TweetWow baby1 that's nice. My gym sux. Plain jane, the only reason I keep goin is it's usually empty when so I can do what I want when I want..lol. Also 24/7 but nothin cool like u have

TweetI wish our gym was like that! Mine is okay equipment wise but it's hard to get motivated really. It's mostly a high school social scene when I go and the music is terrible!! There is really no management or organization, IMO. I really think that many of the kids that are working out, are just walking in with no memberships because no one checks. No one clears their bars when they're done because it doesn't get enforced. I had to help a girl just last week because she wanted to do the leg press machine and there were freaking 16 45lb plates left on it!! It's ridiculous! She would have been too worn out to do legs after clearing all that weight. So I took it off for her.

If it wasn't for insurance, I would open a gym in my area for the serious lifters to come to. A gym where the music is loud and motivating and if you don't like it, don't join. I was trying to get pumped for squats the other day and they were playing REO speedwagon!!! If you don't clean your mess up, you're gone. A gym where you can deadlift with chalk and drop the weight and no one in there looks at you like you committed a crime. A gym with fewer mirrors so you don't have to walk around people that are flirting with their own image. A gym where the squat is used for squats and not curls or shoulder presses. I could go on and on.

But really, it's just a commercial gym. I guess I can't expect much more than that. It's 5 minutes from the house so I don't complain too much.

TweetRight now, my entire gym is outside. It has an old rusty pullup and dip bar setup. I have a set of cast iron dumbbells, I have 3 barbells, the weights are old and rusted. I got a heavy bag and several Plyometric stations for jumping up and down. Sometimes I go to the regular gym, but I prefer to workout outside during the summer. You would be surprised at what a great workout you can get with the most simple and basic equipment. Its all in your mind

TweetI go to what used to be a powerhouse gym but they changed their name, its now $15 a month

Tweetused to go to lifetime, but now i go to gold's and low and behold... "i'm stonger than yesterday." lol

Tweetwe have a huge health club with in door and out door water slides, pools, lap pools, co-ed sauna, steam rooms/saunas, basketball, rock climbing, shit ton of cardio equipment and machines...decent freeweights...could be better but they function...best part about it is the kid area they keep that so clean, my kids used to always get sick at the gym...kids have indoor and outdoor play areas with jungle gym crap, mini basketball etc etc...

I miss my hardcore scene but it works...

Tweet^^Do you get your eyebrows waxed there too?

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Originally Posted by 6p6

we have a huge health club with in door and out door water slides, pools, lap pools, co-ed sauna, steam rooms/saunas, basketball, rock climbing, shit ton of cardio equipment and machines...decent freeweights...could be better but they function...best part about it is the kid area they keep that so clean, my kids used to always get sick at the gym...kids have indoor and outdoor play areas with jungle gym crap, mini basketball etc etc...

I miss my hardcore scene but it works...

Sounds like Lifetime?

TweetFamily fitness place, very neat and clean. Lots of free weights and machines, pool, saunas, rock wall, tons of cardio equipment juice bar, tanning and such. GREAT daycare, even take infants. My daughter is 6 months old and she loves it there and they love her. Lots of older people circuit training, hard to find a spot. Only drawback, no Hammer Strength stuff which sucks. So after Gold's closed, added a membership to 24 Hour just to use the Hammer stuff once a week or so. Pay $58 a month at the family fitness place for the wife and me and $19 a month at 24 for just me.

TweetI have a free lifetime membership at world gym but I hardly ever go anymore. I do my workouts at home now. If I ever decide to compete again, I will be back to Worlds again, no doubt

TweetMine is a DUMP. No heat-very lil cardio machines-lots of iron-no pool-showers etc-but is open 24 hrs.But-it is home to me-Thanks-OD

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Originally Posted by baby1

Sounds like Lifetime?

It is Lifetime. Great for kids, but sucks for badass ninja lifters that are trying to shred some shit!!

TweetWorking out in my back yard in the sun reminds me of muscle beach in Venice. LOL...Today I went out there and the bar was so damn hot from the sun that it was burning my hands. I picked up some steel plates and they were scorching hot LOL I shoulda put on gloves..dayummmm..My hands are a little red so I think I kinda burned them a little...many nights I go out and do pullups and military presses under the stars. Whenever I want to workout, they are there. day or night.