A couple of reasons I love woking out at the YWCA: The ratio of women to men is about 8:1; I am deffinately one of the bigger men that work out there; its not Bally’s
A couple of reasons I hate it: I’m sure my estrogen levels sky rocket as soon as I walk through the door; The squat cage usually has some skinny bastard stretching in it or doing pull-ups; don’t even think about asking for a spot.
Any thoughts? Where do you work out and what reason do you hate it or love it?
I work out at the YMCA , and sence I work there it is free .
I just joined a new gym, Fitness 19. I like it a lot. It is small, but has very nice equipment. They only have one power rack, but there is rarely anyone using it.
I previously had been working out at home, but I actually missed going to the gym. For some reason I find gym goers to be very interesting. I like to observe their behaviors. The gym is a great place for cheap entertainment!
At my apartment.
I love it since I never need to wait for equipment.
I hate it since I don’t have a spotter.
My garage. I love it because I can walk there in 10 seconds and have an awesome workout. I hate it because I can’t afford a set of bumper plates.
24 hour fitness. Family has a membership so it is free, and very close by. No one ever uses the squat rack either.
I just joined a gym in Camp Hill, PA called C5 Fitness. I love it as there is a corner solely for powerlifting equiped with power racks, olympic platforms, band, chains and the benches and racks to attach them to. i am not even a powerlifter (bodybuilder at heart) but i still do a lot of power movements in my training.
aslo nice is that the people that train in this corner are serious and are not looking for chicks to talk to or people to talk their ear off. added bonus is the speed bag and heavy bag and numerous fitness hotties doing the rounds.
[quote]T-Vixen Mod wrote:
I just joined a new gym, Fitness 19. I like it a lot. It is small, but has very nice equipment. They only have one power rack, but there is rarely anyone using it.
I previously had been working out at home, but I actually missed going to the gym. For some reason I find gym goers to be very interesting. I like to observe their behaviors. The gym is a great place for cheap entertainment!
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That’s funny you say that! I would be great entertainment to you for sure. I always listen to my music when working out and I’m the kind of guy who can’t help but move my lips to the lyrics. I also have rituals before every big lifts. To make a long story short when there are people around me, they all give me a weird look!
Oh, and I workout at the ghettoest gym ever, McGill University old weight room.
Honestly, these gyms are great! I used to workout at the PEC (Queen’s University) which was really ghetto too but it is great if you hate the atmosphere in commercial fitness centres.
[quote]TheFrenchMenace wrote:
That’s funny you say that! I would be great entertainment to you for sure. I always listen to my music when working out and I’m the kind of guy who can’t help but move my lips to the lyrics. I also have rituals before every big lifts. To make a long story short when there are people around me, they all give me a weird look!
Oh, and I workout at the ghettoest gym ever, McGill University old weight room.
Honestly, these gyms are great! I used to workout at the PEC (Queen’s University) which was really ghetto too but it is great if you hate the atmosphere in commercial fitness centres.
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I agree completely I love my little whole in the wall gym. It doesn’t have the most “upto date” equipment but most people here frequent the health clubs so it doesn’t have very many members. The owner is an old time lifter that keeps it open because he loves it,not really for any profit. Hell I don’t think this place even has airconditioning…gets a lil warm in the summer.
In my garage.
Power rack, 400+lbs in weights, Olympic bar, flat bench, a few dumbbells, kbells, dragging sled, EZ curl bar, jump rope, Swiss balls and medicine balls. All I need.
Only thing that can suck is when it’s hot as hell outside and even with my fan on, it’s still a bit warm for me. Otherwise, there are no drawbacks. Best place to train and best investment ever.
I belong to a gym owned by a pair of brothers. They opened it in 1987 and had to keep their day jobs for awhile until it began making money. They sponser powerlifting events and offer personal training. One of the owners if Vonda Wards manager.
