Balraj Saran

Review of Richmond Olympic Oval

Been a member for years, specifically for the fitn...

Been a member for years, specifically for the fitness facility. Sadly they do not cater to athletes, ironic how the facility was made for the greatest games in the world...the olympics yet outside of hosting big events when it comes to supporting local athletes through the fitness facility very very very poor choices are made on equipment.

Recently the kettle-bells were picked to be replaced (horrible decision) as the weight numbers could not be seen on them (keep in mind they rarely and I mean rarely get any use)...so they ordered bright new colourful ones...I am not lying when I say literally 5 days later the paint was completely chipped off multiple faces of each kettle bell making them look at least 2-3 years old and leaving the same problem. Simple solution to the perfectly fine ones before would be to print out a 1inch x 4inch label with the weight number on it and tape it to the kettle-bells.....instead they approximately wasted $700+......absolutely horrible decision.

Need to completely reevaluate which equipment gets used and which doesn't. For example there is only 2 bench presses which are probably in use of a total of 6 hours + a day and yet they have no plans of adding another while they have useless machines that just sit around. I understand small portion of new people who don't know what they are doing tend to move around from these machines, but when they are so ineffective and do not improve movement patterns why are we wasting so much money and space on them, instead of getting more useful proven equipment allowing serious lifters to prosper and new gym goers to learn the basics of movement through weight training/aerobic training instead of sitting around on useless expensive machines that fill the entire length of the gym.