I really just mind my own business, I don’t care if someone gives me a strange look for doing heavy deads barefoot. I’m bigger than most everyone in my gym, and I’m working out for me, not for them. I pretty much zone everything out when I’m lifting. All I need is some heavy metal through my headphones and weights.
The heaviest DB in my gym are 70 lb, and it does not have a squat rack… on the plus side, i have about 2000 treadmills to choose from
[quote]johnnytang24 wrote:
I have yet to lift at a gym that truly sucks. If it’s got a bar and weights, it’s good enough for a workout. If it doesn’t, go elsewhere. What’s the big deal?
People like to preach about being ‘hardcore’, but when it comes to music, having the right machines, favorite bars, et cetera it sure sounds like some pussy whinefest in here. Sure, not every gym can be Celli’s Fitness or Brute Strength, but if you can’t get stronger because the wrong kind of music is playing, maybe you should stick to the preloaded weight bars.[/quote]
The problem is when you get shit for deadlifting (told them several times to maybe invest in a pair of 100’s bumper plates, but no) because the impact at the end of a rep makes too much noise. I am not going to de-accelerate the bar every rep, as a) that forces you to use less weight and b) bad for your lower back. THAT stuff genuinely hinders your progress, when you effectively cannot deadlift.
If you have a garage or space in the back yard, buy yourself a rack and life will be good.
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
If you have a garage or space in the back yard, buy yourself a rack and life will be good.[/quote]
haha yes it would. I have neither a garage nor a backyard, the best I can do for now is to balance the bench press bar on the handles used for dips, and load the plates on from there. If I go too far I get crushed, there is no way to put down the bar except back up on the handles. So im forced to use the smith machine for now.
[quote]johnnytang24 wrote:
I have yet to lift at a gym that truly sucks. If it’s got a bar and weights, it’s good enough for a workout. If it doesn’t, go elsewhere. What’s the big deal?
People like to preach about being ‘hardcore’, but when it comes to music, having the right machines, favorite bars, et cetera it sure sounds like some pussy whinefest in here. Sure, not every gym can be Celli’s Fitness or Brute Strength, but if you can’t get stronger because the wrong kind of music is playing, maybe you should stick to the preloaded weight bars.[/quote]
While you do have a point, training at a ‘hardcore’ gym (Supertraining, Lexen, Big Iron, etc) then having to go lift at a fitness center fucking BLOWS.
I’m willing to bet that almost everyone who [rightfully] complains about their gym is a PLer. FWIW, it’s a pain in the ass to wear an ipod while wearing gear. It also hinders you in the fact that you cant hear your training partners give you cues during a lift (knees out, sit back, tuck, flare, etc) while wearing an ipod.
Also, PLers hate seeing their numbers go down. Without spotters/people to help you with your gear, it [/i]can[/i] be hard to make progress.
No mono? Fuck walking multi-ply squats out. No elite bench? There goes my bench set up. No adjustable bench height? Hello shitty hand-offs.
Well, at least my deadlift will go up.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
johnnytang24 wrote:
I have yet to lift at a gym that truly sucks. If it’s got a bar and weights, it’s good enough for a workout. If it doesn’t, go elsewhere. What’s the big deal?
People like to preach about being ‘hardcore’, but when it comes to music, having the right machines, favorite bars, et cetera it sure sounds like some pussy whinefest in here. Sure, not every gym can be Celli’s Fitness or Brute Strength, but if you can’t get stronger because the wrong kind of music is playing, maybe you should stick to the preloaded weight bars.
While you do have a point, training at a ‘hardcore’ gym (Supertraining, Lexen, Big Iron, etc) then having to go lift at a fitness center fucking BLOWS.
I’m willing to bet that almost everyone who [rightfully] complains about their gym is a PLer. FWIW, it’s a pain in the ass to wear an ipod while wearing gear. It also hinders you in the fact that you cant hear your training partners give you cues during a lift (knees out, sit back, tuck, flare, etc) while wearing an ipod.
Also, PLers hate seeing their numbers go down. Without spotters/people to help you with your gear, it [/i]can[/i] be hard to make progress.
No mono? Fuck walking multi-ply squats out. No elite bench? There goes my bench set up. No adjustable bench height? Hello shitty hand-offs.
Well, at least my deadlift will go up.[/quote]
this is what I meant in my post.
I sent a few e-mails out, and hopefully Ill have a new place to train my ME lifts. If I was just a regular gym goer that wants to get big, that place is the place. But the bars are flimsy, I have noone to help me with gear, and now i get bitched at for doing rack pulls. This used to be a hardcore gym, and thats why I am pissed Johnnytang.
[quote]Tyrant wrote:
Outside that I’m sick of my gym too. They went from gold’s to “Just Fitness”, and replaced all the good workers and trainers with idiots. Luckily they haven’t touched the free weights area, except for painting it, mid day, without opening the doors. Now that was a headache…
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Sandy Springs? 
[quote]red04 wrote:
The Mighty Stu wrote:
Sadly this is what a lot of gyms have to do in order to keep making enough of a profit to stay open. I truly hate my gym, but luckily I have a band of hardcore meatheads who all despise it equally, and that hatred forms the core of our bond -lol.
