Apple Fitness Center

I’m very satisfied with this gym. I’ve been lifting for years and this place is totally adequate for my needs & goals. Obviously, the convenience of having a gym AT WORK cannot be understated.
I try to workout between 2 & 4pm and it’s rarely crowded at that time. The 12 & 6pm rush hours are nightmares though. The free weight section is very adequate, even for serious lifters. I can squat, deadlift and do dumbell presses up to 120s so I’m happy! The locker rooms and showers are good too.
My only gripe is with most of the machines. I prefer older machines like the Hammer Strength series because the ones here feel very awkward biomechanically. I also wish they had more calf & hamstring machines.
Overall, this is a great corporate gym.

I like the Apple Gym. There are a lot of options here depending on my mood I can decide if I want to do an easy-​going or more intense class cardio or weight. Training or something more subtle. The locker rooms are really clean and the showers are bearable. I really enjoy attending the classes here the instructors are fun and there’s a lot of energy. I usually attend ujam and the music is really awesome.
I would definitely recommend bringing your own flip-​flops to use my showers and your own shampoo. If you need makeup or hair accessories or stylers I would recommend to bring those as well.

You’re the best! AROooUUuuND! NOTHING’S EVER GONNA KEEP YOU DOWNNN!

They don’t have a standing calf raise machine. The rubber floored weight lifting area is awkwardly small and there’s no space to do standing, dumbbell-​based exercises (example: standing overhead press). They don’t have exercise balls of different sizes (say, for forward ball roll or ball crunches).
With classes like ‘Yogalates’ (wtf?) and a majority of floor space taken by treadmills and ellipticals (with huge TVs attached)… this gym is geared towards the mainstream and amateur. It’s a fantastic solution for the beginner but, if you’ve been weight lifting a few years or more and are looking to bring your workout here, you’ll be better served with a Gold’s membership.
To end on a good note, it’s open 7 days a week and does work well in a pinch.

basketball courts!

If you’re looking for perks, you shouldn’t even be thinking about working at Apple. Free food? All we get is 1 basket/​week of cheap packaged candy. For 100 hungry engineers, not skinny hipsters in retail who have decided that eating is passé. Oh, and bagels every first Friday of the month. Welcome to the Reality Distortion Field. A billion-​dollar (profit) company, built on innovation in technology, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. WITHOUT FREE FOOD. Clearly, Apple does Think Different.
For those of you still on the market and clutching desperately to dreams of on-​site laundry, dry cleaning, free gourmet meals, and massages: it’s called Google. Have you heard of it?
Color me pleasantly surprised when I discovered the Apple gym. For a mere $ 9.74 every 2 weeks, I can enjoy a way nicer gym than I had thought possible. The gym itself is small, but new and well-​equipped.
Every cardio machine has a flat-​screen TV, many have the 30-​pin iPod charger. They definitely need more weight machines — no deltoid row, for example. The locker room has an abundance of towels, hairdryers, lotion, sunscreen, nice showers, and cool digi-​lockers. The classes are also decent. Bikram Yoga is way less intense (and way less hot) than you’d find at a normal studio, but on the plus side, it doesn’t make me pass out. Spin Pro is intense (what is it with every single Apple employee being obsessed with their carbon-​fiber, $ 4000 biking habits?)
Don’t be mistaken. This is no fancy gym. Not even a pool. No sauna, no steam room, no robes. No people cleaning up just after you finish with each machine. But it is a great place to escape work for a bit, and it’s a definite step above the pathetic place that Stanford calls its gym. (Zing!) Note to Arrillaga: You are an embarrassment to a school with a $ 17.1 billion endowment. You weren’t built with air conditioning. You don’t have enough ellipticals + treadmills to even absorb the 5% of campus population represented by sorority girls, and definitely not the rest of us. You got TVs 4 years — enough time for even the most dim-​witted athlete to graduate — after opening, and even now, you only have 6 of them, and they’re usually tuned to overlapping channels thanks to your brilliant staff. Your bathrooms smell. Your «Human Endurance and Training Center» is only open to varsity athletes (who are overpampered as is with full scholarships, deep tissue massages, and sirloin steaks in the dining hall while normal folks settle for «armpit chicken» [no, I did not make that name up]).
[Editor’s note] Whoops. My stream-​of-​bitterness got out of control. Just get off your cheap, not ergonomic, chair and go to the Apple Gym. You won’t regret it.

It’s true. Only Apple employees or family members can use the gym, so if you’re not one of said people, don’t bother reading.
For you Apple folks:
The Apple Fitness Center is now chalk full of machines, glorious machines! Eliptical machines! Treadmills! Machines that make you look like you’re climbing a mountain! Bikes that simulate a real racecourse! Now you have no excuse not to exercise.
The Apple Fitness Center has come a long way from its former self filled with old weight machines and janky treadmills. Now the place feels brand-​spankin’ new and fresh. Very high-​tech looking weights and equipment. Excellent machines with personal t.v.s and lots of channels, each equipped with its own headphone jack. For my workouts (because I am obviously a foodie) I favor the Food channel, because let’s face it: I workout so I can just eat more. I also have a special appreciation for the new magazine upkeep which includes all the trashy gossip rags that are really the most perfect fodder for sweating your butt off and feeling like it’s worth it. The mag stand they have set up is subtle and very useful.
The lockers are clean and accessible, and you set your own code when you get there. Lots of fresh clean towels, drinking fountains, hair dryers, lotion, etc. Very nice.
No sauna/​hot tub/​pool here, but that’s ok, I can deal. Very grateful to the folks at Apple Health and Fitness for the new upgrade! Keep it up.

Let me start off by saying you cannot get in this gym unless you are an Apple employee or someone in your family is. You may be considering working for Apple, interning at this gym or maybe you are just curious. Hell, maybe you’re trolling for an Apple hottie.
I enjoyed going to this gym because then and now I’m an Apple fanboy (kind of). This gym has giant Ipod banners, apple computers for you play around on and tons of «geeks» working out in Apple t-​shirts with Ipods strapped to their arms.
Once you get your access card and PIN you enter the building and «login». The computer tells you some basic things, like when you last visited and so on. The guys at the counter are helpful, albeit they are all probably interns (no offense).
Once inside, this place is 17k sq ft, has two big exercise rooms (for yoga and other classes), a nice array of workout machines and many cardio machines. There is a waiting area in the front with a nice TV for those times when you get done earlier than the person you came with. The locker rooms are nice, secure and have a few nice amenities. Cardio machines have tv’s to keep you busy.