Lerner Health & Wellness Center

3 stars seem just about right. I had my first work out experience today. I do love their elliptical though! The place is spacious with one floor of weights and work out equipment. They’ve got flat screens and a pool downstairs. The only part I dislike about their pool is how crowded it gets. Four people in a lane is a bit too much. I’ll have to remember to go on less crowded days. The perk here is that lockers are free and the place is spacious. They also got massage therapy, which I will have to check out! Overall, great location, and a decent place to gym it!

Lerner duchess Molly W described this place to a t: this place is just three stars (if that).
I try to sneak in cardio tactics in my day-​to-​day routine, and I’ve long been the type to call 45 minutes on the elliptical a workout, but I’m making an effort to do more than the bare minimum, so I signed up for the semester-​long class pass at Lerner. For GW students, it’s a steal: $ 85 gets you access to any class for the entire semester. Not too bad. The floor with the cardio and weights is usually pretty packed, and the wait system for the machines, which no one ever explained to me, still confounds me. Class-​wise, I’m a fan of the Wednesday afternoon 75-​minute spin class. Though I’m grumbling obscenities and gasping for breath for most of the class, it’s a great workout, and the instructor is effective at encouraging us to keep going when quitting is on the brain. But both the protocol for managing class size and the attitude of some of the student workers could both definitely use improvement.
Last week, I went with my friend for the Body Pump class. Classes always fill up quickly, so we made sure to get there with plenty of time to be among the first in line. (The policy is first come, first served.) When the attendant came around to hand out the passes (there are only a coveted 20), my friend remembered she left her student ID and quickly ran back to her locker to retrieve it. She returned less than a minute later only to find out that the attendant had bypassed her place in line, and had already handed out the rest of the passes. She tersely issued an explanation that she did it «the fairest way she could» (um, how’s that?), but we were both so miffed that I forfeited my pass and we went downstairs to take out our frustration on the elliptical. Surely, there has to be a better way; at the bare minimum, she could have at least been polite about it.
Complaints aside, I’m signed up for the semester, so here’s where I’ll stay, working off all the calories I ate in the name of Unilocaling.

Sweaty undergrad sorority girls working out with their preppy frat boys right before they head out for a kegger. Grunt grunt grunt so I can have one more beer.
Attendants downstairs are about as exciting and friendly as watching the DC Public Access Channel. But, the membership comes with my $ 100,000 tuition that I will be paying until I am dead.
There is a small 3-​lane pool, a basketball and racquetball court, the normal cardio stuff, and of course, a rotating rock climbing wall.
Can’t go here for free unless you are a student. I believe faculty and staff still pay to get in. I say, unless you are already in debt, head to a WSC!