I went to UIUC for 6 years and I swear IMPE was under construction for all but 1 of those years, it better be amazing now. Always went to CRCE and it was pretty nice if you could get there off-peak.
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Looks kewl, but it is actually hard to get a reasonable workout in any place on campus. ARC (as IMPE is now known) is just huge. People now talk about “the ARC effect” which means it take 25% longer to do your workout – people are in the way, and you might have to walk blocks inside the damn place getting to equipment, no joke. Then you don’t quite get the right equipment. CRCE is like you say, usable during the off-hours, mobbed otherwise.
Just find it annoying. You’d probably recognize me on sight if you trained there regularly. Small world!
IN my college gym today I saw this ginger kid doing deadlifts and with each rep he would violently grunting and banging the plates down on those plastic box platform things. It was fine (albeit annoying), until he dropped the weight so hard that it cracked through both of the plastic boxes… he just grabbed his water bottle and left everything like it was.
As I was squatting, a guy came and grabbed a 45 lb plate that I had put leaning up against the rack, and that guy had seen me put it there (he was in the rack next to mine). So I asked him if he had heard about the new 45 lb plates that can roll to wherever you need them in the gym. He looked a little confused and I said “they don’t exist. Now put that plate back and get your own.”
[quote]byukid wrote:
As I was squatting, a guy came and grabbed a 45 lb plate that I had put leaning up against the rack, and that guy had seen me put it there (he was in the rack next to mine). So I asked him if he had heard about the new 45 lb plates that can roll to wherever you need them in the gym. He looked a little confused and I said “they don’t exist. Now put that plate back and get your own.”
[quote]byukid wrote:
As I was squatting, a guy came and grabbed a 45 lb plate that I had put leaning up against the rack, and that guy had seen me put it there (he was in the rack next to mine). So I asked him if he had heard about the new 45 lb plates that can roll to wherever you need them in the gym. He looked a little confused and I said “they don’t exist. Now put that plate back and get your own.”
So I’m at the gym late and there is only one other guy in the gym. He’s struggling to lift 50kg on the bench press. This in it’s self is not bad as we all started somewhere however the problem I had was the next time I looked over he was shirtless flexing his “muscles” in the mirror.
Please can’t it wait for home. Just like the guy who was popping zits in the gym mirror… Why people? I’ve lifting to do!
[quote]byukid wrote:
As I was squatting, a guy came and grabbed a 45 lb plate that I had put leaning up against the rack, and that guy had seen me put it there (he was in the rack next to mine). So I asked him if he had heard about the new 45 lb plates that can roll to wherever you need them in the gym. He looked a little confused and I said “they don’t exist. Now put that plate back and get your own.”
there is a phenomenon at my gym known as “bro circles”. groups of 6 or 7 frat guys will stand in a circle around a guy on the preacher curl machine then give him high-fives after his set
[quote]bigblockford wrote:
there is a phenomenon at my gym known as “bro circles”. groups of 6 or 7 frat guys will stand in a circle around a guy on the preacher curl machine then give him high-fives after his set[/quote]
You should try going a little deeper on your squats.
I had my first commercial/civilian gym experience in a while today. I was impressed, pretty much every stereo type I could think of showed up.
Most impressive though was the older (40’s) bloke with thick arms train bi’s for a good hour and a half. I often think people with big upper bodies and pencil legs must have it easy. Training upper body twice as much would be fun and you get big arms!
I was doing cleans and this skinny fellow that I’ve never seen in the gym before asked a short guy that only does isolation movements what they were for. Short guy replied, “Um…biceps, I think.”
Funniest thing though was while doing ATG squats I overhead one out of a group of black guys say, “Damn that ni@@a squatting low.”
