Unofficial Gym Hate thread - Because we dont want to pay another 30-day notice

[Burakumin Bro]

Wtf is wrong with gyms in the US of A? They always trying to sneak bullshit charges and fees behind your back, are filled with broccolis blasting shitty rap and occupying the equipment, and if you want to cancel you have to deal with a filipino that goes like ITS A GREAT DAY THANK YOU FOR CALLING MEMBER SERVICES and it's obvious they are following a script.

I'd rather workout at home that deal with ABC fitness ever again.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I've also heard about annoying people recording with their phones, when they shouldn't.

I personally don't need to go to the gym, I'll do exercise at home: no annoyance from rude people, much more enjoyable, and free!

 

[Happy Little War Painter]

IMO, stay away from big gyms. Family owned/garage gyms usually have good memebership prices and more regular members (and are usually dead outside of "peak" hours).
Home gyms are also a great investment.
Marketplace and wherever for used first before new of course.
Yes the steel plates are expensive but they'll last forever don't bother with the cement-filled.

 

[I Hate Sheeps]

Still don't get why people go to a gym when there are enough ways to workout at home for free.

 

[RandomTwitterGuy]

IMO, stay away from big gyms. Family owned/garage gyms usually have good memebership prices and more regular members (and are usually dead outside of "peak" hours).
Home gyms are also a great investment.
Marketplace and wherever for used first before new of course.
Yes the steel plates are expensive but they'll last forever don't bother with the cement-filled.

This a 100%.

I am lucky that my area has this small community-owned gym. It is not the most stacked, and you have to do some volunteer work to be a member, but it is cheap. It is almost empty after 20.00, and while it does not have the widest selection of machines, it does have only one of each, except for free weights. So it is decent, but not everywhere has this. The worst thing is that normal gyms where I am in Europe; it used to be worse with the hidden bullshit fees.

From them trying to charge me a "hold fee" to keep my membership active. You were bound for 3 months at a time, and so on. However, it seems to have gotten slightly better, but it is still some garbage at times.

Still don't get why people go to a gym when there are enough ways to workout at home for free.

Becaus I like the equipment and I don't have room for them at home.
I like weightlifting, but my apartment and my downstairs neighbors would not like it when I started my late-night ungabunga heavy thing going up and down. Also, I find machines nice for when I want to focus on muscle groups, and there is something nice about going to the gym. I go there, and for the next 1-2 hours, my brain is in ungabunga mode. NO thoughts, only things go up and things go down.

 

[squidward tentacles]

there is something nice about going to the gym. I go there, and for the next 1-2 hours, my brain is in ungabunga mode. NO thoughts, only things go up and things go down.

Yeah, home is for home, gym is for gym. My gym is full of old people so luckily there aren't many teens and etc recording shit on their phones.

 

[Slav Power]

Still don't get why people go to a gym when there are enough ways to workout at home for free.

Obviously not speaking from the US standpoint since from what I see it doesn't really apply there, but you also go to the gym to socialize. If you have no other place to go, nothing to do once you're home and no one to talk to, you might as well go to the gym, work out and talk to people. Usually they're all approachable, buddy-buddy and friendly so it's all in a good mood, and other gym rats will guide you in how to work out in person rather than trying to figure everything out yourself based on five billion YouTube videos. Also, I can never get anything done when I sit at home. I'm mentally set to relax, to fuck about and be unproductive, but when I'm at the gym, I'm mentally set to work out and spend the next few hours on pumping iron. The moment you leave your house your mindset changes instantly. If one day you decide to just walk out, you might end up going for a long walk where otherwise you'd just meander about doing nothing again. Another thing to note: at home you're not always gonna have space to have all the equipment or do all the workouts that you'd need to do to work every muscle. You know where you get that? At the gym.

