The Student Recreation and Fitness Center got a makeover Tuesday when maintenance and delivery staff replaced more than a dozen machines.
The new strength-training machines, made by FreeMotion Fitness, replaced old machines of the same style.
The machines were between 8 and 10 years old, which is old for fitness machines, said Katie Roberts, RecSports coordinator for fitness of strength and conditioning and fitness assessment.
The replacements follow the trend of renovating university fitness centers, which hasn't just included massive overhauls at Southwest Recreation Center.
Earlier in the year, the Student Recreation and Fitness Center received cardiovascular machines like treadmills, stepmills and cycling machines and expanded its exercise floor.
The machines added at the center Tuesday cost RecSports $57,576, said Gary Zetrouer, associate director for resource and project management in the department.
He said this year's RecSports budget is about $5.7 million.
The budget is allocated by Student Government from activity and service fees collected from students by the university. The RecSports board of directors - made up of students, faculty and staff - then decides how to spend the money, he said.
Roberts said she hopes students will appreciate the new equipment and said part of her job is to make sure students have a good place to work out while they spend years at the university going to school.
"We don't want people to think that Student Rec is the backup gym," she said.
