Jack Ison Weight Room

Eastern Kentucky University Athletics

Housed in the Moberly Building is Eastern Kentucky University’s varsity weight room, a state of the art facility which provides EKU’s student-athletes the opportunity to enhance their abilities by making use of top-of-the-line equipment.

In December 2013, the weight room underwent a significant renovation as new equipment provided by the Sorinex Company was installed.

“This is a great day for EKU Athletics,” head strength and conditioning coach Jon-Michael Davis said. “Right now, there are only a few places that have this current set-up – Texas and Cal to name a couple. We also took some ideas from the Jacksonville Jaguars and Denver Broncos. We are doing something very similar to all of these examples, but the best way to fit our needs and scheduling.”

With the current upgrade, the varsity weight room now has 10 whisper-link wood Olympic platforms, all with dumbbell and bumper storage, as well as five mini-racks that are band and chain compatible with bar storage. Five of the platforms have dual-sided racks which will allow a student-athlete to train in position A and a different student-athlete to train in position B in a safe fashion.