I moved to a new city a couple months ago and have started to miss the weight training I had access to back where I lived - a gym. Cycling around town in my tight spandex just isn’t cutting it anymore. So with good intentions today, I decided to run around town and have a look at some gym’s to see what they have for equipment, memberships etc. After visiting 6 “gyms”, I now know that 3 of them do not consider themselves to be gyms but rather “studios”, oh…they had free weights alright - cute little color coded ones, from pink to purple - I was corrected by a nice lady in one of the “studios” that in fact that nice color on one of the dumbells is not purple it was Fuschia…or however the hell you spell it, duh…stupid me. I did get a free month “guest pass” into the “studio” for some pilates tho. Anybody know what a “pilates” woman looks like? are they flexible? I might just use this pass to the “studio” - once.
Needless to say the rest of the “gyms” were no different.
So I get back to my apartment, flip open the yellow pages and discover that there is a rec center nearby where I live, dumbass that I am, I discovered that I walk by it everyday on my way to work. Ohh…I thought…so close, so convenient, 10 minutes away on foot, could a guy ask for something better? (the closest I could think of was teaching Pamela Lee how to play horsey)…I called the Center, asked to talk to someone in charge of the weight room, got put on hold…thinking to myself that this isn’t a good sign a guy picks up and I ask him what kind of equipment do you have in the gym…long pause and a sigh on the other end of the phone he said, “well all we have is nautilas (sp), we have been trying to convince management that we need some free weights, benches, power racks etc but they won’t listen to us”. I swore and bitched …he replied “I know, why don’t you call our manager and bitch at him” So I called Mr. Manager, asked him why don’t they have free weights, he replied saying that “we have state of the art Nautilas machines”. Fellas, at this point I was so pissed and frustrated, I calmly mentioned to him “that unless your Naughty Lass’s give blow jobs on a daily basis you won’t be getting my hard earned cash”. Click Redialed the number to the guy in the gym asking him where else in town can I go, he sadly said “there is none that I know of” WTF??? He said most guys he knows who want to train just eat the cost of a bench and weights and train at home.
By this time I was so pissed off (obviously the guy on the other end of the phone had this talk with others and told me about a place I could buy some equipment) I went down there, slapped down my plastic money and picked up a incline/decline bench and a set of 90 lb Power Blocks. I will keep looking for a decent gym but in the meantime I will have something to workout with.
The guys at this store were sympathetic and said they are trying to work a deal with their owners to open a place in the building next door, I gave them my number and asked them to call if it works out.
Now, I am not a huge guy, I just like to be able to toss a few weights around 3 or 4 times a week but now that I am sorta stable (after today I am not that sure anymore) I want to start training harder…but I cant find a F@#$ing “gym”…ARRRGGHH !!!
What the hell is wrong today?
sorry…rant over…time to lift some weights.