Information about Buckner Fitness Center


99505, Anchorage
+1 907-384-1369

Opening hours

  • Monday: 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Tuesday: 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Wednesday: 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Thursday: 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Friday: 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Saturday: 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Sunday: 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM

The JBER Strength and Conditioning facility is a unique service that allows units to work with certified strength coaches for their unit PT and have the whole facility to themselves.

If you're looking to improve your fitness and wellness levels, our certified personal trainers can help. They'll provide you with the motivation, education and guidance you need to succeed, through both individual and group sessions (price below is per person for 1 hour).

We have a range of group fitness classes that are open to all DoD cardholders who are 18+. The classes are 1 hour long and the instructors and classes may vary.

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Buckner Fitness Center: Opinions

5/5 (51 Opinions)
Top Rated Gym
Sean Worrell 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Hands down awesome gym.

Caleb Howard 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out

melanie ford 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Clean! Loved it.

Landon Fillmore 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: This is a great gym for military members and family!

Moses “Momo” Sun 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Has everything you need! Large gym with swimming pool, free weights, smith machines, rock wall and more.

Tim Malone 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Kids had a great time at the polar pool. The number of lifeguards was phenomenal. I’m appreciative that they make the kids do a swim test to know they have good swimmers in the deep end of the pool. Lots of places for a little kids to play. Price was phenomenal. Highly recommend overall.

Amber Clarambeau (AMBIE) 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: When I think of the Buckners I think Ken must work hard.

jim nc 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: So I’ve been to most of the places you can go in the military, around the states and overseas. This is the best gym, that isn’t specific to a SOF unit, I’ve ever been to. It has all the equipment. Every combination of machine. Every bar and specialty bar. Entire rogue line. All the strongman equipment. DBs up to 150 KBs 100+ Curve treadmill Assault bike Traditional cardio A pool Multiple basketball courts Oly bars and eilko plates Wall balls, sand bags, ropes Every cable attachment ever made Lifting platforms Squat racks with and without mirrors Climbing wall It’s kept in good order and staffed most of the day. It has 24 hour badged in access too. This gym wins it. I wish I was up here longer to start building full in depth workouts using all the equipment. Whoever thought of this as an investment was a good leader. Keep your joes motivated to workout. The military can afford one of these on every base and should make that investment with the new ACFT being implemented. They have an entire indoor turf set up to run the acft indoors on a standardized course. You could even do the 2 mile run on the indoor track if you really had to. 10/10

Rebecca Doty 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: We absolutely love going to the Paradise Pool with our kids and friends.

Emilie Lawson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Showers were clean and gym was not too busy. Had hair dryers available.

Megan Coder (LilyMila1820) 2 years ago

Positive experience: . The pool is so cold that my child's lips turned blue after just 5 minutes.

Brian Mejia 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The gym is clean and well organized. There are areas for families, a crossfit area, a row of squat racks, and a running/walking track. The pool looks nice, and there is also a spin class room. I haven't used the spin class room so I'm not sure of the details. I really enjoy the gym. It's huge.

Greg James-H 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Has a pool, sauna, free weights and machines, and cardio machines. Cycling rooms and a smoothie bar. Sometimes crowded during peak times so plan accordingly

Mikos D 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: 10/10 I married a servicemember just for access. (What, BAH and Tricare? Never heard of them until we got married sweety). Well and he wanted to get out of the barracks lol. Edit: no longer have access since he caught me with my best friend Jodie. But I get half his stuff, half his income for life, and half his pension! What a great deal! Oh and when I won my court case (because I hired a fancy lawyer and he didn't "to save money") he had to pay my attorneys fees anyways!

Richard Toney 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The fitness center is excellent. It has all the necessary equipment and is laid out in an orderly fashion. The fact that it is staffed with personnel on weekends is a big plus!

Aretha James 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Had a great work out, facility was clean and not over crowded

One Venus 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment, clean and modern, and they have a STEAMROOM!!

Colby Blair 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Phenomenal place to workout. It gets really busy, and it's a little spread out but it has all the equipment you need.

Chris Pursel 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful equipment, large classic Olympic weights, crossfit area, indoor track, climbing wall, and fitness coaches who will build a plan to help reach your goals. Excellent place.

Jackie Willis 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is probably the biggest gym in Anchorage. A huge selection of equipment, an upstairs indoor running track, pool, cardio, and circuit traing rooms. Surprisingly, during this heightened COVID period, it is still open. The number of patrons is limited, the pool requires reservations and the facility has alot of equipment down to provide for social distancing.

Michael 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym, plenty of equipment in good shape, complete with an indoor pool and track.

Kai Llamas 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Pretty good gym. Variety of equipment. The self-powered treadmills are my fave. They keep it clean! Currently, you need to make reservations to use the pool. They have a capacity limit on the GYM as well, so be prepared to wait if you go during peak hours.

