Breaking up with your gym

[deadshot138]

So my gym is moving to a new location some miles away, taking away its convenience factor for training. Add to that the amount of roided out douchebags and shitty equipment around and its about time to break up with this shit hole. I don't know where I'm going to train, perhaps I'll invest more into the home gym.

Have any of you Sherbros faced a similar situation?

 

[NurseKnuckles]

Yep. Gym was giving me free use of the facilities. In exchange I helped him out with brining people in. He was a fucking dick. People who were frequenting the gym were becoming hot heads, meanwhile none of them were strong at all and none could lift with proper form. He thought he was building this powerlifting gym and said he got rid of all the gym bro douchebags. But this gym is a hipster Powerlifter hotbed. Full of kitchen sink bringing fucktards led by the greatest fuck of all time! No amount of free training was going to keep me there.

 

[MilkManUK]

I ditched my local 24 hour gym after investing in some basic, but more than sufficient home gym equipment. Best decision I ever made. If you can, I'd encourage you to do the same.

Note: For convenience, I do still attend the gym where I work, and my company pays half the membership fees.

 

[daken7]

If I had the space and the money, I'd only ever leave my house for food or work or to go to a boxing/mma gym.

I ain't a very sociable person lol.

 

[Roca]

I've never had to but then again there are no fucking choices here so what am I going to do

 

[j123]

If I had the space and the money, I'd only ever leave my house for food or work or to go to a boxing/mma gym.

I ain't a very sociable person lol.

Sounds exactly what I did after college.

-Wake up, wash up, breakfast, lifting gym
-send resumes/all that stuff
-groc(depending if I'm out)
lunch
-MMA gym at night
dinner
sleep

 

[NurseKnuckles]

I'm slowly piecing a gym together.

2 squat racks - one has pulley system with leg extension, leg curls and hug machine, few bars, plates, hack squat, and monster leg press machine

which I just bought for 200$

 

[ironwolf]

I broke up with my gym years ago. Just swuat stands, a bench, plates a bar and kettlebells.

I'll never go back to a "gym"...just not worth it. I've tasted the spoils of having my own gym and honestly I'm too busy to go to a gym everyday.

 

[j123]

I'm slowly piecing a gym together.

2 squat racks - one has pulley system with leg extension, leg curls and hug machine, few bars, plates, hack squat, and monster leg press machine

which I just bought for 200$

Not enough curls. You spent $200 with no curl machine, you got ripped off.

 

[NurseKnuckles]

Actually the machine you see in the pic is slightly different. Mine has unilateral leg press.

I'm going to see a guy about curling implements. I'll provide updates...

 

[rocketskates]

A home gym would be awesome, but much like working from home I fear that I would have a hard time putting in the work. Plus a lot of my motivation comes from lifting with my training partners at our gym.

That being said, yes I've broken up with a gym. Raised their rates and became flooded by college age know it alls. The type that wear the skinny sweatpants and bright tank tops.

 

[ironwolf]

A home gym would be awesome, but much like working from home I fear that I would have a hard time putting in the work. Plus a lot of my motivation comes from lifting with my training partners at our gym.

That being said, yes I've broken up with a gym. Raised their rates and became flooded by college age know it alls. The type that wear the skinny sweatpants and bright tank tops.

It is nice to work out with friends but I didn't do that much anyhow, maybe one day a week so I don't see a big difference.

I love being able to get my workout in no matter what, like if my day is going to be super busy, I'll wobe knout early in the morning, sometimes for it in during lunch or in the evening when a gym would be crowded as hell.

If anything, I sort of have the opposite problem, sometimes rather Than resting, I'll go in and do some squats or pullups or a kettlebell workout.

 

[Curly Peibce]

Just buy a couple free weights and work out at home.

 

[rocketskates]

It is nice to work out with friends but I didn't do that much anyhow, maybe one day a week so I don't see a big difference.

I love being able to get my workout in no matter what, like if my day is going to be super busy, I'll wobe knout early in the morning, sometimes for it in during lunch or in the evening when a gym would be crowded as hell.

If anything, I sort of have the opposite problem, sometimes rather Than resting, I'll go in and do some squats or pullups or a kettlebell workout.

You have good discipline. I need to drive for like 5 min to get into that mindset. Sounds cheesy but it is what it is. But hey if the home gym works for you that's actually awesome.

 

[daken7]

I broke up with my gym years ago. Just swuat stands, a bench, plates a bar and kettlebells.

I'll never go back to a "gym"...just not worth it. I've tasted the spoils of having my own gym and honestly I'm too busy to go to a gym everyday.

It is nice to work out with friends but I didn't do that much anyhow, maybe one day a week so I don't see a big difference.

I love being able to get my workout in no matter what, like if my day is going to be super busy, I'll wobe knout early in the morning, sometimes for it in during lunch or in the evening when a gym would be crowded as hell.

If anything, I sort of have the opposite problem, sometimes rather Than resting, I'll go in and do some squats or pullups or a kettlebell workout.

Yep. I have a pull up bar, an ab wheel, medince ball, and dumbells I can fit 30lbs on at home and I have to constantly hold myself back from using them all the time lol.

 

[ironwolf]

You have good discipline. I need to drive for like 5 min to get into that mindset. Sounds cheesy but it is what it is. But hey if the home gym works for you that's actually awesome.

I get it done but it's tough sometimes, when I have days off I lay around all day procrastinating.

 

[ironwolf]

Yep. I have a pull up bar, an ab wheel, medince ball, and dumbells I can fit 30lbs on at home and I have to constantly hold myself back from using them all the time lol.

You had a typo, you mean 300lbs right?

 

[daken7]

You had a typo, you mean 300lbs right?

Lmao they're the york ones with concrete inside of plastic. Had em forever.

 

[AWESOMEACE]

So my gym is moving to a new location some miles away, taking away its convenience factor for training. Add to that the amount of roided out douchebags and shitty equipment around and its about time to break up with this shit hole. I don't know where I'm going to train, perhaps I'll invest more into the home gym.

Have any of you Sherbros faced a similar situation?

I would like to break up with the gym I use, the problem is, it really is the best value in the area. The only other place is a LA Fitness and I am not paying an activation fee with a higher monthly payment for less of a gym.

 

[muaythaibeast]

I've left tons of gyms as I moved around the world. Only a couple of months back I left Jetts to move to a powerlifting gym.
Sometimes its good to move to a new gym and have new scenery/equipment to use.
I've looked at home gyms before but you've got to invest a hell of a lot to get a decent one