Gym

[sminotVTR]

Thinking of joining the gym... there's a few around me just wondered where you lot went so i knew whats better etc.

Got a virgin active one 2 mins from my house, any good?

[Bound]

Thinking of joining the gym... there's a few around me just wondered where you lot went so i knew whats better etc.

Got a virgin active one 2 mins from my house, any good?

I went to virgin, it was really good, as a student I got it REALLY cheap, normally.. £50 joining fee? Mine was free, and £28 a month, normally £38.

If you fish for deals, they will offer them, the one I went to had a swimming pool, sauna, steam room on top of all the other usual stuff.. plus it was huge.

Then came the changing room fire :/.

[flynnsvtr]

I used to go to JJB which was quite expensive but very nice.

I am now at the uni gym, which is 135 quid for the year! Not far off a tenner a month.

[sminotVTR]

I used to go to JJB which was quite expensive but very nice.

I am now at the uni gym, which is 135 quid for the year! Not far off a tenner a month.

Yea my mates goes to a uni gym and said it was only £120 pa :(

I do go to college though, reckon my student card'll allow some kinda deal?

[CampDavid]

I'm with LA fitness. The one in Bedford is ok, not tried the city one, shall give it a go....

Now

[camTcar]

a gym's a gym, as long as it has everything you need, the gym i go to is great, it has all the equipment nessesary, the people there are great(good knowledge) and they sell a huge selection of supplements

[MiniGibbo]

Im with LA fitness. The local ones great quite big and only 3 years old, but being a self imployed builder i travel all over working and have been to a few and can honestly say some are shit holes :wacko:

My advice would be to have a walk around all the ones local to you.

[LouisUK]

Uni Gym £90 a year!

[camTcar]

im with FX gym its great

[pjm300]

fitness first for me :)

[flynnsvtr]

Yea my mates goes to a uni gym and said it was only £120 pa :(

I do go to college though, reckon my student card'll allow some kinda deal?

Definately, when i was at JJb it was 20 per month as i was a student, otherwise it was 35 lol, most gyms have special deals for students, have a gander!

[sminotVTR]

Well i managed to wrangle a good student one, £4 annual membership and a fiver whenever i want to go, which is good because daoubt i'll go that much!

[KieranYeh]

One near me is £25 to join and £33 a month
its around that price for all ones of this company
check out kinetika

[Gordi]

you want lots of free weights and mirrors ;)

[sminotVTR]

you want lots of free weights and mirrors ;)

I'm going to steal the running machine

[ben_glen]

i go to a local gym near me called Cosmos... Sale Weight Training Club. pretty decent because i dont really like cardio lol..

[McGuire86]

I'm going to steal the running machine

I already have one of those, its called a road outside my house ;)

[sminotVTR]

I already have one of those, its called a road outside my house ;)

That would have saved me money really... didnt think of that, plus where i live isnt exactly the place for a 19 year old girl ot be running around early or late at night by herself!

[Saxo-SX]

I went to virgin, it was really good, as a student I got it REALLY cheap, normally.. £50 joining fee? Mine was free, and £28 a month, normally £38.

If you fish for deals, they will offer them, the one I went to had a swimming pool, sauna, steam room on top of all the other usual stuff.. plus it was huge.

Then came the changing room fire :/.

£50 a month! Mine was £65 for 6 months lol.

[KieranYeh]

£50 a month! Mine was £65 for 6 months lol.
Lol, i want that membership :D

[stevenet15]

Personally when i look for a gym i look for one with raw weights, e.g loads of free weights and different types of weight bars, you can do everything with them and put as much weight on as you want, imo gyms with all the fancy looking individual macheines are wank and you cant add weight once u hit the bottom pin. Plus with free weights not only are you taking the balance of the weight but your also strenthening other parts of your body and joints doing it.

i once went to a new local gym for a workout as it was just built with state of the art million pound equipment, it was like tripple the price of my current gym so only went for one work out to take a look, went in and not only was all the macenies crap and the weights not enough they also sent a memeber of staff over to me and told me that i had to be quiet as i was making to much noise when stacking the whole weight, wtf how gay so i never went back

[Gordi]

tbh bannatynes aint too bad if you have one near where you live! i pay £50 a month. sounds expensive but i go all the time n have a boxing room, sanuna steam, jacuzzi n pool etc..

i like it :)

[camTcar]

Personally when i look for a gym i look for one with raw weights, e.g loads of free weights and different types of weight bars, you can do everything with them and put as much weight on as you want, imo gyms with all the fancy looking individual macheines are wank and you cant add weight once u hit the bottom pin. Plus with free weights not only are you taking the balance of the weight but your also strenthening other parts of your body and joints doing it.

i once went to a new local gym for a workout as it was just built with state of the art million pound equipment, it was like tripple the price of my current gym so only went for one work out to take a look, went in and not only was all the macenies crap and the weights not enough they also sent a memeber of staff over to me and told me that i had to be quiet as i was making to much noise when stacking the whole weight, wtf how gay so i never went back

spot onn mate, the gym i use has dumbells up to 65kg which is more than enough, like you say machines are sshhiittee,

[sminotVTR]

I dont personally care for weights like that... I just want to get rid of my bingo-wings :(

And tone the stomach up dont think the hulk look would be a good one for me

[camTcar]

I dont personally care for weights like that... I just want to get rid of my bingo-wings :(

And tone the stomach up dont think the hulk look would be a good one for me

its not all about getting big, if your toneing up freeweights are still best

[Gordi]

its not all about getting big, if your toneing up freeweights are still best

:y:agree i used machines for a few months at my first gym n never gained any muscle hardly OR got stonger as soon as i started using dumbells, n free weights the muscle started to appear:afro: