Weightroom Above Offices

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My school recently completed a new building on campus that houses two practice facilities for the men’s and women’s basketball teams as well as a new “fitness center.” If you look at the attached picture, you can see that the “fitness center” is on top of one of the basketball courts. The free weight section (a couple of dumbbells and benches they decided to throw in the corner) are strategically placed over top of Jay Wright’s offices. Now, I am not and engineer or an architect, but something does not seem right about this setup. Free weights over top of offices…

Jay Wright, worshipped as a false idol around campus, has complained to the recreation department that the free weight section is making too much noise. I was recently threatened with ejection from the building for “dropping” the 100s (the heaviest the dbs go). I guess I’m supposed to fly the weight down to about a millimeter above the ground so that when I do drop them, it barely makes a thud…and tear a pec while I’m at it.

I’m just puzzled about the design of the gym. I could bitch and moan all day about the worthless equipment they put in there. But they are basically telling me I can’t dumbbell bench or deadlift or do anything that results in weight hitting the floor. And that pisses me off. You build a gym and then tell its patrons they can’t do basic lifts in it. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

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wow…I can’t imagine how bad i’d feel if they made a new fitness center and just sprayed a couple of dumbells and benches in the corner. It’d be worse than my extremley small college gym i have now. Couple questions though. Why can’t you use the old gym? I’d imagine they’d get rid of the staff there…? I’d really try to express my opinion to whomever is in charge there. It should be the schools problem to supply proper gym floors or at least rubber plates to decrease the noise. It’s also your right to use their facilities since you pay. Sadly , the only way they’d probaly stop complaining/change is IF you do tear your pec by lifting the weight too slowly.

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[quote]zooropa1150 wrote:
wow…I can’t imagine how bad i’d feel if they made a new fitness center and just sprayed a couple of dumbells and benches in the corner. It’d be worse than my extremley small college gym i have now. Couple questions though. Why can’t you use the old gym? I’d imagine they’d get rid of the staff there…? I’d really try to express my opinion to whomever is in charge there. It should be the schools problem to supply proper gym floors or at least rubber plates to decrease the noise. It’s also your right to use their facilities since you pay. Sadly , the only way they’d probaly stop complaining/change is IF you do tear your pec by lifting the weight too slowly.
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The old gym I used to lift at now opens at 11am and is only open Mon-Thurs. They can’t pay less than minimum wage student workers to operate the gyms…something about the recreation department budget…coming from a school that has 40k per year tuition.

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They did that at my school too. I don’t know if they expected there to be a problem with putting an olympic platform right above academic offices. At our school (University of Oregon), we just lift like normal and let the people in the offices complain; it’s not our fault that it’s a bad design.

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I hope they install a lunk alarm.

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I think you should do lots of planks. Those are very quiet.

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I worked out at a gym where the stuff was on the second floor as my first gym.

Even back then when my weights weren’t very big it still seems like a really bad idea to have that much weight on the second floor.

It’s a common sense thing and most people seem to be lacking in that dept.

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I worked at a University and my office was above one of their gyms. I used to bang my secretaries really hard on the floor and the fuckers at the gym would call up and tell me to take it easy. Fuckers.