Berkeley YMCA - Gym in Berkeley - 2001 Allston Way, USA

Love this YMCA!!! I have loved it since I came here for college over a decade ago and now I love it even more because of the recent renovations they’ve completed. Honestly the best gym!! Highly recommend to anyone looking for a great community, workout, and AWESOME FACILITIES!! Such a gem :)

The Berkeley YMCA offers delightfully economical gym membership and wonderful work out facilities for the whole community. It's spotless clean, the staff are friendly and always helpful and the hours are perfect. Exercise classes and workshops are offered both free and also at reasonable cost. I cant recommend this gym enough!!!

It is a great gym on its own, fantastic when you factor in the price point. If you're looking for a gym w/ bells and whistles and other services, this isn't it. What is does have is multiple weightrooms, two pools, locker room, Peloton studio, a large functional fitness room, basketball courts, and studios. If it gets crowded, I feel like there is always space to find a spot to get your workout in. If you're looking for a well-maintained, conveniently located place to grab a solid workout with a variety of equipment, it is a great option. Also, very friendly staff. 5/5 for me.

This is the best gym in town. Memberships starting at $60/month or so and you get access to a great gym, pool, indoor basketball courts, decent locker rooms with a sauna and a steam room, plus great programming for all ages. Since I moved to Berkeley I’m at the Y at least 4 times a week!

I love the group fitness classes here. They are some of the best group fitness classes that I've ever tried. There is a large selection of different types of classes. I also love the work out spaces and facilities here. I like that they provide various spaces that are set up in different ways so that you won't get bored with the workouts.

The Berkeley YMCA violated the Fraud Section of the U.S. Penal Code when it advertised a fully-staffed hostel while absconding its under-staffed dual hospice, homeless shelter, felon halfway house. Its re-branding of the 1851 non-profit into a subsidy-raiding business generated trauma, health hazard, emotional distress, sexual harassment, xenophobic hate crimes and other personal injuries to civilian tenants.

As someone with a family this place is just a shell of it's former self. - No childcare (what are they doing with that space?) - Toddler pool no longer in use - No kinder gym anymore - Too few family swim hours to the point where when there are family swims the pool is too crowded and they make everyone get out after an hour and line up in an attempt to make people leave - No towels anymore (!!!!) - There's been a sheet of black plastic dividing the men's changing room for ~ 3 years now and ugly PVC purposefully blocking the use of overnight lockers (WHY?!?) I do like pretty much all of the staff but something is obviously very wrong with the management. They don't answer emails and are never around so I guess I'll write a google review?

Would be a great gym if it weren’t overrun with high school kids. At peak times, the weight rooms are borderline un-useable. Also, the gym is freezing much of the year. They keep all the windows in the gym open all the time, even during the winter. Hard to get a good workout in when you’re constantly cold.