Where do you train????

[merckon]

I belong to a gym that is not really a franchise but they do have 3 gyms in the aerea.I have been training since the eighties and back then when you came to the gym,you f**** trained your ass off!I was in the gym last night busing my ass with my partner and this 20 yr old kid walks in with long pants,gloves and tank top and if that wasnt enough a g** damn cell phone!I have news for you funking punks stay home and talk,I dont want to see that shit nor hear your ass tell your girlfriend how much you love her!Well this same kid was at the mall,my buddy seen him.It seems he likes to wear shirts that are sold in the kids department!Man when I was that age I knew my place and would never think of doing something so f***** stupid!Anyways I will get off my soap box,lets bring back the old days!

[granz4]

I lift at PowerHouse, been at this one for about 6 months. There's always going to be someone that wants to stand around and look pretty at the gym no matter what age.

[blackwaterpain]

hmmmm

[merckon]

What has happened to all the hard core gyms??All I see now is these LAFITNESSand 24 Hour Fitness places,what the hell??I just wanted to bitch a little becausegyms are not what they use to be.

[hulk_hogan]

dont laugh, but i the hulkster, train at LA Fitness, stop laughing

there are seriously 5 of them 10 miles from my house, and 2 of them or literally 3 miles east and the other 3 miles west of my house.

Plus I travel alot and I can always find one where ever i am


oh well, sorry

[fit4lyfe]

Originally Posted by hulk_hogan

dont laugh, but i the hulkster, train at LA Fitness, stop laughing

there are seriously 5 of them 10 miles from my house, and 2 of them or literally 3 miles east and the other 3 miles west of my house.

Plus I travel alot and I can always find one where ever i am


oh well, sorry

LMMFAO, LA Fitness, I hope you don't use the showers!!! I go to Worlds, where I live only twice a week to do legs and back as I don't have the equip for this at home ( bad back & need machines to get in legs/back) It is full of greys, gays, and little bunnies looking all pretty in the mirror, but the booty shorts are very good for my test levels, and I just ignore the 20'something kids with their puffed chests, and arms looking like a fledgling trying to fly for the first time..

[merckon]

I have trained at LAFITNESS before good equipment its just not somewhere you would deadlift and thro chalk around.You have to train where you can nothing wrong with that its just the dumb asses who think they know how to train!

[preistfan]

Originally Posted by merckon

What has happened to all the hard core gyms??All I see now is these LAFITNESSand 24 Hour Fitness places,what the hell??I just wanted to bitch a little becausegyms are not what they use to be.

I'm not here to defend these "fitness" centers because I love gyms with 150lb. dbs and such but since I work for planet fitness I do know why these places are set up the way they are and why they are successfull. I also have some bad news for you folks who are members at Gold's. If you haven't noticed already, the format at these gyms is changing to more of a ftness center and getting away from the BBers. Here's why;
1. society is living to an older age and a greater %of the society is becoming seniors. These people are now seeking to increase the quality of life through fitness.
That being, Gold's two closest competitors were Bally's and 24hr fitness. Bally's only has 1/2 the number of facilities as gold's but pulls in almost the ame amount of revenues!!!! Why? When gold's got bought by a company called Omega little while back, they analyzed this situation. At Bally's 70% of the members were seniors citizens or Newbies. At Gold's it was less than 20%. Omega saw where there opportunity to turn gold's around was. If you look at the gold's website, the old symbol of a BBer with the bar bending is miniscule. At the local gold's by me the sign out front barely says gold's but in big letters it reads"FAMLY FITNESS CENTER." You have n idea how many people thought it wasn't a gold's anymore.
For anyone on the east coast you guys should know of Bev Francis' gym in Long Island. It used tobe Gold's but when they were informed of the changes coming down the pipe she didn't renew her franchise. It's now a powerhouse gym.
Sorry to use up so much space in one thread but I wanted to provide some info on this issue. The answer is Money and the stats show these "fitness centers" make it quicker and more profitably than "hardcore" gyms.

[Realize]

Exactly...the baby boomers are now getting old and there is a lot of cash to be made. I train at a 24 hour gym btw.

[preistfan]

Let me tell you one more story about planet fitness in particular. The original one in my area was previously a world's gym. During the late 80's-early 90's he had various pros visit his gym. He was a BBer in his youth and still carries some impressive size. Then Worlds got bought out by planet fitness and the owner stayed aboard. To make a long story short four years later he is opening his 4th PF in december and has announced the location for his 5th. Obviously this companies business plan works. However being the BBer I am I asked the owner if he would ever open up another hardcore gym and aftr he opened the second PF, ther were rumors he would open another world's. But now that he's going for club #5, his response was "it's not worth the headaches to open up another gym like that." I was very dissapointed because I was offered the chance to be a general manager a while back but wanted to hold off because I wanted to run the BB friendly gym. Gotta run guys, like I said I ain't defending these places just wanted to give some insite.