Current Penn students: How are the exercise facilities?

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<p>I've seen the Rec brochure and it seems like the facilities are nice but maybe oversubscribed. For example, do you have to wait for a treadmill at the gym? Is it possible to play tennis for free? Can I play pickup basketball very easily?
(Strong body, strong mind). Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>Pottruck is an excellent gym. That's where most students go. Some dorms have a few treadmills and whatnot, and then there's a few other weight rooms scattered around for the football team and whatnot.</p>

<p>Pottruck has a cardiofitness center with about 25-30 treadmills. You'll wait if you show up around 5 pm, which is peak hours, but then you'll only wait about 5 minutes. There's also two kinds of bikes, rowing machines, stairmasters and ellipticals.</p>

<p>Yes you can play tennis for free - there's 6 tennis courts right next to DRL and the Palestra.</p>

<p>There's basketball games in Pottruck all the time on the courts, of which there's maybe 4 or 6 - you can get in easily.</p>

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<p>How is the swimming pool there?</p>

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<p>Pottruck looks amazing...
<a href="http://www.upenn.edu/recreation/tour/index.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.upenn.edu/recreation/tour/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I went there for Penn Preview Days and my impressions were that it was very nice but the building was rather narrow. Since it's in the city, there's nowhere to go but up so the building only feels big vertically.</p>

<p>I'm slightly afraid of heights and as I was climbing the stairs (with openings in the stair steps kind of like this: <a href="http://www.selfhelp.org.uk/images/route_photo8.gif%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.selfhelp.org.uk/images/route_photo8.gif&lt;/a&gt;) I got a little bit nauseated looking down. lol well that's my story.</p>

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<p>narrow has nothing to do with it.</p>

<p>just ask all the multitude of (Ivy) sports conferences that go on in there</p>

<p>atleast this isn't skidmore college, theyre workout cencter invovles a room of treadmills and a basement lifting room</p>

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<p>Does anyone know about the rink facilities? It looks like there's only one rink, and that it is shared by Drexel, Penn, club hockey teams, club figure skating, and the public... That seems kind of crazy to me... Are there even any open skate or freestyle sessions?</p>

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<p>there are many open skates</p>