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  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I was thinking of joining a gym and this post reminded me.

    Fuck scummy gyms. Golds lists memberships in a month basis, but priced bi-weekly.

    50/mo isn't the worst i've seen but damn its still annoying.

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I only do free weight stuff and to be denied a squat would make it ultimately not worth it. I have a free gym available by my work but they only have smith machines so I just don't bother. squats/dls are the only thing that motivate me to go to the gym in the first place so if faced with all cable machines, I just wont go.

          • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            hm interesting. I don't even know if theres a planet fitness near me anyway. Where I live now its either corporate gyms or gyms dedicated to a certain cult of exercise.

            I miss this gym I used to go to, it was a small place owned by husband and wife with 1 treadmill and 6 squat racks and a whole room for Olympic lifts. The clientele were either extremely nice giant beefy dudes who'd compliment form on a good day and give great advice on a bad day, or older ladies doing power lifting classes led by one of the owners.

            The gym was so good that it made every other gym feel like a hotel fitness center and I've still yet to get a membership elsewhere and it's been like 5 years.

              • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                I lifted throughout my late teens and intermittently through college while riding several miles a day on a bike usually full sprint to get to class. So i built some kind of base fitness level that's still hiding somewhere. I got under a bar for the first time in 3 years and was still able to squat 225 so I know its not all gone.

                I have always hated physically being in a gym though. Before I left for college I built a power rack out of 4x4 posts in my back yard with removable safety bars and multiple height adjustment just so I didn't have to go to a gym. If I could just lift logs and drag them around for a few hours each week, I'd prefer that to going to a gym.