Member Testimonials
Staff are friendly, great teachers.
Great staff and facilities.
Large fitness room for group classes.
Spacious and open fitness room with equipment
Great classes, lots of cardio equipment, weight machines and free weights. Very friendly staff! Locker room is spacious.
Friendly staff, great workout equipment. Most importantly, the sauna and steam room always work, are clean, and well maintained.
The only reason I wouldn't recommend this location is so that word doesnt get out about the sauna to where it gets overcrowded! :-)
I love the steam room
Friendly and terrific classes.
My only issue is parking and that’s a significant issue! Three or four time recently I have signed up for a class on Thursday afternoon and then not been able to find any parking and had to go home! That’s ridiculous. Please solve the parking problem!
Great barre class on Tues by Amy, also great pilates class and yoga class on Mondays.
Consistent parking due to me getting over to the Lakewood YMCA early
Great staff! Small, not as crowded. Members actually talk to each other.
I feel so comfortable there, from the time I arrive to the time I leave.
Been having a great two weeks of consistent gym time! Looking forward to trying more group fitness classes and utilizing the sauna and steam room
Friendly folks, spacious group exercise studio, terrific classes especially Barre with Amy R.!
Just the basics: good environment, clean, locker-room is good, equipment in good shape, front desk staff is helpful. A good place to work out.
Really appreciate Ellie’s Lean and Cut class on Thursdays!
Great workout atmosphere
Loved that the parking spaces were right on. Jeff at member services was so helpful as it was my first time at this location. Women's steam and sauna was rocking and it was very tidy to boot.
The YMCA is doing a much better job maintaining the Lakewood location than in maintaining the larger Downtown location. While it's good that the YMCA is maintaining the quality of the two smaller locations near-ish to downtown Durham (Lakewood and American Tobacco), I wish the YMCA would do a better job maintaining the larger Downtown location.
The staff is nice, the equipment good and the sauna and steam bath are great.
The sauna room and amenities of the whole gym
The aerobic classes
its very diverse, different body sizes, ethnicies, great sauna and very clean!
Ease of access; fantastic staff and lovely facility
Fun friendly workout, terrible parking
Home away from home
Anthony is the best instructor I’ve had across the YMCA of the Triangle branches the last four years. I wish he had more classes at Lakewood — it’s my closest branch — but I’ll happily travel to take more of his classes!
The atmosphere is workout friendly.
Community. It’s people who have a common interest in fitness and health who have committed to their participation there for years.
The atmosphere and numbers of equipment are conducive to a full workout.
Brooke, the yoga instructor, was wonderful. The front desk staff were very welcoming.
It is convenient and offers the classes I like.