Bundrien Fonsoh 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very nice indoor pull. Clean and variety of equipment. Professional customer service.

Jamal Latore 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love working out there, it has a variety of equipment to keep the works outs interesting.

carlos hermoso 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Positive: Communication , Professionalism It is great place to workout on base. Just make sure you have a 24/7 access and get there before 5 am

Cherish Jordan 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: There are many things to love about indoor track, fitness pool, weights, and cardio.

LeeAnna Bohnert 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym, my son loves the open swim time! Great pool, lazy river, and toddler area! Lifeguards are super friendly

Rogelio Nunez 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym I've ever been. Kudos to the staff, keep up the good work.

Reginald Jackson 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love Buckner even though it gets very crowded at times. You definitely need to have a workout plan to save time just in case someone else is on the equipment you want to use.

Mark 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym I’ve been out of military or civilian. It has everything you can possibly imagine for a gym.

robert bethanis 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym on base, clean, has 24 hour access (limited due to covid at the moment) has a ton of free weights and equipment, track and treadmill upstairs as well as pools saunas and steam rooms

Matt L 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: The strength and conditioning room is great. The Coach is world class. Love working out here especially now that there is 24/7 access available.

Alaska Tuff 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: It was my 1st time going to the Buckner fitness center today and overall I had an awesome experience. I felt Comfortable. Don't be shy. If you do not have 24/7 access they open exactly at 5:00am so don't show up any sooner then that as you will be waiting.

Stephen Wood 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: This gym is huge. If you have ever been to Smith gym at Benning. Buckner gym puts it to shame. There is a massive crossfit side, 2 pools, stand up tanning beds, awesome free weight section and indoor track.

Java Bean 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for a workout to rock climbing and a fun pool plus the hot tub.

Topher Maguire 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: What can I say that you don’t already know, right? Great gym, even greater customer service. I love the 24 hour access, swimming schedule and pool availability. The huge selection of cardio and strength equipment is really nice making it so you don’t have to wait in line to get a workout in. I recently found out that there’s even tanning. I am gonna have to give that a try.

Holly Giampaolo 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Polar paradise is great! Kids need to have passed a swim test for larger pool area, so plan ahead

Evelyn Posala 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well it's a gym lol. The set up is weird with the equipments in separate rooms. There's a track upstairs along with other cardio equipments. There's also the pool downstairs.

Spencer Robinson 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Has everything you need and more. The swim coach, personal trainers and staff are amassing.

R J 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff; friendly, knowledgeable n eager to help. Pool, wet n dry saunas, hot tub, b-ball courts, in-door track, stationary n free weights in abundance, stationary bikes, spacious, clean, assorted classes n training guidance, and more. Some of the best people i've known or recently met use or work this facility.

Matthew Bigman 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Likely the best gym on JBER with a variety of workout options. Free weights, pool, assisted weights, rock wall, this place has it all.

Katie Corral 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym! Lots of different options here for different workouts. They have a nice water area for children. Always really clean thought out the facility.

Quintin Brand 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym. I really miss the towels they used to hand out before joint basing. I would pay for a membership here if I could get those back and my personal locker.

Nyssa Jones 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: This gym has everything! All the equipment is in good condition and good operating order. From basketball courts to a fitness pool, a family pool, CrossFit equipment, day rentals, all the cardio equipment you can think of, an indoor walking/running track and more. The facility is clean, the staff is friendly and helpful. The only downside, as of Nov 2018, the main locker rooms have been under construction more than they haven't been so the pool locker room becomes the default. But when they were open in the spring/summer, they were new and everything you could ask for.

Cemile Blue 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: I love this place, they have State of the art gym and anything else you need to get you fit on. Jacobs lader is one of my fav. You do need a military ID to get on base or gym or have a friend take you in who dies have a id.

Kristopher Souza 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: This gym was always good, but it recently ascended to legendary status w/ the introduction of 24/7 access.

Calvin Haywood Jr 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever. If you're a service member, family member of service member, or prior service you should be going here daily. Great for families too

Robert Juckett 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good gym with good equipment. Avoid if possible during pt hours and around 16-1700 as these are the busiest times. Pretty much dead over lunch.

Vincent Walker 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms I have ever seen. Besides a plethora of every cardio and lifting apparatus known to man, it also boasts an indoor track, an entire basketball court for the crossfitters and a freaking rock climbing gym. And sun tanning rooms. And the aquatic center is more like a water park with a lap pool. Only reason I don't go here more often is I'm stationed on the elmendorf side

Jade Morle 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Our battalion (HHC) is almost always here every morning for PT. It's always clean and the equipment is well taken care of considering how many people use them every day. The staff are professional 24/7, very outgoing, and friendly. What more could you ask for?

R. 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym! It is a bit of a maze, but just ask for a tour or wander around, there's a ton to do here!

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