Campus Recreation

Perfect Place Scuba Diving Training in Calgary.
I did my certification many moons ago at the U of C recreation centre and it was excellent. I’ve looked at reviews for other diving shops in Calgary and can’t figure out why U of C doesn’t show up as a contender. Hello you get to dive in a HUGE pool with solid classroom and pool teaching. It was a great way to begin my diving journey.

I’m super biased I must admit… I go to MRU, and the gym there is SO much nicer. Given the size of the school, I figured when I walked into the gym at U of C it would be like their library… floors upon floors upon floors. But I was shocked to see that it was smaller than the one at Mount Royal (or it seems smaller). Anyways, it’s always clean when I go, and the machines aren’t really all that old. They still work so for me that’s all that matters. The one thing that I really like about the gym at the U of C is how they have fans pointed at the people who are using the treadmills and such. I don’t think I’ve been to a gym where I could actually feel the fan on me while I was running. It was nice!
I like this gym, however the parking sucks. It’s too expensive to park at U of C, then go and pay to use the gym… so I won’t be visiting too much. And I can’t imagine just how busy this gym gets once school starts up. But for the summers, if you don’t mind parking/​walking/​taking the bus then it’s a nice place!

Woah, calm down, Sapna. It doesn’t snow that much in Calgary, but it happens. And spring in Calgary begins in March, not January. And the snowing-​outside-​gotta-​be-​inside dichotomy doesn’t somehow make campus recreation beyond reproach. And it’s kinda weird that you studied at UC but only discovered the massive recreational complex in the center of the campus only towards the end of your term there. But whatever. You’re from toronto and disconnected from reality.
This place is the epitome of a Canadian public institution. While the fitness center and track are in great shape, the price is deece for alumni, and the steam room is useful, everything else about this place sucks.
The equipment room people are fucking useless. Completely. Fucking. Useless. The real disappointing part is that the most useless people here are the employees that actually study at this institution. Our future leaders, businesspeople, decision makers today are fucking useless, lazy towel attendants, too fucking lazy to help find out why my membership, paid for a year starting in september, is expiring at the end of december.
One time, with three attendants at two terminals all watching a movie on a laptop, they insisted that there was nothing they could do to help with my mysterious membership problem; I had to email the program director. I asked them if they could send an email for me while I worked out. They all got very nervous and anxious, wringing their hands, shifting their eyes, trying to concoct some reason why they are unable to open a new tab on their computer and help a customer out. Aspiring federal public service workers.
Theft from lockers here is a huge problem and this place has done nothing about it except put up some color 5×11 pages throughout the locker room saying that it’s our responsibility to report suspicious people. I was a victim of a botched locker theft. The equipment room guy seemed annoyed that I would bother him with this. There was no apology, no sense of embarrassment that our school is this shitty, just an explanation that these people work in gangs and the back door of the locker room is how they get away.
Oh, but he did help me out by giving me 12 small grocery bags to put my stuff in, but no alternate locker for the time being. Now, if I ran an enterprise and this happened, I would at least hold the poor schmuck’s stuff. But they can’t do that here. No room. I had to carry all the grocery bags to my car. I made a scene, and normally that gets results, but I must commend these assholes, my demands to be treated better resulted in them actually treating me worse.
Another time, I had a full sized metal locker. I went out of the country for a few weeks. When I returned, my locker was replaced with some rubbermaid full size locker with half the width. Ohhhhkayyy… now, it would be a nice touch if they could put my stuff back into the locker. But, they didn’t. They just shoved everything into a garbage bag (that they were able to hold in the back room!) and then clunked it on the table for me to put back in.
Three months later, my locker was up for renewal. I was told that I am to be evicted from that locker and put in a half sized locker. I told them that was unacceptable, I want to keep my full sized locker. They really didn’t take kindly to a customer telling them what they wanted, so they went from neutral to passive aggressive, even saying that campus recreation is converting all lockers to half sized. I cancelled my membership and my locker.
Because the price is right, I came back. I don’t know why. I hate myself, I guess. But I was able to get a full size locker. And the locker that I was evicted from is still there, used by someone else now. I knew they wouldn’t be able to convert all the lockers to half size, this is UC, something like that would take 5 – 10 years to plan out and another 5 years to execute.
The biggest irritant is how people that want to pay for memberships (2 – 5 min process) and those who want a wristband or towel have to wait in the same line. If they were smart, there would be an express line for towels and wristbands, and a non express line. But they don’t do that. They probably have to form a committee to approve something like that. So when I want to return my towel, I sometimes have to wait 2 – 4 minutes behind someone trying to pay for a locker for two months using nickels and coins. The equipment room people also get very worked up if you don’t stand in the correct lineup, or if you queue on the other side of the rope.
This place is run exactly how the federal government runs our health care system. The staff are pricks that hate their fucking jobs and the dozens of managers don’t have to give a fuck about anything because 90% of their revenues come from mandatory fees. If you’re one of those canadian nationalist fucks that puts the maple leaf on your backpack during a trite 3 month holiday to «find yourself» in europe, you will love working out her

Am I the only person depressed with our weather as of late? Snowing again… fer real??? Just when I was ready for spring to kick into full gear we get another flurry warning. Figures.
If you’re anything like me, cold weather makes you want to hibernate. Eat lots and sleep lots, oh and gain lots.
Hibernation was my only time pass in winter UNTIL I discovered campus recreation at the University Of Calgary. These people deserve a SERIOUS shout-​out! They offer AMAZING classes (everything from kickboxing, deep water fitness and pilates, all the way to cardio salsa, gymnastics and volleyball). Depending on which class you’re interested in, prices vary from $ 60-​$ 110 and they can run anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months!
I recently signed up for a funk class with a girlfriend and I look forward to this workout more than I’ve ever looked forward to any other workout in ‘Sapna G.‘s history of workouts’.
The teachers are great, the classes are high-​energy and the best part is that you’re keeping fit and having fun all while respecting your budget!
Look out summer, by the time you roll around this year, I’m gonna look hotter than ever ;)