UCF Recreation and Wellness Center

Friendly people running the place and a knowledgeable rotating staff of students. Always willing to help with form, or offer suggestions. The classes are great and fit into almost any schedule.

Honestly, this gym is the best gym in the whole Orlando area! I’m not just saying that because I’m a UCF student. If you come see it you will completely agree!
It have 2 floors, a running track in the second floor, a large weight area in the first flour, a large cardio machine are in the 2^nd floor. They also have a Subway and a smoothie place. There’s around 3 basketball courts that can be use for multiple sports, around 3 racket ball rooms, a lap pool with lifeguards, and a rock climbing wall!
Not only is the facility beautiful, clean, and we’ll organize but they have knowledgeable workers walking around ensuring you don’t get help or there to help you. They also have personal training, group training, and you get get a body assessment. There’s a spin room and a two group exercise room. I love coming here for group excercise classes such as Cardio Dance Hype, Kickboxing, Hardbodies, Trampoline fitness, and more. They offer so many classes all throughout the day. They are super fun and a awesome workout.
They have such a great variety of equipment that there’s somethibg for everyone. You don’t have to be a student or faculty or alumni to get a membership. I highly recommend this gym!

Senior here at knight nation. This gym has everything you want (basketball, rock climbing, racket ball, table tennis, tennis outside by the pool, heated lap pool) with a few things to always keep in mind. Anytime after 12pm is a bad idea. Become a 6am grinder and you’ll never have to wait for anything, not even traffic. For all you bros tryna rep those muscle tanks, leave them home cause they’ll kick you out if the shirt is too «revealing», been a victim of this crime a few times now. Also no cargo shirts.

Pleasingly large center at UCF campus as programs are accommodated here, including aquatics, fitness, intramural sports, sports clubs, and even outdoor adventure. Array of state-​of-​the-​art facilities are offered, including a custom climbing wall, disc golf course, intramural sports fields, leisure pool, outdoor lap pool, and sand volleyball courts. Paid memberships are available for non-​students. Swell place to get swole.

This gym has everything you could need plus awesome classes (Total Body is a great class)! My only complaint is I can rarely get to the machine I want to use without waiting 10 minutes for it. I recommend going at an off time like 10:30am or 2pm to avoid the crowd.

UCF rwc is a great gym, but not the best gym. Orlando doesn’t have many unique gyms.
Pros: huge gym. Free weights and machine. Lap pool and rec pool. Basketball courts, volleyball, pingpong, and a rock climbing wall. Full locker room with daily lockers. Many friendly people. Closes at midnight on the week days
Cons: it’s over packed unless you go before 11 am. There are only 4 squat racks, 3 dead lift mats, and 1 leg press. THIS IS NOT A GOOD FACILITY FOR LEG WORKOUTS. If you’re serious about leg workouts and you don’t want to wait around, do not go here for leg workouts.

Really good gym for a university. It has all kinds of equipment and different kinds of brands like cybex and lifefitness for those who have a preference. Amenities include pool, indoor track, showers and a rock climbing wall. They also offer all kinds of group exercise classes. My only issue is some equipment is awkwardly placed, staff is unfriendly, and the place can get seriously crowded. But overall, it’s a sweet gym.

I was here for an event for my sorority. Nevertheless I was able to see the center and the center is awesome. Equipment is plentiful with rooms of different types of workout. The students were working out and having a blast. Hey where were these gyms back in the olds days! Really nice place to work our.

The best gym I have ever set foot in, with every amenity you could want in a university gym. The only downside is that faculty and staff don’t have regular access! It’s shame, since the pool, courts, rock climbing wall, and equipment are all top notch. If you’re a UCF student, you owe it to yourself to take advantage.

PROS:
–Gym is huge, clean, and full of really nice equipment and facilities.
–The free weights area has 4 power racks (which is about 3 or 4 more than the average gym) and more benches, barbells and plates then you can shake a stick at.
–Price can’t be beat if you’re a UCF student
CONS:
–Gym does not allow overhead barbell presses (a mandatory part of any decent weightlifting program)
–Slow country music blaring from the speakers 90% of the time. Taylor Swift and sad country ballads aren’t really conducive to cranking out that last set of deadlifts.
–Hideously expensive if you’re not a UCF student, even if you go with the sponsored rate.
5-​star gym if you’re there for nice atmosphere, shiny equipment, and maybe some socialization. If you’re looking for a gym to do Starting Strength or if you’re a bodybuilder, however, check out Orlando Barbell.

