Dynamic Conditioning Centre

Great gym! The workouts will get your heart rate up quickly while having fun! Great atmosphere and the instructors are great at watching your form and are happy to give you alternative exercises if you have an injury. They run a challenge of the month which is always fun to participate in for a challenge!
I highly recommend this place for anyone who loves to challenge them self in the gym and get the conditioning you need for other sports. All of the instructors and trainers are awesome!

So you work out at the gym 3x a week. Run for 30 — 60 minutes. Can lift weight. And you think you are strong right? Right?
DCC will break your ego.
I worked out at the beginner’s boot camp and I’m not sure what’s beginner about it. I’m glad I humbly signed up for the BEGINNER’s class. I just realized I was a condescending a-​hole who thinks I’m fit. I sweat like crazy. Panted like crazy. Breathe heavily.
It was hard work. If you want a no-​frill real work out, come to this class. Hurman was hands on, knowledgeable and a good coach. Those wall balls and furbee moves are difficult. What the heck.
I was put in pain at the beginner’s class so I might as well do this weekly. My ego was crushed, I need to reclaim. See you DCC. See you weekly!

This place is amazing, accommodating class schedule, close proximity to the downtown core, steps away from public transit, who could ask for more. The price is reasonable for the quality of instruction, they provide towels, have a unique selection of equipment and is clean! I will definitely restart back soon as my new years resolution is to get back in shape

This is my first pro-​health review. I was beginning to sound like a sugar freak. DCC is interesting. I have only been to one class and for my free class, I chose the Introductory Bootcamp. Boy, did they lie. This was hardcore. I pretty much worked out for show, only doing it when the trainer was looking my way. I think he figured this out eventually and decided to camp around my area forcing me to actually workout for the remaining 40 minutes!!! I hurt as I type this.
They are not joking about the atmosphere. It is certainly very mature. The décor, all that deep green against lots of dull black metal… It is pretty grown up and somewhat depressing. Luckily I was too distracted by the challenging class to even care. I didn’t get to play with the toys because I was in the Intro Class but he did show us a toy we were going to use in the next class and NOTHING about it said «play» to me lol. If I ever get crazy enough to try the intermediate class, I am sure I will enjoy the adult playground aspect of DCC much more. I will say this, if you are into conventional fitness, DCC is a TOP choice, the best one in fact. It really does not get any better. My idea of fun fitness is climbing things, taking circus classes and maybe even pole and lap dance classes so… my 3 star review is certainly biased. Blame Unilocal for that. 4 stars means «Yay! I’m a fan». Well, I am not but I am sure you will be :).
ETA: I’m updating my rating to a 5 star because if my idea of fun was more conventional, I would be masochistically all over this joint like white on rice!

