[quote]22a wrote:
I’m being slowly kicked out of my gym at the moment. My lifting “doesn’t fit with their philosophy”[/quote]
Ask specifically what their philosophy is. When they give some bogus bullshit answer, show how your training actually does meet all those requirements. Then when they give you a dumbass answer use all sorts of logic about how that goes against societal standards and you’re feeling a large amount of prejudice and discrimination coming your way from them.
If they bring the “women are scared of it” card as others have said, let them know it’s a sexist comment. Simply make them realize there is no good argument for not using chalk, not lifting heavy, and not being a motherfucking bad ass.
[quote]GP7 wrote:
I’m a senior in highschool, as well as a heavy lifter, and hearing all this bullshit about university gyms is more likely to have a play in my choice of college…[/quote]
This isn’t a bright idea…are you really going to sacrifice a better education just so you don’t have to put up with some b.s. rules for 4 years of your life? I can understand if two colleges are dead even all else considered, and you go with the one with better gym rules, but get real man…don’t blow your education just because you might not like the rules…like some other people mentioned, you can get a membership at a gym for $20 a month…not a lot in the grand scheme of things…put it on a credit card[/quote]
No worries, UVA has a much better gym than VT, so he won’t have to sacrifice his education.
JK, I have no idea what either has now. But I loved my dungeon gym at University Hall.[/quote]
I think seeing people stronger than you should be inspiring rather than intimidating and if you choose to take it as intimidating that’s your own lack of confidence or desire to improve. Personally seeing a guy in the gym out-bench out-squat or out deadlift me makes me want to improve and is especially helpful on those days I feel unmotivated.[/quote]
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
while reading this thread i saw a planet fitness commercial making jacked people out to be retarded. (the shoe tying one)[/quote]
Saw that, someone should call them racists since the guy was black. I actually think skinny , dweebey lazy people are stupid for falling for this crap.
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
while reading this thread i saw a planet fitness commercial making jacked people out to be retarded. (the shoe tying one)[/quote]
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
while reading this thread i saw a planet fitness commercial making jacked people out to be retarded. (the shoe tying one)[/quote]
[quote]22a wrote:
I’m being slowly kicked out of my gym at the moment. My lifting “doesn’t fit with their philosophy”[/quote]
Ask specifically what their philosophy is. When they give some bogus bullshit answer, show how your training actually does meet all those requirements. Then when they give you a dumbass answer use all sorts of logic about how that goes against societal standards and you’re feeling a large amount of prejudice and discrimination coming your way from them.
If they bring the “women are scared of it” card as others have said, let them know it’s a sexist comment. Simply make them realize there is no good argument for not using chalk, not lifting heavy, and not being a motherfucking bad ass.[/quote]
My arguments didn’t go down that well. Gym owner might be wrong, but she’s still the owner and if she wants me gone then there’s fuck all I can do about it at the end of the day. Plus, if they don’t want me there then I doubt I’m going to get much satisfaction out of training there anyway.
I got her to commit to letting me stay until after this competition on November 20 so that I don’t have to interrupt what I’m doing until then. Plenty of other gyms in the area though, should be no problem picking something else up.
I still can’t find a vid of the one i was talking about but basically a bber is just learning how to tie his shoe, he speaks like an ogre post lobotomy. When he finally ties them he runs out and starts screaming.
I guess I’m lucky. A&M’s gym has about 4 or 5 chalk boxes around the weight area, but they could stand a few more racks and a GHR. The Gold’s in town doesn’t even have a GHR, wtf?
[quote]whateverpratt wrote:
I guess I’m lucky. A&M’s gym has about 4 or 5 chalk boxes around the weight area, but they could stand a few more racks and a GHR. The Gold’s in town doesn’t even have a GHR, wtf?[/quote]
The UC - Santa Barbara student gym doesn’t have a GHM and when I asked the purchasing director if they would buy one she didn’t even know what it was. I had to describe it for her and then was told they already had 8 or so of the 45-degree back raises and that was enough.
This is understandable, since for a person that Planet Fatness doesn’t qualify as a ‘lunk’, writing down your name and email address would in fact constitute a max set, and they probably figured out that ‘lunks’ grunt when doing max sets, and put two and two together.
Back on topic, I’m currently thanking my lucky stars that the university I study in has two weight rooms, one for the fitness folk and another for people who actually lift weights.
[quote]JLD2k3 wrote:
No worries, UVA has a much better gym than VT, so he won’t have to sacrifice his education.
JK, I have no idea what either has now. But I loved my dungeon gym at University Hall.[/quote]
VT has 2 decent gyms but they are usually crowded as shit and full of frat boy lifters. I paid to go to an off campus gym that was 10x better and less crowded.
Management actually goes out of its way to accommodate our training requirements. We often get consulted on what we would like to see change, or new equipment added to the gym.
Rather than see our ‘type of lifting’ as driving other trainers away, they see it as an opportunity to create a niche market and attract trainers looking for specific types of equipment.
In the last 12-18 months the gym has added more power racks at the expense of Smith Machines due to space. They have added two Olympic platforms, funded the building of sprint sleds, prowlers, tyres, torpeedos etc for specific training.
When we asked for kettlebells they were included in the next years budget and have now arrived.
They also recently invested in a stand alone altitude training room as well as contrast baths (ice baths and spas).
A good example of how they operate was in the early days the cleaning staff complained about chalk. Rather than simply ban chalk, they asked us why we needed and for what lifts.
Two days later we had a change of floor tile in free weight area to make cleaning easier and chalk was now provided in a chalk stand.
You guys should all move to Australia and enjoy this type of service.
On a funny note,
my brother just got banned from the gym we went to. he was attempting a PR on oly squats, grunted real loud on the way up…some fat bitch on a treadmill got startled and flew off. haahahahahah
Something just hit me; what’s the policy about founding student sports clubs in the OP’s university? I figure “random lunkhead who doesn’t like the rules” would have a lot less pull with the gym management than “chairman of the powerlifting club”.
