I can’t walk 2 blocks without running into a health club, but does anyone know any real gyms in NY? Preferably a place where I don’t have to bring my own chalk, I can drop my last rep when doing deadlifts without people on the floor below me coming up to complain, knowledgeable people who I could ask about my form when doing snatches… which I can drop afterwards because they have bumper plates.
Anyone have any recommendations?
what borough?
I go to NYU, so Manhattan. But if the place is solid and near a train I wouldn’t mind going to queens or brooklyn. I spent a few days researching this and the only place I could find is the Lost Battalion. The place looked really good, but their hours were sort of restrictive.
battalion’s schedule sucks but it is by far the best place for serious strength trainig in the city. worth the effort if you ask me. it’s been a while since i lived up there but is asphalt green over on east end ave still around. they used to have a nice set up for oly and powerlifting
[quote]robo1 wrote:
battalion’s schedule sucks but it is by far the best place for serious strength trainig in the city. worth the effort if you ask me. it’s been a while since i lived up there but is asphalt green over on east end ave still around. they used to have a nice set up for oly and powerlifting[/quote]
The place does look perfect, the times just interfere with my BJJ training, and for now I am weightlifting for BJJ. I could perhaps still go to the LB once or twice a week and still do the rest of my workouts at NYU. It seems like a good atmosphere to get some quality instruction on the olympic lifts.
Anyone else have any suggestions? With 10 million people in my city you think we would have more options!
[quote]anoddparadigm wrote:
Anyone else have any suggestions? With 10 million people in my city you think we would have more options![/quote]
…well 9.5 million of them are metrosexuals too worried about dripping sweat on their $400 pair of Prada sneakers or messing up their $800 haircut.
I go to college in NYC and I’ve been looking into this for a while. If you are up for a long commute, there is Coliseum in Queens. Otherwise, my best suggestion is just go to the university gym, turn on loud music and stare down everyone in the gym so nobody talks to you. They aren’t going to suspend you for being loud…
wasn’t there a place taht just opened up by - dang it,whaddya call em, the piers on teh lower west side? It looked BEAUTIFUL, everything new, bumper plates, ghr, reverse hypers, etc
Pumping Iron uptown on the east side. Very old school, but no bullshit. Also steel gym downtown is pretty good, Victor Martinez among others use to train there.
-M
[quote]KBCThird wrote:
wasn’t there a place taht just opened up by - dang it,whaddya call em, the piers on teh lower west side? It looked BEAUTIFUL, everything new, bumper plates, ghr, reverse hypers, etc[/quote]
you mean Chelsea piers? Hadn’t heard about a new gym there. There is also aviator sport in Brooklyn.
I wouldn’t recommend steel gym. It’s been almost a couple years since I’ve been in there, but unless they changed the place around its not really good for doing Olympic lifting or powerlifting for that matter. Didn’t have a platform or even a large empty space to just deadlift without having people walk all over you to get to their weights. It’s a great place for bodybuilders but not much else. Also a little too much social activity there for my taste.
lostbattalionhallweightlifting.org
Come join the team. We’re always looking for new folks.
You can’t beat 100 bucks a year.
[quote]ledfist wrote:
lostbattalionhallweightlifting.org
Come join the team. We’re always looking for new folks.
You can’t beat 100 bucks a year.[/quote]
Honestly, that place is the best I have seen. Unfortunately the schedule doesn’t work for it to be my primary gym. However, with rates like that I may end up training there once a week and do the rest of my workouts at NYU.
If you want a REAL gym its ghetto and far.
there is an EXCELLENT gym in Brooklyn Way out.
In Bensonhurst Detail Fitness 95 Avenue U.
I went there in the late 90’s I lived local.
Owner is a Made guy, who works as a “bodyguard” if you have to ask, then maybe its not the gym for you.
Its in the basement- and its an Iron head gym- dirty cheap & plenty of clowns, and plenty of people who know what what is. plenty of people on "supplements"here you will see it all 700 and 800 lbs squats and dudes reading the paper on the treadmill and dudes grunting with there 15 lb dumbell. blue collar hard core neighborhood gym.
they have more 45’s than any gym I have ever seen.
there could be somone using big weights on both leg presses-
and all three or four racks and all the benches and not run out.
Seriously a TON of weight for a tiny ghetto gym.
and two sets of most dumbells 70 to like 130. They had hooks to add plates to any rack/cable system.
there is a power lifting room/area with blocks, platforms, two racks.
in that part two more in the main gym chalk is OK, they dont have chains or that crap but they did have a deadlift platform and a “Plate loader”
thing to jack up a bar on the floor with to load more stuff.
Pat Susco trains there, ( he is power lifter type )as do some other russian power lifters and women lifters as well. who all compete.
there are a few semi pro bodybuilders and one or two figure competitors there as well. Fran Ferraro trained there, she was a local BB pro.
good people good pricing, Really far, and by no means is it “spa”
Isnt the NYU gym OK? don’t the athletes train there on Mercer?
They have a Judo class there too. a track a pool I thought they had O-lifts too.
On Elizabeth st… there is a decent gym I think its 599$ which is CHEAP here
called Synergy- basic , clean gym. One rack decent amount of gear.
clean nice.
the crunch facility on Broadway is OK but its spread out over three floors
the steps get old quick crunch, NYSC all are 79 to 89 dollars a month.
I went to equinox for 90 days on a guest pass.
its beautiful in a metro way more like a spa… but that one is 139 a month.
they were not sure they liked when I rolled the dumbells on the floor
or worked outside the Rack.
if you want to go all out and money is NO object- try chelsea piers
that is close to 2K a year. but they have everything.
there is a another Iron head style gym on 14th street called “24 hour gym”.
it used to be called “johhny Lats”
there is an OK gym on the LES on delancy small , kind of crappy
but under croweded. and under priced.
there is also a crossfit in NYC O-lifts and kettlebells but you have to
do the group workout.
Pm me for more details…
where do you Roll? BJJ?
kmc
[quote]Dan_T wrote:
there is Coliseum in Queens.[/quote]
this might be a problem to get to due to its location. Especially for someone not accustomed to queens.
[quote]
ledfist wrote:
lostbattalionhallweightlifting.org
Come join the team. We’re always looking for new folks.
You can’t beat 100 bucks a year.[/quote]
I can vouch for this. The coaches are great and the lifters are serious. I had to stop due to school but i plan to return once i am not a weak fuck (otherwise i feel like I’m wasting the coaches’ time).
There is a great sense of community at LBH and some strong bastards too.
Len (the guy in the picture) is the nicest dude you’ll ever meet also, (and again) strong also.