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Sounds like the YMCA I train at, there’s like 4 older(40+) powerlifter type guys, and a few of us young dudes that talk shop with them, and our common bond is getting away with as much as we can without getting yelled at. I think the staff has actually become pretty tolerant of us, like the anti bro-pack.[/quote]
Yeah, I also train at a YMCA. They threatened to kick me out . For not wearing shoes. During heavy squats, deadlifts, and power cleans. They have no squat racks, or power cages. We have to improvise. When squatting and doing rack pulls. The place sucks balls.
Ha I never even notice the music. Well, it creeps in here and there when I lose focus for a sec, and I will admit it sucks when some whiny love lost song comes on when you are trying to be your baddest assed self and move some weight.
I had the same problem with a chain of gyms called " nubodys " here in NS. I just switched to a different gym, I only stayed there for about a year because of the same reason as Stu, a bunch of big boys who loved to lift and equally hated the gym. Now, I go to a university gym with EVERYTHING IT’S AWEEEESSSOOOMMMMEEEE!!
[quote]Nate112 wrote:
I had the same problem with a chain of gyms called " nubodys " here in NS. I just switched to a different gym, I only stayed there for about a year because of the same reason as Stu, a bunch of big boys who loved to lift and equally hated the gym. Now, I go to a university gym with EVERYTHING IT’S AWEEEESSSOOOMMMMEEEE!![/quote]
Edit: went in today, like 10 thousand asians+lebs wearing lacoste polos in jeans with their collars popper. Fuck.
Generally, the commercial gym I train at isn’t too bad. They have a lot of good equipment that most places wouldn’t have - a lifting platform & rack with bumper plates and a trap bar, which is normally not found in a commercial gym.
Had a SOYG moment the other day though - I came in and a guy had the trap bar set up on the lifting platform doing calf raises. He wasn’t standing on the edge of the platform or anything - just right in the center, holding the trap bar while performing those 1" calf raises. He did this for about 15 minutes.
I didn’t know what to think. There’s tons of free space around and its not like the trap bar is stored at the platform. He went out of his way to drag it over on top of the platform to do calf raises with.
My gym is full of drones plodding away on the treadmills for hours, thinking they are earning the right to have dessert that night with dinner, whilst losing themselves in the several TVs sticking out of a couple of the walls, Which happen to be playing either baseball, Oprah, CNN, or other equally Non pumping programs. The music…the music makes me want to punt baby kittens… It honestly belongs in there as much as Oprah does. Ive heard Barry white on several occasions, Hanson, Pink, jazz, etc. Essentially, just a bunch of shit that provides no form of pumping property to it. but i guess thats a 24hr for you. If they catered to those who are seriously looking to alter their body, whether it be putting on slabs of muscle or drops pounds of bodyfat, and weren’t just there to feel like they’ve achieved a guilt free conscious when it comes to their eating, then it wouldn’t be as extremely profitable as a business.
Queens Uni has a real ghetto gym. Funny, part of my reason for goin was because they were gettin a “new” gym. well tomorrow is the last day of the old gym, and while the kid in me is optimistic, the lifter in me is prepared for a fitness centre. the good news, we already have power racks and dumbbells up to 120. the bad news, tvs on the treadmills. now they claim to be adding like 14 power racks, if thats true (and the power racks are always being used by at least someone) i will shit myself with joy.
fwiw, i found out michael jackson died cause i looked up at a tv at the gym one time. i proceeded to get my cardio runnin around tellin everyone i saw
Here’s a pic I took this morning of my BLOODY MESS of a gym here in Taiwan.
The local Golds all converted to One Life Fitness. The woman at the counter stated that they wanted to expand their market “beyond the muscle head image that Golds had.” Anyone have success in breaking a contract?
I hate my gym so much. For example, a PT actually told my friend that he should stop doing facepulls (which I got him doing) because they are “bad for his rotator cuffs”. This is fattest PT I’ve ever seen. FUck.
[quote]Nate112 wrote:
Nate112 wrote:
I had the same problem with a chain of gyms called " nubodys " here in NS. I just switched to a different gym, I only stayed there for about a year because of the same reason as Stu, a bunch of big boys who loved to lift and equally hated the gym. Now, I go to a university gym with EVERYTHING IT’S AWEEEESSSOOOMMMMEEEE!!
Edit: went in today, like 10 thousand asians+lebs wearing lacoste polos in jeans with their collars popper. Fuck.[/quote]
hahahaha my gym at UofT has gotten the biggest guido population increase this year. Ive never seen so many he-she’s attempting to bench at once. Its fucking gay. I want to punch people.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
FWIW, it’s a pain in the ass to wear an ipod while wearing gear. It also hinders you in the fact that you cant hear your training partners give you cues during a lift (knees out, sit back, tuck, flare, etc) while wearing an ipod.
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This made me laugh. I wear an Ipod all the time training alone including in gear. I always forget about it until I squat and my belt hits the ipod and it skips to the next song on every rep or hits the volume button and my ears get blasted out of my head.