YMCA Wareham

Fitness room: Precor treads, recumbent bikes, upright bikes, AMTs, steppers and ellipticals. Precor selectorized with Paramount sprinkled in. Precor free weight and plate loaded. Good selection and clean.

This YMCA has a lot of potential. With some different directors running the facility and different departments within, it would be a wonderful place.

Great facility i have been a member for years. Good spin classes and lots of treadmills and ellipticals

I’ve been going to the YMCA in Wareham for 2 years now.
The facility is nice enough. The have an adequate amount of cardio machines. The nautilus machines are a little outdated and are difficult to maneuver. The have a workout stairs area which is pretty cool. They have a walking/​running track above the basketball gym. They have a beautiful indoor swimming pool. Locker rooms are decent. They just added adult only locker rooms with steam and sauna which was desperately needed. There is a rock climbing wall. There is child watch there which is only open in the morning and late afternoon.
There are some issues with this YMCA.
First of all, there are tons of kids loitering around. The place is flooded with them, and they are loud, kind of obnoxious, and running around aimlessly. This makes the facility seem like a «Boys and Girls Club» in an urban area instead of a fitness facility. For some reason, the kids have access to the running track upstairs where they run in packs in the opposite direction of the majority of people. They also run in and out of the adult only locker rooms which previously had a security code required to access but no longer does.
The second issue is the lack of cleanliness. The place is somewhat dirty. Locker rooms smell like dirty, wet socks. There’s dirt and built up dust in the corners of the floors. They need to hire a better cleaning company as it just doesn’t look sanitary.
The third issue is price and what membership does NOT include. The membership price is rather high and it doesn’t cover various classes offered such as yoga or Pilates.
Overall I would say this YMCA has some great features but needs some improvements.

a very nice ymca i must say. one of the nicest I’ve seen and most of the staff are very friendly! highly recommended!

I joined this Y a few months ago. The facility is relatively new. It is clean and modern. The staff for the most part is friendly and the members are usually pretty good. The hours are M-​& 5:30am to 9:30 pm, Saturdays 7:30−5 and Sundays 10 – 5, except in the summer when they close nightly at 8:30 and are closed on Sundays. I wish they would reconsider the Sunday summer hours.
There always seems to be enough equipment available and it is well maintained. The locker rooms are small and there are only day lockers. Apparently, when they built this place they built it with future expansion in mind and are completing a capital campaign to expand which will positively affect the locker facilities.

This a fairly new facility and it is as nice if not better than most private clubs. Having been a quasi gym rat and runner for 10 years or so, I damaged a tendon in my hip and have not been able to run anymore. I had basically given up on excersizing and become quite dumpy. I decided to try the Y near my home in hopes I could at least do something to get back/​stay in shape. I joined for a one month trial to see if it would work and I seem to be ok. I am slowly getting back into cardio with the recumbent bike and may try the eliptical. Anyways, enough about my dreary blog.
This place is big, bright and airy (no gym stink). Floor to ceiling windows looking out to pine woods. Many pieces of cardio and Nautilus style equip with 7 tvs to watch (using earbuds). A 3 story rock wall, bbal court inside and outdoor, walking trails, skate park, free weights. The locker room is small for the size of the place, but its clean and well maintained. Showers are individual even for men which is new to me (thank God if you saw me!). There is also an indoor pool, youth area and even a Phys Therapy room run by Southcoast hosp. Too many programs to list, but I am happy with the basics.
The members seem nice and polite for the most part, dutifully disinfecting their equip if they so much as looked at it. The only complaint I had was I had two morons yakking on there cell phones while on bikes next to me! Is there anyplace safe anymore? One clown was sipping his Dunkins and talking… I was waiting for the cigarette to come out or a breast feeding infant.