What's the best and worst thing about your gym, /fit/?

>>42245470
They like blasting coon-toons over the speakers most days.

>>42245470
Best: gym patrons subconsciously encourage and expect you to do your best
Worst: Under-maintained restrooms, occasional people stealing your bench while you're looking for weights, FUCKING PACK OF TEENAGERS HOGGING A MACHINE FOR HOURS

>>42245470
Best: cheap, 24/7, without engagement
Worst: low ceiling, have to do my overhead press seated, kind of small

Best: Literally in my apartment building. Has just the kind of shit I want to use. Dirt fucking cheap.
Worst: Loud and clueless Indians there most of the time. More often than not if they don't work out in groups the solo lifters will bring a friend along for reasons I can't begin to understand. Their friend won't spot them or anything. They'll just talk between sets. And Indian is such an obnoxious language to listen to.

>>42245796

I used to have an apartment gym, go at midnight bro. Should be a graveyard.

My Uni gym
>Best
The abundance of squat racks and Dumbells+plates+equipment often allows me to rarely ever wait, barring exceptionally packed days

>Worst
DYEL Poo in Loos and bullshit demands like more women's only hours.

>small. No staff usually. Can play your own music
>small, other people play shit music.

>>42245815
It locks entrance at 22 I think. And even then my schedule doesn't let me lift that late.

>>42245470
Goodlife fitness
best:
open 24 hrs most days, and my gf volunteers there so I get in for free

worst:
it's crowded as fuck often, to the point where you can't even get a squat rack, and there are like 6 there. Also they often try to get you to refer people, even after I've referred all of the 2 people that I talk to in my life and neither of them is interested.

>>42245470
Best: Only $25/mo, less than 5 minute walk from home
Worst: Not enough equipment, gets way too crowded during peak hours, sometimes has to close randomly cause the electrical goes out

Best: high quality equipment, nice part of town so hot girls, private 1 person restrooms with a shower
Worst: $40/mo with 18mo contract, not that big, gets packed with like 25ppl in it

best: p small but not that many people use the weights anyway so it's comfy, not many people use the squat racks, most of the people there are sensible despite the gym being commercial, has a good amount of equipment

worst: hexagonal plates, have to make a ghetto dl platform with yoga mats, no really strong husbandos

>>42245470
My uni gym
Best
>comfy and usually empty
>sometimes they don't play music
Worst
>small, doesn't have some equipment

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>>42245470
>best
Upgraded all of the equipment and my membership prices stayed the same.
>worst
Water from their fountains taste like ass.

>>42245616
bucko, its "coon-tunes"
Boondocks is coon-toons

University Gym

Best:
>Great airflow
>good, open storage
>brand new basketball courts

Bad:
>1 lat pulldown machine for 18000 undergrads
>replaced all the machinery with new machines that fucking blow
>gets crazy crowded during school
>showers/lockers are disgusting
>sauna is broken

>best
Free lockers
Free facial and body towels
individual showers
Pool, sauna
Equipment always available and lots of it

>worst
expensive
People still dont know how to return weights to the rack, towels everyfuckingwhere

best
>small gym
>only 6 people go there
>only 2 chicks
>2 dudes who bodybuild
>an old man who does leg curls all day
>only 15$
bad
>gymbros sometimes start wars and attack everyone with the straps
>shitty music
>the owner looks like RIPtoes

Bad
>expensive af, $69/month
>benches suck ass, they're almost on the ground and they're too narrow
>squat racks are also the platforms
Good
>24 hours
>lots of equipment
>minty steam room, a sauna and pool
>the people there are chill af
>qt3.14 Asian chick I think is a powerlifter

All these people valuing personal showers

Is the human form scary to you?
Are you diseased?

>>42245470
>best
open every day of the year, except christmas and new year
>worst
open only from 9-12 and 15-21 on weekdays, 10-14 on weekends and 10-12 on holidays

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>Deployment Gym
Best
>Small AO, not many people lift
>Work nights, gym is dead and can lift for 2+ hours alone
>Free protein= all aboard the gain train
>There's a stray cat that hangs out in the gym, always cool to watch him piss others off

Worst
>Limited equipment, standing there like a faggot when nothing available
>Local skellies trying to make durka gains always smell like shit and halal
>can never find two of the same plates, either in kg or lbs, look dyel when 20kg on one side and 45lbs on the other
>Stray cat gets in the way by lying on bench or sitting on dumbells I need
>no mirrors, can't mire or check form

The worst thing about my gym is the dyel faggot who goes there every day

But I guess thats just home gyms for you.

Best: open 24/7, often empty, clean as fuck
Worst: 30/month, no dedicated bench press

Best: no one uses the squat rack besides me and a couple others
worst: to many obnoxious and weak high school kids

Best:
>Cheap and well located (Its actually funny since there are a lot of gyms in town, but pretty much everyone I know signed up for that one)
>The music only plays in the cardio zone
>Most of the gym service staff is nice and will check your form/spot you if you need.

Cons:
>Only one squat rack, one bench and one incline bench. Also, there's no Smith machine, so everyone uses the squat rack.
>Not enough bumper plates.
>Some PTs "forget" to rack the weights once they are done.

>>42245818
>women's only hours
what?

>>42245470
Best thing:
>have all the weightlifting equipment one could need, multiple benches and squat racks

Worst thing:
>Literally every treadmill is in some way broken, none have been fixed in the year I have been going there

>>42245757
Lanklets, when will they learn?

>pros
>it has equipment that I want to use
>is cheap

>cons
>i have low standards
>it's a PF
>leftmost stairclimber is always in metric and rightmost is always making noises like it's broken, no matter where I go.
Three different states, it's almost like a corporate policy.

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>>42246853
It's a feminist thing. They claim women can't work out without being sexually harassed so they demand women's-only hours. So now some gyms, especially those at universities, are having women's-only hours where men are banned from working out.
It's okay, because you can't be sexist against men!

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>>42246853
>his gym doesn't have women's-only hours to protect female gymgoers from the Patriarchy
It's 2017 anon

>>42247228
He literally did learn.
He did them seated.

>>42247206
My apartment gym has a treadmill and a bike. I can't run and the bike has been broken for months

Best:
>The owner is a friend of mine, so i go there for free
>It's always empty (6 people max)
>It's literally 4 houses away
Worst:
>It has the bare minimum equipment
>My city is damn hot and there isn't even a single fan
>It's really small

>>42245470
Best thing is that it is 10 mins walk away, worst is that they have few free weights and they are qlways crowded.

Pros
- Cheap as fuck ($25 per month)
- Usually not crowded at all (even at 6 PM on certain weeknights)
- Most people are nice with the exception of a few people that like to occupy multiple pieces of equipment and get mad when others take them

Cons
- Almost no one re racks weights
- Only one leg press and power rack
- Only 7 benches (3 flat, 2 incline, 2 decline)
- Loud rap music whenever it's busy

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>>42245470
Worst: One 1 power rack and a squat rack. Nobody uses the squat rack, but if there's more than one guy in the gym, they want the power rack to bench press in.
Best: 24 hour gym, so nobody is there at 4AM

>>42245470
Only one power rack. No squat rack, no rack solely for bench or incline. Just the one power rack and the one bar.

Most of the people in my gym only use machines and cardio equipment anyway, so it's not a huge deal, but if they had one more power rack no one would ever have to wait.

They sure as fuck have TWO vagina spreaders, though.

>>42248291
Oh shit, best? Same as guy above. 24 hours, can go when nobody is there.

>>42245470
Best
>$20 a month
>3 minutes from office
>never crowded at lunch
>clean tidy locker room
>no bullshit, machines in one small section, free weights in the majority of the areas
>oly platforms and squat racks a plenty
>very few DYELs or fat fucks, mostly dadmode working dudes or jacked 20 somethings
>boss goes to the same gym for career gains
Worst
>no pool
>no sauna
>few cardio bunnies

>>42245470

>Best
Uni gym, so free with tuition costs
thirsty women my age mirin
lots of natural light

>worst
dumbells i need are always taken
only two adjustable benches
no preacher bench

>>42245470
Uni gym
Place is huge and I never have to wait for a free squat rack
Closes at 4 on weekends.

>>42246704
Anytime Fitness?

Pros
>all to myself
>no monthly costs
>only plays my kind of music
>can do cheats / partials and other odd shit without dyels judging me
>can do seizure hops, scream, and stomp and shit to amp up for max effort lifts bc I'm alone

Cons
>detached decrepit garage open to the elements
>over 120-130 degrees 9 out of the 12 months bc Texas, no ac, and enclosed space. Basically a giant greenhouse
>Mosquitoes take 30% of my gains each session 10 months of the year

>>42245470

>4 oly platforms and 3 power cages. Almost no meme equipment

>Its a base gym so everyone there is a serious lifter so sometimes 3 power cages aren't enough

>>42245470
Best
>cardio and weights are segregated by floor
>population is mostly cardio bunnies
>weight area usually desolate enough to get anything you need normally
Worst
>recently got rid of most weight machines and added more cardio shit
>weekdays during school are fucked after 2pm
>saturdays and mondays are worse at any time
>people who still lift take 3-5 pairs of dumbbells, enshrine themself then do a 40 minute chest press workout with the 20s
>cardio bunnies get lost in the weight area and bastardize machines
>see bitches doing squats with the smiff
>never can find pl8 you need
>dumbbells never racked in pairs
>locker room has busted and flickering lights

>>42249961
Sounds like MCBH

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>>42246270
>gymbros sometimes start wars and attack everyone with the straps

Sounds fucking great

good
>equipment is usually open
>staff autistically reracks dumbbells and weights in the darkness
>bumper pl8s at the platform
>$35/month, sadly the cheapest gym around here
>sometimes they play random movies in the back
>24/7


bad
>i swear there are less 2.5lb plates than power cages, takes forever to find one
>40 minute walk away from me
>there's always someone doing olympic lifts so the rhythm of plates hitting the floor never ends
>10 lb plates are everywhere but also nowhere near you whenever you need them

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>>42245470
Best:
>at work
>24 hours, and I work nights
>free if you go more than 10X a month
>more euipment than I'll ever need

Worst:
>music is left on (bangerz, yo), have to use headphones
>no one to spot
>knowing security is watching on the cameras

good
>free
>very close
>open on all hours
>good equipment and there's never anyone using it

bad
>wife and kid get in the way sometimes

good:
>enough squat racks/benches
>one block from apartment so walking distance
>basically everything I need

bad:
>no area for floor lifts, usually just scavenge a bar and set up in front of a smith machine
>hex plates
>one hundred and twenty fucking dollars a month

it's a super bougie gym in a rich neighborhood so there are a ton of "amenities" I'm paying for but not using basically. like they literally have both a pool and a private lake. also the demographics mean almost everyone there is an upper middle class fuck acting out their idea of Fitness Lifestyle, not actually training for real. biggest squat I've seen so far is 1.5pl8, biggest deadlift 2.5pl8, I'm a woman and I'll prolly be the strongest person in this place in a year lol

Worst: repetitive playlist - completely unusable on weekdays after 1700 so have to train at 0600, skinny, weak douche bags that "workout" in packs and take up equipment people could actually make gains on.

Best: pretty empty on weekends, yoga pants.

>>42245470
PROS:
>3 squat racks
>10 minute drive from my place
>high-quality bumper plates

CONS:
>shitty rubber-coated regular plates
>most of the gym is personal trainers and their dumbass clients
>really stupid weekend hours. the gym closes at 2pm on saturdays and 1pm on sundays

could be worse. i could be trying to lift in LA fitness.

there's this faggot who always tries to one-up me. it's especially infuriating with OHP, squat, since he does pushpresses /halfsquat instead.

>>42245470
>best: squat rack, bench press with safeties, hours that work for me, all the equipment I need
>worst: no deadlift platform, no bumper plates

>>42247257
Just go anyway and hope that one of those Women dares to assume your gender so you can tell her off

Best: it's literally next door.
Worst: 40e month and everything is still pretty worn out but on the bright side there's never too much waiting because this drives people away.

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Pros
>It's always open and is part of a massive 24 hr chain.
>They have an Oly platform and bumper plates.
>Individual showers and toilets.
>Free fruit by the door.
>Have decent equipment for a commercial gym.

Cons
>Small
>No punching bag.
>No Sauna/Steam Room.
>Expensive.
>All the PTs are women and one DYEL.
>They all HATE weights being dropped, even bumper plates on the Oly platform.
>Have taken to putting up signs because I keep doing Power Cleans.

