Charles W. Lamar Jr. YMCA

Fantastic experience: Excellent place to workout, clean

Fantastic experience: Really great facility, makes great use of the space with a variety of equipment. Always super clean and kept in great condition. Most importantly, everyone who works here is genuinely super kind and helpful. Y'all rock

Fantastic experience: The workout circuit is amazing. It sets each machine for your size and the weights that you need. There's a spinning class and state of the art treadmills and elliptical and much more.

Fantastic experience: Clean, well lit, odor free space with a wide variety of exercise equipment on hand from machine-guided to free weights. They also offer an array of exercise related classes. Separate men's and women's locker rooms including showers. It's a terrific facility in downtown Baron Rouge. UPDATE 2023 10 06: for an additional $5.00/month fee members can have 24-hour access to the facility. This is a good thing if your schedule sometimes prevents access during their normal operating hours.

Fantastic experience: Friendly and helpful staff. Nice variety of equipment. Clean and well maintained

Fantastic experience: The place to get everything together

Fantastic experience: I’ve worked out at this location for years , left and went to other workout facilities and it’s not the same so I decided to come back home where it’s not to crowded and you don’t have to stand in line to wait to use any equipment.

Fantastic experience: I love it. Everyone is so nice and genuinely helpful. It’s always clean and the equipment is always available and in the best condition to safely operate.

Fantastic experience: This is a great YMCA, good equipment with a non-intimidating crowd, in a good location. Just wish they would extend the hours a bit.

Fantastic experience: I feel so lucky to have the Y downtown near my office. It's so convenient to get my workout in during lunch. The staff is wonderful and always so friendly. When I'm not working out on my own, I am attending the 12p-1p circuit and HIIT classes with Krashina and she is a gem, as well as the class. It's exactly what I've been looking for, and has really helped! My only request is better music throughout the gym.

Fantastic experience: The facility is clean, the employees are nice and the location is convenient. Great place to work out and affordable.

Fantastic experience: Friendly greeting every time I enter. Nice work out equipment also!

Fantastic experience: I signed up a few weeks back, got a referral discount. My fee hits at the regular rate, so I call the downtown office and was told the "lady" in charge of discounts is too busy to go in and apply the discounts this month, but its ok because im not the only one who got jipped on their discount. I basically was told to suck it up this month. The woman I signed up with in no way disclosed that my discount would depend on whether someone had time to apply it to my account each month and I would be screwed if she was to busy. I like the gym equipment, but I cannot tolerate a company who does not honor an agreement made with a customer. The management at the YMCA is very disappointing to say the least.

Fantastic experience: YMCA allowed me a trial membership to use the facilities while relocating and living in hotel across the street. Great value for you $ and now i use the Y's across BR area, depending on if I am at work, home, or playing tennis.

Fantastic experience: This location is not too crowded and has a variety of updated workout equipment including machines and weights.

Positive experience: Couldn't find entrance

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, nice offering of classes, clean facility.

Fantastic experience: Great gym love the staff there!

Fantastic experience: This location is not too crowded and has a variety of updated workout equipment including machines and weights.

Fantastic experience: Focusing on building strength so I appreciate the weights area. Good options for people who are doing barbell exercises and I like that they have the Rogue weights that are the size of a 45lb weight but in different weight variations. That makes my workouts with deadlifts or barbell rows much easier. Also the staff are great, always nice and happy to greet or help people.

Fantastic experience: I go often and am well pleased with the facility. It has a very good variety of weight and aerobic machines. Very convenient to downtown offices.

Fantastic experience: The facility is clean, the employees are nice and the location is convenient. Great place to work out and affordable.

Fantastic experience: Great people, everyone is super nice. The classes are a blast and really get your heart pumping! The facility is great and has a little bit of everything.

Fantastic experience: very nice clean gym. has everything one would need

Fantastic experience: Facility is well maintained and offers great workout classes. Staff are always courteous!

Positive experience: I like the location and parking. The staff is friendly and the manager is attentive. If you don’t want to socialize, you don’t have to. It’s a good fit for me.

Positive experience: great gym but not cheap considering they do not mind closing early! A shame that families do not get a break like dead beats do! nothing Christian about that

Fantastic experience: Love the group exercise classes on the lunch hour!

Positive experience: Great Gym, but very hard to get to if you work long days. Hours are 5-8 m-f. Would be great if they went to 9.