Obviously if your only goal is to work out, and you're determined to do so, you won't need a gym. But not everyone works out just for the sake of it, or is so determined to just working out that they'll do calisthenics for hours at home with perfect discipline. Technically you could learn how to play an instrument with just your computer and determination, but you'll have a higher chance of succeeding if you sign up for a course that forces you to get outside and work with another person. Everyone did so before the Internet for a reason and people still do so for the same reason as well.

 

[An Account]

Mine is $12.99 a month, 24/7, and typically dead. Haven't seen a single groid in there once, either.

 

[Happy Little War Painter]

Great video from best Dr. Mike on the subject of a home gym:

 

[666NASTYFUCKINGFREAK666]

I don't go to the gym... thats what guns are for.

 

[Happy Little War Painter]

I don't go to the gym... thats what guns are for.

get buff so people think you want to fight them and then pull out a gun.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I don't like the gym. I've tried joining a couple over the years, but I just end up not going. I don't like making the trip, I don't like exercising around other people, I don't like not being able to get stronk on my own schedule (nearest gym has shitty limited hours).

Ever since I got home equipment I've been actually using it. Thank you based kettlebells.

 

[74164978231]

Still don't get why people go to a gym when there are enough ways to workout at home for free.

At a certain point they make sense. Not everyone has the space to dedicate a squat rack and storing weights. Also once you hit a certain point in muscle development it really helps to have all those specific machines that allow you to target specific muscles which you arent going to have in a home gym.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Also once you hit a certain point in muscle development it really helps to have all those specific machines that allow you to target specific muscles

You only "target specific muscles" if you're a raging homosexual wannabe bodybuilder. Compound lifts are how your body is meant to move things and even accessory lifts rarely require anything more complex than a pair of dumbbells.

The only machine I ever wish I had is a glute-ham raise because working the back without compressive loads on the spine really aids recovery.

 

[Toothp!ck]

A gym I went to would charge you an extra $10 dollars because they would claim you first payment didn't go through. They immediately stopped that when they did that to some lawyer who threatened a class action. They didn't even make it to Covid since they had terrible customer service. Shame since it was a nice gym before it got bought out by investors.

Great video from best Dr. Mike on the subject of a home gym:

Bald manlet with a shitty physique who has no right to criticize others. Science-based lifters are a plague

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a fellow kiwi in the comments section

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Build a home gym. You can build a squat rack out of lumber and pipe for a couple hundred bucks and buy or build an adjustable bench for another couple hundred bucks and you have everything you need. Buy a used barbell and plates on marketplace or the like and you've got a pretty well equipped home gym for less than a year's membership.

 

[Kromeleon]

A gym I went to would charge you an extra $10 dollars because they would claim you first payment didn't go through. They immediately stopped that when they did that to some lawyer who threatened a class action. They didn't even make it to Covid since they had terrible customer service. Shame since it was a nice gym before it got bought out by investors.

Bald manlet with a shitty physique who has no right to criticize others. Science-based lifters are a plague

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a fellow kiwi in the comments section

I watched a few of that guy’s videos several years ago and thought he was funny. Then he popped up in my YouTube feed a month or so ago and now he’s tatted up like a clown. WTF happens to people?

 

[Hweeks]

Home Gym builder here. Weight bench with bench press options, normal and olympic sized bars, tons of weights, a power tower, and some mats is all you need.

 

[ThrobbingWalloper]

Fuck the big gyms. There's something like 4 the gym groups in our city.

We have weights at home and added pads and punch bags. Still attend our community gym, we and the kids do some classes and there's special events - Christmas party, outings to fights etc.

Gym can be good for socialising if its not full of roid freaks and brocoli hairs.

Lot of high schools now open their gyms to the public outside of school hours which can mean a cheaper entry rate for the poor kiwis. Better terms and conditions than the behemoths.

Keep active kiwis. You're worth it.

 

[snowdunes]

A gunt appreciation thread or just a cheapskates thread? Call it now!

I don't go to the gym... thats what guns are for.

Let's see that M2 Browning akimbo mode posture of yours.