So, to look at me you’d think I’d never darkened the door of anything resembling an athletic establishment. I think my Jewish boss would describe me as zaftig; however I am more pragmatic and will just admit that I’m chubby. The excess adipose is largely diet-​related though-​the chocolate just finds me. I’m a regular in the gym despite all that and usually work away by myself.
I bought a group buy voucher for classes at DCC on a whim because I’d heard of the place and seen the website. At the time I was in no rush to change my routine so ended up using my voucher in a rush close to the expiry date. It turned out to be perfect timing as my routines were getting stale and I was losing enthusiasm. Steph was quick to answer all my emails and set me up for my first class!
The facility is great. They call it an athletic playground and that’s pretty much what it looks like. Assuming you actually like to exercise, that is. There’s turf in the centre with a hill, a section with weights, kettlebells and benches, an area with a cushioned floor and a dedicated area for Olympic lifting. They have many, many toys: ropes to climb, tires to flip, gorgeous Eleiko bars and weights, hurdles, kettlebells, bands. Pretty much everything.
Their class range is great! They tend to have early morning, lunchtime and evening classes-​a mixture of bootcamps, female body sculpting, strength and power and high intensity conditioning. The bootcamps are G, PG and R rated. They’ve also rated the other classes-​unsurprisingly, the high intensity conditioning is rated R!
My first class was the general bootcamp (rated PG) with Jimmy. I felt a bit lost at first just wandering over to the white board where people were congregating. He was friendly and cheery though and put us through a challenging workout of sprints, suicides, kettlebell swings, med ball jackknifes and the dreaded burpees. I left exhilarated! Second class was advanced bootcamp (rated R) with Blaise. It was a ton of fun. We were split up into small groups and ended up doing things like dragging a weight plate up the turf, band-​assisted pullups, kettlebell swings, pushups, jumping in and out of a tire… and burpees. I did a general bootcamp with him the week after and it was completely different again and also fun. Pushups, pushing a plate, jumping. And of course burpees!
My favourite class was my final one-​strength and power with Jimmy. He looked a bit doubtful when I turned up, explaining that it was focusing on Olympic lifts. I admitted that I was a beginner but said I’d love to learn some technique and he was fabulous. He was incredibly sweet and patient and would come to me, give me tips/​pointers/​corrections and then leave me to practice by myself. I really felt that I improved over the course of the hour. I would absolutely love to go again.
Notes:
–Bathrooms are small but clean and nice with 2 shower stalls, shower gel, hairdryer etc
–They provide towels. Yay!
–You leave your bag in a shelving unit on the floor so you can always keep an eye on it
–Bootcamp classes can be big. There were 17 or 18 in some of mine. The class is capped at 20 but the large size means that you won’t be getting much personal attention. The strength and power classes are smaller
–It would have been nice if they’d asked who was new at the start of the classes and asked us how we felt after/​gave feedback. Or maybe that’s just me wanting to be graded all the time!
–They say that membership is approximately 50:50 male: female. The bootcamps tended to have a female predominance though (less noticeable in the advanced class) and the strength and power class was predominantly male.
–They have a variety of membership options including:
Class membership — $ 119 per month, fitness membership — Play in the Lair (gym access to do your own workout) — $ 99 (but $ 75 until July 31^st, 2012) and unlimited membership — $ 150 per month. I think there may be a class card option too but I’m waiting to hear from them about it.
As for me? I hope they have some kind of class card option. I want to go back!

It definitely bares saying: I do not hand out flowers easily. I work hard for my money, and since I own and operate a business of my own, I am indeed very picky as a customer.(not my fault. I just have standards. high ones!).but this is EXACTLY why you should absolutely believe me when I say that you should check this place out!
My boyfriend took me today, during open gym hours (he does have a membership there. while I do not… yet. but am seriously considering getting one!), so we could «throw down» a little. drop some weights (ya bail, if ya fail! LOL). without making a scene (I dunno. the happy people leading the «Goodlife» don’t like us making too much noise when we train. and arguably. throwing down huge weights in a crowded gym might not be considered safe. HA!).Anyway. had a lot of fun there. Was quiet, we did out workout, no attitude was given from anyone there, staff and owners are friendly and welcoming, facility is clean. music is right (not too loud. and angry enough to fuel your workouts!).equipment is quite varied, so you could actually give yourself some really intense and inventive workouts, there.
While DCC isn’t a place I would recommend to everyone a beginner starting their fitness journey, it is definitely a place I highly recommend for those who have done the gym scene long enough, are bored with the gym equipment typically found in fitness facilities and/​or just want to go «play» and lift :)

If you’ve read my other reviews, you’ve probably come to the conclusion that I’m a bit of an athletic snob. I’m not a fan of «fans» and «fitness». I need to break a serious sweat to consider calling an activity an actual workout.
So, when I heard about DCC, «the athletic playground», I was skeptical. If I wanted to play, I’d go to a public park.
Of course, I was wrong (as usual, always a doubter).
Play is definitely involved, but certainly of the «no pain, no gain» variety.
The DCC gym is unlike any other gym I’ve ever been to (I’ve been to a whole lot). For starters, the first thing that will catch your eye is the man-​made, astro-​turfed strip running from wall-​to-​wall with a hill. Oh, the pain you will endure on this strip… in a good way, of course.
There’s also monkey bars, a universal, fire hoses, mats, a huge tire, sledgehammers… all with which you train (get worked).
Basically, it’s like a fun bootcamp (if you can imagine saying those two words in the same sentence).
Highly recommended for all serious athletes, even just for occasional cross-​training.