New Gym
Well, my lifting partner and I just found out 2 weeks ago that our gym was being changed into a Planet Fitness. I talked to the one manager at the gym and he told me that they were changing so they wouldn’t be overrun by all the bigger gyms. Except, they were losing the basketball court, sauna and only keeping dumbbells up to 75lbs. That’s all fine, if that’s what they want to do to keep the company going, then great. But they’re making all these rules, like no gruntin when you’re lifting weights. They don’t want people to be intimidated while they’re giving tours of the facility. And, if they catch or hear you grunting they’re going to warn you and flip lights on at you and stuff like that. First of all, I’m not one to make a huge amount of noise when I’m lifting anyway, but flipping switches and warning people about their noise when lifting. I’ve never heard of that, that’s like telling someone not to push themselves or work hard in a gym. So, Skippy1857 and I just joined a new gym called The Annex not far from our old gym. It’s a pretty nice gym. Dumbbells up to 225 (don’t need to worry about that yet for anything, but gives me something to strive for more than 75) and you can make noise in the gym…imagine that…you can work hard in a gym. They also have a power lifting club, which is something that I might like to look into, still contemplating that. And, there’s a basketball court, which is where I get the majority of my cardio in at. All in all, I’m happy with the switch. Looking forward to see what I can do in there.
April 16, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Flipping lights….lets go back to preschool! I don’t grunt much but isn’t lifting supposed to be hard! Enjoy the new gym.
April 30, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Yeah really, I thought that the flipping lights thing was kind of stupid. I really like the new gym, I haven’t been in much the last wee, I jammed my shoulder playing football so now I’m trying to get the cardio up. So, my partner and I have been running in a park nearby. We keep trying to find new things to keep the cardio "interesting". That’s the hardest part for me, I don’t like to just go out and run, so we’ve been playing b-ball and running hills at the park stuff like that. Hope everything’s good with you. I can see the hard work’s really starting to pay off.