Located at 201 E. Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820, the Art and Recreation Center(ARC) is one of the largest campus recreation centers in the country. The building is composed of four floors with a total area of 340,000 square feet, each floor is offering something different. Campus Recreation cultivates positive life-long learning by providing inclusive and valuable resources that empower the campus to achieve, develop leaders, and serve the global community at the highest level. Although its main purpose focus on students, the ARC overall serves the whole community that everyone can participate.
Campus Recreation is one of the largest on-campus employers with almost 600 positions available ranging from lifeguarding to officiating to assisting customers. Student employees play an invaluable role by providing customer service, safety and fun to guests. Campus Recreation give students chances for valuable work skills, life-long learning opportunities and lasting friendship as one would describe his experience working at campus recreation as “ Opportunities…Family…Flexible….Friends…Home…”
At first glance, the ARC’s updated furniture and nifty Courtside Café make it look more like an airport than a gym. After exercises, people can grab a bite to eat at the Courtside Café, which serves breakfast food, soups, salads, toasted subs, smoothies and protein shakes. This can be a place for students to relax and enjoy a fun time with friends after extensive work out.
ARC offers a huge variety of programs such as adventure programs, aquatic, climbing adventures, club sports, group fitness, etc. There are many machines here that students do not need to wait in line to exercise. In addition to the abundance of machines, the ARC also houses a three-story climbing wall, 13 basketball courts, 12 racquetball courts and seven huge multipurpose rooms, one of which recently held a 200-person wedding. There are squash courts, ping pong tables and Wii Fit games.
Recently, the ARC has offered wellness services such as instructional kitchen, club sports and group fitness classes. The instructional kitchen will review a different cookbook each month and one special recipe from it and meets on the first Tuesday of each month. This club is a great way to gather friends, colleagues, committee members. Campus Recreation Group Fitness offers a variety of formats to keep everyone motivated and feeling healthy and to meet personal goals. The programs provided are yoga, deep water exercise, Zumba and etc. to fight for obesity, arthritis and osteoporosis
Synopsis: ARC is definitely a great place for students to explore. At the ARC, any workout is possible. Students can benefits a lot from the varieties of programs that it offers. It helps students to achieve physical wellness, contribute to personal development and enrich a student college life. Also, students can apply for jobs at the ARC to gain work experiences in the recreation and leisure field. By exploring more and more about the ARC, I have learned that there is always something new that you can do at the ARC; for example, you can join the dance clubs or fitness groups, these help to build communication skills among students and help students to learn the value of team works. I love to visit the ARC with my friends to exercise and at the same time to release the stress from school work and have a fun and enjoyable time with friends together. Each of us should enjoy our leisure time spend at ARC.
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