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Nitro Gym, Australia

Pros
> $5 a week in AUS monopoly bucks
> open 24/7
> staffed 24/7
> close to home
> sick cunt paintings
> plenty of machines

Cons
> plenty of machines
> everyones on juice
> "official gym of hammer strength :^)"
> only like 2 power racks and 2 squat racks
> no dedicated deadlifting zone
> no chalk
> need to bring a towel
> owned by CT fletcher or some shit

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>>42251706

Lots of fags working on retarded shit like balance, agility, etc
Fucking circus lifterd

>>42251706
is that the one near braeside? also some of those cons are are good
> need to bring a towel
> plenty of machines
> "official gym of hammer strength :^)"

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>>42251626
How passive aggressive.
I love it.
Continue doing power cleans every day.
What are they gonna do? Actually confront you and talk to you?

anytime fitness melbourne
pros
>open 24/7
>good environment and nice people/staff
>good equipment at the one i go to
>give out free sips every now and then
>next to maccas
Cons
>handful of annoying people go there
>asians take ages in the toilets at peek hour gym time
>lack some equipment you get at bigger gyms

>>42251733
I agree with this desu

>>42245470
Best: 6 power racks
Worse: 2 bench presses

>>42251829
They say something, then stop when I either ignore them or tell them I'm happy to go to either of the other two 24 hour gyms on the same block.

>>42245470
best: all male gym
worst: its a small gym and the machines are close to one another.

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>>42251901
> pro: all male gym

>best
it's in my home
>worst
no lat machine yet

Best
>free (military base)
>empty as fuck when I work out (middle of the night due to being on night shift)
>high quality equipment

Worst:
>forget about going during the day. Only gym on base
>comm squadron occassionally storms the place and occupies fucking everything. Might as well just leave when that happens.

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Xfit or FitX germany, don't remember the name bc I already canceled my membership. Going back to either building a home gym or joining a decent one.

Pros:
>insanely cheap (15€ / month)
>great equipment (hammer strenght, power rack, DL platform, kettlebells)
>lots of hot, young girls in yoga pants

Cons:
>lots of retards
>since end of school for summer, has become a childcare center
>filthy due to the other members being assholes

With all the underaged retards there, it has become a real hassle to train there. One of them works out, three do the spotting.

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>>42245470
commercial gym, Poland, around 14$/month

Best:
>Lots of space and equipment, no need to wait for the equipment you want to use.
>All the bros from the regional american football team goes there, many of those are my friends, so there is always someone to spot you/slap your ass (no homo)
>fair amount of college qt's to boost your motivation
>Free ice-cold water dispenser
Worst:
>Shit-tier PT's, one in particular, +/- 45 year old hideous couguar who eyefucks most of the guys during training.
> shitty locker room, you need to bring your own padlock.
> subpar shower
> equipment, while in good condition and shape, is somewhat old

>>42246853
Demand just the same, euqaulity for everyone

>>42251991
>shitty locker room, you need to bring your own padlock.
Is it cityfit? I heard from friends they went there once and didn't have their own padlocks, so they just pissed off.

>>42251852
See
>>42251733

>>42251859
Australia would be much better off without Melbourne.

>>42247257
>>42247301
But what if i identify as a woman?

>>42251829
Forgot to mention.
They put one on every single mirror in the gym, with one directly in front of the Oly platform.

They used to have two small signs on the kickboard, but they just plastered the gym with it.
I must have really upset them.

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>>42252088
>have oly platform
>not allow to drop weights
Your gym owner/manager is fucking retarded

>>42252129
It's a commercial gym, staffed by four females and a literal twink.
Hence why I continue to drop the weights.
I'm not chasing the bar down, and I'm not going to stop doing power cleans, they make me feel so good.

>>42246494
Got a deployment gym too
Good
>has all the equipment you need
>plates are abundant
Bad
>gets packed quick
Have to wait sometimes 20 mins to do the excercise I want

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>>42252041
nah, its Fitness Point. There is a chink who sells those padlocks in his shop which is like 10 meters away from the entrance to the gym in the mall, I swear to god that crafty motherfucker bought his X5 BMW for all those padlocks.

seeing as I have a home gym the lack of an incline bench is the biggest problem. working out my chest is difficult, I have to admit it.

