Your gym???

TJ · 09-06-2004, 02:19 PM

Tissue,

Buy some equipment for using at home, with the 18 a week you could get some gear on hire purchase over 2-3 years (about 15-25 a month) and get about 1000+ worth of top equipment.

I have invested all my resources into my equipment at home and it's my pride and joy, I don't have any problems with motivation either so thats another bonus!

I have a multi-gym, 2 benches, 190kg free weights, Different handles/attachments, medicine ball, Selection of dumbbells, Swish Ball, Squat Stands, Punch Bag, Stationary Cycle, Rower, Stepper, Fitness Rider, Skipping Rope, Rubber Bands, Ab Exerciser (not the crappy cradle kind), incline abdo board.

mutley · 09-06-2004, 03:56 PM

That's got top be the best way to go TJ - no good for us poor folk who live in small houses or flats

tissue · 10-06-2004, 01:30 PM

TJ m8t i would but my house dnt hve realy a suitable place ot stick it all i and my parents would go appe shit with all the stuff laying around lol i already hve a bench press and dumb bells and curl bear but i finde it more sociable and motivating down the gym pluss i dnt pay to go to the gym my parents do lol coz im only 16 and dnt hve a job lol

but i thank you for your sugestions maby when my sis leaves home il take her room over lol :P

tissue · 10-06-2004, 01:44 PM

mark m8t urs is expensisive my gym is all sparkly lol and for a memebrship its 30 quid a month

timbo · 17-06-2004, 10:14 PM

i go to THE ACADEMY gym

i have been to a couple of gyms, but the academy is the best i found so far. been going around 3 to 4 months now and absolutely love it, no 'oh ive got to go to the gym today' type sad thoughts, i just love it

about 36 a month and you train whenever you want, for how long you want, plus they do a small snack area, with fresh packed meals and drinks

top class gym in my eyes 8)

themule · 18-06-2004, 12:36 PM

As always I am on the lookout to find a less expensive way to use training facilities, and in this day and age of encouraging schoolchildren to get fit, then the local high school have done this, they have an excellent gym facility,which for 22.50 a month i get full use of in or out of school times, including the pool, sauna/steam room, and they have access to a very reasonable physiotherapist, which all in all is an excellent deal.

Dave.

TJ · 18-06-2004, 04:34 PM

About 10 mins walk from me is a gym called the Acadamy in Harrogate and they have won nemerous awards for this and that and they set up in a way to keep things on the expensive side and only those with money can really afford to keep going there.

For those of you who don't know Harrogate its an expensive place to live really and is expensive for anything and everything, whatever your wanting. The gym charge 150 to join and prices start from 60 a month and goes up from there....thats why I have my own gym and I can go when I want and nobody is on a machine I want to use etc etc.

Good going Dave with 22.50 a month..

themule · 18-06-2004, 08:56 PM

Thanks TJ, yes mate it is GVFM and toboot the staff that they have, obviously minimal but very good looking. It would be interesting to set up a poll seeing as the members are nationwide, to find out who, what, how etc, gives VFM at the lowest prices, any thoughts.

Dave.

MrSimba · 20-06-2004, 09:59 PM

Olympia Gym - Erdington Birmingham

Solid 'old school' back to basics gym 3 a session or 7 a week

Quality lads - No ego's or attitude everyone training 100%

As martyn the gaffer says,

No aerobics
No lycra
Just Iron and pain
No Chrome
Go heavy or go home

themule · 20-06-2004, 11:33 PM

Welcome to the board mrsimba, yes mate i couldnt agree more, none of this fancy ****ed up bollocks, where you have a shower of posers pisspotting about looking at girls when half of them couldnt tell you how to spell diet. Let alone anything else remotely connected with weightlifting or bodybuilding makes me angry. On top of that they charge extortionate prices to pay for their condescending attitude, or their patronising remarks. A gym should be exactly that and nothing more it didnt do anyone in the past any harm, its sheer greed and commercialisation that has resulted in the big glass windows and the marble staircases in todays world.

Dave.

