Canolfan Brailsford Indoor Facilities
Facilities in Canolfan Brailsford include the following:
Spin Studio
Studio 1
Hall 1
6 x Badminton Courts, 2 x Volleyball Courts, 1 x full size Basketball Court (2 x 1/2 hall Basketball Courts), 1 x Netball Court, 1 x Indoor Hockey, 1 x Five-a-side Court. There is also provision for Table Tennis and Indoor Cricket. This hall has a sprung floor and a balcony is available for spectators.
Hall 2
4 x Badminton Courts, 1 x Volleyball Court, 1 x Netball Court, 1 x Basketball Court and 1 x Five-a-side Court. There is also provision for Indoor Bowls, Indoor Cricket and Trampolining. A balcony is available for spectators.
Sports Dome
Our new indoor Sports Dome contains 2 x Netball Courts and 2 x Indoor Tennis Courts.
Upper Floor Gym
With a great view of the mountains and a substantial investment from the University of new Pulse fitness equipment, Canolfan Brailsford Sports Centre offers you fitness training second to none, that delivers an excellent customer focus training environment.
The upper floor fitness room is home to around 50 top of the range cardiovascular machines, with each of the Pulse CV machines fitted with high end consoles that are ready to immerse customers with quality TV, streaming, app and web services to enable the customer to have an engaging training experience, in surroundings that are air conditioned.
Once logged in to the Pulse Machines, customers can personalise their workout, and track their progress using the using the Pulse move app.
Premium range resistance machines are also available on this floor, that enable the customer to have a full body workout and are fitted with consoles that you can log in to and track your progress as well as them giving full exercise guidance for beginners right through to detailed results, to give customers a great workout experience and to help you along the way on your desired fitness journey.
Lower Floor Gym
The lower floor gym is also equipped with the an excellent variety of the Pulse premium range of resistance machines for you to have a total body workout, and they also have this great console technology that enables you to use the pulse move app to track and record your fitness progress.
There are also dual adjustable pulley machines, a smith machine and this area is also home to the Pulse brand of “Heavy Duty Plate Loaded” machines, that include, leg press, hack squat, calve raise, shoulder press etc that are robust in design, and ready to take on the heavy workloads that are asked of them.
Adding to this there are flat, incline and decline Olympic weightlifting benches, a preacher curl bench, a large selection of free weights and bars, a squat rack, as well as an excellent range of dumbbells that are on offer for the customers.
Platfform 81
Our gym area adds to our already extensive gym facilities at Canolfan Brailsford. The gym will be included as part of your membership package, and we are running two new exciting classes FIIT and HIIT in the new facility (see Class information on website) . The facility can be hired for team training, all enquiries to: Brailsford@Bangor.ac.uk
Squash Courts
The Sport Centre has four squash courts, one of which has a glass back wall with a seated viewing gallery. We are very proud to announce that the squash courts are of International standard.
Climbing Wall
“Livingstone Wall”. 10 Top Ropes give access to over 30 routes from 'DIFF' to 7C, on panelled walls from off vertical to super steep. Well featured bouldering wall provides endless scope for problems of all difficulty above crash mats. For climbing courses please see ‘What's on’ page.