[quote]Mr Beeks wrote:
Just to cheer everyone up, it’s Technogym that make the Kinesis kit that is drawing so much envy. Why would that cheer you up? Becasue they’re the official supplier of exercise equipment to the Olympics!
Citius, Altius, Fortius my arse.
They also make a nice range of kit with built in LCD TV screen and aromatherapy fans. Their recline bikes can also be fitted with Playstations.
The Biostrength single station kit remembers the seat height, leg position etc. you last used and little motors will move them back for you. Just so you save burning off those precious calories and keep them for muscle growth presumably.
The answer by the way is no, I haven’t made any of this up.[/quote]
What is also scary is that I found the ad in an ultrafit mag, in one of the photos in the double page spread they have a salesman showing a graph outlining revenue. They also mention revenue twice more and time effeciency in a relaxing space.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
nolecat wrote:
One of my friends said that the fitness center at Va tech actually made you work out with a partner.
The “Q” fitness center (a branch off from Balley’s that may or may not even be around anymore) didn’t allow anyone muscular to wear tank tops. If you didn’t work out in a shirt that covered your arms, they made you wear a loaner shirt that fit pretty much like a night gown. No kidding. This was so none of the out of shape people would feel self conscious by seeing someone in better shape than they were. I worked out there one day and left. the Cinnamon-Apple air freshener and the extreme catering to obese people was too much.[/quote]
Dude if I see someone bigger\stronger than me in the gym that simply motivates me to workout harder.
[quote]En Sabah Nur wrote:
Professor X wrote:
nolecat wrote:
One of my friends said that the fitness center at Va tech actually made you work out with a partner.
The “Q” fitness center (a branch off from Balley’s that may or may not even be around anymore) didn’t allow anyone muscular to wear tank tops. If you didn’t work out in a shirt that covered your arms, they made you wear a loaner shirt that fit pretty much like a night gown. No kidding. This was so none of the out of shape people would feel self conscious by seeing someone in better shape than they were. I worked out there one day and left. the Cinnamon-Apple air freshener and the extreme catering to obese people was too much.
Dude if I see someone bigger\stronger than me in the gym that simply motivates me to workout harder.
What the hell was their definition of “muscular”?
[/quote]
I think I was about 200lbs at the time because I was in college. Apparently, anyone showing any signs of muscle mass at all.
I would think most people who actually plan on making progress find others who are further along to be motivation. I personally hate being in gyms where no one who trains there looks like they could compete, even if it is just one or two people. If I look around and everyone training looks out of shape and the dumbbells only go up to 50lbs, I am generally looking for another gym.
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
cain wrote:
The gym of the future
Looks like the gyms from ‘Gattaca’ or ‘The Island’.
Everyone dresses the same and no-one is oppressed by Professor X and his big scary guns. No-one breaks a sweat or strains themself. Everyone gets a complimentary soy smoothie at the completion of their 30 minutes of pilates.[/quote]
I actually felt a little sick to my stomach when reading that.
Yup, That’s why I opened my own “studio”. Two racks, dips/chins, oly bars. dbs that can be loaded to 180 and a few thick bars, kegs, sandbags and IRONMIND stuff for fun. 100 y/o maple floors, and slate gray walls with old-school B&W Arnold/Draper pics on the wall. Don’t forget POWERMAN 5000, POD, Rage and Nickleback all day long.
I almost forgot… “If God didn’t want us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?” posted on the wall. (keeps the vegetarians away!)
[quote]derek wrote:
Yup, That’s why I opened my own “studio”. Two racks, dips/chins, oly bars. dbs that can be loaded to 180 and a few thick bars, kegs, sandbags and IRONMIND stuff for fun. 100 y/o maple floors, and slate gray walls with old-school B&W Arnold/Draper pics on the wall. Don’t forget POWERMAN 5000, POD, Rage and Nickleback all day long.
I almost forgot… “If God didn’t want us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?” posted on the wall. (keeps the vegetarians away!)[/quote]
If I lived close by, this would be the gym I would want to train at.
Contrast this however to my middle school and high school gyms:
Middle school: a wall of squat racks, about 10, a line of benches, also about 10, and a line of military presses, about 10. The only machine in there was a lat pull down and we never used it ever.
Junior high: similar to the middle school, except we had a line of leg extensions instead of military press.
