Campus Recreation and Wellness Center

Leader by York
      This Thursday, I went to Campus Recreation and Wellness Center that was located in S Madison St with my group members. It was the largest fitness center within the campus. 
      This was our first time to come here, so we felt exciting especially when we saw many equipment for fitness. There were a lot of students to do all kinds exercise in here, but we do not felt crowed, because this building has three layers and included basketball court, swimming poor and all finds of sports equipment. In fact, we did not to do fitness activity at this day, because we had a test tomorrow and many homework. Thus, we just took a look and took some pictures.
      In conclusion, Campus Recreation and Wellness Center is a excellent place to do exercise. I will go to there when I have free time.

Review by BAO

The CRWC is located on the southwest corner of Burlington and Madison Streets. Parking is
available one block southeast. The CRWC opened during the summer of 2010.
 This state-of-the-art facility is over three levels, and contain a climbing
wall, three swimming pools, a diving well, a Leisure Swimming Pool, a jogging
track, two basketball/volleyball courts, a multi-activity gym, a café, some
locker rooms, upgraded club locker rooms, a Wellness Suite and the Recreational
Services Administrative Suite. The Wellness Suite brings together staff from UI
Wellness, Student Health & Wellness, and Recreational Services for fitness
assessments, nutrition counseling and a variety of other wellness
offerings. Massage Therapy is also available. In 2013, Best College Reviews ranked the CRWC #3 nationally in a publication outlining the 25 most amazing

campus student recreation centers. It really deserves the award.
When I first stepped into this center I was immediately surprised for its
great. Every place is so clean and clear. I do like the swimming pool area,
it’s amazing and you must have a try. What’s most important is if you are
student of our school you can enter by your student card freely. Wonderful! What are you waiting for!
 COMPANER BY BOHAN
we went to the CRWC on last Thursday . this gym is pretty ,and it was shocked me .               how big it is !
to compare with the field house .it is much bigger.  it has the modern equipment ,and professional training device. I always hanged out with my friend in the field house for playing basketball .however I told my friends  that the CRWC is much better than the field house, we will change our place for taking exercise .the field house is really crowded and far away from our residence hall.
in the pictures , we can see that the huge swimming pool which is really clear, and there  also have more than 40 running  machine.  I can't wait for swimming in the pool  with friends.

Expert by Ruoxi 

If you want to keep health, loose weight or do the sport for fun you can go to the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center that was Located in S Madison Street. If you live or study in the east campus you can take the routes: interdorm, west dorm shuttle or blue route. You can get off at main library; then walk about 100m to get to the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center. If you live or study in the west campus you can walk there, it’s takes about five to ten minutes walking. The students can use student ID cards to get in the center. If you are the citizens in Iowa, you can go to the front desk the staffs there will help you. Except the normal exercises machines there are also two swimming pools, one basketball court, a running court, and you can also do rock climbing there. But the rock climbing will spend some money. After the exercise, maybe you will feel thirsty. There is a drink bar in the center, when you come into the center you can see it.

City Park

 Leader-----JJ

Lin is being punished!

        On the Saturday, we went to the City Park which is near Mayflower. At that day, it was truly a good day for going outside. We even found there was a wedding! What a shame, we did not see the bridegroom and bride. Anyway, we can feel the fall is coming, even though we were lying on the sun and the leaves are changing color. I think it is high time for outside activities. Warm sun, lovely animals, and close friends were the most important elements for the perfect experience! Plus, we played games! Of course, the loser should be punished and the punishment was push- up. As a result, we all lost once, but Lin changed another punishment. I think he was cheating! Lin even begged me not to post the picture. However, I put it at the first position and I added label for him. Anyway, this activity is filled with happiness!

Expert by Albert:

  The City Park do not have too many place to spend your money. Actually, none. It is a public park where has beautiful scenery and a great place for playing some activity games. But there is a place for BBQ, which is so interesting. First, when you go straight down with the road, you can see a black shack. That's it. Than you can bring your own food here with your friends or family to do some BBQ and enjoy comfortable landscape. Of course you need to clean the gridiron after the meal. Moreover, this park has dedicated drinking water system, whenever you feel thirsty, just drink. To sum up, City Park is a great place to relax yourself definitely.


Reviewer by Lin:

 We have been City Park last Saturday afternoon. It was a nice day with good weather and temperature. I like this park a lot. It is full of green and have many space for you to do some sport or just have a walk. The river is beside the park and gives a good sight, also you could do BBQ there. When we been there it is a wedding hold on the riverside festival stage, and a lot of people who have dressed up are around the park, and that the park more pretty.

