Sick of Your Gym? I Am!

[quote]Kanada wrote:
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[/quote]

Apparently the dumbbells are supposed to be up to 140 now as well
I’m still also very much expecting a fitness center but one of the ‘rooms’ is going to be dedicated to heavy lifting and oly platforms which should be nice
I’m going to miss the dungeon though

I train at the Popeyes in Kitchener, with other powerlifters, its fucking awesome. We yell and smash weight and take up space and make chalk messes.

before that i was at the YMCA, stuck at a 380 squat forever. 6 weeks with these guys and I nail a 440. Fuck yes.

I used to train at World Gym which is now known as Planet Fitness in Colorado Springs, CO. Fat bitches that worked there told me not to drop the 100lb dumbells. What the fuck?! But they have Oly Lifting platforms and bumper plates? WTF?

So I go train at 24hr Fitness where they have Oly Platforms, then this douche tells me they don’t allow chalk because it makes a mess. How many fucking olympic lifters do we know that do NOT use chalk? What the fuck?!

Then I get a PT from the Olympic Training Center in the Springs to show me how to perform the C&J and Snatch. I bring in my chalk, and am in hog heaven. I drop weights, curse, swear, crash weights, and no one says anything. Too bad they play that pretty satellite radio with soft rock.

Stiff legged dead’s are performed w/ 315 and people want to look at me funny? I can’t wait to find another gym to train at with some hardcore folks that love loud noises, and motivate/criticize one anothers form and technique. A place where we all want one another to get stronger.

Now I’m in Iraq, where the sub-sub-contractors that are from 3rd world countries, and half my size, tell me not to drop the 375lb dead that I just performed. They’re scared I’m going to damage the floor or the weights! And they’re scared that people are going to walk into the weights on the ground! They walk into the weights if they don’t watch where the fuck they’re going! Idiots!

Then I go do some Power Cleans with iron plates. Luckily, they have chalk, but god forbid I drop the 205 I’m using. They want to start staring so I stear right back at 'em. Little weak fuckers. And what’s even more disheartening is that there’s only one other guy like me in the gym that likes to move heavy shit! Everyone else does their routine from a magazine and performs upper body workouts every single fucking day! And I’m one of the few that know what they’re doing, every single time. And people want to look at me crazy?! What the fuck?!

Our awesome military service members don’t receive any guidance on how to train properly. I see women getting fatter, and mens’ legs getting smaller while they run like a gizelle and can bench twice their BW at 160lbs. They’re the ones that should get the lectures for not knowing what they’re doing, not me, the one out of 3 people in the gym that exactly know how to use proper form and technique.

Sorry for the lengthy winded venting. But every gym I go to, there’s always douches, skinny fuckers or fat bitches that do the same shit and want to tell me what I’m doing is going to damage the equipment. AHH!!
Damn these ACE, skinny PT’s, douche’s, skinny employee’s, and all other types of fuckers piss me off!

I found the biggest issue not training at a PL-friendly gym is not being able to put down the weight fast after locking out a deadlift. At least powerliftingwatch has a good gym database so you can check out where to train if you don’t want to lift at a commercial gym. Also I find some of the crappier benches they have for BB bench are way too narrow than the standard ones used in competition.

[quote]pushharder wrote:
spurlock wrote:
Ty Carlson wrote:
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Besides…now that makes three Montanan posts in a row.

Next time you do this PM me in advance so we can fill the whole page with pictures of nekkid women.[/quote]

PM me in advance, too, so I know where to look.

[quote]schultzie wrote:
I train at the Popeyes in Kitchener, with other powerlifters, its fucking awesome. We yell and smash weight and take up space and make chalk messes.

before that i was at the YMCA, stuck at a 380 squat forever. 6 weeks with these guys and I nail a 440. Fuck yes.[/quote]

I fear I’m losing my time at my gym and that all my numbers would go up if I wasn’t the only one training hard.

you know its been a while since I posted here, I started hanging around with the other hardcore lifters at my gym, I got out of the gear, and with my buddy mike, Ive been hitting PR’s every week!

So I think you can have a shitty gym, but if you have hardcore guys to train with its not so bad.

[quote]schultzie wrote:
I train at the Popeyes in Kitchener, with other powerlifters, its fucking awesome. We yell and smash weight and take up space and make chalk messes.

before that i was at the YMCA, stuck at a 380 squat forever. 6 weeks with these guys and I nail a 440. Fuck yes.[/quote]

That’s the bitch of it right there. I get away with way more shit than anyone else does in my commercial gym, but I don’t have anyone to train with, or to advise me. There is a handful of BB’ers who are pretty strong, but they don’t understand why I work legs everyday LOL.
Bottom line: it’s not the gym, it’s the people who train there that make the difference.

[quote]aut-x-rs wrote:
“In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It’s not in the bar or the gym or the platform… it’s in you.”[/quote]

Awesome quote. I’ve been to a lot of gyms around the world and have seen it all. Shanties along the Mekong Delta with bars so rusted with humidity that your hands get stained brown. Eastern European gyms that make the torture rooms in “Hostel” look like penthouses at the Hilton. Pacific Islanders who have attached boat engines and scrap metal to pulleys to train.

I can understand the desire for a hardcore gym, but don’t use your “pussy” gym as an excuse for not making progress. My gym in Japan is decked out in neon pink and blue lights. It has a kind of “gay 50’s diner” motif. Lots of George Michael on the stereo. It also has a well-equipped free-weight area that is virtually unused. If I can hit PRs in such an environment you can probably do it in your local Y or university gym.