Senior high: this one was Godly. We had like 10 each of squat racks benches and inclines. We also had lat pull down/row machines, and combined leg extension curls (i don’t consider this great, but we had them nonetheless). And not only that, we had like 6 olympic platforms!
Moral of the story? Move to Texas and go work out at your local school’s gym. They don’t fuck around.
BTW, my current gym (college): 1 squat rack, 1 olympic platform, about 3 each of benches and inclines, and a shit ton of machines. Pussification…
I am like one of two people who actually do olympic lifts and one of maybe five people who squats ass to grass.
This has to be one of the funniest threads I’ve read! ‘Sith’ machines, soy shakes, pizza nite!!! (I’m still laughing my head off as to how wrong that is)…
Like Bullpup I work out at home. No commuting to worry about. No line ups. No pussies. I can work out in my undies which is how I like it. No one can see when I scratch my balls. I pick the music. Kitchen right upstairs, ALWAYS some cans of Guinness in the fridge. I’ve got a plate loaded lat machine/seated row with a decent collection of attachments, chin up/dip stand, 6’ oly bar with 300 lbs of plates, 6’ standard bar with about 260 lbs of plates, EZ-Curl bar, pairs of hex dummbells from 2 - 35 lbs (I know it’s light, I buy them as money allows), 2 plate loaded standard dumbells which deal with the heavier db weight, and the worlds cheapest bench from Walmart - it’s getting replaced in the next month or two with something I can grow into. I wouldn’t mind joining a gym but the few I checked out in person lean more towards the metro-fitness-center style than big weightroom.
If there was a true hardcore gym in my area, I would join it in an instant. Some place that’s a hellhole of a gym where most everything is freeweights, some tires to flip around, sandbags, those farmers walk things, and all members were serious. I’d probably be the weakest/smallest guy there but I’d get strong in a hurry at a place like that.
For what it’s worth - I was in Vegas earlier this year at the Stratosphere and they have a reaonable workout area on the roof there (5th floor I recall???) that is free for guests. In the 4 days I was there I only had to share the bench with one other guy. Lots of dumbbells. A couple flat benches. No squat rack but hey, it’s free and right beside the pool and hottub. It was outside in the fresh air and that’s been my first experience with working out outside - I LIKED IT! No one stopped me from doing deads. Inside they had like 4 or 5 treadmills and a couple of bikes - these were always full, and some pulldown tower thing. Nothing too amazing but easy enough to get a workout out of while on the road.
[quote]bullpup wrote:
I like “my gym”, 650 pounds of steel plates, 2, 7 foot olympic bars, 1 50.00 dollar power rack, a couple of innocent looking dead creatures on the wall to remind me what real protein is, and hot as fuck in the summer. The only whinning I hear is from the neighbors when the tunes are too loud and the garage doors are open, and the cardio consists of chasing my 2 year old down the driveway between sets.
No fucktards to deal with, and you can choose your own music.
Bullpup[/quote]
Mine is exactly the same…
Approx.650 pounds of iron, a couple of bars, chinning bar, an old bench with handles for doing dips, two power rings. Don’t have a 2 year old but for cardio we run with our logs. We can get them up to 200 punds each. And the ocean is 200 metres away.
About one third of the weights have been drilled in prison, and I think we are the only gym around that have 19, 11, 11.5, 21.5 and 3 kilos weights
[quote]Sxio wrote:
Nickelback all day long? Shit I think i’d prefer the crap they play at the metrosexual gym. Not that there’s a huge difference. [/quote]
[quote]Professor X wrote:
gojira wrote:
The men and women who utilized the weight room all did the requisite three sets of ten reps. No one strained, no one made any noise (except for me). It was like the Stepford Wives gym. All the while I’m feeling these staring eyes while I’m doing barbell shrugs with 185.
However, if you asked any one of them, they would swear they were about to die from the strain and effort. Seeing the same extremely overweight people on the same cardio equipment for months without seeing any changes in them should make some people consider the effectiveness of their actions.[/quote]
You would think, but why do they never change the routine, same people all the time doing the same thing getting no results. Must think we’re weird for actually changing routines, and oh my God getting results.
[quote]garagedoor79 wrote:
This has to be one of the funniest threads I’ve read! ‘Sith’ machines, soy shakes, pizza nite!!! (I’m still laughing my head off as to how wrong that is)…
[/quote]
Second that emotion. Many quotable quotes…absolutely hilarious!! Makes it almost worth going to a commercial gym for the entertainment value alone!
