Reviews of Cambridge YMCA (Gym)

Kolo M.

love the cambridge ymca!!!! have been a member since 2004. friendly staff, great classes with enthusiastic instructors. check out spin, zumba, and bollyx!

Vaughn Allen Goodwin

I just got my swim in and I swim with my family here every week. I also use the rowing machine and treadmill. I sit in the sauna and there is much more to see and do. This is the YMCA for me and my family. Oh, I forgot to mention, we also play racquetball and basketball. Come join us. We would love to see you and your family.

Zaida Otero

Love it

Joshua Lipinski

Decent gym for basketball games.

cythina chapman

Good location and facilities between MIT and Harvard University.

vamsee prateek

Lots of variety - u can do boxing, swimming, cardio to aerobics, stretching and athletics

Erica Rizzotto

This is the closest gym to me. For an additional $10/month you have assess to unlimited yoga classes and they are all good. It's not fancy at all and it is a maze of old buildings but offers just about all the basic equipment and classes you would need, plus a small pool.

MARTIN CHAN

It to small the pool is no good

Cheryl Hicks

Clean facility but my son recently got sexually assaulted in the sauna by an older man. Stay out of darker places and you'll probably be okay.

Nico Adams

One of the woman at the front desk had an aggressive attitude towards me when I asked to terminate my membership. Keep it cool girls!

Seth Howell

This is a great space to get plugged in with your community. The staff that I met were friendly, except for the lifeguards. The pool is small, but sufficient for getting a good workout.

Kashif-ul Huda

excellent gym, lots of classes. reasonable prices.

Mary Setterholm

Tremendous fitness legacy oozing from the walls - established in 1844. I show up to honor and get in line with solid history. Just seeing the old boxing venue is a clue to what fitness was all about back in the day...

Ozan A

Great classes and teachers! But filthy and disgusting place.. Not sure what's better for your body: exercise or catching some diseases

Christopher Seryak

Gym is nicer than I was expecting. Gets crowded at normal gym times, so nothing shocking there. Recently got new weight lifting equipment including several Rogue racks and barbells, better than many commercial gyms in the area.

Pasqualino Ferralis

a very useful place for people

Lanre Fasuba

Good location and facilities between MIT and Harvard University.

Francis Nimick

Great selection of gym equipment and helpful staff

Ilia Baum

Could use some renovations and upgrading for the membership amount people pay.

Matthew C Bowen

Awful experience. I call and ask them if there are any options for people just to play basketball, like a day or week pass. They only had a week pass, so I drove there. (I am 16 years old) The man knew I was 16 years old and he told my brother and I that options. We arrived there and the person at the front desk says that there are no options for high school students.

Hsiu Chang

The Y is HUGE! It has most of the equipment you need. It has a full pool and boxing gym. the only complain I have is that it is closed Sunday. Just when I have the all day free, I cannot work out!

Shalin

Only go for the weight room which has everything I need. Two sets of dumbbells and lots of barbells.

Jinn Bottle

The Cambridge Y describes 4 key elements in its Mission Statement: caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. My experience with this Y was that it is completely lying for them to claim to prioritize ANY of these qualities: What happened was, I went there, not knowing that (at the time, at least) their Classes cost $. Being flat broke at the time, I got that I couldn't participate in a class. I got that: but having gone there in sweats, I asked (as a formality; I "knew" as a Member, that it "would be ok") if I could use the lockerroom to change. The guy (young, white, wears glasses) at the desk tells me No. I can't believe what I'm hearing. But like a fool I let it go - until I saw him outside sweeping up or something (worthy of his mentality). I started to point out that, as a member, my Y is every NE Y, or is supposed to be. The guy goes on to continue to refuse. So I left with a "Yeah well I think you're shakin me down." Got home and, still outraged, typed a letter to the Cambridge Y's Director. She responds by protecting the guy's ID, and going on to say that he did what he did because I'd "been so obnoxious" -- about asking to use the facilities in a manner that any normal courteous person would do, I guess??? Nice, professional response for someone who didn't see any of this, right? I did let it go after that, and wish I hadn't. I can't immediately put my hands on the email the CYMCA Director sent; but I'm going to give it my best to. I'm reopening the matter, if for nothing else because I believe I saw him (still!) working the desk - at one of my regular Ys lately; and I owe it to every other member to get this antisocial abuser of power fired. And the Director of that time as well, if she's still working for YMCA.

