What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?
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Ditto.
Not a moan about weird sods who go to my gym but the gym itself, given where it is and what the same people created at the other gym on campus.
The big boy gym is supposed to be for serious athletes and actually has a lot of time booked out and allocated for elite athletes and team use. For everyone else, they really want you to use the the more mainstream gym that has more of the exercise bikes and treadmills with (I kid you not) Facebook, YouTube, Netflix etc on.
The big boy gym has at least 2 of every machine (they seem to have a cable version and a hammer strength version of everything). A huge climbing frame, a high wall with a net for tossing things and doing med ball throws, an indoor sprint corridor (with sledges and barrels and the like), massive free weights section that has dumbbells that weigh more than I do and about 25 lifting platforms, more that half of which also have cages with removable benches and a pair of bars and full sets of plates each. Its f
king amazing.
The mainstream gym really isn't bad, but given the above I don't get some of their choices. They have a full set of techno-gym cable machines and matching independent hammer-strength style machines too. Which is good. Plenty of free weights and benches. But lots of stuff missing like no where to do med ball work and worst off all, no proper barbell plates.
Instead they use the techno-gym ones which fit nicely on techno-gym machines but don't seem to fit nicely on olympic bars. The center holes seem too big so they're awkward to slide on, don't sit nicely (even when you try to clip up tightly) and can be a tt to get off again. I wish they'd just bought some Eleiko bumper plates instead.
The big boy gym is supposed to be for serious athletes and actually has a lot of time booked out and allocated for elite athletes and team use. For everyone else, they really want you to use the the more mainstream gym that has more of the exercise bikes and treadmills with (I kid you not) Facebook, YouTube, Netflix etc on.
The big boy gym has at least 2 of every machine (they seem to have a cable version and a hammer strength version of everything). A huge climbing frame, a high wall with a net for tossing things and doing med ball throws, an indoor sprint corridor (with sledges and barrels and the like), massive free weights section that has dumbbells that weigh more than I do and about 25 lifting platforms, more that half of which also have cages with removable benches and a pair of bars and full sets of plates each. Its f
king amazing.The mainstream gym really isn't bad, but given the above I don't get some of their choices. They have a full set of techno-gym cable machines and matching independent hammer-strength style machines too. Which is good. Plenty of free weights and benches. But lots of stuff missing like no where to do med ball work and worst off all, no proper barbell plates.
Instead they use the techno-gym ones which fit nicely on techno-gym machines but don't seem to fit nicely on olympic bars. The center holes seem too big so they're awkward to slide on, don't sit nicely (even when you try to clip up tightly) and can be a t
t to get off again. I wish they'd just bought some Eleiko bumper plates instead.Hoofy said:
Centurion07 said:
That's where your physics lessons and their "light reflects in this way" comes in handy as you work out which mirrors you can stare into but appear to be looking the other way.
Just need to be careful you can't get busted from ANOTHER mirror.
Ask me how I know...
Just need to be careful you can't get busted from ANOTHER mirror.
Ask me how I know...
Because you're standing with a bunch of old men all apparently fascinated by an empty corner of the gym?Otispunkmeyer said:
Hoofy said:
Centurion07 said:
That's where your physics lessons and their "light reflects in this way" comes in handy as you work out which mirrors you can stare into but appear to be looking the other way.
Just need to be careful you can't get busted from ANOTHER mirror.
Ask me how I know...
Just need to be careful you can't get busted from ANOTHER mirror.
Ask me how I know...
Because you're standing with a bunch of old men all apparently fascinated by an empty corner of the gym? 8.Otispunkmeyer said:
Not a moan about weird sods who go to my gym but the gym itself, given where it is and what the same people created at the other gym on campus.
The big boy gym is supposed to be for serious athletes and actually has a lot of time booked out and allocated for elite athletes and team use. For everyone else, they really want you to use the the more mainstream gym that has more of the exercise bikes and treadmills with (I kid you not) Facebook, YouTube, Netflix etc on.
The big boy gym has at least 2 of every machine (they seem to have a cable version and a hammer strength version of everything). A huge climbing frame, a high wall with a net for tossing things and doing med ball throws, an indoor sprint corridor (with sledges and barrels and the like), massive free weights section that has dumbbells that weigh more than I do and about 25 lifting platforms, more that half of which also have cages with removable benches and a pair of bars and full sets of plates each. Its fking amazing.
Sounds ace! A uni gym?The big boy gym is supposed to be for serious athletes and actually has a lot of time booked out and allocated for elite athletes and team use. For everyone else, they really want you to use the the more mainstream gym that has more of the exercise bikes and treadmills with (I kid you not) Facebook, YouTube, Netflix etc on.
The big boy gym has at least 2 of every machine (they seem to have a cable version and a hammer strength version of everything). A huge climbing frame, a high wall with a net for tossing things and doing med ball throws, an indoor sprint corridor (with sledges and barrels and the like), massive free weights section that has dumbbells that weigh more than I do and about 25 lifting platforms, more that half of which also have cages with removable benches and a pair of bars and full sets of plates each. Its f
king amazing.
Otispunkmeyer said:
Well, that place sucks. It's only in black and white. I need colour in my gym!Gassing Station | Health Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff