Andrew Jackson

Review of UQ Sport

I've been training at this gym for almost 2 years ...

I've been training at this gym for almost 2 years now.

If you'd like to be a member of a gym that has cold water fountains available then you've come to the wrong place. They're all broken except for the 2 in the aerobics room.

Would you like to train in air conditioned comfort? Again, you've come to the wrong place. The bottom floor is air conditioned by the oldest, crappiest looking ACs I've seen. The 2nd floor has no air conditioning at all. The third floor has some AC on one side and they've decided to inexplicably leave every single window on the other side open. They might as well just be throwing money out the window. So much for an environmentally sound campus right?

Seriously this is a real problem. After having just gone through the hottest summer on record in Brisbane, I can't do another summer like this with no climate control. Add to that some seriously stinky members... there's literally 2 that if I see them anywhere, no matter what my program is, I won't train near them. The smell makes you want to vomit. Management should speak to them but if you thought this was a well managed gym well... have you been reading this review?

Look, I love the yoga sessions but I can find yoga anywhere. I would be happy to keep training here if they'd just fix the dam AC and water fountains but it has literally been two years and they're still broken. Add to that dirty and uncleaned equipment, things that stay broken for weeks on end and you really just have an embarassment to the university.

It should be closed down and renovated and everyone working there should be at the least re-trained. It's the worst. I'm not renewing when my membership runs out. Life's too short to train in a place like this.