Comparer by Ibrahim:

On Saturday October 3^rd 2015, I visited City Park with my friend. It is a nice place. We spent a nice time there. However, it is not like Waterworks Prairie Park that I visited in Labor Day. City Park is smaller than Waterworks Prairie Park, and it is open area. Waterworks Prairie Park not like that because it is bigger, and has many places and some of them look like privet or closed places.  There are some similarities between them like entertainment venues for children and BBQ places are available in both parks. 

Skateboard Park

Skateboard Park

The Leader- Fatimah Husain 

     I went with my classmates last Saturday to Skateboard Park on Oct 3, 2015. We met there at 5 pm. The weather was sunny, but it was so cold. The park was near to Iowa City river. It was quiet and peaceful. Also, birdsong were so aloud when the sun began to go down. There wasn't lots of people skateboarding, it just one person and he was so good. Therefore, we sat front of the skateboard and watched him. Then, we took some picture for the park, the person who was skateboarding, and for ourselves.

The Expert- Cathy

   We went to skateboard park by campus on weekend. It is in front of the May Flower. There are lots of children play skateboard. If you are the one who like skateboard, this is the best choice for you. By the way the graffiti are very beautiful. Also, it is a good place to have BBQ. If you like BBQ, take your friends and family there! I promise you will have fun! It is surrounded by the lake, and there are many ducks on the lake. Just come here! You will fall in love with it!

The Reviewer-Camille
   Since I live in the Mayflower Hall, I could see the Skateboard Park everyday. It should be a good place to relax. Especially during the afternoon, the sunshine is strong and beautiful. We went there in the afternoon so we could enjoy the charming sunshine. I pretty love the environment surrounds the park, it is peaceful and wild. During the morning there might be more people skateboarding; however when we reached there, there was only one people. It was an excellent place for skateboard players, too! In my mind, as a park, the Skateboard park might be a little small, but it still provided a precious place for people to have fun anyway. In general, it should be a great park for people to visit! Even though you don't know how to play a skateboard, you could just have a walk along the Iowa River and take a deep breath of fresh air!

The comparer- Tallis
     On saturday afternoon, our group went to the Skateboard Park which is near the dormitory Mayflower. The weather is cold that day, so we stayed under the sunshine all the time. The park has a special place to play skateboard. There were lots of kids played skateboard at that time. Although they are still kids and very young,they played skateboard so well. In my hometown, kids playing the skateboard aren't always common to see. Parents usually think it dangerous for kids to play this. Only the teenagers play skateboard. I really enjoy the scene of this park. It's really beautiful and full of vitality. 

Fitness East

Leader--------EVA

Yesterday, We went to the Fitness East which closed to IMU. It's a small gym and the door was built on the path near to car park building. After steped on a few steps, A small but bright room present before my eyes like pictures above. There were few people doing exercises on the implements. They all glanced at us as we are from outer space and then continued doing exercises. The smell of the room wasn't very good, however that kind of youth spirit even stimulated me to do physical exercise. Whatsoever, it's a perfect gym you deserve go~

Compares- Anwar

I live in an apartment at West Court Street apartment which is located near CRWC ( Campus Recreation and Wellness Center). Based on my view, CRWC is bigger and better than Fitness East. First, it has three level while Fitness East only have ground floor. Next, CRWC has a lot of exercise equipment compared to Fitness East. Aside from that, it also has basketball court and soccer court while Fitness East only has gym equipment. However, the good thing about Fitness East is it has a guidance book for type of exercise you want to do. So, if you want to do a simple exercise, Fitness East is the best place for you. On contrast, CRWC is the best for those who seek for more variety exercises and basketball or soccer game.

Reviewer-Xueming 

On Friday, we went to the Fitness East, it was very hard to find, we spent a long time. Because this place has a small door and it is at the back of the building. The Fitness East has two parts, one is aerobic exercise part, such as running machine. It can help people lose fat, and improve metabolism. For another part is anaerobic exercise. People do anaerobic exercise can increase muscle. Muscle can make your body more beautiful. It is not only for men, but also for women. Actually, I don’t like this place. Because it is small and dark, and the air circulation is not good. I think the air circulation is very important when you do some exercise. If I want to do some exercise, I want to go to the gym. It not only has a good environment, but also has kinds of exercise.

Expert——Summer

Wondering what could you do during weekend or spare time? I think if you are under the unhealthy condition, or you are the sports type of people, you should considered about the FITNESS EAST!!!!The location of this place is very conceal. We spent a long time try to find where was the fitness east. Finally, just besides the Burge parking lot, a small door as an entrance, we found the fitness center. We swap our student ID card and the front desk let us in. We saw many people on the treadmill, and some of the girls were stretching their muscles, which was so awesome! The ventilation system was very good, so even in the fitness center we can not smell the sink smell. In conclusion, if you are a exercise expert, or the big fan of exercising, Fitness East is the nearest and best place to spend time!

