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[quote]theBird wrote:
Do you mean capri pants that cut off under the knee, or do you mean full length capri pants.
I find tracksuit pants that taper down in diameter towards the bottom more comfortable to train in vs. normal tracksuit pants.
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Sweats that stopped just below the knee cap. They were made that way, not cut off sweats.
wait i saw i new one today some kid was doing an ab workout or something stopped for a bit then walked over to the bench press next to me and stood over the bench he proceeded to curl the 45# bar 4-6 times then went back to his ab workout. I felt like i had just seen bigfoot or something i was speachless.
My friend who I sometimes workout with said he wouldnāt be going to the gym that day because he was out of protein powder.
I thought he was joking, but no, he said it was a leg day and another buddy of ours has this guy convinced that he needs two scoops before working out and two immediately after followed by a dinner with lots of meat.
Keep in mind this guy seems to squat about 185 for maybe three sets and does calves, so not exactly a killer workoutā¦and so yeah, if he couldnāt get any he wasnāt going to work out.
So I workout at a university gym (http://www.campusrec.illinois.edu/). Huge facility, like 400,000 sq. ft. Literally an acre of cardio machines, free weight area, you name it. Their motto is āa place for everyoneā which is becoming more Orwellian daily.
Sure there are douchebags, SRC-ers galore and just plain old clueless people. What gets this whole facility on this thread? The facility itself and the admin.
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1/5 mile track with 6 right hand turns, making it impossible to actually run. Why? Because they donāt want athletes using it (Iāve overheard this several times when they are giving tours of the facility). Athletes are assumed elitist and must, I gather, be stopped at all costs in the name of social justice. (Funny, all the good ones Iāve met are genuinely humble.) When they got complaints from people about knee pain using the track, they announced that is for warm-up only. No running or jogging.
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Any group of people training together will be asked to leave. This is to support their āgroup fitnessā program. It seems that something like a pickup basketball game is ok, but anything else organized is exclusionary and therefore prohibited.
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Amazingly poor equipment selection. The admin supports āwellnessā and āfitnessā which apparently means sitting in machines while you watch any of probably 50 tvs in the building. And each piece of cardio has a tv tooā¦ While they have lots of dumbbells, they donāt have nearly enough.
At peak time Iāve seen almost the entire rack empty because people grab them and horde them for their workout. Mind you, the equipment itself if often expensive and state of the art (pneumatic machines, computerized training systems) but all of it is mostly the same. Do we need 10 leg press machines?
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Centralizing all campus activities to one location means that either the building is deserted or unusable. Not much in between. At peak time it is impossible to actually get in a workout. They have 6 squat cages and you might have 50 people waiting for them, for instance. An hour wait would not be out of line. Another charming feature of centralization is that a small problem at the gym (like a broken water main) effects everyone on campus.
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The workers are all students, have no athletic background (work study) and have poor guidance, but are threatened with summary firing for not enforcing policy. The real outcome of this is that these workers often make up regulations on the spot whenever they see something they donāt understand. More than once Iāve dragged one of these workers to the wall where the regulations are posted and read them the actual policies of their own gym.
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Every student (40,000) has a mandatory $120 semesterly fee regardless of whether they use the facility or not. Since only about 15% - 20% of the student population uses the facility regularly, this means the fair market monthly value would be a whopping gym fee of around $100. The system bleeds money but the admin dodges this by forward-looking statements about āservicesā and a āhealth-minded environmentā.
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They have student personal trainers rather than real ones. They pay for an online certification then get their name on a list. Mostly these are laughable (yes theyāll have you stand on one leg on a bosu and do curls, no fake). Sometimes dangerous. Campus Rec takes a cut and itās easy money for the trainers.
ā jj
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
So I workout at a university gym (http://www.campusrec.illinois.edu/). Huge facility, like 400,000 sq. ft. Literally an acre of cardio machines, free weight area, you name it. Their motto is āa place for everyoneā which is becoming more Orwellian daily.
Sure there are douchebags, SRC-ers galore and just plain old clueless people. What gets this whole facility on this thread? The facility itself and the admin.
