ITT describe your gym

Pros
>2 minute drive
>buddy's home gym
>has everything we need for important lifts

Cons
>not enough dumbbells
>no incline bench
>no machines or anything, just a power rack

Local rec center

Pros
> Walking distance from my house
> Awesome hot tub and sauna
> Kid's pool for my older kids, daycare for my youngest
> Fucking racquetball!

Cons
> Only one power rack
> No Olympic platform
> Fucking expensive, even for only one person
> Free weight area is tiny compared to the rest of the building

Home gym
Pros
> In my basement
> No need for daycare
> Fuck my wife on the bench and power rack
> Lift naked
> Listen to autistic Veeky Forums parody songs at high volume
> Already own the shit

Cons
> Only one set of Olympic weights; 300 lbs total. Need moar LMAO plaet
> No racquetball
> Ceiling too low. Have to sit for OHP

Pros
>very clean
>sauna and tanning bed
>nobody squats so squat rack always free
>mostly upper class people there, so no stinky indians or arabs
>people very friendly and civil

Cons
>expensive
>free weight area pretty small because they're rebuilding gym atm
>DYEL people giving shitty advice because they lift since forever without gains

Pros
>Cheap (20 USD per month)
>Clean
>8 min walk from home
>Pretty much empty at 6am. Early workout master race

Cons
>No showers. No biggie for me cuz 8min walk tho.
>No qt3.1416s

Pros:
>alone
>adjustable dumbbells

Cons:
>1 barbell
>4 45s
>bar/plates are rusty and make your hands smell like pennies
>mannequins
>dusty

Pros
>towel service
>body wash in showers
>climbing wall
>hot tub by pool
>dip belt provided

Cons
>only 2 squat racks
>rich douchebags don't rerack weights
>trainers always get in the way
>OHP is under an air duct that I bump even with just 10 lb pl8s
>one of the climbing staff is a snooty bitch with a music degree and a sense of superiority

Home gym
>pros
Can lift with dad
Alone
No waiting for equipment
Everything needed
>cons
In dusty garage, sets off allergies
Rusty barbell

How can one go to gym dressed like that

Pros
>No commute except walking downstairs
>No waiting
>Can lift in my underwear
>Can play w/e music I want
>Don't have to wipe anything down
>Free over time

Cons
>No lat pulldown or dips
>No spotters
>No bros to get to know
>High initial cost

you've never lived near a beach

You do know having a DYEL body doesn't mean they don't know how to lift, right? It just means they don't eat to get big. Those guys could still know how to lift properly.

I like my setup

>UK council health centre/gym with indoor pitches/badminton etc, pool, cardio, machine studio and free weights area in a medium sized town in South-East England

Pros:

>Work subs my bill so it's £19/month
>There are three places you can squat, press and bench so there are rarely queues if you go early
>Good car park which is free, also in town so you can go from there to do other shit
>Good rubber matting surface so you can dead lift/etc everywhere

Cons:

>Only 3 barbells so everyone who dead lifts is taking a bar off a potential squat/press/bench spot
>Stupid retarded radio station with adverts, shit chat or ONCE I WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD every other minute
>Mirrors and TVs everywhere
>The town is growing so the gym will get more crowded eventually
>You get a bunch of faggots who hog everything and even kick medicine balls around if you go at normal times

This is why I lift at 6am. It's ok in these circumstances.

>mannequins
>>wtf m8

>Ergo not set up on the slides

Faggot detected, work on your technique more.

Gift from my parents when I turned 18. Completely paid off, just insurance and gas. It's a good vehicle but has depreciated so much I don't want to sell it yet.

Ehhh long story short there's lots of mannequins left over in the basement where I work out..

I don't need slides. I'm not an actual rower, just getting indoor cardio during cold ass Canadian winters. Summer is typical Canadian outdoorsman cardio time.

Here's my summertime Canadian cardio theatre out my front door.

He said he goes to a uni gym. If you have ever been to a uni gym they employ literally anyone who is a student, most art liberal arts majors who haven't picked up a single weight from my experience.

And here's the other summertime Canadian cardio theatre out the back door

Neat

They used to require applied health science students at my uni so I figured it was the same everywhere.

