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With expanded facility, LSU gets serious about student recreation

Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:47 am
Posted by member12
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Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:47 am
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With expanded facility, LSU gets serious about student recreation

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Laurie Braden, LSU’s director of university recreation, has something to say about the most visual element of the school’s newly expanded recreation center.

Do not call it a lazy river.

“There is nothing lazy about the pursuit of health and wellness,” Braden said.

And there’s nothing understated about the new rec center.

The facility has more than doubled its previous 121,000 square feet. Where there used to be 10,000 square feet of fitness space, now there’s 42,000. The indoor track more than doubled in length to one-third of a mile. There are 185 pieces of cardio equipment, much of which is wheelchair-accessible.




The new student rec looks nicer than the Lifetime Fitness I used to go to.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
42692 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:48 am to
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“There is nothing lazy about the pursuit of health and wellness,” Braden said.


She’s never met me.
Posted by shawnlsu
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:48 am to
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This post was edited on 10/3/17 at 8:19 am
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
58820 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:50 am to
Can you bring alcohol to the pools? Because if not, no one will use them.
Posted by BigPerm30
Member since Aug 2011
30763 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:51 am to
Kids are so coddled. Use that shitty pool money to buyout that shitty football coach.
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33035 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:52 am to
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buyout that shitty football coach.


Replace Joe Alleva now.

Replace O and Canada in the spring.
Posted by Bishop Bullwinkle
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2016
37 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:53 am to
Where there is a will there is a way.
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:55 am to
That gym is nice as fricking shite inside.
Posted by baseballmind1212
Missouri City
Member since Feb 2011
3378 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:56 am to
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shawnlsu
Worst run project I have ever worked on


Heard this from multiple people.

Was it Womack or LSU that was PITA
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
19786 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 7:57 am to
Either students priorities have changed since I went to school or this is adult administrators trying to force their ideas onto the college experience. When I was in school there were three priorities:

Class
Girls
Partying

None of that involved going to a Student Rec Center.

Have things changed that much or is this just some BS dreamed up by the same crew who have vowed to "change the culture" of Greeks?
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33035 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:01 am to
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That gym is nice as fricking shite inside.



I'm honestly jealous. The rec was always very busy and congested when I was at LSU.
Posted by BigPerm30
Member since Aug 2011
30763 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:03 am to
Damn, I wish I was in college again. I'd slay so much pussy doing curls in the squat rack.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
111959 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:03 am to
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Was it Womack or LSU that was PITA


quote:

LSU
Posted by baseballmind1212
Missouri City
Member since Feb 2011
3378 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:03 am to
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Either students priorities have changed since I went to school or this is adult administrators trying to force their ideas onto the college experience.



Urec definitely gets used. I think it was a good investment.

I worked out there every day while in school. Was super convenient to walk over between classes. And anytime before 9am and after 1pm that thing is packed.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
17625 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:06 am to
So now we send kids to school to pretend they are on vacation at Atlantis instead of actually going to class and learning?
Posted by meauxses
Member since Nov 2012
2892 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:06 am to
I know plenty of people (including myself) who started working out again or for the first time because the Rec is too nice to pass up. I don't know anything about the construction but I'm enjoying the finished product almost every day. It's great.
Posted by More beer please
Member since Feb 2010
46192 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:08 am to
Christ you people are stupid.

LSU was essentially dead last is UREC facilities in the SEC. This is being paid for by students through increased fees. God forbid we try whatever we can to get students wanting to attend the university.
Posted by Carson123987
Middle Court at the Rec
Member since Jul 2011
67766 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:08 am to
You have to go in the morning if you don't want it to be jam frickin packed. When school started, I couldn't even find a parking spot when I went there from work. It's very nice though
Posted by uway
Member since Sep 2004
33109 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:11 am to
It's ridiculous opulence in a time of economic uncertainty.

It's stupid, in many ways, to give it to young people, most of whom have never provided for themselves.
Posted by shawnlsu
Member since Nov 2011
23682 posts
Posted on 10/3/17 at 8:14 am to
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This post was edited on 10/3/17 at 8:19 am
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