>>42252049

Oi, get fucked, cunt. Inner-city Melbourne is dope af.

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Pros
>not expensive (30€/month)
>have one power cage
>only gym in the area, others are "fitness/wellness centers"

Cons
>building not designed to be a gym (electric wiring and plumbing at ground level, no windows and bad air conditioning)
>equipment is of the lowest quality
>plenty of blacks, arabs, pakis and women who can't behave
>everything is dirty, especially the showers
>owners don't lift and keep making retarded decisions

>>42252260

Muslim and/or Asian identified

Best: Great lighting,not packed,no foreigners
Worst: Middle aged women living midlifecrisis and middle aged men acting top gun,when no gains are noticable.

It's free, in my building and constantly empty.

Downside is lack of free weights. It's cool though, I'm gonna take a few months off the big four and come back to them later. My routine was getting a bit boring anyway.

>>42252317

Nahhh, I am as pale as they come, haha. First generation though.

Best
>$45/month for a large, open 24 hours gym with good, abundant equipment

Worst
>Any member can play their music on the gym speakers
As much as I hate the usual music that people play in there, the worst part about this is how the gym receptionist keeps bugging me to play my music. I always refuse which adds in to her perception of me having the 'tism.

>>42246378
Do you like wiener?

>>42245952
18 month contract, is that an American thing? Here in socialist country you're usually bound just 1 month

>>42251706
Is it being a hammer strength gym bad? They have a lot of good equipment.

>>42247301
Literally illegal if it's anything more than a 'suggestion' and they actually refuse you because of your dick.

>>42252260
Melbourne has ruined Australia.

I want to jettison it off to Argentina.

>Best
Cheap, 20$/month
Staff/PTs that actually lift
Pretty spacious
No one ever using squat rack/platforms

>Worst
50$ annual fee
only 1 squat rack
There is this one turbo manlet that is constantly giving bad advice and talking about how adapted his body is to exercise
Always a group of 5 old ladies that spend 30+ minutes on the turf foam rolling while gossiping

>>42252523

How so, my dude?

>>42246035
same here, spent my first 3 years lifting in my high-school gym. Teachers there were chill, it was normally empty/barely packed, machines were open, and I'd lift with my buds. Now that I graduated and can't lift there anymore, I workout at a regular commercial gym.

Honestly underground/hardcore gyms are the absolute best if you want a real workout. I still need to find one.

>>42245470
Best:
>really good and solid Olympic bars, deadlift 4,5pl8 and the bar doesn't even get close to bend
>lots of dyels, so not much people doing free weight stuff, more room for me
>close to home
>lots of cuties
>now opens all day at saturday too and sunday untill 4pm (more than enough to lift everyday)
Cons:
>packed at the times i can go
>bench is narrow as fuck, about 10 inches wide
>not enough pullup bars
>not enough 45s to do heavy lifting if the gym is packed
>water fountain barelly shoots any water

>>42246494
>Free protein= all aboard the gain train
what gym and how does that work anon? also how much do you pay for the month there?

>>42250684
>40 minute walk away from me
make it 20 minutes by running to it, you would also do some cardio and also warm up a bit, take some preworkout right before start running, when you arrive at the gym the preworkout would be at 100% in your blood and you'll kill it everytime

>>42245470
Pros
>relatively cheap
>close to where I live (10min with bike)
>lots of machines and dumbbells
>extra room for "functional exercises" (it's where I jump rope)
>no women's hours or extra room for women or any other [current year] shit

Cons
>lots of bros on gear at normie hours
>no separate showers

>>42252560
It's been the centre of the push for urbanisation in Australia.
A massive wave of immigrants drowning out the Australian culture.

Everything bad in Australia happens in Melbourne first.

>>42245470
24/7 crossfit gym

Best:
Lots of racks, barbells, bumper plates and it's not that expensive if you don't participate in the classes.

Worst:
The electric key to the door is kinda fucked and doesn't work that well when it's warm. Also, having to watch crossshitters do their stupid routines.

