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2004/01/15, 12:25 PM
Does anyone have any horror gym stories??? just curious. Last night me and my workout bud were at the gym and we came to the conclusion that our gym sucks ***. It leaks, and there is this mold on the wall. Im gettin sick, and im wondering if i am getting sick b/c of the fungus growing there. Its in a basement like setting but they are moving it upstairs but by the time they move ill probably be collecting social security (right now im 26) thats just to give you a good idea on how slow they are going with it. I kinda want to get out of my contract with them and go somewhere else. but thats probably not possible. Also when leaving the door freezes from the inside out with like ice on the glass. its unbelieveable. anyone else got some stories??? whats up all??!! its been a while but ive been busy w/ work (but still going to the gym as always) happy new year.
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2004/01/15, 12:49 PM
You definitely need to get out of that contract. Probably on the health risk factor alone they would have to let you out of the contract. Tell them you are allergic to fungi and offer to have an inspector come and check out the club, there are health codes that apply to gyms.
I worked at a Ballys and you would not believe how nasty that club was, moldy shower curtains, bad air circulation, many many problems. It is because they don't really give a f**k about your health, they just churn memberships as fast as possible because they know you probably won't come very often.
Find a better club or go in on some equipment with your buddy, a decent bench and a set of olympic plates isn't too spendy and thee is a lot you can do with them.
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"To be able to go to the gym and train hard is a joy and a privelege, even though the hard work necessitates driving yourself through considerable discomfort. Savor this privelege and blessing, and revel in it."
Stuart McRobert, Beyond Brawn
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2004/01/15, 12:57 PM
Yup...I love my gym and the equipment BUT it is the people that workout there. Mostly a younger crowd of guys which none of them really know how to lift other than their bi's and chest. They are so freakin obnoxious and arrogant. Most of them lift in big groups and talk on their cell phones while checking themselves out in the mirror, or pretending to know how to box. While you are doing a set of whatever, they'll completely walk into your "personal" space and not give a shit. They leave every weight they use on the floor. I've had numerous confrontations with these idiots, as well as management, for not taking care of it. Most of these guys are in gangs (I don't live in a safe area) and most of them weigh a 130 lbs soaking wet, but they come in numbers and they think they own the place...until last night when two of these little gang members were kicked out of the gym permanently. One of the guys they roll with(hang out with) was arrested for double homicide; chopping up his girlfriend and strangling his girlfriend's son, then dumping the bodies, where else? but behind my freakin' gym! I saw the guy a million times. Management as well as natural selection are starting to wipe these little scumbags out of there. So thats good news. Thats my horror story.
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May the lift be with you.
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2004/01/15, 01:08 PM
Gees Jdelts that's more than a horror story, surprised the whole episode hasn't made it to the NY press yet, sure to get a ton of attention.
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2004/01/15, 01:09 PM
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2004/01/15, 01:12 PM
J, sounds like an episode on CSI or something. Wouldn't want to be "caught dead" in your gym (LOL)!
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Pain is temporary; glory is forever!
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2004/01/15, 01:51 PM
My gym is my house... actually... my bedroom has all my weights and stuff in it! Not real big, but it gets the job done...!
Tim
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."
Aristotle
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2004/01/15, 02:23 PM
After jdelts story, my story about how I dislike the-guys-who-go-to-the-gym-just-to-hit-on-us-women story seems really lame..... For which I guess I should be thankful - sure beats homicide! :(
Is there not any safer gyms for you to go to? (sorry - the Mom in me comes out every once in awhile :)
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2004/01/15, 02:38 PM
I'm with you Amazon...
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2004/01/15, 02:43 PM
I love our gym, the people who run it and the people in it. No horror stories. We do have the young guys with toothpicks for legs who always do chest and arms, but they are nice, not obnoxious. Once in a while we get a visitor that will throw their weight around, show off, or invade your space, but it is a rare occurence and never permanent.
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~Victoria~
...Do not be discouraged; everyone who got where he is, started where he was.--anon
...There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills
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2004/01/15, 03:18 PM
Oh geez I_am-azon, I'm sorry....do tell, please. I'm not trying to top any stories but that is the reality of my gym, unfortunately.
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2004/01/15, 03:24 PM
I go to Golds. No complaints. I actually have access to a free gym on base here in Quantico, however, every single Marine uses it during luch and after work. I like to have my space. =)
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2004/01/15, 03:28 PM
I have a great weight room in my house. I really do hate it when I hit on myself though.
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Living well is the best revenge.
Charlie
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2004/01/15, 03:29 PM
Jdelts-man i feel for you and totally know what your talkin about.!!! not with the peeps that go there but with the fact that its like club med. EVERYONE knows EVERYONE they all talk on the phone, talk to eachother. We start singing the theme song to cheers when we go. "wouldn't you like to get away. to a place where everyone knows your name" haha
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2004/01/15, 06:05 PM
lol, oh my gosh Charlie! You never stop do you? :)
You're killing me!
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2004/01/15, 06:12 PM
I'm a member at Ballys...I've haven't had any problems other than getting hit on by the staff and random members. It doesn't bother me so much anymore now that I keep my headphones on from the time I walk in the door to when I walk back out and into my car.
I started wearing the headphones 'cause the manager was sooooooooo persistant and could not just accept that I didn't want to go out on a date with him...so, now I wear them and ignore him...I hate to be rude but, what else can I do without causing trouble?
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2004/01/15, 07:54 PM
The manager is hiting on you??? They usually know better - I workout at home so no stories from me only kids climbing on me when I lay on the floor to do crunches
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Reddy
All people smile in the same language
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2004/01/15, 08:09 PM
Yo Rob!