Always a great place to be on campus. There are many things to do here and it’s pretty much brand new. If living on campus it’s a great place to live near and also a great place to work if you’re a student.

I’ve been going to the UCF gym for the past two years, and it’s an incredible place.
There’s two massive floors. The ground floor contains a large, open area for training machines (assistance work), with an even larger area towards the rear of the building for intramural sports such as basketball, badminton, tennis, and racquetball/​jai alai (the latter have dedicated rooms.) There’s also a nook for free weight training and powerlifting (more on that later.) The entire second floor is dedicated to cardio, housing an obscene amount of treadmills, stairclimbers, stationary cycles, recumbent cycles, and more strange cardio-​centric machines I’ll never touch in my life.
Aside from these attractions, the place is well-​kempt and well-​staffed. There are a number of rooms that host many specific classes, such as yoga and spinning. There are at least two bathrooms/​locker rooms/​shower rooms with plenty of lockers. There’s probably over a dozen HDTVs scattered about on the walls, although most of them can be found on the second (cardio) floor. There are plenty of water fountains in strategic places, and even a filtered water dispenser, whose filter is almost always kept fresh. There’s always music playing, and it’s always awful. No big deal; who doesn’t own an mp3 player these days?
(EDIT: Almost forgot to mention the rock climbing tower. This thing is respectably huge; at 55 feet I believe. There are over a dozen documented «problems» (aka routes) for top roping (aka climbing to the top of this behemoth,) as well as bouldering «problems», which are designed to be high impact, fast-​paced traverses around the perimeter of the structure. A nice perk; you can freely rent everything you need to climb, including a harness, shoes, chalk bag, carabiner, etc. or you can bring your own equipment. The rock climbing crowd is really nice, too. Sadly, they maintain their own hours separate of the gym, and are only open for a handful of hours a day (if at all.))
I kinda want to give this gym 3.5 stars, though, and here are my reasons for docking points:
First and most importantly, the place is almost always overcrowded. For those not in the know, UCF has been the nation’s 2^nd-​most populous university for years now, with over 60,000 students. I’ve had to resort to working out late at night (11:00 PM) until they close at midnight, which doesn’t always work out with my class schedule. Otherwise, I find myself in a sea of sweaty bodies; dodging more people than machines when I move throughout the building. On top of that, they’re only open until 9 PM on Friday and Saturday, but until midnight on Sunday! The hell is that about?!
In relation to the overcrowding situation, I work out almost entirely in the free weight room, which is coincidentally the smallest area in the entire gym (aside from the racquetball rooms, I guess.) There’s a respectable amount of equipment in there, but if you go at any time other than 6 AM or 11 PM, the five benches and four power racks will be in constant use. This spells trouble for any kind of trainer, whether you’re going for compound lifts or isolation — you’re going to run into downtime, no matter what. It’s not quite so bad over the summer, but during the proper school year; forget about it. Either go right after opening or right before closing, or you’re going to find yourself sitting around a lot in the free weight room.
In relation to their hours… well, they aren’t too bad, but they aren’t 24-​hour. This would be AMAZING, but I can understand that it isn’t an option. The gym is «open» to all students, which means there’s a constant influx of «gym virgins» who may or may not need supervision when using dangerous equipment. Since the employees and floor supervisors all seem to be students, it’d be a bit much to ask students to work there between midnight and 6 AM, while juggling a class load. Not trying to sound elitist or anything like that, it’s just everybody has a first time, and there’s a ton of dangerous stuff in there if you don’t have any experience using it.
(Why did I say the gym was «open» to all students, you ask? Because EVERY student is FORCED to pay an ~$ 80 «Athletic Fee» EACH AND EVERY semester! Even the thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of students who NEVER GO A SINGLE TIME! DOCK A STAR, SON! Shame on you, UCF.)
So, aside from the overcrowding, this place is pretty awesome. It’s clearly the most sophisticated gym I’ve ever set foot in, but I don’t need all those bells and whistles. I need a heavy barbell, and that’s damn near it. So, I’ve opted to forego this place for another place in «Orlando» that has a heavy «Barbell» or two… at least, until summer rolls around and the place calms down a bit.
…Orlando Barbell.

