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[MsAttitude]

Hi,

I just signed up at Elite. I'm a gym owner getting ready to open a 24 facility. If you have ideas, please relay them to me. I'll also be looking for advise and tips on both diet and training.

Ms Attitude

 

[bigguns15]

Welcome aboard! I'm sure you will find the boards to be full of good info.

 

[spatts]

Welcome!

Here's a starter list:

Allow chalk
Allow deadlifts
Allow boxes for squatting and bands and chains for speed work
Hire trainers with degrees and certs that have half a clue about training
Stock your gym with The Journal of Applied Physiology instead of Muscle & Fitness
Don't let people curl in the squat/power rack
Don't tell people that cardio is the best way to burn fat...or even the 5th best way.
Encourage the women to challenge themselves by putting up a "50lb, 100lb, 150lb, 200lb (etc..) Club" board for women's lifts.
Don't be afraid to help with proper form.


Oh boy, I could go on all day...

 

[MsAttitude]

Thanks, I like those ideas. My current facility has a handful of powerlifters and bodybuilders. I guess you'd say we were the hardcore gym in town.

I'm navigating around the boards. I'd like to find some good info on diets.

 

[lucidblue]

Welcome. Good luck with your gym! I'd like to open a gym someday when I settle down and decide where to live.

 

[spatts]

Here's my old cutting and bulking diets from the BB training days. I still carb cycle, and eat pretty much the same way, I just don't train at 6AM anymore, and I don't take a lot of these sups. The ratios and foods are still accurate though:

http://www.asylum-strength.com/spat-cutting.htm

http://www.asylum-strength.com/spat-bulking.htm

These diets represent the median. For example, the cutting diet shows 100g CHO. On training days that's more like 150 (200 on a leg day), and 50 on a non-training day. Protein and fat would remain constant while carbs were cycled to determine overall caloric intake. Also, these numbers are based on my BMR and at the time I had about 140-150 pounds of LBM. I don't factor fiber in to carbs either. If green beans are 7g per 1/3 cup and 3 is fiber, then the total CHO is 4g.

I'm a powerlifter now, and I still carb rotate, just with higher numbers. It allows me to fuel my workouts without creating SO much excess that I blow up.

 

[pwr_machine]

Welcome to the boards!

 

[valerie]

Lucky You!

Sounds like you have a good handle on what a gym SHOULD be like. Wish more had that idea too.

 

[flexygrl]

Encourage the women to challenge themselves by putting up a "50lb, 100lb, 150lb, 200lb (etc..) Club" board for women's lifts.

I wish my gym had this.

 

[slinky]

Welcome!

Here's a starter list:

Allow chalk
Allow deadlifts
Allow boxes for squatting and bands and chains for speed work
Hire trainers with degrees and certs that have half a clue about training
Stock your gym with The Journal of Applied Physiology instead of Muscle & Fitness
Don't let people curl in the squat/power rack
Don't tell people that cardio is the best way to burn fat...or even the 5th best way.
Encourage the women to challenge themselves by putting up a "50lb, 100lb, 150lb, 200lb (etc..) Club" board for women's lifts.
Don't be afraid to help with proper form.


Oh boy, I could go on all day...

AND a platform, bumpers and less machines with more free weights....and..and if you absolutely NEED to have a SWISball, have JUST ONE...not a whole army of 'em.

But this is cool that you're coming here and asking this. God bless ya.

Where will this Valhalla-like gym be located at? By knowing this, once it's open, we'll know what gym to recommend (for folks needing a gym in that area).