Oh ok.
Not creepy or anything.
Carry on then.
>haunted as fuck

Pros
>Good free weight options
>Basement with padded rooms for boxing
>Racket ball courts
>Alot of super fit chicks go there
>Alot of Zumba and packed Yoga classes
>Plenty of tvs with sportscenter and CNN
>Alright music
Cons
>An insane amount of cardio equipment you have to wade through to get to weights
>Birds sometimes get in and fly around the ceiling or hit into machines
>Got to show 3 forms of ID for reasons if the old guy is at the front desk
>Only two pull up bares
>have rule where you have to wipe down your machine before and after with provided baby wipes
>Pool has been closed for the last 4 months
>Is packed nearly 24/7 for some reason

It's in the basement of an old church. Definitely haunted. I hear footsteps all the time. Still prefer it to my old gym tho

Pros
>A ton of fairly strong people
>Old iron york plates that make that awesome iron clanking sound when they slap together
>enough plates for everyone to lift heavy and have a good time
Cons
>1 fucking power rack and a smith machine
>Only 2 45 pound barbells
>Only 1 bench
>Only one pair of 11 pound clips
>A ton of dyel faggots think they rule the place because they can bench 2 plates
>Very small

Ma and Pa rural gym in Canada

Pros
>Not very busy
>super close to my office - perfect pre/post work sessions
>Mainly DYEL teenagers/early 20 y/o's
>3 squat racks - always unoccupied
>one of the best looking receptionists I've ever seen (tall leggy, wavy blonde hair, big bright blue eyes, perfect white teeth)

Cons
>Only one bench press
>DYEL teenagers mostly just do curls and circle up and talk about teenager bullshit
>No cardio bunnies or fit chicks
>huge wasted crossfit area
>change room is tiny, only 8 lockers
>showers are also tiny
>only one shitter
>the only PT is this mid-30s, marathon runner. All of his clients run the stupidest weight training programs. He's always telling me that doing barbell programs will ruin my knees, back, hips, shoulders, etc and that I should really do TRX/crossfit instead

So why the fuck aren't you cross country skiing instead?

I go a small local gym
8/10
Pros:
>Not many people
>Same usuals every time you go
>Friendly and supportive crowd
>Cute employees
>good variety of equipment

Cons:
>small
>One squat rack (always empty though)
>Bad hours
>$27/m

tell us some spoopies user

Pros
>usually pretty empty
>10 min walk from my home
>everybody mindstheir own business but it's nice
>not a lot of equipment but enough to make good routines (it has a squat rack which is pretty rare here so it's a pro and not a con)

Cons
>not so empty this time of year (although manageable)
>holy fuck the humidity is making me sweat like a horny girl's cunt
>this fucking bench is older than me and fucking sucks but sometimes the good one is occupied so i have to use it
>weights everywhere, pain in the ass to find the one you want but whatever nobody racks them so it wil be stupid to do so
>in seven months i've only seen a girl there like 3-4 times

Greentext it. Here or on /x/. I want to get spooked.

Small family business gym

Pros
>Cheap
>Closed for only 3 or 4 days per year

Cons
>Only one squat rack
>No platform
>No bumper plates
>Only one good barbell
>Sub-optimal opening hours
>3 hour lunch break

MADTOWN FITNESS

PROS
>#1 PL gym in the country
>John Haack's gym
>absurd amounts of equipment
>loads of meme equipment
>24 hours
>stupid amounts of plates
>filled with like-minded people
>play good lifting music, not pop-commercial gym shit

CONS
>

Fuck you dude it's perfect

Pros
>Personal trainer at a small local gym
>Gym works 1:30 to 9:30 pm
>I can work out by myself
>I can choose the music
>I am the lord and master of this weight palace
Cons
>Strenght gym so no cables
>I only do brosplits

Home gym master race

Pros
> open 24/7
> motivational pupper running around
> can workout in underpants

Cons
> no qt3.14's
> no spotter
> roof too low have to do seated OHP

I mean it's disappointing compared to skinwalker shit..

>be me
>not you
>(not a filler line)
>be either lifting/working on my motorcycle in spoopy mannequin church basement (occurs on multiple occasions)
>hear footsteps upstairs
>no other cars parked outside
>front gate locked
>no "SIDE DOOR OPEN" notification that the alarm system spits out
>grab crowbar/pocket knife/random tool lying around
>head out back door to church entrance upstairs
>open door
>"SIDE DOOR OPEN"
>OK alarm works...
>look around entire church space
>nobody there OooOOoOOooo
>go back and continue what I'm doing cause now they're know I'm aware and I can't show weakness/fear and have them start pushing me around
I'm an atheist but this shit still makes me look over my shoulder desu famalam

shit nigga I would burn all the mannequins if I were you

Nah I like them. Shit would still be haunted without them probably. I fuck around with the mannequins for shits n gigs, if I had a way to make them capable of holding heavy shit I'd totally use them as spotters

Probably just some possums mate

Either that or Babadook

>I ain't clickin that shit nigga
Definitely loud footsteps like on stairs and shit, not quiet animal pitter patter

>if I had a way to make them capable of holding heavy shit I'd totally use them as spotters

I always liked the spoopy one where he heard noises from the darkness and said
I'm not afraid of you!

> we're not afraid of you either

>Uni gym

Pros
>grad student, so I can access year round
>2 blocks from my apt
>4 power racks 2 half racks
>4 flat benches, 2 decline, 2 incline
>plenty of barbells/plates
>can diddylift on the entire floor (they built it that way)
>abundance of equipment in general
>world class trainers/staff
>dont have to wait at certain times
>everyone pretty friendly

Cons
>ID required
>only 4 people allowed to use barbells on the floor at any given time
>certain times of the day its packed
>summer/winter hours are more restrictive
>holiday hours are fucked
>plenty of cunts who dont rack their shit
>curls/diddys in the squat racks x100000
>During the beginning of the fall/spring semesters all the DYELfags and cardiobunnies crowd it up
>so many chinese/indians who have not a fucking clue what theyre doing wasting everyones time

So much rage...

Why does it bother you if people look at their phones between sets? I always do... Usually logging exercises or lining up a podcast. Why do you care?

It's funny how some people care about things that affect them neither directly or indirectly

Estes en el tec??

>5 star hotel gym

Pros
>Towel service
>Pool, sauna and jaquzzi use included with membership
>Never crowded
>Almost nobody uses the squat rack
>Very little need to wait for equipment
>People who go there are mostly old and very nice

Cons
>Only 1 squat rack
>DB's only go up to 38kg

If I could replace my entire power rack with mannequins I would. Remember Fort Frolic from Bioshock? Same deal.

I keep to my business, they seem to keep to theirs, also I don't fucking talk to them that's a can of worms best kept closed. Like I said, I'm mainly an atheist, but that don't mean I'm gonna go and piss off every spirit/being that may or may not exist.
If anything malicious starts happening I'ma gtfo, but current pattern is pretty harmless.

Pros:
>Cheap as fuark ($10/month, plus yearly fee of $100)
>everything i need (bench, power rack, etc)
>lots of cardio machines
>friends with staff, music is good for the most part
>everyone that goes there is nice, no confrontations
>trainer that works there often gives me advice fo free

Cons:
>When the chicks show up, shitawful club music is played loud
>only 1 power cage, 1 smith machine and 1 bench press, so waiting for machines is a possiblity

Pros
>Rarely is a power rack not open during my usual time
>Some cute chicks that are regulars
>Open 24/7
>Walkable distance from my apt
>Can be used as a refuge if someone tries to mug me on the way back from the bars
>Tanning bed, although I don't tan
>Next to Trader Joe's
>Free classes

Cons
>So many old people. 40% of the people there at my usual time are over 60.
>The walk is half a mile, uphill
>Once went hard in a training session with a cute pt. I threw up afterwards. They remember that.
>Expensive. Paying $50 a month.
>For how much I pay, it's a tiny gym.
>Trader Joe's attracts suckers, suckers attract pan handlers and political petitioners. Get bothered a lot walking by there.
>Crowded during peak hours

kalina ryu

thank me later

Pros
>clean
>lots of well maintained equipment
>skylights
>dedicated ab machine for weighted crunches
>close to my house
>20 a month with student discount
>lots of thick girls that squat 24/7
>garaged parking

