anyone else hate gyms?

[Salvia]

my wife wants us to join a gym....i HATE gyms.....i HATE waiting and i HATE people in general. Thats why i workout at home. I keep telling her if i wanted to join a gym i would have done it years ago,but she wont listen. I'll probably end up going just to make her happy,but i got a feeling something bad will happen....

Do they have standard barbells at gyms? They're easier to swing at people....

[Hogg]

I agree.

Even a good gym can end up sucking the big one over the years. I'm getting depressed thinking about it.

[Salvia]

i went to a gym once 10 years ago...havent set foot in one since...

[dzl66]

Originally Posted by Salvia

my wife wants us to join a gym....i HATE gyms.....i HATE waiting and i HATE people in general. Thats why i workout at home. I keep telling her if i wanted to join a gym i would have done it years ago,but she wont listen. I'll probably end up going just to make her happy,but i got a feeling something bad will happen....

Do they have standard barbells at gyms? They're easier to swing at people....

I don't mind a well equiped gym it's just all the goofballs that walk around them like they are god's gift to bodybuilding-hate that shit

[Phil Burmese1]

Originally Posted by dzl66

I don't mind a well equiped gym it's just all the goofballs that walk around them like they are god's gift to bodybuilding-hate that shit

lol, I am the same way. I have been going to my gym for the past 10 years and over those years there has been countless amounts of #$#holes that go there. It seems everybody and their grandmothers have imaginary lat syndrome and have the need to flex and push weight they can not do by themselves. And honestly I am the least eagotistical person one will ever meet, but I know I look better than 90% of the people at my gym, but I still dont act like a freakin monkey, nor do I feel the need to compare myself to someone else, or just plain stare. Damn I hate that! I dont want to talk about this anymore, I am getting myself all worked up.
Thank you

[oldawg]

I joined a gym in 1960. About 2500 square ft , free weights only. Machines and
aerobics hadn't been invented yet. Sneaked in because it was a
place for "Queers". Place reeked of sweat , urinal tablets and
tobacco(Some lifters smoked between sets) . Nobody wiped anything down and the shower stall had green and black mold. And, they
sold Hoffman's soy and "Protein from the Sea" tablets.
God I miss it.

[God Size Trapps]

I hate rec center type gyms like bally's, etc but other people working out motivates me when I'm tired or burned out. The thing that sucks is that most gyms require annual contracts now, if you can pay month to month, you always have that option of going somewhere else if there's too many douche bags.

[Bob Smith]

IMO, a lot of it depends on what time of day you go. Most of my workouts are sometime between 10:30am and 12pm. There might be 3 or 4 other guys in the free weight area workin out, but no one to really get in my way. Now, if I worked out at 5pm Id probably kill myself.

[eleven11]

Originally Posted by Bob Smith

IMO, a lot of it depends on what time of day you go. Most of my workouts are sometime between 10:30am and 12pm. There might be 3 or 4 other guys in the free weight area workin out, but no one to really get in my way. Now, if I worked out at 5pm Id probably kill myself.

same here, I get there around 11am and never have to wait on a machine. one good thing about a gym is once I walk thru the doors I'm there to workout, no distractions. plus I've made some good freinds at the gym over the years. Now I am going to get some cardio equipment for the home because it's a pain in the ass to drive all the way to the gym just for cardio. ( I live 18 miles from our gym)...........11

[ramboj70]

Originally Posted by eleven11

same here, I get there around 11am and never have to wait on a machine. one good thing about a gym is once I walk thru the doors I'm there to workout, no distractions. plus I've made some good freinds at the gym over the years. Now I am going to get some cardio equipment for the home because it's a pain in the ass to drive all the way to the gym just for cardio. ( I live 18 miles from our gym)...........11

I like the part when you are benching 400lbs and you hear a fucking cell phone go off and this little fucker starts talking on his phone telling his girl he is at the gym and he is working his ass off for her, LOL what a moron. I get in there, workout for 1hr or 1.5 depends on the day and I get the F out of there, and if I see a hot chick I will look at her smile and keep going, I might touch my pecker so she can see, but i am there for one reason only, to do what i like to do