support myself while still going to the gym and staying healthy and I hate to make reviews but I think it’s ridiculous that they couldn’t refund me after only 1 day of using their facility. Id prefer to gym in an environment where people have some empathy and are willing to work with people anyways

Fantastic experience: Great place to workout

Positive experience: A plethora of possible activities.

Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment. Not very busy. Nice people at the front desk. Never have to wait for machines. The equipment isn't brand new but it works and there's lots of it. It's a fairly massive space. I have good workouts here.

Positive experience: Gets busy. Equipment is really old but still works

Negative experience: Don’t understand how this place rates so well. It’s overpriced for what it is, crowded and not properly maintained. The equipment looks like it hasn’t been updated since they opened more than 15 years ago. Several pieces of equipment are broken, torn or missing pieces. You’d get better value, literally, at any of several other options in Richmond.

Fantastic experience: Great price. Plenty space. Knowledge people. Plenty variety of machines

Fantastic experience: Best gym around m!

Fantastic experience: Excellent space!

Fantastic experience: Love this place my wife and I go here staff and facilities are amazing

Positive experience: Good facilty for your fitness

Fantastic experience: Great gym! Love the 24 hour function. Lots of machines and open spaces. Very great parking. A couple of suggestions: Firstly, the cardio machines, ellipticals tend to get used up fast. I would recommend getting another 2 of them. The treadmills aren't used as much. Perhaps going lighter on them would help as well. There could also be perhaps a greater selection of machines, particular for shoulders/back. Free weights are thorough. There is enough squat racks as well. Edit- the gym is back open. Precautions taken, feels good to be back!

Positive experience: I only use this place for baseball practice but it's a good facility for ball. The scheduling is a little sketchy and there seems to be conflicts on a regular basis but the place is reasonably spacious with lots of room overhead

Fantastic experience: I love this place so much! The squash is like the best ever! If anyone ask me to recommend a squash club, this would be the first choice.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the land

Fantastic experience: Usually I can't stand gyms, and I absolutely love this gym! Staff are so friendly and helpful. It's part training facility which is more my vibe having grown up training for hockey. I love having the ability to do everything in one spot.I just wish there was a daycare, even just in the mornings for a few hours (Hint hint!) :)

Fantastic experience: Great place

Positive experience: Great experience at this gym. It is huge and has tons of old school equipment. Lots of squat racks and free weights. The heavy bags were high quality. Great gym to go and get a great work out. You won't get bored becuase there is so much to do. Very clean bathroom, showers and changing room. Was hard to find rags and disinfectant for the benches but no big deal. I will be back for sure.

Fantastic experience: Get Fit!

Positive experience: Open 24h everyday of the year. Lots of space and all the toys

Positive experience: Great facilities, but facility is tired and needs updating.

Positive experience: If you're looking for a good place to work out, with friendly staff, and no need to dress up to go to the gym.. This is your place. No nonsense gym where you can get your s&@t done and go.

Positive experience: It's lasted so long and thats impressive. You will fall for their chill staff and get rocking with those late night parties. It's a great place to work out against the dystopic backdrop!

Fantastic experience: This has got to be one of the most underrated gyms in Vancouver. The facilities are huge with 2 separate free weight sections with dumbbells that go way past 100lbs. At least 4 or 5 squat racks and tons of machines. There's also an area to push a weighted sled, swing battle ropes, or do short sprints. As a tourist who doesn't want a monthly or yearly membership this place works perfectly for me. Not only is it extremely affordable but they offer hassle free drop in rates (8CAD)or even better 10 day passes for 18CAD. The changing room/toilet/shower/sauna facilities are clean too. It's worth the drive out if you're in downtown as I've seen no other gym compare even in the slightest.

Fantastic experience: Great facility. Been going here for years. Large abundant space with enough equipment so there is rarely any waiting for equipment even on peak hours. They also have straight bars for calisthenics workouts like pull ups and muscle ups which I find lacking in most commercial gyms. Cant forget to mention that it is 24/7, super convenient with good price. I recommend all my friends to come here.

Fantastic experience: Old school, "raw lifting" type of atmosphere. Not a place to show off your new Gym Shark gear, this is a place to achieve your real goals with no BS or harassment from anyone. Been going here for years and thought it was fair to leave a review. New manager Darren is a great guy, he treats everyone with utmost respect and makes anyone who enters feel welcome. It's also the most affordable gym for what you get out of being a member.

Fantastic experience: Old school type gym.. Can get mad gains in there.!!

Fantastic experience: Good free weights area, basketball/squash and baseball on site as well.