>>42252482
discrimination is only illegal when its against protected minorities

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>Pro
Nice employees and pull up bar high enough for deadhang

>Cons
refugees so many fucking refugees.

t. germanfag

>>42252420
I do not, but I'm not afraid of them either

I don't need an autism cubicle to feel okay being naked

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>>42252760
Deployed to middle yeast, free gym because of mwr
Pic related in the water cooler, no charge

>>42245470
Best: its small yet not crowded and has all i need.
Bad: horrible fuckboi/whiny slut millennial music that will make me buy a walkman soon.
> hooow deep is your love?

Friendly people, usually quiet, gym employees kind of have a forced friendliness thing going on, but are genuinely helpful despite that

>only one squat rack and two bench press benches, they have room for a movie theater that no one uses, and the gym walls that have the mirrors are all at an angle while the machines are all aligned in a grid, so you cant rely entirely on the mirror to check your form

>>42253389

Sweet. Most of my buddies who go, event the fatter ones, come back from their tour looking much better. Glad to see you're taking advantage of it all.

>Pros
Small gym, not usually busy
People are friendly, desk staff keeps place clean
Lots of equipment for lifting
Open 24/7, barring power outages
Huge fish tank full of koi to watch instead of TV's

>Cons
Price isn't all that great
Old people taking up multiple pieces of equipment with "circuit training"
Personal trainers always hogging space to 'train' the same fat clients they've had for years
TV always playing some bullshit sport, or some sort of murder mystery series
Occasionally some asshat clogs up a toilet and makes the whole gym reek of fermenting shit

>>42246020
B R O W A R D
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>>42245470
My program: 25 reps of jump-rope, 15 minutes punching ball, then exercice one part of my body for muscle gain : arms, pecs, back and legs.

Seems that none the less, it's just not good enough, and i'm not losing wieght.

Best: I get in for free

Worst: small, sometimes crowded, loud music, shit AC, and no way of doing incline bench except with dumbbells

pros:
>really close to home
>qt girl constantly hitting on me goes there too
>few patrons, so everything is always free to use

cons:
>hygiene in the restrooms is mediocre
>cramped spaces
>limited selection of free weights

>>42253389
What fob

>>42252049
desu i do hate the city but most people in the suburbs are good/no worse than any other big city

It's really small but hardly anyone uses it so I basically have a private gym to myself. But I'm leaving for college soon so I won't have the luxury after that.

>>42245757
Best : Cheap, No bullshit engagement
Worst : fuckin fags keeps talking to you during your set

Best: It's LA fitness so I can use any of their locations. Since I drive for work I can either go to one of 2 nearby my job or the one near my home.

Worst: why are there only 3 squat racks. Why does everyone take the benches for 30+ minutes. Where do the bars keep disappearing to. Why is someone tying a resistance band to a bar and putting it on the bottom of the power cage.

why

why

why

24 hour fitness active gym
Pros: Not a lot of people. Most go to the super on other end of town

Cons: All the weight equipment is really old. Only one power rack and one squat rack. A lot of normies

Best: Relatively quiet, no packs of retarded teenagers, even the nigs are polite.
Worst: Shitty pop music and only one fucking squat rack.

Best:
>Swimming pools
>Sauna
>Rock climbing
>Basketball court
>Abundance of equipment available even during prime hours
>Friendly staff
>Gym goers are decent people
>Open 24 hours
>Within walking distance

Worst:
>60 fucking dollerydoos a month jesus christ i'm a college student what the fuck am I doing I only work part time
>Still haven't tried rock climbing

>>42254824
Try living in the country mate.
Shit is the way it's meant to be.

>>42255365
Where do you cunts live that your gym has all that crazy shit and is 24 hours?

Closest thing like that to me is a rec centre that's obscenely expensive and has no free weights.

>>42245470
Best thing: has a swimming pool

Worst thing: Small weight lifting area and douchey staff.

>>42255365
Tbh I'm in a similar position and that sounds worth 60/month. I'm pay 35 at an anytime fitness that's pretty small. I will happily find the extra 25 bucks to pay for that, whether it by spending less or working more.