-
1/5 mile track with 6 right hand turns, making it impossible to actually run. Why? Because they donāt want athletes using it (Iāve overheard this several times when they are giving tours of the facility). Athletes are assumed elitist and must, I gather, be stopped at all costs in the name of social justice. (Funny, all the good ones Iāve met are genuinely humble.) When they got complaints from people about knee pain using the track, they announced that is for warm-up only. No running or jogging.
-
Any group of people training together will be asked to leave. This is to support their āgroup fitnessā program. It seems that something like a pickup basketball game is ok, but anything else organized is exclusionary and therefore prohibited.
-
Amazingly poor equipment selection. The admin supports āwellnessā and āfitnessā which apparently means sitting in machines while you watch any of probably 50 tvs in the building. And each piece of cardio has a tv tooā¦ While they have lots of dumbbells, they donāt have nearly enough.
At peak time Iāve seen almost the entire rack empty because people grab them and horde them for their workout. Mind you, the equipment itself if often expensive and state of the art (pneumatic machines, computerized training systems) but all of it is mostly the same. Do we need 10 leg press machines?
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Centralizing all campus activities to one location means that either the building is deserted or unusable. Not much in between. At peak time it is impossible to actually get in a workout. They have 6 squat cages and you might have 50 people waiting for them, for instance. An hour wait would not be out of line. Another charming feature of centralization is that a small problem at the gym (like a broken water main) effects everyone on campus.
-
The workers are all students, have no athletic background (work study) and have poor guidance, but are threatened with summary firing for not enforcing policy. The real outcome of this is that these workers often make up regulations on the spot whenever they see something they donāt understand. More than once Iāve dragged one of these workers to the wall where the regulations are posted and read them the actual policies of their own gym.
-
Every student (40,000) has a mandatory $120 semesterly fee regardless of whether they use the facility or not. Since only about 15% - 20% of the student population uses the facility regularly, this means the fair market monthly value would be a whopping gym fee of around $100. The system bleeds money but the admin dodges this by forward-looking statements about āservicesā and a āhealth-minded environmentā.
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They have student personal trainers rather than real ones. They pay for an online certification then get their name on a list. Mostly these are laughable (yes theyāll have you stand on one leg on a bosu and do curls, no fake). Sometimes dangerous. Campus Rec takes a cut and itās easy money for the trainers.
ā jj[/quote]
quite amazing. seems like a hybrid between academia and Planet Fitness.
[quote]NorCal916 wrote:
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
So I workout at a university gym (http://www.campusrec.illinois.edu/). Huge facility, like 400,000 sq. ft. Literally an acre of cardio machines, free weight area, you name it. Their motto is āa place for everyoneā which is becoming more Orwellian daily.
Sure there are douchebags, SRC-ers galore and just plain old clueless people. What gets this whole facility on this thread? The facility itself and the admin.
-
1/5 mile track with 6 right hand turns, making it impossible to actually run. Why? Because they donāt want athletes using it (Iāve overheard this several times when they are giving tours of the facility). Athletes are assumed elitist and must, I gather, be stopped at all costs in the name of social justice. (Funny, all the good ones Iāve met are genuinely humble.) When they got complaints from people about knee pain using the track, they announced that is for warm-up only. No running or jogging.
-
Any group of people training together will be asked to leave. This is to support their āgroup fitnessā program. It seems that something like a pickup basketball game is ok, but anything else organized is exclusionary and therefore prohibited.
-
Amazingly poor equipment selection. The admin supports āwellnessā and āfitnessā which apparently means sitting in machines while you watch any of probably 50 tvs in the building. And each piece of cardio has a tv tooā¦ While they have lots of dumbbells, they donāt have nearly enough.
At peak time Iāve seen almost the entire rack empty because people grab them and horde them for their workout. Mind you, the equipment itself if often expensive and state of the art (pneumatic machines, computerized training systems) but all of it is mostly the same. Do we need 10 leg press machines?
-
Centralizing all campus activities to one location means that either the building is deserted or unusable. Not much in between. At peak time it is impossible to actually get in a workout. They have 6 squat cages and you might have 50 people waiting for them, for instance. An hour wait would not be out of line. Another charming feature of centralization is that a small problem at the gym (like a broken water main) effects everyone on campus.