Cons
>many hipster vape faggots
>old man that regularly shaves naked in the locker room
>one time i pulled plates off of a guy's live bar without thinking. he was cool about it, but i see him almost every day there and am constantly reminded about it
>there's also this persian? guy that loudly sings along to whatever he's listening to. this makes me laugh which fucks up my form

pic semi-related

Pros
>great staff that can help you make a dieting plan, exercise program free of charge
>staff show you the correct form to any exercise and will come to correct you if you are failing
>people always clean up after themselves
>people don't spend hours hogging one machine
>everyone is really friendly and talks about working out, shares tips and stuff
>has places to do pretty much any exercise
>lots of different weights, dumbbells, etc.
>enough cardio machines for clients
>nice, hot sauna
>clean showers, toilets, locker room
>stuff left out in the open remains untouched even if its a wallet with cash or something
>they dont mind if you forget to pay and let you in for free

Cons
>can get crowded at certain times
>short work hours during weekends

Fuck, only thought of these after posting

Cons
>no free parking Mon-Fri as it's in the city centre
>20min bus ride or 40min walk from my house
>34euros per month, which is a couple of euros more expensive than other gyms

>long story short
I think you shortened the story a little too much there man

Pros:
>only gym that's 24/7 around here
>kinda cheap

Cons:
>takes me 15-20 minutes to get there, not a little for here.
>no free parking except after 9pm but I usually go at night so it's ok.

vaping? In a gym? Seriously?

Pros
>6 power racks
>8 wooden platforms for Olympic style lifting
>true bumper plates
>indoor track
>dumbells go up to 140
>Free Wi-fi
>qt3.14s of all ages
>separate turf floor room for footwork drills and other asymmetric exercise
>another hardwood floor room for yoga n shit
>gyms pretty much the size of a small grocery store parking lot
>Staff doesnt bother checking if you have towel service

Cons
>It closed down :(

>compact
>1 squat rack
>rarely any cute girls
>no ez bar barbells
>1 deadlift area
I have to go early so I can go straight to the squat rack. Its a nightmare at night because it gets crowded as fuck

What's the point of this thread? No one gives a shit about anyone else's gym. None of these posts are even getting any (You)s except the creepyposting

YMCA

Pros
>close, about a 5-minute drive
>fairly large. one room for freeweights, another for machines/mats, cardio room and hallway with treadmills/cycles/etc. Also locker room, sauna, and pool.
>$47/month with the towel service (not really cheap but it fits in my poor man's budget).
>A healthy amount of asian milfs and their whore daughters spreading their asses in the most creative ways all over the place. Good eye candy, keeps the T up between sets.
>wipe dispensers scattered throughout which people seem to use for the most part (feels sanitary).

Cons
>gets crowded. new year's and summer rushes are intense, they're about as bad as SIR depicts them in his comics.
>they're gonna start charging people for parking. should alleviate some of the overflow, but that's just another minute between me and my gains.
>only 2 squat racks, only 2 diddy areas. had to create my own diddy area last night, was kind of awkward but i guess the PTs didn't mind/too lazy to give a fuck.
>24/7 old white guys spreading the balls in the locker room. i honestly think they enjoy being naked around boys.
>mixed crowd. some guys have spotted me on bench and were bro about it (which is a pro), but i also get mean-mugged from others. there's this one dude every Sunday who only does cables for the ~2 hours that i'm there and he stares daggers at me every time i enter the machine room.
>two toilet stalls and urinals are arranged very awkwardly, always feels like you're about to touch feet with someone shitting a foot away from you. feels gross.

not in the gym. but most cars in the garage have vapes in their cupholders

>inb4 underage fag
High school weight room

Pros:
>7 Olympic platforms
>14 squat racks
>Free
>Coach is ex marine making motivation easy

Cons:
>bunch of sweaty tards leaving sweat everywhere
>no one reracks for shit
>no music or phones allowed
>bunch of racist rednecks make us run for having dip/guns on school grounds

Not bad I've made good gains

>those home gym pros

this guy made it

Pros
>weight room almost always empty
>mostly girls or dyels, dome strong guys
>pool, basketball court, racquet ball, sauna
>some qt girls

Cons
>expensive - $90 per month
>no bumper plates - no power cleans or snatches
>only one squat rack
>only 2 benches

But like I said, the weight room is almost always empty so I can snatch a bench or squat rack easily

FUCK YEAR, HOME GYM!

Pros
>listen to whatever music I want without having to resort to loud headphone to drown out shitty gym music
>can do squats and sit-ups on curl rack
>no waiting
>don't have to worry about dress code
>can take as much time as I want per exercise
>don't have to worry about zumbafags crowding the place and taking up all the parking spots

Cons:
>upfront cost

Sup, PF?

