LondonRunner - we have put a dual pulley machine on the list, but trying to stay away from machines. Free weights all the way. Heavy compounds, “O” lifts, power moves etc.
No membership will be Personal Training clients only, staying away from gym bunny cardio - sprints, complexes, tabata and outside running circuit.
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Honestly put fucken machines ALL bodybuilders use machines. Ask any of the BIG guys on this site Im sure they probably wouldnt go to your Gym if you didn’t have a decent supply of machines.[/quote]
The problem is “fucken” machines are expensive and as others have said they are pretty one dimensional and take up a lot of space. Cutting machines out will only eliminate some of the bodybuilding fraternity, and seeing as we are a Personal training gym, we train our clients how we deem best.
Plus looking at the likes of C Thibs, Eric Cressey, Paul Chek, Wendler, Westside, Nate Green etc etc - they all have great physiques and get by great without machines. Some of those are power lifters, some are athletes and some are just training for functional strength. Either way we’ll be catering for a huge population of clientele regardless of machines.
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
What’s going to make a serious lifter favour your gym over one that they can build up themselves with reasonably low budget and room…or another gym with more selection?
I have most of that equipment that you’ve mentioned, but since I’m moving onto a more bodybuilding specific approach, I need more machines…and that’s the reason why I’d go to a public gym - because I cannot afford this equipment, not all at once (it wouldn’t be worth the cost, not for just one person).
Don’t mean to be funny, just saying - you’d be cutting a lot of clientele. The comments above me are exactly along the lines I was thinking…[/quote]
I do understand what you’re saying but bodybuilding is a very specific form of training. Not having machines cuts out some body builders but with all the other equipment I have we can cater for - power, strength, fucntional, speed, agility, rehab, core - every other facet.
Being a Personal training gym, the people that come to us don’t have the know how, skill or confidence etc to do something like this at home. They are not as dedicated as you, me and most of the T-Nation site. Hopefully within a while of training they will be, but until then there is no chance they will be setting up a gym at home.
[quote]tokyopop wrote:
If I can get the cash, you will see me there for certain days, but its a bit of a drive for me to get there every day. I will have to stick with Virgin on every other day :(. I know people who live around there who will definitely join though! DBs above 65 please!
I’m really looking forward to this![/quote]
Awesome - come through and check it out when it’s open. Will look into heavier DB’s!
Tired of Virgin Active and there crap service and not being able to do any form of heavy lifts there. Drop 160kg there and it will fall through the floor![/quote]
Hahaha too true. In fact the womens locker room is directly under the spot I DL and they complain that it makes too much noise while they change. Because dressing requires absolute silence! lol
I would really say save the HD TVs and use the cash for the DBs. Although, it would be rad if you played bodybuilding/powerlifting DVDs on the TVs for motivation while people lift
Keep the machines for later, half of them dont even get used at Virgin…
Sounds awesome bro, if I lived in South Africa I’d definitely go to your gym. And fuck the TVs man, with the kind of gym you’re setting up you won’t really need them. IMO, it’d be a better idea to just invest that money in DBs or whatever equipment you may be lacking in.
I own my own gym its a blast congrats bro! I started out wanting to build the hardest core gym around but ended up with a franchise when the economic reality hit me. anyway I know what you mean the little things add up stay focused the juice is worth the squeeze, BADDEST ANYTIME ON THE PLANNET (LOL)
I think you could add a glute-ham raise machine. That’s not really a machine it’s more of a platform for the exercise and definitely some foam rollers and instead of TV’s you can get a kick-ass system to play real workout music.
Plyometric boxes / box squat boxes (can be used for all sorts of things)
Skipping ropes
Chalk bowl
Boards for board pressing
you might want to have a camera and laptop around too, in case you want to film someone lift and play it back to them[/quote]
Having ropes around is a wonderful idea. My previous gym had skipping ropes, and I loved them. The new gym I am going to don’t have ropes, which is a shame, as skipping ropes is such a good cardio exercise.
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
I own my own gym its a blast congrats bro! I started out wanting to build the hardest core gym around but ended up with a franchise when the economic reality hit me. anyway I know what you mean the little things add up stay focused the juice is worth the squeeze, BADDEST ANYTIME ON THE PLANNET (LOL)[/quote]
Cheers Jake - we’re really looking forward to it -tired of going to gym’s that don’t have everything we want or this rule and that rule. We are going to try and keep it as RAW as possible, with any luck we will be able to keep it that way and then franchise it at a later date.
Gonna be sweet!
[quote]The Student wrote:
I think you could add a glute-ham raise machine. That’s not really a machine it’s more of a platform for the exercise and definitely some foam rollers and instead of TV’s you can get a kick-ass system to play real workout music. [/quote]
Foam rollers are now sorted.
Few people have mentioned ditching the TV’s in favour of heavier DB’s, I think that could be achieved as well as a decent sound sysem in place.
Plyometric boxes / box squat boxes (can be used for all sorts of things)
Skipping ropes
Chalk bowl
Boards for board pressing
you might want to have a camera and laptop around too, in case you want to film someone lift and play it back to them[/quote]
Having ropes around is a wonderful idea. My previous gym had skipping ropes, and I loved them. The new gym I am going to don’t have ropes, which is a shame, as skipping ropes is such a good cardio exercise.[/quote]
Boxes are getting sorted, skipping ropes -check, chalk bowl and boards - good call. Amazing how many things you forget about when trying to put it all together.
We are also going to throw in some thick boat pulling ropes to through over the rafters and get clients to climb up. Ceiling is about 40ft, so a pretty high climb. May have to limit the climb because of insurance/liability stuff though.
[quote]CrossTraining wrote:
. We are going to try and keep it as RAW as possible,![/quote]
What does dat mean?[/quote]
Means we’re not going to dilute the gym with all the creature comforts and security blankets of your “lifestyle” gyms that are pampering people with a softly softly approach to training.