-
The workers are all students, have no athletic background (work study) and have poor guidance, but are threatened with summary firing for not enforcing policy. The real outcome of this is that these workers often make up regulations on the spot whenever they see something they donāt understand. More than once Iāve dragged one of these workers to the wall where the regulations are posted and read them the actual policies of their own gym.
-
Every student (40,000) has a mandatory $120 semesterly fee regardless of whether they use the facility or not. Since only about 15% - 20% of the student population uses the facility regularly, this means the fair market monthly value would be a whopping gym fee of around $100. The system bleeds money but the admin dodges this by forward-looking statements about āservicesā and a āhealth-minded environmentā.
-
They have student personal trainers rather than real ones. They pay for an online certification then get their name on a list. Mostly these are laughable (yes theyāll have you stand on one leg on a bosu and do curls, no fake). Sometimes dangerous. Campus Rec takes a cut and itās easy money for the trainers.
ā jj[/quote]
quite amazing. seems like a hybrid between academia and Planet Fitness.
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honestly, it sounds even worse than PF
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
- Any group of people training together will be asked to leave. This is to support their āgroup fitnessā program. It seems that something like a pickup basketball game is ok, but anything else organized is exclusionary and therefore prohibited.
ā jj[/quote]
This is what I donāt understand. But if I got caught, I would deny ever knowing the person and tell them it is coincidence that they are doing the exact same exercises as I am.
Today I was at the gym and watched a guy probably around 250lbs (not the good kind) doing half squats with 350lbs. He decided he was going to try for a max weight I guess to impress some one. so he put about 455lbs on the bar and set up the squat safety pinsā¦ he must not have been to confident in him self. well either way long story short he unracked took a very wobbly step or two back and began to descend.
About half way down of his half way down rep he knew he was not coming back up so he had the brilliant idea to take his right hand off the bar and put it on the safety pin in order to try and push himself back upā¦ it didnāt work and the bar landed on his hand and broke 2 fingers. Was the single most awesome thing I have ever seen.
No pain no gain
that is the most retarded thing i have read all week
[quote]caveman101 wrote:
that is the most retarded thing i have read all week[/quote]
Iām wondering if we both think so for the same reasons.
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
- Any group of people training together will be asked to leave. This is to support their āgroup fitnessā program. It seems that something like a pickup basketball game is ok, but anything else organized is exclusionary and therefore prohibited.
ā jj[/quote]
This is what I donāt understand. But if I got caught, I would deny ever knowing the person and tell them it is coincidence that they are doing the exact same exercises as I am.[/quote]
Yip. So we have a university whose policies make everyone embrace systematic lying to it as a virtue. Uh-huh, that is surely the mark of a good education. And yes, me and my workout buddies do this all the time, since it is a safety issue for us. E.g. If there is a group of you and you have buddies spotting, evaluating form, etc. they will tell you to leave or hire one of the woefully under-prepared ātrainersā.
ā jj
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
- Any group of people training together will be asked to leave. This is to support their āgroup fitnessā program. It seems that something like a pickup basketball game is ok, but anything else organized is exclusionary and therefore prohibited.
ā jj[/quote]
This is what I donāt understand. But if I got caught, I would deny ever knowing the person and tell them it is coincidence that they are doing the exact same exercises as I am.[/quote]
Yip. So we have a university whose policies make everyone embrace systematic lying to it as a virtue. Uh-huh, that is surely the mark of a good education. And yes, me and my workout buddies do this all the time, since it is a safety issue for us. E.g. If there is a group of you and you have buddies spotting, evaluating form, etc. they will tell you to leave or hire one of the woefully under-prepared ātrainersā.
ā jj[/quote]
I have to consistently break our āno chalkā policy, but I am pretty sure none of the student workers there give a shit, especially since I work out in the morning.
[quote]Deercalf wrote:
I like that the āmeatheadā was squatting 185 with the āpussy padā and then clean and jerked 135. What a beast! He must be on glutamine.
