Blaisdell YMCA

I appreciate the staff and feeling of security upon entering the building. They stop you no matter what and make you either scan your ID, or your membership card. I'm not an actual member, just bring my kids for swimming and the summer program. Swimming lessons always fills up fast so make sure to register ASAP, like 5-6am the day it opens!

Love to swim and train on the weights I like the bike too The crowd is diverse and mostly friendly

Fantastic body pump class tonight. Always nice to get a workout in on a business trip. Nice facility and wonderful instructors. Alexis the instructor was supportive and gave great directions on variations for everyone.Pool looks awesome.

I am not buff, or really athletic but I do love coming to this YMCA. I come for the great quality classes that they offer. I tried a water aerobics class with Jennifer & it was great! She lead the class with music & adaptive moves. The adult locker rooms are upstairs, so you have to take the back stairs down to the pool/sauna/whirlpool. Both lifeguards talked to me! No, I wasn't doing anything wrong, they were both really nice! Nice to meet you George & Heather!The pool has a nice walk-down ramp for people who have physical limitations.

This was my Y for about a year and I loved it! Like any gym, there's a huge after work rush of people so it can be difficult to find parking in the lot or on the street and exercise/weight machines can be hard to come by. But with the sauna, studio classes, and walking track, there's always a way to bide time.My favorite part of this Y was the pool, which I usually found to be very clean. I've had gym memberships to some of the cheaper fitness clubs in town and those pools... Let's leave it at "too much DNA". But doing morning laps was one of my favorite activities here! When the lanes are full, everyone's great about sharing and I always found the lifeguards in the morning to be really friendly.

This Y location is right by my house so it's super convenient. I really enjoy the Friday and Wednesday body pump instructors, and it's awesome to see so many instructors of color. I also love that you'll find all of the instructors taking other classes during the day. You do run into a few poor instructors like for the Wed night yoga class. It has no flow or sequence and the instructor tries to do poses for muscles that aren't warmed up. I do not recommend it. Other than yoga, my experiences have been pretty good.

This isn't the most delightful place to work out or do any exercises. The clientele here isn't the greatest because many of them are rude and selfish. Some have gone as far as harassing other people who are trying to work out. Staff doesn't seem to be able to do much about this, but it would be something that would make me prefer another YMCA.However, the machines work well, and there are lots of activites I can do. Besides some of the clientele, these things are easy to access. The staff is delightful and willing to guide me to the right places. There are a couple good personal trainers on hand that I've worked with in the past. They've given me some good exercise advice that has come useful to this day.I think I'm going to look for a different YMCA and only go here if I really need to.

The Blaisdell YMCA does not offer day-fitness-passes to non-members. It's probably a staffing or security issues, but unfortunate nonetheless. This may be the best YMCA in the known universe and the most extraordinarily wonderful place to train ever imagined. I'll never know.

I love that they have an actual running track. Staff is friendly, facility is fairly nice. My complaint is that the pool hours are (A) too short, particularly on weekends and (B) annoyingly unreliable. Week to week the hours are pretty much never the same, and I find it difficult to find the schedule on the website. Which is yet another problem. Seems like that should kind've be front and center.

This is a pretty nice YMCA location. It's not as fancy as the new downtown one, obviously, but it's got everything you'd expect - cardio machines, racks, weight machines, etc. My only real complaint is that there's not a ton of space for people using dumbbells or kettlebells. There is some space in between the cardio machines and the squat rack area, and more space around the dumbbell rack, but it's not super clearly delineated and it's kind of a roll of the dice how much space you'll actually have on any given day. So if the YMCA staff were to rearrange the floor, I'd ask for a bodyweight/free weight space that doesn't do double duty as a high traffic area. But aside from that, this location gets the job done.PS - it is easy to get lost in this building. But the staff are friendly and I enjoy seeing areas I haven't used before.