I’m a freshman at NU and used the gym for the first time this morning and had a pretty awful experience. The lady monitoring everyone on the second floor wouldn’t let me take my mask off for even a second after high intensity training, and was constantly walking by making sure I was doing as I was told. Not wanting to get in trouble on the second day here, I complied as best I could and ended up vomiting all over her floor after not having an opportunity for fresh air which you can only have if you exit the building completely. I definitely do not recommend training here regularly if you’re a student and actually want to workout safely.

It’s typically pretty crowded, but Marino is a solid gym with great hours

This recreation center has a lot os positives and negatives. Although the atrium is beautiful and looks stylish, it makes the gym feel small and disconnected. The fact that they have 5 squat racks and 4 bench presses for 20,000 students blows my mind. The free weight section is always packed to The brim during the school year so it’s not even worth going most of the time. Although I have my issues, I do like that they have 3 basketball courts, heavy bags, a spacious locker, and a SAUNA. Cool place but i probably wouldn’t be going here if it wasn’t included with my school.

It's a nice facility with nice equipment. But, this gym isn't nearly large enough for the university. There's way too many students here. I've actually stood in a physical line for 45 minutes just to use a squat rack. It's ridiculous. NEU, this is not enough. Harvard has like 7 gyms and not nearly as many students.

During peak hours, the gym is unable to accommodate all students. It appears that the gym should be expanded in order to meet the demand.

A very well equipped gym! The only problem is the long queues at the peak hours!

Way too small for quantity of students. Not nearly enough machines. Also just does not make sense that you can’t bring bags into the actual gym. I loved going to the gym and I started hating it after going to northeastern.

Every equipment that you can imagine of is there here. Just gets a little too much crowded in the evenings

Very clearly a vanity project first, a gym second. It looks great, but the actual space to do anything is extremely low. During any intramural season they will routinely have only 1 basketball court for all 20,000 students which is pathetic.

Can't wear crocs or need clips when benching? Maybe you should hire people who actually have used a gym before because the workers here are so dumb it makes me want to transfer schools. They have no idea how gym safety works.

It is a nice facility but it is way too small and always crowded unless you go at 5:30 am or 11 pm at night. For 20,000 students, the equipment is lacking.

The place is clean, spacious, with numerous equipment. Apart from the regular gym weights and machines, it has 2 studios, a big race track, and 3-4 basketball courts. Worth taking a membership

Gets crowded during peak hours, better to check the live stat before heading to this place.

It is the best gym of all I have ever been to!

This gym is absolutely terrible. If you enjoy your workouts taking 2+ hours, with at LEAST 50% of your time spent standing around waiting for a machine to open up, this is the right spot. There are 17000 students at NEU, and one actual gym, with three floors of cardio equipment, and an extremely overcrowded weight section that is about 1/6 the size of the cardio section. It’s gotten to the point where it’s nearly unusable. Not only is the lack of equipment the problem, but they don’t have any variety compared to other gyms. Also they charge all students an additional rec fee on top of the 70k tuition.

Crowded and under equipped. 5 squat racks and 4 benches for a school with 20,000 people which results in half-hour lines to Bench/Squat. 1 set of dumbbells over 27.5 pounds. Ridiculous rules which include no deadlifting anywhere EXCEPT the squat rack and that you are unable to video yourself. Locker room is clean and the staff are friendly at least.

I am an alumni over 50 and love this facility to workout in. The staff is great and you are around people full of life. Remember Would you rather be the oldest person in a gym or the youngest person in a nursing home. :) keep working out!