I was wondering if anyone on here has any experience with opening or owning a gym. An interpreter buddy of mine wants to open a gym in Baghdad and I’m trying to help him out but I really don’t know much (like the best places to get equipment and stuff). I think he will be able to front like $24000 but I’m sure if thats alot. Anyway any advice would be helpful.
I just googled “gym equipment liquidations” and their is an auction Feb 28/08 and a lot of other stuff. That could be a start. Good luck!
Are you serious with this? Are you aware that his money will get jacked, and no one can afford to spend money or time for his gym membership in Baghdad? Someone will kidnap a member of his family, and demand roughly twice the cost of the facility in return for their loved one. Good luck with THAT one!! I bet that he’s dead before the grand opening.
Baghdad… HAHAHAHAHA!!
(Yeah, I’ve been there. Twice! I bet Hell has a better environment than Baghdad.)
If you don’t get any helpful responses here, you could try posting the question on the elitefts.com Q and A section. Jim Wendler in particular helps lots of people with setting up gyms.
I’m willing to bet Jim Wendler doesn’t know dick about Baghdad.
I have a sliver of .308 copper in my left leg that says this is a bad investment in the greater inner-city area. Maybe on the outskirts, preferably in the more prominently populated Shia areas.
Seems like a terrible idea. Unless he KNOWS the enterprise will make money, which it seems he doesn’t.
It won’t make any money. I know this to be a fact.
No one in Baghdad has the money to spend at a gym, let alone enough money to eat well enough for the body to adapt and grow muscle.
Obviously the interpreter doesn’t know shit about Baghdad, because there are barbells, plates, and dumbbells to be bought in Baghdad. The concessions on the camps get them without a problem. Maybe that dude should take his cash and his family to another country… screw the gym until the terrorists are gone from Baghdad.
Not to hijack the thread, but I have to say; that is one of the most offhandedly badass things I have ever read.
yep
I’m sure Iraqis know a thing or two about Spike Shooters, Flameout (Iraqi slang for incendiary bombs), slaughtered Shi’a Tribex, and the controversial FDA-approved* Surge - which claimed more lives than anything else in the history of the supp industry and the financial cost of which keeps increasing.
Baghdad gym; Where blood flow is effortless, and we guarantee you’ll have a blast.
- FDA: Fry Defenseless Arabs!
[quote]lixy wrote:
I’m sure Iraqis know a thing or two about Spike Shooters, Flameout (Iraqi slang for incendiary bombs), slaughtered Shi’a Tribex, and the controversial FDA-approved* Surge - which claimed more lives than anything else in the history of the supp industry and the financial cost of which keeps increasing.
Baghdad gym; Where blood flow is effortless, and we guarantee you’ll have a blast.
- FDA: Fry Defenseless Arabs![/quote]
Dude, why did you even have to go there!!! Thats what the politics and world issues thread is for!! And if you really must know right now my squadron is trying to stop 2 tribes from going to war with each other.
[quote]djoh615893 wrote:
It won’t make any money. I know this to be a fact.
No one in Baghdad has the money to spend at a gym, let alone enough money to eat well enough for the body to adapt and grow muscle.
Obviously the interpreter doesn’t know shit about Baghdad, because there are barbells, plates, and dumbbells to be bought in Baghdad. The concessions on the camps get them without a problem. Maybe that dude should take his cash and his family to another country… screw the gym until the terrorists are gone from Baghdad.[/quote]
I disagree. On my last tour we moved from Bayjii to FOB Rustimayah which is in the greater Baghdad area. Yeah, there alot of dirt poor people there BUT I also saw alot of wealthy people there too. I think it coud work but stabilization is gonna play a key roll in it.Oh and the Iraqi Dinar is going up in value too!
It just seems like there are plenty of more stable areas to start a business…
Why not just open a gym in some upper class place in Latin America. Not have peopel trying to blow you’re fuckign head off and get good pussy.
Because he’s from IRAQ thats why. He’s trying to help out his COUNTRY!!!
[quote]Sikkario wrote:
Why not just open a gym in some upper class place in Latin America. Not have peopel trying to blow you’re fuckign head off and get good pussy.[/quote]
Because he’s from Iraq. He’s trying to help out his COUNTRY. You know raise the ecomony and stuff.