The renovations included resurfacing the gymnasium floor, installing new lockers, cleaning the pool and installing new saunas.

Wendy Tompkins, Bethesda’s recreation services manager, said resurfacing the gymnasium floor and cleaning the pool are annual maintenance procedures, but the rest of the project was to update the Comfort Zone.

There is a proposed plan to build a new fitness facility in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Tompkins said. Managers didn’t want to spend a lot of money on the current building in the event a new facility is approved.

The improvements that were made, however, can be transferred to the new establishment if need be, she said.

‘‘[This year] we only wanted to do our normal annual maintenance and add new lockers, which we will be able to take with us to a new facility,” Tompkins said.

Brian Jackson, Bethesda’s fitness and aquatics director, said some customers felt slightly inconvenienced with the renovations, but continued to workout at the facility.

Hospitalman Philip Fishburn, who works in Bethesda’s Occupational Therapy Clinic, said he tailored his exercise routine to work around the renovations.

‘‘Instead of running on the treadmill or using the elliptical, I would run outside even though it got cold,” Fishburn said. ‘‘There were times when my lifting schedule had to change [because of the renovations]. But, what can you do? They are trying to improve things.”

The new lockers are more modern and much nicer than the old ones, Tompkins said.

David Hall, a frequent visitor to Bethesda’s gymnasium, said the new lockers improve the locker rooms, but he wished more had been done.

‘‘I like the new lockers,” he said. ‘‘I just wish they would have retiled the floors.”

During the scheduled renovation period, the fitness facility added cosmetic restorations to the basketball court.

Tompkins said gymnasium users have shown appreciation for the new Morale, Welfare and Recreation logo and newly painted Navy colors incorporated into the new scheme of the basketball court.

Hall said he was really impressed with the work done on the basketball court.

‘‘When the renovations were completed, the first thing I noticed was the surprising improvements to the basketball court,” Hall said. ‘‘I really noticed the new shine on the floor and the new paint job.”

Fishburn said the renovations at the fitness facility have improved how service members will be able to perform their exercise routines.

‘‘The [renovations] are excellent,” Fishburn said. ‘‘They are providing the Sailors and everyone [working at Bethesda] a more modern facility to workout in.”