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09-06-2004, 02:19 PM	#11 (permalink)
TJ Making Progress Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The Gym Posts: 269 Rep Power:	Tissue, Buy some equipment for using at home, with the 18 a week you could get some gear on hire purchase over 2-3 years (about 15-25 a month) and get about 1000+ worth of top equipment. I have invested all my resources into my equipment at home and it's my pride and joy, I don't have any problems with motivation either so thats another bonus! I have a multi-gym, 2 benches, 190kg free weights, Different handles/attachments, medicine ball, Selection of dumbbells, Swish Ball, Squat Stands, Punch Bag, Stationary Cycle, Rower, Stepper, Fitness Rider, Skipping Rope, Rubber Bands, Ab Exerciser (not the crappy cradle kind), incline abdo board.

09-06-2004, 03:56 PM	#12 (permalink)
mutley Making Progress Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 164 Rep Power:	That's got top be the best way to go TJ - no good for us poor folk who live in small houses or flats

10-06-2004, 01:30 PM	#13 (permalink)
tissue Making Progress Join Date: May 2004 Location: England Posts: 421 Rep Power:	TJ m8t i would but my house dnt hve realy a suitable place ot stick it all i and my parents would go appe shit with all the stuff laying around lol i already hve a bench press and dumb bells and curl bear but i finde it more sociable and motivating down the gym pluss i dnt pay to go to the gym my parents do lol coz im only 16 and dnt hve a job lol but i thank you for your sugestions maby when my sis leaves home il take her room over lol :P

10-06-2004, 01:44 PM	#14 (permalink)
tissue Making Progress Join Date: May 2004 Location: England Posts: 421 Rep Power:	mark m8t urs is expensisive my gym is all sparkly lol and for a memebrship its 30 quid a month

17-06-2004, 10:14 PM	#15 (permalink)
timbo Under Construction Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: essex Posts: 41 Rep Power:	i go to THE ACADEMY gym i have been to a couple of gyms, but the academy is the best i found so far. been going around 3 to 4 months now and absolutely love it, no 'oh ive got to go to the gym today' type sad thoughts, i just love it about 36 a month and you train whenever you want, for how long you want, plus they do a small snack area, with fresh packed meals and drinks top class gym in my eyes 8)

18-06-2004, 12:36 PM	#16 (permalink)
themule Making Progress Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: scotland Posts: 540 Rep Power:	As always I am on the lookout to find a less expensive way to use training facilities, and in this day and age of encouraging schoolchildren to get fit, then the local high school have done this, they have an excellent gym facility,which for 22.50 a month i get full use of in or out of school times, including the pool, sauna/steam room, and they have access to a very reasonable physiotherapist, which all in all is an excellent deal. Dave.

18-06-2004, 04:34 PM	#17 (permalink)
TJ Making Progress Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The Gym Posts: 269 Rep Power:	About 10 mins walk from me is a gym called the Acadamy in Harrogate and they have won nemerous awards for this and that and they set up in a way to keep things on the expensive side and only those with money can really afford to keep going there. For those of you who don't know Harrogate its an expensive place to live really and is expensive for anything and everything, whatever your wanting. The gym charge 150 to join and prices start from 60 a month and goes up from there....thats why I have my own gym and I can go when I want and nobody is on a machine I want to use etc etc. Good going Dave with 22.50 a month..

18-06-2004, 08:56 PM	#18 (permalink)
themule Making Progress Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: scotland Posts: 540 Rep Power:	Thanks TJ, yes mate it is GVFM and toboot the staff that they have, obviously minimal but very good looking. It would be interesting to set up a poll seeing as the members are nationwide, to find out who, what, how etc, gives VFM at the lowest prices, any thoughts. Dave.

20-06-2004, 09:59 PM	#19 (permalink)
MrSimba Under Construction Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power:	Olympia Gym - Erdington Birmingham Solid 'old school' back to basics gym 3 a session or 7 a week Quality lads - No ego's or attitude everyone training 100% As martyn the gaffer says, No aerobics No lycra Just Iron and pain No Chrome Go heavy or go home

20-06-2004, 11:33 PM	#20 (permalink)
themule Making Progress Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: scotland Posts: 540 Rep Power:	Welcome to the board mrsimba, yes mate i couldnt agree more, none of this fancy ****ed up bollocks, where you have a shower of posers pisspotting about looking at girls when half of them couldnt tell you how to spell diet. Let alone anything else remotely connected with weightlifting or bodybuilding makes me angry. On top of that they charge extortionate prices to pay for their condescending attitude, or their patronising remarks. A gym should be exactly that and nothing more it didnt do anyone in the past any harm, its sheer greed and commercialisation that has resulted in the big glass windows and the marble staircases in todays world. Dave.