MONSTER GYM!
sponsored by hammer strength, has pretty much every hammer strength machine created, and also home to dumbbells that go up to 150kg each, they are the biggest in europe i believe.
[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
MONSTER GYM!
sponsored by hammer strength, has pretty much every hammer strength machine created, and also home to dumbbells that go up to 150kg each, they are the biggest in europe i believe.
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What could you possibly do with 330lb DBs?
[quote]BigRagoo wrote:
APE. wrote:
BigRagoo wrote:
Felix’s Health and Fitness, Gonzales, La.
I know that place, my brother use to work out there, before he got married and moved to Denham Springs.
Names Tim about 5’6" @ 310lbs an mexican looking.Don’t remembe rhim do you?
& me besides my home, once inawhile Cajun Fitness in OP. or Red’s (Red LeRelle’s place) in Laffayete.
The description is familiar. How long ago was this?
Red’s is a NICE gym. [/quote]
Red’s is a damn nice gym.
First time I went in there, I got lost. Took me a while to get out.
Virgin Active at Moorgate in London(used to be Holmes Place until Richard Branson’s Virgin Group bought the chain out). Bit of a pussy gym, but they have a power rack and enough plates/dbs etc.
LA Fitness in Encinitas.
It’s a constant irritant, but there are no serious metalhead gyms nearby I know of. If anyone knows of one in the Ency/Solana Beach/Carmel Valley area, let me know.
And Frogs on 101 doesn’t count – too small, too crowded, and too many people there to be seen.
I think I’m going to have to build one in my garage. I might as well sign over a couple of paychecks to Elite, I guess, though I like having to get up and go to the gym.
Lifetime Fitness, Columbus Ohio
Coretactix (Krav Maga, boxing and ground fighting) Dublin Ohio
Gooddale Park (running)
Home (yoga and pilates, katana and sai training in the back yard)
[quote]hockechamp14 wrote:
Kuz wrote:
TheSicilian wrote:
WoW Fitness- Cromwell/Middletown, Ct
Cardio Express- Wethersfield,Ct
I’m not a fan of either gym, but they are close and relatively cheap. Each has it’s plusses and minuses. (mostly minuses)
I started at the old Gold’s Gym in Middletown,Ct (DAMN I miss that place)
You are not too far from me (and I have worked out at the WoW of which you speak… machines too crowded together).
I work out at LA Fitness in South Windsor, CT. It’s not ideal, but not bad. I can use chalk (technically not supposed to, but a bunch of people do it and I have never seen management say a darn thing when they see it), deadlift, etc. Plus it is nice to have the hoops court when I just want to get in a run.
WoW is down the street from the rink I skate out of.
I lift at Gold’s in East Hartford. There’s a sweet powerlifting room in the basement, and that’s the only place I train.[/quote]
The Dungeon! That’s one of Cressey’s favorite places and I have lifted there just one time (although I am tempted to figure out a way to get in there more often).
This Gold’s used to be my gym years ago. Thankfully now a member of the hospital system-owned Wellness Center in Macon, GA.
At school, my the campus gym. At home, my friend’s house. I recommend Coolidge Corner Gym in Brookline, MA to anyone in the greater Boston area frustrated with their gym. It’s fairly dingy, which I like and is totally deadlift/grunt/clanking iron friendly. Of course it has New Year’s resolution cardio junkies and frat boy tools, but whatever. Nothing that isn’t easily ignored.
Most days - My garage.
Leg day - California Family Fitness - Rancho Cordova or Folsom, CA
Power House - San Diego, Mission Beach.
Pretty sweet, has everything you need and has some people who actually work out.
Clayton Fitness Center
Clayton, North Carolina
LA Fitness, Boynton Beach, FL
I’ve been a member at 5 gyms in my days.
The best one BY FAR is the new facilities at Rochester Institute of Technology.
I know its weird to think that a “tech school” has a nice gym.
But they went top shelf on this place; its amazing.
I have yet to see a place with as much useful equipment and size to date.
Used to lift at Lifetime Fitness in Coon Rapids, huge facillity and over flowing with douche bags.
Now I go to “The Gym” in Fridley. Great older gym. And their slogan is “we breed champions”.
Red Lerille’s
Lafayette, La
This is one phenomenal gym. We gots everything. Original Nautilus from 1973. New Hammer Strength equipment. 4 PowerRacks with Platforms have their own room. Dumbbells have their own room. Tons of freewieghts. Outdoor obstacle course. Indoor and Outdoor swimming pools. And they’re building an old school Boxing Ring/Gym.
Its an odd mixture of hardcore and fluff. Paupers and Princes.
[quote]APE. wrote:
BigRagoo wrote:
Felix’s Health and Fitness, Gonzales, La.
I know that place, my brother use to work out there, before he got married and moved to Denham Springs.
Names Tim about 5’6" @ 310lbs an mexican looking.Don’t remembe rhim do you?
& me besides my home, once inawhile Cajun Fitness in OP. or Red’s (Red LeRelle’s place) in Laffayete.
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Sweet!
Red’s Rocks. Can’t wait to see the construction completed.
[quote]Bujo wrote:
Red Lerille’s
Lafayette, La
This is one phenomenal gym. We gots everything. Original Nautilus from 1973. New Hammer Strength equipment. 4 PowerRacks with Platforms have their own room. Dumbbells have their own room. Tons of freewieghts. Outdoor obstacle course. Indoor and Outdoor swimming pools. And they’re building an old school Boxing Ring/Gym.
Its an odd mixture of hardcore and fluff. Paupers and Princes. [/quote]
If I lived in the Lafayette area I would definitely work out there.
I usually lift at the Queens College fitness center.
Bally Total Fitness in Greenbelt, Maryland.
This particular one has a good # of hardcore members who train hard and heavy. With a fairly large Freeweights section with 2 Power racks and 1 Squat Rack.