>powerrack doesn't pierce the ceiling
4/10 for trying

City Gym.

Pros:
> Best value in town, $270 a year
> Efficient layout
> Weights and benches in good shape
> Beautiful old half-olympic pool, no kids' lessons = less chlorine
> Wide variety of people

Cons:
> Wide variety of people (some mild mental illness, some with accessibility issues - not going to try to work in with wheelchair-bro, too much of a pain in the ass)
> Hardly any cuties, and they work out with their boyfriends

Overall I'm happy with it

Pros
>open literally 24/365 with magnetic card access
>powerlifting gym with all the high quality equipment that goes with it. Bumper plates
>absolutely no restrictions as long as you dont deliberately act like a cunt
>equipment available for anyone to use (chalk, straps, belts, wraps...)
>four fucking power racks
>three self spotting benches
>two deadlift platforms
>enough 45 lbs plates for the entire gym to simultaneously squat 4pl8 during peak hour
>peak hour is 2 hrs long and the most you ll ever see is 7-8 people
>gym has team of powerlifters so you get glimpses of 6pl8 squats
>everyone is super chill and friendly, even 350 lbs 9pl8 DL roid mcroidface
>only $30 a month with no contract

Cons
>no showers, bathroom is dated and always stinks
>very few machines and cardio equipment is a decade old
>15 minute drive from my house at night (about 4 mi)

Private Powerlifting Gym

Pros
>$30/mo
>always open
>5minute drive
>racks, mono, comp benches, ect
>sets of texas bars, most specialty bars
>every band efts makes
>300lb+ in chain
>owner holds several world records (geared)
>plenty of kind and experienced people
>girls are strong as fuck

Cons
>small
>not many grils
>feel v weak
>listen to the same music every fucking day
>p dirty
>hot as fuck some days

all those spoopy mannequins mirin tho...

Pros
>really nice equipment
>really pleasant atmosphere; city street view and skylight, well kept
>staff is nice, members are nice
>free classes with membership
>point system; rack up points when you check in, win stuff
>pool
>three minute walk away

Cons
>expensive as fuck
>TINY as fuck; one power rack, one lat pulldown, etc... benches almost never available during peak hours
that being said, my membership grants access to 4 different gyms within the franchise across the city. this one's super small, but it's such a short walk away... fortunately, the others are about a 15 minute train ride away, if necessary. and not quite as small.

oh yeah, only open til 11 mon-thurs, 10 on fri and 9 on sat/sun. shitty hours are shitty.

Pros
>not terribly busy
>squat racks are always open
>clean

Cons
>doesn't have olympic bars
>no chalk
>parking garage is small

pros
>20/mo with student discount (even though my ID expired)
>within walking distance of my house
>has everything I need
>not too crowded when I go

cons
>1 DL mat, usually have to wait
>3 squat racks, usually don't wait long
>everyone looks at themselves in the mirror a lot which gives me weird vibes
>smelly

Home gym

Pro's
>Home gym

Con's
>None

how do you fuckers with home gyms even afford a.) all of the eqipment you need, both for variety anf progressive overload and b.) afford the SPACE you need?

squat racks, usually don't wait long

what, how is this a con

>Get a decent job
>Never get married
>Never have kids

That's not how you apostrophe.

second two i got down. first one, fuck it, i'd rather work part time so i have the free time to a.) go the gym because i enjoy the atmosphere, b.) do other things that i actually enjoy doing

i mean money is awesome but i value freedom more and i feel like a home gym would get super boring

maybe he anthropomorphizes categorical concepts in his life wherein these characters "own" their properties

Money + time

Having to wait at all

alvin and the chipmunks/10

>Just local gym

Pros

>Fairly cheap
>A lot of equipment
>Rather large
>Some grade A qts
>not a single dickhead, every buffdude is helpful, basically everyone knows each other
>They added a section for crossfitting at the bottom of the gym, it wasnt succesful and crossfit trainer quitted, so no more crossfit
>but the section is still there
>and the bars
>so theres a fuckload of space and bars for deadlift, rows, military or just even stretching
>walking distance

cons

>The majority of girls aren't qts
>very few lockers
>The trainer cant fucking mind his own business and will angrily show up to correct you if he thinks you're doing something bad
>sometimes you're not even doing something bad, just different from what he knows
>no way to shut him up
>every once in a while theres a roid rager