A dude pissed on himself on the eliptical
I had a client crap himself on the treadmillā¦
I saw a guy shrugging the decline bench machine. He was doing 320 but our gym has a rack basically dedicated to shrugs.
Also so a guy doing dips with about a 2 inch ROM. His gf was there so he was walking her around the gym stroking his ego. Pretty cool stuff.
A guy was doing sit ups on the GHR. Which isnāt a sin in and of itself but we have a sit up thing.
But the coolest thing I saw was this old santa clause looking dude with a conan the barabarian like chest and arms doing 80 pound butterflys. Badass.
Fucking love my gym. We have some tools, but theyāre hard working tools.
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
So I workout at a university gym (http://www.campusrec.illinois.edu/). Huge facility, like 400,000 sq. ft. Literally an acre of cardio machines, free weight area, you name it. Their motto is āa place for everyoneā which is becoming more Orwellian daily.
Sure there are douchebags, SRC-ers galore and just plain old clueless people. What gets this whole facility on this thread? The facility itself and the admin.
-
1/5 mile track with 6 right hand turns, making it impossible to actually run. Why? Because they donāt want athletes using it (Iāve overheard this several times when they are giving tours of the facility). Athletes are assumed elitist and must, I gather, be stopped at all costs in the name of social justice. (Funny, all the good ones Iāve met are genuinely humble.) When they got complaints from people about knee pain using the track, they announced that is for warm-up only. No running or jogging.
-
Any group of people training together will be asked to leave. This is to support their āgroup fitnessā program. It seems that something like a pickup basketball game is ok, but anything else organized is exclusionary and therefore prohibited.
-
Amazingly poor equipment selection. The admin supports āwellnessā and āfitnessā which apparently means sitting in machines while you watch any of probably 50 tvs in the building. And each piece of cardio has a tv tooā¦ While they have lots of dumbbells, they donāt have nearly enough.
At peak time Iāve seen almost the entire rack empty because people grab them and horde them for their workout. Mind you, the equipment itself if often expensive and state of the art (pneumatic machines, computerized training systems) but all of it is mostly the same. Do we need 10 leg press machines?
-
Centralizing all campus activities to one location means that either the building is deserted or unusable. Not much in between. At peak time it is impossible to actually get in a workout. They have 6 squat cages and you might have 50 people waiting for them, for instance. An hour wait would not be out of line. Another charming feature of centralization is that a small problem at the gym (like a broken water main) effects everyone on campus.
-
The workers are all students, have no athletic background (work study) and have poor guidance, but are threatened with summary firing for not enforcing policy. The real outcome of this is that these workers often make up regulations on the spot whenever they see something they donāt understand. More than once Iāve dragged one of these workers to the wall where the regulations are posted and read them the actual policies of their own gym.
-
Every student (40,000) has a mandatory $120 semesterly fee regardless of whether they use the facility or not. Since only about 15% - 20% of the student population uses the facility regularly, this means the fair market monthly value would be a whopping gym fee of around $100. The system bleeds money but the admin dodges this by forward-looking statements about āservicesā and a āhealth-minded environmentā.
-
They have student personal trainers rather than real ones. They pay for an online certification then get their name on a list. Mostly these are laughable (yes theyāll have you stand on one leg on a bosu and do curls, no fake). Sometimes dangerous. Campus Rec takes a cut and itās easy money for the trainers.
ā jj[/quote]
Iāve been to UIUCās gym before and youāre spot on. I didnāt know it was that bad though.
Another reason why Iām just going to craigslist some weights and home gym it eventually. Even if I live in an apartment. A home gym would be great on cutting out the commute and the bullshit (sneaking in chalk, being quiet, waiting for equipment)
UIUC in general seemed so opulent, but they attract a lot of rich students. These bigass gyms like UIUCās are a joke. Any gym over 10 mins away from me is not worth it, unless I was going to a great facility to lift with a team or coachā¦
Yesterday while squatting in the power rack two buff 160 pound wankers came upto me told me that deep squatting is bad for your knees, so I naturally told them to fuck off. Then they came 5 minutes later asking me if they could share the rack and yes they curled