Best:
Olympic swimming pool, not crowded, max 4 people on a lane, empty on weekends
24hrs
Multi gym benefits
A whole floor (quite large) for weights and machines. 3 squat racks, 5 bench, 4 declined bench 2 inclined.
Machines and free weights are separated.
One floor for boxing, kickboxing and assorted contact sports
A room exclusively for crossshitters, they are forbidden to use the racks or equipment from the other rooms for their insane shit.
4 extra rooms for yoga, poledancing and old lady gymnastics.
Basketball, five man soccer fields on the roof.
Clean showers and plenty of lockers.
Normies stay on the crossfit - cardio floor.
Sauna included
Cheap protein shakes in each locker room.


Bad:
Plates are old, some are metallic and others are rubber ones with the rubber worn out
Machines lack maintenance
Rusty bars everywhere
No hot girls
Somewhat expensive (but they did a promo and you could get a year for 250 dls)
Far form. Home, far from work
Parking always fucking packed

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>>42245470
Best:

>Well equipped free weights for being such a small normie wageslave gym
>Really good price for being in central London
>Has a powercage
>Classes are free

Worst:
>Its small
>Shitloads of normie fucks doing terrible ROM or completely nonsensical exercises
>Inept personal trainers making the poor ignorant schmuck clients through the absolute worst training regimes I have ever seen

Best
> Good amount of free weights, multiple sets of heavier weights so unless you're a dyel you probably won't have to wait.

Worst
> Several dyel and 20 minute workout women using up the somewhat limited benches for useless shit.

>>42245470
Best: 24/7 hours, not many people go there. Only two squat racks and I've never had to wait. Tons of bars and plates.

Worst: Absolutely filthy, always shit smeared in the bathroom, no attractive women. Only one platform for deads & nowhere to do oly lifts.

$36 bucks a month...better than planet fitness though.

>Best thing
No fucking PT's are molesting me

>Worst thing
The other day i forgot my water bottle. I asked for a simple fucking paper cup and the receptionist wanted to charge me 1.50 Yuroos for it.

Fucking jews

>>42254786
Hopped around from Taji to BDSC to some other places (not sure if allowed to say). In Kuwait now, heading home soon

+Large assortment of equipment
+very spacious and open
+has a pool, sauna and Basketball courts.

-$43 a month
-open 25 hoursTuesday-Thursday but closes at 8PM every other day of the week.
-4 squat racks are NOT enough

>>42245832
Is it a gym in lower east Michigan cause same

Best
>old-school style hardcore gym
>equipment is all iron and only carefully selected machines are there
>Most that work there are bodybuilders that have or are currently competing
>$25 a month
>time I go is usually empty with the exception of two people
>cool to see the people who work there training there too and helping people without being a paid PT
>4 private shower rooms and clean bathroom stalls (feels like you're in someone's house)
>microwave
>can put your shake in the fridge when you get there so it's chilled after your workout
>majority of people who go just love training and it's a good atmosphere

Worst
>not the biggest gym so if you go during peak hours it's pretty crazy
>sometimes hate the music they play (country)
>hard to get parking since it's on a main street

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Pros:
>70€/YEAR
>Small but comfy and well aired
>Lots of natural light
>Old but good equipement
>Everyone is an absolute bro and help eachother while bantering eachothers and having lots of giggles.
>It's in the same street i live, 2 mins away.
>Sauna every tuesday

Cons
>Although it's clean and nice, it always smell like fermented nigger sweat.
>Sometimes it's really hot in there.
>The showers are old as shit.

But yeah, 70 euros per year its pretty fucking cool.

>>42257687
fucking memes man
how do they work?
who makes them?
we will never know

>>42246853
>>42247257
>>42247301

Reminder that in the USA gender discrimination is illegal by Title IX. You can file a complaint with Title IX office of your university to end womens only hours

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Pros:
>no one punches my card so ive been going for free for 3 months

Cons:
>ZERO qts
>same 6 songs on repeat

>>42245470
Best
>Open 24 hours, amazing for people like me on shift patterns
>Lots of equipment
>Most people are friendly, and knowledgeable

Worst
>Only 1 deadlift platform. Because we're above a shop they lose their shit if we deadlift anywhere else. Sometimes waited 30mins, and other times you have guys asking every 30seconds "how many sets??"
Small, space can be an issue at certain peak times.
Fucking teenagers.
We also have a resident singer nigger who literally spends half an hour on the bike obnoxiously singing shitty rap songs.

