WREC – Wildcat Recreation Center

I love the wrec. It was built only a few years ago and is very modern and clean. Lots of space and machines. It’s exclusively for students, professors and alumni. It’s close to campus and their hours are pretty good when it comes to accommodating off peak hours.

I love this gym. So many machines, so many things to do! You can’t get bored with a gym like this.

Fantastic, great variety of equipment, staff is friendly and the group classes are fantastic. I regularly attend Pilates and Kickboxing and love using the great variety of free-​weights. Only downside is the lifting area of the gym is always full of super built men, which can make it intimidating if you’re not a super built man.
Still, I’m tempted to go to Grad school just so I can continue to have such a nice gym accessible to me.

Update to my previous review — my access will be revoked because I recently graduated with my MA, but I have been a member since the day it opened.
The gym itself is still great — excellent equipment, etc… but the staff quality has gone down hill. The majority of the front desk staff just get paid to stand around and gossip. Some of the «floor» staff spend their time in corners on their cell phones texting away, or chatting it up with patrons. Only in a collegiate working environment do you get away with something like that. I also question many of their highly paid career staffers — there seems to be at least four of them, if not more, and I just wish the Associated Students was more upfront about how much these people are paid and what their purpose is.
The gym is ALWAYS cold — I would guess the AC is at a constant 70 or so degrees, which isn’t bad but its freezing — the locker rooms are even colder.
From day one, the water temps were always freezing in the showers — it wasn’t until six months ago that this was fixed.
The overall cleanliness has gone down hill, too. There will be days when you find smears of people’s sweats and hand prints on mirrors and they will stay on there for about three or four days before being cleaned out.
The hand sanitize dispensers are often empty and when you tell the staff at the front desk about it, they just go, «Yeah thanks for telling me,» but then turn back to gossip with their friends.
If you’re a student, its a no-​brainer — use the WREC. I just hope in 5 years time the quality doesn’t deteriorate further.

This is the nicest gym I have ever been to.
Tons of cardio and strength training equipment that range from machines, free weights, Olympic platforms and kettle bells.
The group exercise classes include Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, dance and TRX.

I work and workout at Google in Mountain View, and this Chico State WREC Center is giving Google’s gym a run for its money. Just the sheer variety of equipment, the quality, the volume, everything is impressive.
My ONLY gripe would be that they could use more basketball courts. They tend to block off a full court for 3 badminton nets… what the heck wrec?

I’ve been coming here for the past semester and its literally amazing. Super clean, large, and well kept.
Tons of machines so you never have to wait, and the building itself is LEED certified gold. The elliptical machines help to generate electricity for the building! How sick is that?
Talk about sustainability…

If you are a Chico State student and want to use a gym, you are super lucky. I LOVE this place. They have tons of equipment, lots of classes, great customer service, and it’s clean, and it’s included in tuition so you never pay unless you want something extra – like a massage, which they also have.
I have been going to the WREC for about a year and have never had one problem. Never even had to wait for a machine because there are so many. It’s a wonderful place.

The Wildcat Recreation Center is here to meet your indoor fitness, recreation and fun goals. The WREC is free for students and has convenient hours and a great location.