McAllister Tower Gym

The weight room was recently remodeled. This is great because when I first started living at the Tower/​using the gym, it l looked like the gym in Rocky I. There a are two bench presses, one incline press, a squat rack, And a film set of dumbbells. The cardio equipment is not that great. The treadmills are a little older shake a lot when running fast. There is no stair master (I wish they had one) but there are spin bikes and ellipticals. There are pros and cons, but Hey, it does the job.

Pretty decent gym, the cardio equipment has been maintenanced more regularly recently and there is a decent selection of weight machines and free weights. There are towels available and usually there are free treadmills and ellipticals available, as long as you avoid dead hour.
The only real problem is the losers that don’t rerack their weights and leave sweaty towels on the floor. C’mon people, this isn’t your mom’s house, pick up after yourself!
OH and the locker room policy of no overnight usage is really, really stupid. I gave it an extra star since Sahar’s review was so negative, looks like it was written around finals time. Gotta luv Hastings!

The tower gym is a former ballroom, complete with chandeliers. It has a decent weight room, some old Nautilus machines and a few cardio machines. This place definitely in need of new equipment, but the retro feel is pretty nice. The gym is open from 6AM-​2AM and has free towels for people to enjoy or they can just sweat all over the place.
There is also a full size basketball court, complete with bleachers and locker rooms. Its where intramural basketball is played, the locale of indoor soccer games and ballroom dancing. It’s awfully convenient for Tower residents to just take the elevator down and exercise.
Sahar S. actually loves this place because its also a great place to meet «cute boys.» Seriously though, in terms of law school socializing, what better place than the gym than to discover that the girl who sits in front of you and who you never talk to actually has nice «bounce.» You can go talk to her and you’d have something to talk about. /​wink
This place gets pretty busy around the evenings, which is good for socializing/​meeting people. If you want the feel of owning your own gym and don’t want to be disturbed, go here in the early morning.