The place is not fancy but has lots of equipment:
6 flat benches
3 squat racks
2 power cages
several incline and decline benches
3 separate sets of cables
reverse hyperetension
glute/ham raise
2 smith machines
3 45 degree leg presses
other leg presses
standing leg curl
hack squat
lots of hammer strength equipment
lots of other machine type equipment
lots of dumbbells and benches
different types of cardio equipment
and the list goes on…
I think the only thing they don’t have is a monolift
Nice place, nice people. They provide the chalk.
I train at the YMCA, but wow I wish I was somewhere else. There are all of these teenagers everywhere who never rack the weights and sit on the few benches just talking.
Also there are these guys who are just grunting and screaming in exertion while they lift and getting nowhere. It all drives me crazy, but the Y is cheap, at least.
My favorite guy there is a blind guy who is the only one who I’ve seen who does Olympic lifts and is just totally ripped.
I work out at home, even though i have a gym in walking distance. i love it because i can get to it any time and the privacy, i never have to wait to use anything, but i dont have a spotter, But i never really seen the need to use them so yeah, the only thing i dont have is a cable machine.
I lift at this place called the Body Shop, formally known as The Bad Kat Gym…I love it. We have our own keys and code it’s a 24 hour place…I’m usually the only one there so I just bring some CD’s and don’t have to worry about anyone else bugging me. There’s a few treadmills and one bike…but other than that, it’s all free weights and some cables…It’s the closest thing to “old school” I can get in this town.
Chalk???
That stuff still exists?
That’s my dream gym.
[quote]lostinthought wrote:
I lift at this place called the Body Shop, formally known as The Bad Kat Gym…I love it. We have our own keys and code it’s a 24 hour place…I’m usually the only one there so I just bring some CD’s and don’t have to worry about anyone else bugging me. There’s a few treadmills and one bike…but other than that, it’s all free weights and some cables…It’s the closest thing to “old school” I can get in this town. [/quote]
I used to work out there when Ray BadKat himself still owned it. I loved the place as well. You usually only had to contend with two to three other people at the most and that was crowded if that many.
Play the music you wanted as loud as you wanted. It was a great little place and I miss it.
I work out at my local hospital’s “fitness and wellness center.”
There are a lot of really old people.
But the squat rack is ALWAYS open.
I work out at 24 Hour Fitness, but also have a home gym with plenty of stuff for the days when I don’t feel like making the trip. I like the fact that there are 14 gyms in the Portland Metro area (Oregon) which are close to my work and home.
There are a few complaints (like almost any gym you go to) but for what I paid I can easily look past them. I will say that the music absolutely sucks. I thought Vanilla Ice was dead and gone, but apparently his music still lives as I heard the classic, “Ice Ice Baby” the other day. Thank God for MP3 players!
LJ
I got everyone beat on this one! I train in the basement of a church!!!
Seriously… and we do have some decent equipment too…
8 loadable steel logs for the log press
4 sets of farmer’s walk competitive implements (a pair of 175lbs, a pair of 235s, a pair of 275s and a pair of 300s)
2 sets of loadable farmer’s walk implements
1 super Yoke
1 Viking press
Aluminum Atlas stones up to 350lbs
2 olympic platforms, bumpers and competitive olympic lifting bars
1 reverse hyper
All the bands, chains and weight releasers you’ll ever need
A buffalo bar, a cambered bar, a thick bar, a hammer grip olympic size bar, a safety squat bar, of yeah, we do have a few regular bars too!
A power rack and 2 individual squat stands
Giant tires going up to 1000lbs
All the regular stuff too … dumbbells, machines, benches and that kind of stuff. We have special dumbbells that can be loaded up to 200lbs
BTW, did I mention that it was in a church’s basement (insert the evident preacher curl joke here).
I mainly workout at home. I have frame suitable for free weights with a cable / chin-up attached, an adjustable bench, an olympic set with about 400lbs of weight, adjustable dumbbells, punching bag, 300lbs of standard weights and the biggest old school stereo system that you have ever seen.
Once a week I head to the gym to use their power rack. The gym is crappy, but has a power rack and costs $30 bucks a month. Over here in Oz, $30 a month for gym membership is practically free.
I love working out at home - When I get a power rack I’ll never leave.