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>>42248174
Hank?

YouFit Health Club
Best:
>Cheap as hell @ $10/mo
>Clean equipment
>Efficient but really weird ass hours. 24/7 "Mon"-Thurs, closes at 10 Fri, 8-8 Sat/Sun, re-opens at 5 Mon

Worst:
>Literally 3 power cages. We just got a new one last month to go from two to three.
>70% of floor space dedicated to meme machines
>Glorified rep counters/personal coaches always pushing products

>>42246573
Kek

>>42245470

My gym is basically the gymheaven on earth. 10 powerracks, full eleiko equipment (bars, plates, benches,...) weightlifting platforms, watson, hammerstrength and self made machines, plastic-lawn for sprinting, farmerswalk, yok, prowler, etc..

You can deadlift as loud as u want, drop the weight, train in underwear, naked, whatever.

A library is included, where u can find nearly every book about sports history, nutrition, training.

Take a look for yourself
http://www.intelligentstrength.net/das-gym/

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>>42246573
underrated

>>42245470
Good
>close
>cheap
>has a great squat rack
>not busy

Bad
>only one squat rack
>lightest plate is 5lbs so progress requires jumps
>the owners hired a retard in order to get a tax discount but all he does is sit around making retard noises and yelling loudly to the receptionist

>>42246853
The DYEL poo-in-loos are creeping out the women, so they want women only hours to avoid being eye-raped by Pajeet.

Pro
$35,
never full,
2 power racks, 2 deadlift platforms,
Pool, Jacuzzi, sauna

Cons
staff can be rude, not well maintained,
AC is never on

>>42245470
Best: No normies, home gym tier comfy but all the equipment and more I could ask for.
Worst: No mirrors yet, can't see yourself in all your glory

>>42257377
Sounds kinda like my gym, except the workers are mostly powerlifters instead of BB.

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Best: it's free cuz I'm military on base

Worst: it's a small air force gym full of dyel

>>42255871
Exactly my situation. Either pay $150/month for a shitty crossfit box, compete with 10,000 other students for a single bench and power rack in my Uni gym or lift solely on machines for $40/month at the local rec centre with every pajeet in the city staring you down. I said fuck it, just do bodyweight in my apartment

Best: really friendly people lift there

Worst: Shitty hours.
Mon-Thurs 5am-10pm
Fri 5am-9pm
Sat 8am-6pm
Sun 12pm-6pm

Best
>Cheap
>loads of benches
Worst
>ONE. SINGLE. SQUAT RACK.

Best:
>Literally no one talks to each other
>2-3 instagram models that work out every day

Worst:
>Gym is on the 4+5th floor on a building with no elevator, and the locker room is on the 5th floor, so I walk 1mi to the gym, then up the fucking forever stairs, sign in, then another set of stairs.

>>42245470
Best: It's free
Worst: ......... I don't know

>>42252021
>EUquality
underrated

>>42248276
anytime fitness?

>>42249366
what gym?

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>>42245470
>worst
Smells like ballsack, only one squat rack, the regulars are awful and hog 3 machines at once for hours at a time

>best
Good lighting, open 24 hrs


I hate my gym

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>>42245470
Best:
Haven't paid dues in months, don't scan in, owners don't care. Has literally told me and my lifting partners we are "The guys people want to be" when they start lifting.
Good dumbbells, and few people interested in lifting. People who do lift are all bro tier bodybuilders and power lifters who actually compete. Great gym environment. Everyone shares equipment and legit cares about each other's goals. Everyone knows everyone. No weirdness between the males and females despite there being a fairly even mix of both. Clean. Classes are isolated from lifters so no bitching about weights hitting the floor etc.

Bad:
Shit benches, bad music, occasional newbie who fucks up everyone's routine but will only come in like twice. Hard to get the owners to spend money on equipment, but considering they don't charge me I don't say anything unless something is actually broken. Poor building asthetic. (Used to be a Dept store)

>>42245470
>Best: friendly staff, relatively cheap conveniently on my way to and from work
>Worst: Not 24/7, TVs are always tuned to Fox News or CNN for some fucking reason. I just want to watch ESPN.