Gym facility part of University of California, Irvine
The Anteater Recreation Center (ARC) is an 89,000-square-foot (8,300 m2) indoor gym facility that is part of campus recreation at the University of California, Irvine (UCI); the anteater is the mascot of the UC Irvine athletics team (see University of California, Irvine#Athletics for the mascot's origin and history). It is open to all UCI students, faculty and staff members, alumni, and other university affiliates, including spouses.[1]
The facility was designed by Langdon Wilson Architecture.[2][3] It opened in January 2000, replacing older, cramped recreational facilities at the school's older gym, Crawford Hall. Built at a cost of $26 million, it was funded by a student referendum approved in May 1996, when UCI students voted to pay an additional $88 per quarter to fund the center and other athletic and recreational facilities.[4][5] The positive reception for the new center led students at other University of California campuses (such as UCLA) to push for similar improvements in their recreational facilities.[6]
The facility has been the setting for several Guinness world record events, including a 4,448-participant dodgeball game in 2011[7] and a 3,875-combatant water pistol fight in 2013.[8]
Facilities
ARC facilities[9] include:
- The main gym, which features three basketball or volleyball courts or nine badminton courts and utilizes hanging dividers to separate each court
- A fitness lab, consisting of state of the art cardiovascular equipment, weight machines, and free-weights, as well as eight flat screen televisions
- An indoor jogging track with a clock timer and rubber flooring
- A 36’ high rock wall for beginning to advanced climbers
- Three glass-enclosed racquetball courts
- Five activity rooms for various fitness classes, clinics, and programs
- Physical Forum is the largest activity room and is home to group exercise classes, like Step, Pump N’ Sculpt, Aerobics, and Zumba.
- Sports Studio has matted flooring and can be used for martial arts, wrestling, and stretching
- Activity Annex is the main facility for table tennis, fencing, and instructional dance classes
- Workout Shop is utilized by yoga, kendo, capoeira, and belly dance classes
- Training Zone offers studio cycling, meditation, and yoga classes.
- A back court gym, a 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) gym with rounded corners, team dugouts, and inset goals, perfect for floor hockey and indoor soccer
- A newly added Wellness Lab, geared towards functional training and featuring a Kinesis Wall and kinesis circuit machines, as well as cardio equipment and free weights and ten flat screen televisions
- An aquatics plaza with a 25 meter by 25 meter lap pool
- ARC fields, a 25-acre (100,000 m2) outdoor complex, for sports such as softball, soccer, football, rugby, lacrosse, basketball, roller hockey, and tennis
- Exercise testing rooms, where various fitness tests, such as "Bod Pods" and "VO2 Submax Tests", are conducted
- Massage therapy rooms with fully adjustable beds
- A test kitchen and classroom that is used for demonstration and cooking classes
- ARC Bar, offering fresh smoothies and light snacks