Fantastic experience: This is a great little gym with a healthy mix of equipment and machines. It does get busy at times, but for the most part there is enough space for everyone. It’s got a no-BS vibe to it; what you see is what you get, and you make do with that. In the end, isn’t that what a gym should be for? The staff are quite good as well. I had some issues with my membership, which had me worried since I set my expectations based on the older reviews of this place, but Darren took the time to address all my issues in an efficient manner and completely solved my issues. As far as I can tell, Darren is the new manager of the gym and he’s going the extra mile to turn the gym into a great place. If you're thinking of signing up for a gym with a lot of equipment, reliable staff, and generous hours (24 hours!), then this place is a great choice.

Positive experience: I like this place due to it being dead majority of the time. Has a lot of parking outside the gym. Beautiful renovated bathrooms with many lockers (bring your own lock), bathroom, and showers. They have squash area, mma area, smoothie bar and gym area. A lot of equipments in co ed area. Womens area is a lot smaller now then back in mid 2000. Womens area now allows people who are 55+. Awkward at times when older men in that area come in and workout near you (womens area is very small). Kind of defeats the purpose of having a womens only area. Forces me to workout in co ed area which defeats purpose of me coming here to use womens area. Hope they fix that.

Negative experience: I had a terrible time trying to cancel my subscription despite following all the procedures laid out by the contract. Manager threatened to send my unpaid bills (which should have been legitimately cancelled several months before) to collections. In the end I brought a copy of the contract and it was quietly dropped. No apology for the rudeness though..

Fantastic experience: 24 hr work out place great staff, good time to go is the evening less people , no wait times for equipment

Positive experience: not ideal for female weightlifters :platforms are super basic. There are no women's barbells (15kg) which is pretty bad. but lots of bumper plates and a couple squat racks. The matting for the platforms isnt great, so if you're doing pulls, the barbell vibrates off the concrete and into your hands which doesn't feel great. Also the platforms are much wider than usual, so you end up dropping your bar onto the center wood a lot.

Fantastic experience: Great 24/7 gym to work out in with a variety of machines and dedicated spots/rooms for professional weight-lifting and senior/women.

Fantastic experience: Good place for enjoy

Fantastic experience: Clean workout place

Positive experience: Good. Liked it

Fantastic experience: Very nice.

Fantastic experience: you should get a 10 day pass and try it out, you can put that fee towards your membership. The membership is 288.75 including taxes and enlistment fee (waived if you're a returning member) and nobody tries to harass or sell you things. It's a great community and lots of sports programs and personal trainers are available if you need them. I think after all the hidden fees of the other gyms it's the cheapest in (almost) vancouver. honestly you get more than what you pay for. Theres lots of barbells, squat racks and dumbells as well as quite a few cardio machines so it's rarely ever crowded. Lots of free parking and a reallly relaxed atmosphere. The new manager is great and there's a dedicated women's/ seniors area. There's not a lot of supervision so you're kind of expected to know the basics of what you're doing with all the machines and stuff so just google your exercises with the gym wifi. Nearly all the members are super friendly too. Highly recommend this gym compared to more needlessly expensive and inaccessible options :)

Positive experience: Good gym, but expensive.

Positive experience: Treadmills could have been better but I still like the place

Positive experience: Cheap membership means not so clean gym with bunch of wannabe there.

Positive experience: Cheap, 24 hours, dirty but gets the job done. If you want fancy amenities this isn't the place for you.

Positive experience: Loved the pub there. They have Karaoke

Positive experience: It's 24hrs, usually not too crowded, older machines could use some updating but it's very affordable and pretty clean. There's also a pub.

Positive experience: Cheap at 20 a month. Amazing garage feel to the place, people are allowed to scream and drop weights

Negative experience: extremely rude staff. No energy. really surprised in the lack of knowledge and the poor environment in this gym. really lacks the looks on how a gym should really present itself. My boyfriend said he almost got into a fight with few guys at desk. my boyfriend would easily toss them weak boys aside, but he's better than that. He only goes because of his friend Defran.

Negative experience: this gym lacks great amount of amenities. Treadmills dont seem to work on some days. the equipment is never racked, but whats even worse is they are all scattered around the gym. I'm spending more time looking for equipment than working out. I'm sad to say i will not be at this gym no more. poor management and lack of communication skills.

Positive experience: Great gym for powerlifting, weightlifting, and bodybuilding. Open 24 hrs too!

Negative experience: Everyone who works here are really uneducated. They really don't know much about the fitness industry therefore does not make me feel welcomed. I'm not totally sure about this new management after seeing few people leave this location, but really do lack a lot of things. I see workers usually just dead with no smile or any sort of welcoming emotions. -Thanks!

Fantastic experience: I moved and was very sad to have to leave this gym and have yet to find anything that compares. Yes it has older equipment and is not fancy at all but if you are there to work out it has everything you need and plenty of it. The 6 squat racks were my favorite. I never had to wait for equipment since they have so much of everything. I would go between 11pm-3pm and it was never too busy. The staff is friendly and so is everyone that works out there. For 20$/month you can't get better for your money!

Fantastic experience: Great gym equipment and they have many other activities like batting cages, squash, ufc cage, etc