Tell Us Your Favorite FitRec Story, for the 20th Anniversary Celebration
Did you meet a future partner there? Trip on a treadmill? Break a personal record? We want to hear what FitRec has meant to you

Tell Us Your Favorite FitRec Story, for the 20th Anniversary Celebration
Did you meet a future partner there? Trip on a treadmill? Break a personal record? We want to hear what FitRec has meant to you
Its official name is Boston University’s Fitness & Recreation Center. But let’s be real. You know it as FitRec. It’s free for full-time students and sits on West Campus, right next to Agganis Arena. The facility (it’s more than a gym), one of BU’s true campus gems, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a weeklong series of events starting March 24. (It officially opened on April 1, 2005.)
With that in mind, we want your FitRec stories. Did you get in the best shape of your life thanks to its classes and equipment? Did you learn to swim there? Did you meet a future partner there? Did you have an embarrassing workout moment you’re willing to share? How has FitRec impacted your life? Tell us your FitRec stories and we’ll compile a collection of personal reflections to celebrate the big anniversary.
Just fill out the form below. Be sure to include your school and grad year if you’re a student and your name and title if you’re a BU employee. The deadline for submissions is February 15.
(As some of you may remember, students celebrated FitRec’s 10th anniversary in April 2015 by trying to break the Guinness World Record for most people doing pushups in the same place at the same time. Alas, although about 500 people took part, it fell short of the record at the time: 615. Since then, that record has been pushed up to 2,926, by the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in April 2023. Gulp.)
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