During lunch I lift at Bally’s. It is usually pretty empty and I have 4 squat racks to choose from.
In the evening, I lift at home. I have:
The gym at the Oly club has rubber matted floor, high ceilings. 3 Oly bars that aren’t locked, the rest of them are locked up along with at least 3 full sets of Oly weights, lots of 5’s, 2.5’s and 1.25 weights, a set of the smaller weights that are in use. These are locked up and I have access to the keys. Only paying club members are allowed to use the weights, the general public use the leisure centres weights provided.
It isn’t that big, but has enough space for about 5 bars lifting if we space it out properly and if no one else is in there.
We hae a pull up bar, dip bars, power rack, one squat rack, DBs up to 50kg also, 3 benches, 2 decline sit ups benchs.
It’s small but the atmosphere is great.
Lunchtime gym is a typical life style gym. Bunch of machines. Smith machine, leg press, leg curls blah blah blah, but most importantly it has a decent squat rack!
Koing
My Garage: 900 finished square feet.
Lifting platform with mats and squat jacks
Custom built power rack
Custom built lat pull/low row combo
45 degree leg pres
regular bench press
adjustable bench
flat bench
seated calf raise
leg ext/ leg curl combo
reverse-hyper extension
dip station
viking press
Ivanko o/lifting bar
Texas power bar
Cambered bar
Apollons axle
old BFCO bar
Bumpers
100 lb plates and enough iron to keep ya rocking
Dumbbells 5-80 and my Olympic dumbbells set at 160
logs
farmers walks
stones
elliptical
treadmill
spinning bike (my mom’s she is 69 and can ride that thing for an hour)
I think that is about it.
I can do you one better: I can SHOW you.
As much as people on this board hate us Clemson folks, you have to admit, this weight room is bad ass- especially considering that there are never more than 5 people there at a time.
I go to the town gym, actually it’s a “raquet club”, where you can pay ridiculous money to play tennis indoors, or raquetball for a small monthly fee.
Cardio is upstairs, that’s where the girls usually are, although sometimes they go downstairs to the yoga room. There’s a basketball court, lounge near the front desk, and then the weight room, which is a good size. The main problem is that they crammed way too much equipment in there, you can’t load a bench without brushing your ass on the weight rack next to it.
Dumbell selection is new, 2 sets, up to 120lbs. Lots of machines, too many I think.
Often times its a lot of hs kids standing around bullshitting, pretending to lift. There’s a couple serious regulars I see, but even some of them do stupid stuff.
The worst part by far is the locker room. They play 60s classic ‘rock’ and theres always old naked men standing around for a long as possible. It usually smells like shit bc of the toliets, add to it the humidity from the sauna in there too.
Last time I was there I had to do my squats in the power rack, which was right next to this area that was being painted so that was cool breathing the fumes in while busting my ass. The other week the entire weight room reaked like complete shit, I swear, I’m not exaggerating. It was so bad that I couldnt even acclimate to it so I smelled it the whole time.
Overall, it’s a good place, because it’s cheap, $10/month for the weight rooms, $5 more for tanning, and $8 more for raquetball, although I never play because the friend I joined with never goes.
I got to a small enough uni that the athletes and regular joes get to use the same weight room. So, my gym is amazing.
-Plyo boxes
-5 glute hame raise stations
-7 or 8 freestanding benches for DB work
-DBs up to 150
-7 power rack/oly platform combos
-each oly platform had regular iron plates and bumper plates
-6 or 7 bench stations (in a half rack basically)
-cable cross over station (with two seated rowing stations, and 4 pull down stations)
-anything else I could ever need or want
Great place. great vibe when athletes are in there training during open hours. Filled with frat boys when they’re not. All in all, pretty good.
Push, you are a bad boy and need to be spanked.
Oh, my gym’s a big pretty white gym with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
biggjames wrote:
My Garage: 900 finished square feet.
Lifting platform with mats and squat jacks
Custom built power rack
Custom built lat pull/low row combo
45 degree leg pres
regular bench press
adjustable bench
flat bench
seated calf raise
leg ext/ leg curl combo
reverse-hyper extension
dip station
viking press
Ivanko o/lifting bar
Texas power bar
Cambered bar
Apollons axle
old BFCO bar
Bumpers
100 lb plates and enough iron to keep ya rocking
Dumbbells 5-80 and my Olympic dumbbells set at 160
logs
farmers walks
stones
elliptical
treadmill
Sybian (my girlfriend loves to 69 and can ride that thing for an hour)
I think that is about it.
James. James. James. What are we gonna do with you?
I think that IS about it.
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Sick fucker, that is why we love ya!
The holly trees shed constantly, so either before or during training I’ve got to rake off my spot. Even so I track in mashed red berries every time. I’ve got a nice long alley to do farmers walks and a big stump for step ups. The ground is much more level than the last back yard I had too. When I started training out here, I assumed people would stare, but nobody seems to notice. I have got a few crazy looks while doing the farmers walks in the alley.
My gym kicks ass.
The upstairs area is more of a “fitness” area- lots of treadmills and elipticals, Hammer Strength, a dumbell rack and a platform with a power rack. Also has batting cages and an ‘explosion room’ for pylometric room.
The downstairs features the ‘college-style weightroom’: 4 Olympic platforms, 4 PowerLift power racks, dumbells up to 180 pounds, 2 GHR and 2 Reverse-Hypers with loud rock music. Also lots of strongman equipment. Lots of strong dudes.
I couldn’t be happier. Only 10 minutes from my place.
I go to Bally’s with rows and rows of fat women on treadmills and ellipticals. Good thing is the squat rack is in the back and is never being used.
[quote]joburnet wrote:
I go to Bally’s with rows and rows of fat women on treadmills and ellipticals. Good thing is the squat rack is in the back and is never being used.[/quote]
really they dont use it for curls?
[quote]ss847859 wrote:
I go to a very small gym. The front room is a supplement store, about 4 shelves then the walls have shelves full of stuff. The second room is dirty, everything has a residue of powder on it. To the left are Four platforms with racks and another just for deadlifts.
Three Benches, a smith machine, dumbells, Incline, leg press, the cable machines. In the back room theres a pull up bar, 4 beat up treadmills, a bike that doesnt work, a T-bar, chest supported row machine and a few ab machines. Theres a Hallway leading to the back street, pretty sure its just an emergency exit.
Its got a few big tires and other stuff stored back there and then its got a sled that you can drag up and down the hall. Most of the lights are out and it kinda looks like a bad slasher movie set and it stinks back there. Powerlifters mostly, few bodybuilders, very few girls.
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are you talking about albany strength?
if so I just started going there this week and i love it