The Field house

Leader - Eugene

This Thursday, our group went to the Field house.Because of my teammate Jincheng

sometimes goes there for exercise,so he recommended that is really good place for do some exercises also is not far from downtown.Therefore, we decided to go to the Field house.In the Field house, it’s really large building also they have many kind of place that you can use for free(if you have student ID).For example,basketball,volleyball , badminton , racquetball,wallaby…etc courts,also they have swimming pool.After we walked around the Field house, we decided to play badminton.It’s been a long time didn’t play badminton for us,so we excited about it also we felt all of our stress was disappeared after we finished.It’s a great Thursday to play badminton with my group.Moreover, I hope I can come here again for do exercise with my group or classmate.

                         

               































Expert-Toshi

 This thursday, we went to the Field house. It was a beautiful day, sunny and comfortable temperature.We met in Old Capital Mall, and we took a bus which is Red Line in front of the Mall station.We got off secont station whrer is near the UIHC, and it took about 7min. The outward appearance of Field  house is old, and not so clean. After we entered, we had to show student ID card to get in the gym. In side of Field house is amazing. There are many activities what we can do, such as basket ball, table tennise, squash, swimming pool, badminton, weight traing, and running. Especially basket court is great!! There are at least 10 court and clean. We can borrow some stuffs which you need to play at the entrance desk. We played badminton. It was very fun. After we use some stuff, we return to the same place. It is all free. In conclusion, this gym is easy to go, and you can go with out bring stuff, so It is good plece to visit after class.


Reviewer   Lu
After the courses of this Thursday, we visited the Field House as a group. Speaking of the gymnasium, it is a quite old one, because I can see from the old-fashioned decoration. For instance, there are many historical famous Iowa athletes' pictures on the wall, and some weird outdated paintings on the second floor. It's just like the gym from the high school movie of 90 century. However, it is not an overstatement that the equipment and environment has been maintained very well through many years. The clean and refreshing atmospheres just made us want to do exercises here. As a result, we borrowed badminton from the gym, which was completely free, and played it for about an hour. To my surprise, the floorboard of Field House is not made of rubber; it is the traditional wooden floor, which really comforted my feet without any noise like rubber one. In addition, we also visited the swimming pool basketball field and squash courts that are definitely good places to do some exercises. In a nutshell, Field House should be a great gym to go if you are looking for comfortable atmospheres.

comparer jincheng

This Thursday, we go to the field house. Actually, it the first time I went to a gym like this. Field house is an amazing gym! It is the old gym in the school. There have badminton court, basketball court squash and two swimming pool etc. In China, the school gym always only open for school team, we do not have the chance to take many kind of exercise at the school gym. The school only have basketball court and swimming pool for student. The field house is old, but the facility in there is still good. Maybe Chinese school have more student than American, some of our school gym look like more dirty and worse than field house. Compare with the other gym in Iowa University, field house may not the best, but it is most historical gym. I saw the old news and painting on the wall and trophies in a big cabinet. The history is the characteristic of the field house.

The recreation centre

leader-bonny

Our group went the community recreation centre near the Iowa public library on Thursday just after Jane set the assignment ( can’t wait to finish homework early!!) Actually, at first we were planning to go to the college green park, but on the way to the park we found the recreation centre which is about 2 block away from park. Since it is much closer, we happily decided let’s change the plan. This gym is pretty nice. There is a big swimming pool, a basketball court, and some work out equipment. At the basketball court, we met a black teenage player who remind us of Russ, the main character of boy 21 which is young adult book for our reading class. I guess all of our group members are not a fan for sports. Instead of exercise, we really enjoyed  reading some writing on the wall ( may it is ad for writing class?) . I was amazed by how good those little articles are judging from the ages of the writer. 

Bayan and me kind of like this one:

Different

It is so sad, and I found this accurately described the feeling of different.

Comparer-- Sanya

The recreation center is a good place to visit. Compared with the new recreation center in the campus, it is still older. However, you have to pay money to get in the swimming pool, and there isn't any charge to get into CRWC. Comparatively, you can also have higher quality and quiet environment when you exercise. So, they are different demands and advantages to choose the two places to exercise. I highly recommend everyone to visit the good place.

By Bayan

Last Thursday, my group went to Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center.From my opinion, it is a nice place to visit and do some exercise, but It's not comfortable for me because I don't prefer a quiet gym.The pool swimming is  so amazing, so I wanted to jump immediately.To be honest, I forget that I didn't wear swimwear.In the basement,  they have different kind of  Sports equipment in rooms, so you have some options.One thing I wish they have Private pool swimming.Finally, if you like a quite gym I suggest that for you, so prepare your muscles and have a fun.