Michael DiBenigno

It is deceptively comprehensive in workout offerings, rustic, and I love it!

Jason Bourne

What on earth are these people complaining about? This gym is the best and really cool too.

Linda C

It is such an old fashioned building with very confusing design. I spent an entire hour locating the locker room and the cardio room and only half hour doing exercise and then I cannot find my exit again. The front desk person give me the instruction for direction, but her instruction was wrong and misleading. So, you can try it at your own cost but I don't recommend it.

Jo Spencer

The YMCA has a after school and if it's summer time there's a summer camp.

hazzo Jones

I have no problem finding my way through their,not that bad, good gym very well clean.. My only problem, is that they stopped sparring for the boxers/use to be well known for boxing gym/ymca, other then that love the weight room. They fixed alot of stuff..

Kevin Quigley

Fantastic experience. I don't know how all these people keep getting lost - there are ample signs everywhere. They've updated some equipment and I believe they are updating more. A great throwback type gym that has all you need and none of the fluffy stuff you don't.

Christian Buscemi

Banned for shadowboxing according to staff. I think it was because I wasn't happy during paper showing when they asked for ID after 7 years of boxing there, been a y member my whole life. Banned for being loud when asked about membership. Talked to CEO and asked not to come back, she stands by "Brina's decision"

Larry Rosenberg

Hard to see any problems here. There are machines of all types, a pool, free weights, etc. There are also racquetball courts. There's always space to do whatever I want. And nobody harasses anyone else. It's cheap, and the locker rooms and workout areas are clean. Some people complain that it's hard to find your way around. That should take you a few minutes to figure out.

Ben D. Sawyer

Swimmers: avoid this overbooked, inconvenient pool For a swimmer, this is not a good choice. Lap swim times are severely limited, and in the morning window of 6:30 and 8:45am it is difficult to find a lane without at least two other swimmers. Further, individual lessons frequently block off lanes. The 20 yard pool is older, and divided into narrow lanes. Outside lanes (against the pool edge) are especially narrow. Several times I struck my hand against pool equipment jutting out from the side, and once I struck a woman who was re-grouting the pool as I swam (no joke). There is no suit centrifuge. The long, narrow locker room with showers at one end minimizes the advantage of renting a locker. I now commute an extra mile to swim elsewhere, and it is in fact more convenient. Note that I only swim, and this may be fine location for other activities. The boxing room especially looks cool.

Zorba the Greek

Arguably the best gym in the whole Boston area---both in terms of value AND equipment/classes. For about sixty bucks you get unlimited classes (boxing, yoga, zumba, spinning, general fitness, etc.), an Olympic lifting room plus functional fitness room (unheard of at Planet Fitness type fluff places), well-equipped weight room and cardio room, a half-Olympic pool, a full sized basketball court, sauna, and (extra of course) personal training. Best of all, since they are a NON-PROFIT not a greedy shameless money grubbing corporate chain that's constantly trying to raise your rates, upsell your membership plan, or push overpriced personal trainers on you. And if you ever decide to cancel your membership (there is no sneaky contract full of fine print legalese) they will do so exactly when requested, instead of using an "independent billing company" to continue auto-charging your credit card as long as they can like all those chain gyms! My only regret is that the nice friendly staff are not allowed to go up and correct your crappy/dangerous form unsolicited, but you are of course free to ask and they are always happy to help. :)

David Michael Favreau

Great place to get a day pass and play some basketball.