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All fitness activities are included in your ARC membership.
First Floor
Fitness Orientation
ARC Fitness Orientations are available as part of your membership and are designed to help you get started using the ARC!
During the 30-minute sessions, our Fitness and Wellness Coaches will answer all your questions to help you become more comfortable in the facility as you go over the basics of how to use the equipment.
During this session, you will learn how to:
- Start, stop, and change settings on cardio machines
- Change seat height and weight selection on machines
- Perform different movements with proper form
- Follow the rules and proper etiquette at the ARC
**Please note: an orientation is NOT a personal training session.
To book your ARC Fitness Orientation, please contact Fitness and Wellness Coach Alexandra Laneville by email.
Contact
Alexandra Laneville
Fitness and Wellness Coach
(613) 727-4723 x7296
lanevia@algonquincollege.com
Turf Training Area
Use the sleds, tires, ropes, and plyo-boxes to enhance your workout. Try some agility and speed drills, or join a multi-station group circuit on the functional cross-training rig.
Free Weight Area
Welcome to the only official Hammer Strength training facility in Ottawa!
The 10,000 square foot Free Weight Area includes plate-loaded Hammer Strength equipment, Mondo sport flooring, heavy-duty racks and rigs, benches, dumbbells and a wide variety of accessories to customize your workout.
Second Floor
Discovery Track
Run, walk, or wheel the 346m track as it winds and inclines around the second floor, giving you a bird’s-eye view of the entire ARC.
Add some weight training to your regular cardio workout! Jump off the track at an exercise node in the Second Floor Fitness Area to complete a selectorized or free-weight circuit. When you’re done, hop back on the track. Repeat!
Do a little or a lot – the choice is yours.
Second Floor Fitness Area
Everyone can find a training approach that works for them – whether it’s your first or fiftieth time at the gym. Explore our five exercise nodes: Cardiovascular, Accessible Equipment, Selectorized Life Fitness, Selectorized Cybex, and Personal Training Circuit Training.
Our equipment includes Life Fitness Row GX trainers, Elevation Series Elliptical Cross-Trainers and Total Body ARC trainers, Air runner treadmills, Jacobs’s ladders as well as Assault Air bikes – many choices for many different body types and your own unique preferences.
