If you go down to the gym today.............................

[Mr Average]

[billfish]

Feb 10, 2019 15:42:39 GMT Mr Average said:

There are a lot of idiots in gyms

[Mr Average]

Didn't you use to work in a gym?

[billfish]

Feb 10, 2019 16:44:27 GMT Mr Average said:

Didn't you use to work in a gym?

Yes, 

[Michael]

I went to a gym one day as a guest, that's it. I've always had my own weights when I lifted. I couldn't train with people like that.

[mr potatohead]

I tried to join a few facilities/gyms, but;

1. Thanks to help from the forums and what I'd previously learned, after a brief interview, I seemed to know more than they did - of course, they may not have known I was interviewing them.

2. Some odd odors.

3. Music not under my choice of selection.

4. Machines that ..... oh, who the fuck knows what they were used for?

5. I already had everything I needed at home and if I didn't, I could make it or buy it cheap.

Plus, not using up time and fuel, driving to and from the facility is a bonus. 

[billfish]

Feb 10, 2019 20:50:52 GMT mr potatohead said:

I tried to join a few facilities/gyms, but;

1. Thanks to help from the forums and what I'd previously learned, after a brief interview, I seemed to know more than they did - of course, they may not have known I was interviewing them.

2. Some odd odors.

3. Music not under my choice of selection.

4. Machines that ..... oh, who the fuck knows what they were used for?

5. I already had everything I needed at home and if I didn't, I could make it or buy it cheap.

Plus, not using up time and fuel, driving to and from the facility is a bonus. 

One thing that gyms have in abundance is bullshit mikey
And the machines were a big selling point....the owner would march prospective customers around showing them the machines....and they probably thought the same thing as you   

[mr potatohead]

Feb 10, 2019 21:47:01 GMT billfish said:

Feb 10, 2019 20:50:52 GMT mr potatohead said:

I tried to join a few facilities/gyms, but;

1. Thanks to help from the forums and what I'd previously learned, after a brief interview, I seemed to know more than they did - of course, they may not have known I was interviewing them.

2. Some odd odors.

3. Music not under my choice of selection.

4. Machines that ..... oh, who the fuck knows what they were used for?

5. I already had everything I needed at home and if I didn't, I could make it or buy it cheap.

Plus, not using up time and fuel, driving to and from the facility is a bonus. 

One thing that gyms have in abundance is bullshit mikey
And the machines were a big selling point....the owner would march prospective customers around showing them the machines....and they probably thought the same thing as you   

BS indeed. I remember taking a 'class' at one - I think it was a nutrition class that also included a tour of the facility - so, you know, they were doomed from the start. 
It was entertaining though and the head of the class was cute.

[Hector]

Back home, I go to a gymnasium equipped for both sport gymnastics and old style training with climbing ropes, ladders etc, as well as free weights, fun stuff.
I also found a pretty good boxing gym just off the Reeperbahn.

[macky]

The YMCA basement gym I used to go to had no machines. There were two sets of parallel bars for dips, a pulley for pulldowns, an isometric rack that most used for chins, two squat racks and a bench press set up around a pillar.

Swags of free weights lined along the walls, both dumbbells and barbells, an Olympic set, no girls except on one single occasion, that was it.

Of course, that was a while ago.

About 50 years.