I think the 5 stars speak for themselves.
This place is huge and has everything under the sun. I rarely have any problems with waiting on equipment. Everyone is really good with wiping down the equipment after they use it. There are employees walking the floor to ensure no one hurts themselves.
There’s a climbing tower, lap pool, running track, group exercise classes, basketball courts, racquetball courts; hell, even badminton courts! There is something for everyone here.
If you’re a student, you have no excuse not to exercise. Alumni and staff have great rates. Even if you don’t go to UCF, I’m sure you can find someone on Craigslist to give you a courtesy membership. The rates are hard to beat for the variety you see at this gym.
Oh yeah, and this place is clean!

The UCF Recreation Wellness Center is a great gym to visit. It seems to offer a little of everything you could want in a gym. With its variety of sports, fitness classes and work out machines it’s hard to not find something to do there.
The atmosphere there is great. There are plenty of college students there so no matter what your into you’ll find someone to do it with.
The staff there is helpful. If you need help lifting, they’ll spot you. They are knowledgeable about sports so can just talk to them about whatever.
The Rec Center, in general, is a good place to visit. The Center is kept clean and there’s a Subway within it. You can’t beat that.

Pros: Equipment is great.
Cons: not enough TVs in the cardio area. D-​bags slamming weights… they really need to do something about that. Music can be so loud you can’t hear your own.

I am very lucky to attend UCF. Not only de we get a great education but I can take advantage of great things like this gym. First, the machines are pretty well kept. I have not seen one broke machine. You can find machines for any type of exercise you want to do: spinning, running, elliptical, etc. And the have massive quantities… so is not like you gonna have to wait for a machine.
Second, most machines have the Nike Fit app. You can plug into your iphone/​itouch and you can track your progress and hear your songs. Most machines have screens right in front, so instead of selecting your songs on your iphone, you can do it on the larger screen. Love this!
Third, their group exercise classes are awesome! I have been to the abs class, kickboxing cardio, and hip hop. They have kicked my *ss in a good way. The instructors are probably UCF students but they push the kicks, moves, and exercises to limits.
So overall, this is a great gym.

UCF Gym, you’re awesome. I just wish everyone else that went to that school didn’t think so.
There are lots of amenities, if you look for them. The upstairs water fountain by the track tastes the best. There are free fitness classes. The personal trainers are very reasonably priced, and they employ some great instructors… BUUUUT you need to know what you want out of the session, or you’re going to get some strange Crossfit-​hybrid of training from them. I learned and grew the most when I went in with the idea that «today, I want to work on my squat form».
Don’t go between 4:30 — 6:30 if you’re weight training, you’re gonna be fighting off bros with a stick. No kidding, the place is «bro’d out» between those hours. You can typically find the bros that call this gym home curling in the squat rack.
There are multiple basketball courts and an indoor volleyball court. Subway and smoothie bar inside. Free condoms at the Wellness center downstairs.
Edit: Gym membership is $ 50 for the whole summer, if you’re not taking classes. Also, locker rentals are $ 12/​semester. I would highly recommend grabbing one at the beginning of the semester if you’re planning on gym ratt’ing it up.

The gym is awesome! There are TVs on the new cardio equipment upstairs, and now there are so many different weight-​lifting machines that you don’t have to wait too long for one during the busy afternoon rush.
Most people aren’t aware, but gym membership is also available for non-​students for a fee. Or at lest it used to be. It’s well worth it for all that’s offered. :-)

Not a bad gym. Plenty of choices, but gets busy quickly. The pool is usually busy with team lessons and is outdoors. Overall it is a nice modern facility.

Recently expanded and remodeled! The nicest gym ever! They have everything! Racquetball courts, basketball courts, lap pool, 6 benches now!, countless machines, tv’s galore, rock climbing wall, indoor track, treadmills, you name it and they have it! Beautiful design as the gym is surrounded by sky high windows. I wish I was a student again. =(