So, I’m staying in another hotel which advertises a “fitness room”. What do I find when I get here? Five fucking cardio machines, a mat and a big pink ball.
So many hotels do this. Where’s the iron? I can only assume they have problems with insurance: it’s not as if the machines are cheap or maintenance-free. I guess you don’t get too many people crushed by steppers or rowing machines, though.
But if that is the case, of course, then the cause of the insurance premiums being high is the evil lawyers who will make a case about some fucking idiot not realising that too many Kgs are liable to crush his windpipe. Or mistaking kgs for lbs. Or whatever.
So, I’m stuck with thinking up bodyweight exercises for the rest of the week, and I choose to blame the entire fucking legal profession. Does that seem fair? I think so.
People are retarded. If they did have free weights I guarantee you would see stupid people of all ages monkeying around with the weights, doing poor imitations of exercises they see on TV.
At a commercial gym at least they have a few people keeping an eye on patrons to make sure they aren’t doing something completely retarded. And yet even with some supervision there are still thousands of videos on youtube of jackasses trying to fuck themselves up with weights.
So what is the hotel supposed to do? Hire someone to sit in that little room and keep an eye on people? How easy do you think it would be to find someone who knows what a proper bench press or squat, or power clean looks like? A totally unsupervised weight room would be an absolute disaster for everyone concerned.
[quote]doc_man_101 wrote:
But if that is the case, of course, then the cause of the insurance premiums being high is the evil lawyers who will make a case about some fucking idiot not realising that too many Kgs are liable to crush his windpipe. Or mistaking kgs for lbs. Or whatever.[/quote]
For every evil lawyer, there are even more fucking idiot clients who mistake kgs for lbs, hurt themselves, and then want to sue someone for their stupidity. If fucking idiots took responsibility for their own stupidity, then there would be less litigation in the U.S. But I don’t see that any time soon in this society. Because juries, composed of average citizens, seem to award verdicts for stupidity. Lawyers are a part of the process, not the cause.
[quote]Loose Tool wrote:
Lawyers are a part of the process, not the cause.
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That’s fair, actually. I’m calmer now :-). Perhaps the problem is with the English language. “Our hotel has a fitness centre” could mean just about anything.
I guess the right answer is to stop getting my hopes up.
Then I won’t be disappointed.
I blame media, marketers of those get 6 pack abs in a week programs, and lack of knowledge by the general public for real exercise principles as the reason for gyms such as those. Most of the hotel clients probably believe cardio machines and pink dumbbells are the key to a superior physique.
[quote]doc_man_101 wrote:
Loose Tool wrote:
Lawyers are a part of the process, not the cause.
That’s fair, actually. I’m calmer now :-). Perhaps the problem is with the English language. “Our hotel has a fitness centre” could mean just about anything.
I guess the right answer is to stop getting my hopes up.
Then I won’t be disappointed.
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Last summer I was stuck for a week at a seminar at a hotel in New Jersey. The “fitness center” looked like the one that pissed you off. Fortunately, I was doing Chad Waterbury’s 30 Day Mass Plan. I was able to put together a good workout none the less.
It’s common knowledge that you look for a gym close to the hotel and not one IN the hotel. I have been in many hotels and none of them ever have any weights. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. The best one I’ve seen was a Doubletree in San Antonio that at least had a pecdeck and lat pull down on one of those four way exercise machines.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
It’s common knowledge that you look for a gym close to the hotel and not one IN the hotel. [/quote]
So the Internet needs a database (set up by T-men perhaps) of good gyms (with day pass options) near hotels. Whenever I write a report on tripadvisor.com I give my views on the hotel’s gym and gyms nearby that I’ve found … but that’s not systematic or searchable.
Sometimes life’s too short to search out gyms before every trip, and hotel staff often don’t seem to have a clue about their locality.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I have been in many hotels and none of them ever have any weights. [/quote]
You stay in the wrong hotels :-).
The best one I ever found was, by accident, somewhere in Iowa (I forget where: Cedar something?) which had a former Gold’s gym attached - huge place, tons of free weights (and the other crap) with almost no one in it.
[quote]doc_man_101 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I have been in many hotels and none of them ever have any weights.
You stay in the wrong hotels :-).
The best one I ever found was, by accident, somewhere in Iowa (I forget where: Cedar something?) which had a former Gold’s gym attached - huge place, tons of free weights (and the other crap) with almost no one in it.
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I have stayed in hotels with weights. They are pretty rare.
The best hotel fitness center I ever stayed at was the Marriott Clubsport in Walnut Creek, California. It had an 85,000 square foot fitness center(with free weights) and full gym.
