Student Fitness Center at Illinois State University

Clean, machines are well maintained. Definitely less busy in the Summer.

Great machines and equipment. The new set up for the school year flows way better than last years! The only complaint I have is there is no music. There are plenty of speakers throughout the gym, but there’s never any music. This leads to a lot of awkward noises heard by everyone in the gym & when weights drop by it echoes. Please, play some music 🙏

Amazing work out place! Couldn't ask for more. I enjoyed this place so much. Clean and quite. Nice folks

Gym is always crowded, very humid around spring time due to no a/c or fan. But pretty nice basketball gym.

Best campus gym I've been too! Positive & friendly staff!

My roomate came home and was visibly upset because the front desk employees called her DUMB for not knowing she couldn’t use the rec center because she wasn’t a student until August 22nd even though she was allowed to use it last week. They called her dumb to her face and accused her of lying about coming In before. Disgusting behavior, we contacted them via email and if nothing is done about this I will leave up this review.

This review is solely about the weight training section of the gym. I do not have enough experience in any of their other areas to write a decent review. I'll start with the positives.Lifting saved my life. I have never improved so much in so many areas and learned an incredible amount of powerful lessons and virtues.This gym would honestly pass as a 4-5 star one if it was a $15/month public gym. This gym is perfectly acceptable for an average beginner/novice lifter. If that's where you're at, you'll love it here. Honestly. It's like a really really good planet fitness with free bars for benching and squatting.It is a very large and pretty gym with good equipment (Ohio power bars and machines that count your reps for you). It is well-staffed, too...And for the cons. If you take lifting more seriously / have more experience in it, this is the juicy stuff below.Like I said, lifting is a hobby that saved me. This fitness center is a disgrace to my savior.The hours are extremely limited (6a-6p weekdays), and especially on weekends (12p-3p).This is a ~$21,000/semester private gym. I feel like the money my family and I work hard for is disregarded.For a campus that constantly posts messages like "You belong here!", I have never felt so out of place in recent years.The employees stand around and keep watch over the floor to catch rule-breaking. This would be respected if the rules were reasonable. You cannot have a gym bag out of a locker, you cannot deadlift (if you like lowering the bar to the floor, at least), you cannot do Olympic lifting, and you must use clips on the bar. That's at least what I found within a measly 3 visits.I must yield, these rules are made in the pursuit of safety, but there's a way around all of them that truly makes $21,000 a semester a huge insult. For that cost, they should at least have deadlift platforms so the floor doesn't suffer potential damage...If you've ever lifted at a hotel gym or Planet Fitness, that is what ISU's weight area is most comparable to. I've had much better sessions at the public gym Crunch Fitness.I really had high hopes for this gym. As lifting is my greatest hobby, and to have it disrespected like this, I'm wishing I chose a better university. I'm nothing but disappointed and disrespected at Illinois State. I will not recommend this university to any lifter who takes their live-saving hobby seriously.

So the gym itself seems fairly well kept. The machines are clean and the equipment is put back most of the time. The only odd thing is the staff is everywhere staring at you. Then today I found out you can't have anything but water. My water bottle is almost completely black and you can't really see in it but I was told to toss what's inside or chug it. I've only been going a week so ill probably update my review when I get a better idea of the atmosphere.

Decent sized facility with a variety of well maintained equipment. Only 4 stars though because, in spite of it's size, it's constantly busy. Unless you're doing niche excersizes or cardio, you're going to have to wait at some point. I recently started with the "excersize is medicine" program and that is fantastic. Great people.

Too small, and interesting focuses on rec. It's still very clean, modern, and well kept. There is also a coed locker room if you like to party. I really wish they would let people dunk on the bball court. It's a gosh darn D1 school, and they charge for everything.