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[karachi183]

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_305235233.html

The place is overcrowded and way too many rules..... I'm not grunter but i will growl during an exhale a little when doing heavy weight.. No matter what anyone says i feel it helps....

 

[Kabeetz]

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_305235233.html

The place is overcrowded and way too many rules..... I'm not grunter but i will growl during an exhale a little when doing heavy weight.. No matter what anyone says i feel it helps....

Let me tell you something about these bozos. I belonged to a Gold's Gym in White Plains, New York. They switched to Planet Fitness and told everyone they could add onto their memberships or join at $99 dollars a year or 10 dollars a month.

Two months later they took out all the benches, barbells and squat racks and dumbells over 75. The only thing left was all the cardio, machines and 3 smiths.

I moved but I would still go to another branch for cardio on some times because it's literally down the block from my house and my membership had not expired... and this summer they took away the smith machines and now it is exclusively machines, no plates of any kind, and dumbells up to 75 but now they have 2.5 pound dumbell increments.. and all the machines and walls are painted yellow and purple.

And since its so cheap... if you go between 5pm and 10 pm the line for each machine is literally 3 people or more.

BOTTOM LINE... if you lift any kind of weight, or are doing any kind of grunting, or follow any kind of legitimate workout plan you probably shouldn't be a member of that franchise in the first place.

 

[Ulter]

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_305235233.html

The place is overcrowded and way too many rules..... I'm not grunter but i will growl during an exhale a little when doing heavy weight.. No matter what anyone says i feel it helps....

Oh course it helps. It's how you regulate your breathing under tension. Idiots they are.

 

[karachi183]

Let me tell you something about these bozos. I belonged to a Gold's Gym in White Plains, New York. They switched to Planet Fitness and told everyone they could add onto their memberships or join at $99 dollars a year or 10 dollars a month.

Two months later they took out all the benches, barbells and squat racks and dumbells over 75. The only thing left was all the cardio, machines and 3 smiths.

I moved but I would still go to another branch for cardio on some times because it's literally down the block from my house and my membership had not expired... and this summer they took away the smith machines and now it is exclusively machines, no plates of any kind, and dumbells up to 75 but now they have 2.5 pound dumbell increments.. and all the machines and walls are painted yellow and purple.

And since its so cheap... if you go between 5pm and 10 pm the line for each machine is literally 3 people or more.

BOTTOM LINE... if you lift any kind of weight, or are doing any kind of grunting, or follow any kind of legitimate workout plan you probably shouldn't be a member of that franchise in the first place.

I feel ur pain bro.. only good for cardio and socializing.. what a joke

 

[karachi183]

Oh course it helps. It's how you regulate your breathing under tension. Idiots they are.

I just hate when ppl look at you like ur crazy for throwing around heavy weight and needing a little something to get you through the last rep...

 

[MXEng10]

Thats rediculous... we have one of those here in my state, about 5 miles away. Its cheap, convenient, and all new equipment, but ill never go there!

 

[galaxy]

The so called legendary Golds gym in my area is like Planetfitness now. Completely irritating environment but i try and deal. I call the manager the gym nazi.

 

[chazk]

oh lord this reminds me of a gym in tampa. its where all the heavey lifters go its open 24hours. all the bouncers get off work at 3-4 am then lift and go home to sleep all day.
the shit that went on in that gym .guys would throw pink thias at each other as if it were a lunch room food fight.one guy had a chualk stick he would write on the side of the plates " die fucker" then start pumping bench presses with 5 plates on each side stand up and grunt and scream " i knew it muther fucker you were nothing you were nothing"

the dumbless went to 200lbs and sure enough some monster would use them for bent over one handed rows .the guy would yell and scream like he was being tortured.

their comes a point where some of it was just a little to much some guy got pissed becuase the scale was broke so he carried it outside and threw it in the middle of the street.

I worked out at that gym once and felt like i was the only one that had not gone insane .

But i cant imagine anything as strict as above. imagine a loud fart and a guy comes over and ask you to leave.or you blow you nose and they think you grunted

 

[Twoguns]

I grunt squatting 315, nevermind a 500 lb squat. fuck that place

 

[solidspine]

We're creating an atmosphere that's not intimidating," said Carol Palazzolo, the gym manager, who yanked Argibay's membership on Monday.

Creating an atmosphere unwelcome to bodybuilding in my opinion

 

[02gixxersix]

That gym was my gym for years. It used to be a pretty hardcore Golds. That is the gym my father works out at now. That shit cracks me up and you know what else isn't allowed there..........................deadlifting. I shit you not.

 

[Twoguns]

That gym was my gym for years. It used to be a pretty hardcore Golds. That is the gym my father works out at now. That shit cracks me up and you know what else isn't allowed there..........................deadlifting. I shit you not.

WTF, let's unite and shut that place down