What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

[ORD]

I reckon you would feel as little as a 0.5kg difference between two ends of a barbell. Not sure about an EZ, though - shorter and already a bit wonky.

I'm planning to kit out a home gym and definitely won't be forking out for all Olympic plates! I'll mix them with smaller and cheaper plates. It will look weird, I know, but Olympic plates are very expensive.

[ChocolateFrog]

AndStilliRise said:

V8mate said:

The person who just trained with this.

3 weights are heavier than two, right?

1. ScienceFact #OCD

My view is that the tolerances for the weights will also be different. I.e. a 5kg plate may have a 1% tolerance for variation were a 10kg plate the tolerance percentage maybe 1.5% - this is my thinking.

You maybe right and its not something i would do but no one would be able to tell a 50g difference using different arms.

[ChocolateFrog]

Zoon said:

Otispunkmeyer said:

My Uni gym is £33/mo

I get this:

Power base Loughborough uni by Alex Mason, on Flickr



and this:



50 m pool

What do I win ?

ETA: oh and access to many different classes. If I want.

No steam room?

The gym at work has 2 50m pools side by side, one indoor, one outdoor, it's free to use.

What do I win?

ETA. Unfortunately that camp has been closed now but I used to laugh at the fact a pokey camp in Germany had more 50m pools than Yorkshire.

[Halb]

Otispunkmeyer said:

My Uni gym is £33/mo

I get this:

Damn impressive.
I recall you saying it gets packed at peak times? When does it become usable?

[joshcowin]

The gym looks impressive but I bet its annoying to use, doesn't seem to be many cables, 2 flat benches, not a lot of benches in the DB area. Amazing if you are a concentration on squat and DL though.

[ORD]

Amazing if you want to be able to drop the bar. It's quite limiting not to have Olympic plates and a proper platform.

[joshcowin]

ORD said:

Amazing if you want to be able to drop the bar. It's quite limiting not to have Olympic plates and a proper platform.

Most gyms have a platform and oly plates now though, just not 10 of them!

[Halb]

joshcowin said:

The gym looks impressive but I bet its annoying to use, doesn't seem to be many cables, 2 flat benches, not a lot of benches in the DB area. Amazing if you are a concentration on squat and DL though.

13 power stations, good enough for me, bench is good if you wanna be a powerlifter.
I'm no BBer so don't need cables.

[ORD]

Cables have their uses: pull-throughs etc. But if you took them away, my guess is that the average gym rat would be in vastly better shape. They are mostly Time Wasting Stations that people wonder between half-asleep doing half-hearted bicep and tricep exercises, including 9 stone men and 15 stone women.

[AndStilliRise]

ChocolateFrog said:

AndStilliRise said:

V8mate said:

The person who just trained with this.

3 weights are heavier than two, right?

1. ScienceFact #OCD

My view is that the tolerances for the weights will also be different. I.e. a 5kg plate may have a 1% tolerance for variation were a 10kg plate the tolerance percentage maybe 1.5% - this is my thinking.

You maybe right and its not something i would do but no one would be able to tell a 50g difference using different arms.

Yep, I agree.

[joshcowin]

ORD said:

Cables have their uses: pull-throughs etc. But if you took them away, my guess is that the average gym rat would be in vastly better shape. They are mostly Time Wasting Stations that people wonder between half-asleep doing half-hearted bicep and tricep exercises, including 9 stone men and 15 stone women.

For the most part yes, however I do facepulls, heavy tri pushdowns and cable flys every week. Cable flys I find better than db flys and the cable pushdowns can exhaust after close grip bench.

[budgie smuggler]

Last few times I've been there has been a Nigerian sounding gentleman in the changing rooms chatting away loudly on the phone for the entire 10 mins or so while I got showered/changed etc. Minor irritation, not enough to bother posting.

This morning however, he was walking around the changing room, donald ducking it while he was chatting Put some bloody pants on!

[TheJimi]

Most relevant username ever!

As an aside, naked men don’t bother me tbh. If someone wants to stoat about starkers, good for him.

• shrugs*

[ORD]

TheJimi said:

Most relevant username ever!

As an aside, naked men don’t bother me tbh. If someone wants to stoat about starkers, good for him.

• shrugs*

Sounds like an invitation.

[ambuletz]

watching a recent vitaly prank video (sorry) where he's pranking people outside a gym saying they have skinny legs.

https://youtu.be/v-0AbeiyYtM?t=6m54s

crikey. going to a gym in skinny jeans and a leather jacket? can you imagine if someone did that in the UK? it seems more acceptable in the US as there's always a proper nut job like that.

[lemmingjames]

sub 26kg dumb bells all feel as if theyve got hair gel around the knurls, not a sticky kind that would aid grip but it makes it all greasy and starts to slide about. Can see why the weak wear gloves now

[ORD]

Big gym moan here.

How fking expensive are dumbells?! Looking to kit out a home gym once I move to a new house. None of it seems insanely expensive except bloody dbs.

Anything over about 30kg is crazy expensive for ones you can bash about a bit. It's some bloody iron inside a bit of rubber, surely? Not NASA grade technology.

[Halb]

young lad today, parked in the second nearest disabled bay ton the front door, dressed on some matching tracksuit, young athletic, it's not raining.
I stopped myself from saying something twice, wasn't sure if I was being the dick...'cas it did burn me and I am not sure I could have pointed it out in a polite fashion.

[Burwood]

ORD said:

Big gym moan here.

How fking expensive are dumbells?! Looking to kit out a home gym once I move to a new house. None of it seems insanely expensive except bloody dbs.

Anything over about 30kg is crazy expensive for ones you can bash about a bit. It's some bloody iron inside a bit of rubber, surely? Not NASA grade technology.

this looks a good deal if you have the room http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/dumbell-set-2-5kg-to-60k...

[ORD]

Burwood said:

this looks a good deal if you have the room http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/dumbell-set-2-5kg-to-60k...

Thanks, mate. Agreed - good value. But I wont have that much room, and I wouldn't want most of the dbs.