Tell me about your perfect gym!

[Intensity]

I had the chance to try some great gym lately went visiting Randy in Boston (The Hard nock's and The Olympia) and it gave me the idea to ask you people of WOTW what is the perfect gym to you! If that gym exist (or is close to perfection), please, give me a little presentation of it and if not, I'd like to know what would it be!

So here is a portrait of my perfect gym:

Team Legion Gym, Victoriaville, Québec, Canada

Music:
Rock, punk or metal: AC DC, The OffSpring, Rage against the machine...

Targeted members:
Competitive people: Mainly fighters and bodybuilders... but any people who likes to WORK HARD in a gym. I'm telling you, there is always a great camaraderie in this gym and people are there to help each other.

Equipment:
This is a small gym, but it has all the equipment we need for an intense workout with compound exercises! I know it sometimes look more hardcore when everything is old and dirty but The Legion gym has modern equipment... which is perfect in my opinion!

Pictures:





But to be the dreamed Gym it should have:

- A posing room for bodybuilders.

- More pictures of athletes in the gym (There is some of George St-Pierre and some other fighters, but they could have more!)

So, I doubt it may happen, but if you have the chance to be in Victoriacille, Québec, Canada... make sure to plan a little workout at Team Legion Gym! (After that, plan a post workout meal at the Cactus Resto-bar ;D:



... and you, where is your favorite place to train?

[RUBICON19]

You know where mine is! but at the same time I am building the perfect gym for my future

[mrbeefy]

OK Mo...here goes:

Babes, spandex, ...oh...sorry wrong dream gym.....let me start again ;D

First: Would love to have ALL of YOU there.
Second: All of the things Mo said...PLUS....

I'd like to say a few things that I wouldn't want there......

~People who THINK they are hard core, but have no clue what that means. You know the ones.....walks around with a puffed up chest, but has no physique and the worst chicken legs you've ever seen.
~People with bad attitudes, disrespecting other lifters.
~People hogging the equipment, won't work in with you, and don't even know what it's for (Don't curl in my squat rack!)
~Broken or poorly maintained equipment.
~Overcrowded equipment or people causing safety hazards.
~There's more, but you have the idea.

Now...a few other things I'd like to see:
~ A clean gym.
~Sufficient equipment for the number of members there to use.
~Good Music, chalk, clean air, air conditioned when needed, heated when needed.
~Chains, Bands, etc.
~A place to sit with other members to talk AFTER your workout.
~ Place to heat your food.
~Sufficient shower/rest room facilities.
~Sauna, tanning, Massage, Experienced Massage Therapist.
~A well organized gym..ie:
Leg equipment together, and spaced properly.
Upper body togehter, spaced properly.
Core equipment together, spcaed properly.
Cardio equipment together, spaced properly.
~ Experienced trainers, nutritionist on staff.
~Gym store (equipment, clothing, supplements, etc)
~Testing equipment (BodPod, calipers, etc)
~Posing room with sufficient mirrors.
~MORE then one power rack, cross cable machine, Smith machine, etc.

I'm sure there is more, but you asked for a "perfect" gym, and I'm not sure that that exists, so we make due with what we can.

Oh yea,,,and don't forget the Babes, spandex, etc... (Hey...whatever gives ya motivation to get ya through your workout! )

Good idea MO!

[RUBICON19]

I love the gym I train at now, but my favorite is Hard Nocks. Such a great atmoshpere! HARDCORE to the bone! Plates clanging and chalk flying! LOUD ass music keeping you motivated. NO where like it!

My gym now Olympia, I call the DUNGEON! Its smelly, dirty, and HARDCORE! No frills here! No chrome and furn! You wana just go bang around. This is the place to do it. No one would care if you threw a 45 across the room. Its all old, rusted, and abused! funny thing is, these old peices of equip are smoother than any new peice of today! There are many top Powerlifters that train out of there. I LOVE IT!!!!!

[BigMikeReed]

My perfect gym:

Colorado's Pro Gym- Aurora, Colorado (my gym of course!).

Not trying to be a wise-guy- I have checked out (and belonged) to other gyms in the Denver area but this is the best. What makes it the best?

1. Variety of people, young and old; serious to HARDCORE.
2. GREAT comeraderie
3. Small enough and intimidating (by look only) to keep the crowds of "reacreational" folks away
4. BEST equipment known to bodybuilders, powerlifters, and strongmen alike
5. Clean
6. Owner and longtime desk employees who always acknowledge your presence there
7. Personal trainers that acknowledge your presence- even though you've never hired them.
8. NO spandex folks- all hardcore- no pretty stuff or "cruising" scene going on.

It will be the gym that helps get me onstage.

[Rich]

Well, I am building the perfect gym in my basement, one piece at a time ... but that's not what you meant I'm sure.

I've been a member at 4 different gyms in the Toronto area. And by far the best was this tiny little place about 30 minutes north of the city. The owner was a hardcore natural bb'er, who loved nothing more than to watch members suffer in the gym, then sit and chat them up in the lobby as they were leaving. There was not much in the way of fancy equipment there, but it didn't matter - everything you need WAS there. I used to train at 5:00 am, so the crowd was composed entirely of hardcore lifters. Great atmosphere, great owner, CLEAN, and yes ... a few hotties! But they were more hardcore than the guys, so it was not a flirting scene at all.

Sadly the owner sold the gym to "business people" who knew sh!t about running a gym. The place went downhill fast and went bankrupt about a year later. I had already left by that time and started building my own dungeon.

[masterschamp]

Powerhouse Gym of West Palm Beach....every piece of equipment you could ever need. Great training atmosphere....alot of competitive BB's and plenty of genuine hard core trainers. Great camaraderie.
That being said...I can make ANYWHERE I train the perfect gym for that workout.....I just focus 100% on the task at hand and go for it. I NEVER really notice anything going on around me...especially what someone else is doing. I don't even know what music is playing, or if there is any! I don't really see or hear anything that is going on around me, especially if it has nothing to do with my training. It is the only time during my day that I allow myself to be selfish, and for that hour it's all about me. I could care less about anything else going on in the gym during that time.. I am in my own little world when I train and I LOVE being there! I'm there to do a job, plain and simple.

F-O-C-U-S

Keith

[EBA84]

Sept 11, 2008 9:13:33 GMT -5 masterschamp said:

Powerhouse Gym of West Palm Beach....every piece of equipment you could ever need. Great training atmosphere....alot of competitive BB's and plenty of genuine hard core trainers. Great camaraderie.

Keith

I can second that. One of the nicest gyms I have ever been and I have been in gyms all over the USA. This place had equipment that I didn't know how to use because I never saw it before. Very nice.

[BigMikeReed]

Here are links to a few vids on youtube that some of the strongman guys at my gym posted. My gym is hardcore- powerlifters and bodybuidling. The second video taken outside behind the gym is of our gym owner Matt Rauzi doing a tire flip. I think he's almost 40 - he competed in the Highland Games some years back. A great guy and athlete.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SacpPmDijbA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukhIF99tp-w