My gym's okay. Reasonably clean, reasonable hours, open early, not too expensive, fairly well-maintained, and not crowded in the AM (the way I like it). Nice mix of people, too. Both extremes and everyone in between. No horror stories to speak of.
Actually, my gym is kind of like jdelts' gym. You know - hardcore and in the "bad" neighborhood. If someone uses lifting chalk, for example, he gets 3 gym de-merits and loses one of his "Perfect Lifting Partner" stars. Foul language - you're sent to the locker room BEFORE the post-aerobic cool-down "sing-a-long". Hey, the other day they called the police to escort this guy out of my gym. Seems this rebel used less-than-impeccable penmanship when signing in - AND tried to fake his way into the gym with a forged library card of all things.
Sorry Jdelts - not teasing ya, man. I'm just amazed at your story. I guess those of us in these "cooshy" gyms don't really know how good we have it. I hear a loud noise at my gym, I would never dream of assuming it was a gun shot or foul play. I'd just assume someone broke wind during a heavy squat session... (which, by the way, costs you 5 de-merits and TWO Perfect Lifting Partner stars).LOL
Good luck and keep an eye out! Have you tried threatening them with de-merits? If things get too crazy there, let me and Charlie know. We'll stop by and mess these punks up for ya. (Just not during Matlock!)
Yo Amazon and Taurie... Sorry to hear about your bad experiences, but, umm "how YOU doin'?" LOL
Charlie... Please don't hit on yourself. It just makes you seem cheap. And what will the buffalo think? LOL
TSMD
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2004/01/15, 08:30 PM
I'm with taurie. I started wearing headphones to keep people from talking to me. I work out at the local Y, it's a nice facility but the people who work out there are not so serious and spend more time BSing than they do lifing. Now that I wear the headphones people tend not to start conversations with me. I don't want to be rude, but I only have and hour & 15 minutes to work out.
Jdelts- You got to get out of the LI ghetto..lol....
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2004/01/15, 10:05 PM
TSMD...In my gym 1 demerit=losing a finger, 2=beatdown, 3=gunshot to your choice of body part...the funny thing is, I really don't feel threatened or afraid for my girlfriend and I because we've made alot of friends there. Its a 24 hour gym so these guys come out late at night after a long day of crime.
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2004/01/15, 10:09 PM
Jim, your gym sounds like the dock where I keep our boat. Last summer a fellow in a cruiser called the "Doc Holiday " of all things emptied his glock into a neighbors slip.
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Living well is the best revenge.
Charlie
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2004/01/15, 10:10 PM
Oh yeah, TSMD, I am tacky , not cheap.
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Living well is the best revenge.
Charlie
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2004/01/15, 10:52 PM
My "gym" is outside of your barracks, in the dirt, which turns to mud during this time of the year because of the rain. We have no machines, only a few free weights, and they are in kgs, so it has been hard trying to convert to lbs. We do have 2 benchs and an incline bench press. So that is good. But at least we have something!!!!
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2004/01/15, 11:01 PM
Charlie, You win.
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Living well is the best revenge.
Charlie
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2004/01/16, 03:09 AM
My gym is small and clean and it's female-only, so no hit-ons yet..:)
They only have basic machines but I don't mind, I prefer freeweights anyway.
I have the same problem as some of you, though...very few people actually come to work out ; most girls come in groups and discuss their love-life and gossip and complain about how much they are starving themselves and how they "never lose that weight", speaking loud, calling their friends while on the stationary bike ...and, moreover, they sit in the machines to REST and gossip!
They have no problem getting in your personal space when you work out, going through the stuff you left on the bench etc. God is that ANNOYING or what?!
I like helping people with advice on exercices, but I hate it when they try to chit-chat with me...i don't like small talk at the gym...it breaks my concentration and I'm generally very uncooperative so they eventually go away :D
One more thing...I don't think it's rude ...after all, those two hours every other day are the only time I have left EXCLUSIVELY for myself, I really like to savour it...I speak about the weather with workmates all day long...
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2004/01/16, 01:04 PM
A few yrs ago some guy from a radio station came running into and through Ballys in his whitie tighties...it was pretty funny. Needless to say it was a spectacle watching him get kicked out by the staff.
When I was a teenager I worked at the YMCA. Some old man stormed out of the men's locker room completely naked to yell at the front desk kid who forgot to give him a towel on the way in.
Another one at the Y: After my shift I went into the women's locker room to grab my things...there was a woman completely, completely naked riding the stationary bike we kept in there! THAT WAS SO GROSS!
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2004/01/16, 02:03 PM
LOL @ Taurie - that stationary bike story is going to give me nightmares! lol ewwww
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2004/01/16, 02:34 PM
Was there a seat on it? Oh God I couldn't resist!
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2004/01/16, 02:54 PM
To be honest...I couldn't even see the seat. So, I couldn't say if there was one or not. lol.
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2004/01/16, 03:06 PM
hmmmm...interesting
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2004/01/17, 11:34 AM
We used to have a guy who would expose himself to people on the stationary bikes at Ballys. He finally got caught and kicked out.
I wear my headphones and play my music loud enough that I can't hear whatever is coming out of people's mouths. I just nod, no matter what they said and continue lifting. Usually they get the hint, but I am regarded as a real bitch because I don't socialize. Oh well, I ain't there to make friends.....
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"To be able to go to the gym and train hard is a joy and a privelege, even though the hard work necessitates driving yourself through considerable discomfort. Savor this privelege and blessing, and revel in it."
Stuart McRobert, Beyond Brawn
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