They’re fine, they have their own PT businesses. They just won’t deal with Lime.
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Well, that’s a load of crap… At least you have options in the area, even if they will cost you more.
My take, for what it’s worth.
But first, a little background information.
My oldest brother is wealthy, kind of sick money. But, before it got sick, he was talked into buying a gym, Fitness 360 in Coeur D’Alene Idaho, a tourist spot. I invested and owned 5% to start.
The build out was financed by the owner of the building up to $150K. Contracts signed, banks on board.
The build out ended up at $450K and my brother was on the hook for it. Of course, that added debt, and debt service.
The manager was a roid rage dude that was trading naked pics with members (IT stuff). Much more concerned with his sex life than the health of the gym.
Five years later, we’re bleeding out, I own almost 50% (long story), and we just walk away after finding someone to take over the lease (15 years with a personal guarantee).
Running a gym is a shitty business, unless you personally have some clout - period. The boxes charge $10 a month knowing you won’t use it, but it’s too cheap for you to cancel it. That’s the corporate model.
I don’t know Club Lime, but if they are a chain, you can bet your ass that mono lift is gone soon, as are the barbells and the dumbbells over fifty pounds. Soon, the disco music will be piped in, TV’s will have ads with girls in spandex, and then a smoothie bar pops up.
Run like hell.
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I see they’ve shown you their business model…
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Are there any anytime fitness’s down your way?
I know it’s a chain, but there are 11 on the coast, and every one of them have db’s up too 75kg, deadlift areas, racks and a few even have mono’s
Don’t know if it’s a nationwide model but a friend of mine who is a PT down that way works for them, and has genuinely nothing bad to say about them
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I will add that I’ve got a celiac friend who has to eat specially packaged gluten free oats
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I looked online the other day when I made that first post and saw that there are in fact oats that are guaranteed to not be cross-contaminated with anything containing gluten. This makes sense for people who have celiac disease because small amounts can affect them, but oats themselves do not contain gluten and even if they have traces of gluten-containing grains it shouldn’t be any concern for any non-celiac people. But the concept of “gluten-free oats” is nonsense because oats don’t contain gluten to begin with, they would have to be contaminated with gluten from processing.
I had a discussion about this in the nutrition forum, basically if you don’t have celiac disease then gluten won’t bother you, no matter what you think. However, a lot of people have digestion issues and inflammation from certain grains that do contain gluten such as wheat, but it isn’t due to the gluten.
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Interesting
We have Anytime Fitness here and it’s a franchise model. Anyone can pay buy into the franchise and essentially run their gym however they want, buy what they want, etc. It just depends on the owner and who they want to draw into their business.
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Woke at 240 lbs, bloating pretty much gone. Did my best to rehydrate last night so shouldn’t be too dehydrated.
@anon96032531 there are a bunch of Anytimes but they aren’t that great.
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I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary for the bar to touch the chest, in fact, isn’t it not only safer for your shoulders but keeps more tension on your muscles if you avoid going right to the bottom? I thought I read that or saw that in a video.
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Thought I’d found an elegant solution to keeping hydration and calories up (since hitting 235+ I’ve realised to stay hydrated I need one to two litres more than I used to): skim milk. A litre in and all was well. About an hour later, not so much. That’s what @kd13 calls bloated. Well, lesson learned.
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Woke at 240.5 lbs, looking similar to yesterday. Rubbed a bunch of Voltaren on my elbows and hands before bed last night and that seems to made quite a difference, especially to my hands.
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I’ve had lots of elbow issues, this is how I keep it in check, some of it may help you:
I finish each training session with either: high rep Axle or Fat Gripz Curls (think 100+), Hammer Curls or Reverse Curls. I try to get one of each of these in as every now and again one is painful when the other’s arent. I vary tempo, rep ranges, sometimes use fat gripz sometimes not on the hammer and reverse curls.
I stretch shoulders 3-4 times per week - especially internal rotation and lats
I use Iron Mind “Expand Your Hand” bands x4 per week for 3x12-20 on 3 bands (so 9 sets)x just while watching TV or during lunch. I wouldn’t recommend these particular bands as they slip a bit which is a pain in the ass but they still get the job done. There are ones with loops for your fingers to slip into which would get rid of that issue but I haven’t tried them so not sure how good they are.
I massage x2 per week for 10-15 minutes, after a hot shower or bath.
I stay away from heavy isolation biceps work (anything under 10 reps is asking my elbows for a fight)
My elbows were bad enough that I couldn’t do a pullup and this routine keeps them pretty happy.
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@strongmangoals that’s gold, thank you. I’ve been thinking about the hand expanding especially.
New gym. Jake kindly welcomed me to Ultra Fitness and Strength.
Todays training
45 degree back raises, air squats, planks
Squat, walked out
5xbar
5xplate/148 lbs - different bar, Goliath prototype so it weighs 60 lbs. It’s pretty nice, knurling from sleeve to sleeve but not overly aggressive. Handles weight well, because Eric Lilliebridge has been loading it up with 800+ lbs regularly. Not that line of bar, that actual bar. He trains at Ultra.
5x2 plates/236 lbs
8x3x291 lbs, 10 second rests between sets - ok, after set four longer than 10 seconds because of racking/unracking. All sets in three minutes and 25 seconds
This sucked, but it’s good to be back to accumulation.
Front squat
2x10x176 lbs
DB goblet squats
3x10x88 lbs - heaviest DB they’ve got ATM, but worked plenty good
Lower back pump was insane by now.
Walking lunges
2x10 m at bodyweight - didn’t say to do with DBs if you wanted so I just went with bodyweight. I wasn’t going to argue by this stage
Lat pulldowns
3x12x132 lbs
All up and hour and five minutes
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Thank you for clarifying this.
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The gym seems to have quite a few impressive lifters,
Definantly an upgrade
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Eric, then also Jez (Jeremy Wilson, Australian squat ATR in the 125s), Ariel Dencio (800+ kg total, Australian bench record in the 100s set in that total to boot), and Jake does OK too.
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Sounds like you found a “gym” of a place to workout
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