Congratulate me! Kicked out of commercial gym

[majutsu]

Well, I must have reached a new level. They asked a guy to "talk to me". Everything was fine as long as I was doing the bodybuilding thing for years. Now the problems are:

1)No chalk. Too messy.
2)No bands. They may snap, too much insurance liability.
3)No chains. Too messy and too much liability.
4)No box squats. Foreign equipment not acceptable.
5)No board presses. Foreign equipment not acceptable.

These are the management's complaints both delivered individually and through some of the trainers.

My problems have been:

1) Lack of a training team to motivate me.
2) Lack of spotters with competence.
3) Lack of equipment: no GHR, no sleds, no alternate bars, and one power rack used almost exclusively for curls. The management actually had complaints from people waiting to do curls in the squat rack that I monopolize the "curl area". I also monopolize the deadlift platform while people are waiting to do aerobic step-ups there. The management, being decent people just trying to run a business, ignored this nonsense. But it wasn't helping socially . . .
4) Lack of experienced competitors to help me with shirts and other gear.

So I can line up for the hammer strength machines and spin bike classes, or I can find a new gym. I may have to make my own pit, as this is a small redneck town with 3 commercial gyms. I don't know what to do as today was DE Lower day . . .

Plus, now, I need to cancel my membership, as the whole family was only following me . . . And I want to lift!

 

[Scotsman]

Awesome. Sucks you have to find a new place to work out though.

Step ups on the DL platform I would have to kill everyone in that gym for that one. Don't let me start on calling the power rack a curl area

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[pwrlftrscott]

Well, I must have reached a new level. They asked a guy to "talk to me". Everything was fine as long as I was doing the bodybuilding thing for years. Now the problems are:

1)No chalk. Too messy.
2)No bands. They may snap, too much insurance liability.
3)No chains. Too messy and too much liability.
4)No box squats. Foreign equipment not acceptable.
5)No board presses. Foreign equipment not acceptable.

These are the management's complaints both delivered individually and through some of the trainers.

My problems have been:

1) Lack of a training team to motivate me.
2) Lack of spotters with competence.
3) Lack of equipment: no GHR, no sleds, no alternate bars, and one power rack used almost exclusively for curls. The management actually had complaints from people waiting to do curls in the squat rack that I monopolize the "curl area". I also monopolize the deadlift platform while people are waiting to do aerobic step-ups there. The management, being decent people just trying to run a business, ignored this nonsense. But it wasn't helping socially . . .
4) Lack of experienced competitors to help me with shirts and other gear.

So I can line up for the hammer strength machines and spin bike classes, or I can find a new gym. I may have to make my own pit, as this is a small redneck town with 3 commercial gyms. I don't know what to do as today was DE Lower day . . .

Plus, now, I need to cancel my membership, as the whole family was only following me . . . And I want to lift!

that is why i have a home gym now, commercial gyms suck for pl, unless your lucky enough to have a really hardcore gym near you, i don't so i made my own.

 

[majutsu]

I agree. I can easily afford a power rack. I just picked one out. A bar. 5 pairs of 45s and small weights. And a bench. I'll be good to go for about 500$. Not too bad. Especially considering my membership at a new travesty would be 300$+ or so.

One important question: How do power racks ship? Disassembled? And then you put together? I would imagine so . . . Otherwise a wide one won't fit through the front door. Please tell me how your power rack shipped, Pwrlftrscott.

And what about weights and bars? How do they arrive?

I'm actually glad to be free of commercial gym crap -- the sky's the limit now.

 

[majutsu]

I got a power rack, tree, olympic bar rated to a 1000, and 600lbs of weight.

Welcome to "Majutsu's Iron Pit". Maybe I'll get into that PLUSA hardcore gym section . . .

 

[Devastation]

i'm fortunate, my gym is an excellent and accomodating environment. good luck with the training bro

 

[blut wump]

Congrats on making the move, majutsu. I've been looking at making a home gym but then I was lucky enough to find a hard-core gym just a few miles outside my previous search zone.

It's great not having to overhear little old ladies saying they're scared of doing weights because they don't want to end up growing muscles but I now have to contend with bozos with imaginary lat syndrome who look as if they're trying to hump the calf machine and squat 135 pounds about three inches while their mates count out the reps. I like being among other hard-working lifters and even becoming a little fish in a bigger pond but I've not given up on the idea of a home gym. Let us know how you get on with it.

 

[H_T_]

i love making toothpicks out of wood floors in gyms such as that.

 

[Quadsweeps Sister]

Man that sucks... Me and Chamb train at a Gold's now since the Powerhouse we used to train at closed. When we were signing back up at Gold's we had them write into our contract that we could use chalk, suits, bands, chains, boxes and any of our own equipment. I think we are also granted immunity from some contract rule number 48 - so we can essentially yell, grunt, belch, fart and be smelly...if we choose to. LOL!!!

We understand completely the pains in the ass of using a commercial gym to try and do a PL workout. Here's what happened to Chamb on ME Bench night this week. It was originally posted out in the SOYG (Sick of Your Gym) section of EliteFTS.com - enjoy.

Originally Posted on EliteFTS.com
SOYG: So there I am, 10 weeks out from a meet, trying to get my raw strength up doing three boards. I train in a commercial gym, same old story, so everyone looks at us like we're idiots everytime we bring our stuff in. I have to strap myself down with bands to hold the board because I don't trust anyone in the gym to hold them and I don't want to go into a 10 minute useless explanation on why I use them and what they do.

Back to the stupid story, I decide to use only one band instead of both to hold the three board on me so my partner can give me a lift off and spot me, I bring the weight down fine, elbows tucked, ass on the bench, compress the board into my chest, pause, drive and then BAM, the board slides right up in the middle of my lift and cracks me right in the friggin mouth. All my partner can see is the boards just below the bill of my hat. After scaring the crap out of her, I have to know if I hit it or not, I did get it and proceeded to go up to 375 for a double, a raw 3-board PR.

There is definitely something to say about concentration during a lift, maybe next time I want to get a PR, I'll just resort to having my partner smack me in the mouth with a board.

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...Good luck with the home gym Majutsu

 

[majutsu]

I was a little scared this morning because by the time I was done shopping, I had spent thousands, not the modest start I was thinking of. You can't trust a man with toys and a bank card. But it will do it all. Then next month (I have to stop the bleeding of money for now) I'm going to add a GHR and reverse hyper. This month I got the power rack, weights, bench and accessory work stuff (pull throughs, lats, etc). One of the guys at work (pl and football coach) already wants to come over, but he's got to know there is no rap (he's a hip black man who likes that crap), just slayer, and there is no way in hell I'm waiting for anybody to use equipment in MY gym. I think I'll make a poster with my own "club rules". 1)No wife beaters, backwards caps or abercrombe and fitch "gear". 2) Anyone caught doing triceps kickbacks, cable flys, curls in the rack or the like will be executed at dawn. 3) Any music or conversation distasteful to GOD (me) will be handled by divine retribution. Feel free to give me more rules. I probably need 10 for a good poster